Special to WorldTribune.com Spoiler alert: Actually, it’s no secret that Facebook makes clear to mostly left-leaning publishers what it wants on its mostly left-leaning News Feed. Peter Kafka, writing for recode.com, presented the “real Facebook media influence story.” Related: Former Facebook ‘journalist’: We routinely suppressed news favoring conservative values, May 9, 2016 The post included […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A U.S. Army Green Beret said a “profound lack of strategy” has plagued the 14-year war effort in Afghanistan. “The enemy operates with impunity throughout the country due to our relentless commitment to avoid principled strategy and decision-making processes,” the Special Forces soldier says in a sworn statement, according to a report […]
Special to WorldTribune.com While GOP leaders in Washington were inching toward solidarity with Donald Trump, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders unleashed his harshest rhetoric to date against Hillary Clinton. Coming off victory in the West Virginia primary, his 20th win of the primary season, Sanders’ campaign said on May 11 the Democratic Party would be courting […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. prosecutors have announced they will not seek the death penalty against a Libyan terrorist charged in the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans. Ahmed Abu Khatallah, captured by U.S. special forces two years ago, is facing an 18-count indictment over the Sept. 11, 2012 killings at an American diplomatic and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. military personnel prefer Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by more than a 2-to-1 margin, according to a 2016 election survey by Military Times. Trump garnered 54 percent compared to Clinton’s 25 percent in a survey of 951 active-duty service members. More than one in five troops said they’d rather not vote […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A senior leader for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) who had appeared in several of the terror group’s execution videos was killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in Iraq on May 6, the Pentagon said. Abu Wahib, a top ISIL leader in Iraq’s Anbar province, and three other ISIL jihadists […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Facebook systematically blacklisted news articles cast conservative politicians and conservative values in a positive light, former workers for the social media giant admitted. News stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section were suppressed. A former “news curator” on the “trending” section, said workers prevented stories […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The White House misled the American public on nuclear negotiations with Iran by “creating an echo chamber” in the press that “validated” everything they were given, a top adviser to President Barack Obama said. Ben Rhodes, in an interview with The New York Times, admitted that the dealings behind the accord struck […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gov. Pat McCrory answered a May 9 deadline from the federal government by announcing that North Carolina will sue the Justice Department over its challenge to the state’s law mandating people use the public restroom of their birth gender, not gender identity. Last week, Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s civil […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The White House used leftist media lapdogs “as public relations tools” to effectively sell the Iran nuclear deal, columnist John Podhoretz wrote in the New York Post on May 5. Podhoretz pointed to “an astounding New York Times piece by David Samuels,” in which senior White House officials confirmed as much about the spin-centered […]
