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Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Wake Up: Fake News Still Rampant on Facebook

Keith Girard
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg learned the hard way that he was an unwitting dupe in the flood of fake news and conspiracy theories that flooded his social media site during the 2016 election. But he still doesn’t get it. A new study by the Poynter Institute, a non-profit school for journalism in St. Petersburg, Fla., has found that two of the leading purveyors of fake news and conspiracy theories–InfoWars and YourNewsWire– are still publishing freely on Facebook....
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Laura Ingraham Fox News Show Still Hasn’t Recovered From David Hogg Blowback

Keith Girard
Laura Ingraham’s hard-right Fox News Show, “The Ingraham Angle,” is still suffering blowback from her attack on Parkland, Fla massacre survivor David Hogg. Advertisers are still gun-shy (no pun intended, well maybe) about running adjacent to her unabashed Trump cheerleading and racist diatribes. Ingraham suffered another blow to her image earlier this week after investigative Web site thesmokinggun.com revealed she received a slap on the wrist for theft while a Dartmouth University student in the 1980s....
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Fox News Dismisses Laura Ingraham Theft Conviction as ‘College Prank’ (Audio)

Keith Girard
Laura Ingraham, the hard-right Fox News host, is tough on crime, immigrants, the “tyranny of the judiciary” and “lawless Democrats,” but Fox News dismisses her own criminal conviction on theft charges as nothing more than a “college prank.” IM reported on her college indiscretion yesterday because of her hypocritical mocking in March of honor student and Parkland, Fla, massacre survivor, David Hogg. Hogg graduated this week with a 4.1 grade point average and is now leading a national movement for gun control....
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Laura Ingraham, Who Mocked David Hogg, Was Shoplifting at His Age

Keith Girard
Laura Ingraham, the hard-right Fox News talking head who mocked honor student and Parkland, Fla, massacre survivor, David Hogg, was arrested for shoplifting when she was about his age. Hypocrisy anyone? Her arrest record was unearthed by the investigative Web site thesmokinggun.com. It was filed in he Circuit Court for the town of Hanover, N.H., home to Dartmouth College, which Ingraham attended....
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Alex Jones who traffics in hard-right hate, conspiracy theories is pushing a fake coronavirus cure, officials say. (Photo: ScreenCap)

Conspiracy, Hate Monger Alex Jones Faces End Game as Lawsuits Pile Up

Keith Girard
Alex Jones, the conspiracy hate monger who has repeatedly defamed families of Sandy Hook elementary school massacre victims, is being slammed by lawsuits that could finally sink his fetid radio and video broadcasts. Six families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting and an FBI agent who responded to the scene, filed a defamation lawsuit today (May 23) against the schlock radio personality....
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Tale of Two Cities: NY Tabs See Trump Jerusalem Move Through Colored Lenses

Keith Girard
Ivanka Trump smiled through the apocalypse while Israeli troops shot and killed at least 58 demonstrators and injured more than 2,700 on Monday during the dedication of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, provoking widely different reactions in New York City, according to the city’s feisty tabloids. The New York Daily News pulled no punches with a banner headline titled “Daddy’s Little Ghoul” adjacent to a photo of a smiling Ivanka. She shared the front page with an image of protesters carrying a wounded comrade....
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Tech Ghoul Peter Thiel Defanged By Gawker Media Legal Deal; Free Press Saved

Keith Girard
Peter Thiel, the tech mogul who posed the biggest threat to a free press since the 1950s Red Scare, has officially been defanged by lawyers handling Gawker Media‘s bankruptcy case. He won’t be able to sink his teeth into Gawker or pull the same stunt he used to bring the Web site down. In a sweeping legal settlement, Thiel and his investment firm, Thiel Capital, agreed to absolve Gawker.com’s future owner of all legal liability as well as writers who have articles on the site....
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Facebook (Finally) Roots Out Russian Troll Farm; Russians Cry Censorship!

Keith Girard
Facebook, under fire for a huge data breach involving Cambridge Analytica, has finally taken steps to root out a Russian troll farm that was behind dozens of fake accounts on the social media site and the source of countless “fake news” items designed to sow dissent during the 2916 election. Shockingly, the Russians protested! The nation that assassinates journalists had the audacity to decry the move as “censorship.”...
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Holy Orwell! See Sinclair News Outlets Push Trump Fake News Trope in Lock-Step

Keith Girard
George Orwell predicted that newsspeak would come to dominate local news programming. He was just wrong about the date. Instead of “1984,” newsspeak has arrived in 2018. Just watch these local news anchors in different markets spout the same Donald Trump trope about Fake News–in lock-step. What unites these stations in markets as widely varied as Montana and South Carolina is not the same ideological beliefs but corporate owner Sinclair Broadcasting, which forces its beliefs on the stations. ...
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Racist, Antisemitic Alex Jones Accused of Racism, Antisemitism by Ex-Employees

Keith Girard
Alex Jones traffics in racism, Antisemitism and all manner of vile conspiracy theories as a form of “entertainment” on his Internet show, but, hey, it’s no act, according to former employees. He really is racist, anti-Semitic and a sexual groper. The allegations are contained in a blistering complaint submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by Rob Jacobson, a former Jewish employee who was fired by the conspiracy monger. last may after 13 years....
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Alex Jones who traffics in hard-right hate, conspiracy theories is pushing a fake coronavirus cure, officials say. (Photo: ScreenCap)

Alex Jones Busted on YouTube for Alt-Right Conspiracy Mongering

Keith Girard
Alex Jones, the bombastic commentator who traffics in false stories and wild conspiracy theories as a form of “entertainment,” is finally being call out by the biggest purveyor of his dreck–YouTube. Jones and his program, Infowars, were slapped for posting a video promoting a conspiracy theory about the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Seventeen people were killed and dozens were wounded by a lone shooter with an AR-15 assault rifle....
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Fox News Scrambling Furiously to Salvage Trump Shipwreck (see!)

Keith Girard
The Donald Trump administration is a shipwreck, torpedoed by insiders who confirmed the worst about the new President. But at Fox News the band plays on, furiously trying to mitigate the damage and keep the president’s tattered reputation afloat. This time the damaged was caused, not be the fake news media, or left-wing activists. Instead, the very people Fox News has been hyping for months took the Trump, led by right-wing buccaneer Steve Bannon....
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Net Neutrality War: NYAG Leading Multi-State Fight Against Repeal

Keith Girard
Net Neutrality, the long-standing government policy to keep the Internet free and open, has been rolled back by the Trump administration, but the fight is far from over. States are banding together to sue in court. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today that he will lead a multi-state lawsuit to block the Federal Communications Commission’s rollback....
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