by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2017 After its efforts to identify fake news totally backfired, Facebook said it has come up with a better way to ensure its users get what it decides are the actual facts. The social media giant announced it will remove the “disputed” tag it had implemented to alert readers of […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 10, 2017 The same major media outlets that bristle whenever President Donald Trump tweets “Fake News!” continue to provide the president with ammunition. A rash of factual errors in the past week alone raises questions about once rigorous standards of objectivity and professionalism in today’s news industry. On Dec. 8, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2017 Governments in 30 countries manipulated information on social media in an effort to advance their agendas and suppress dissent, a U.S.-based rights group said in its annual report on Internet freedom. “Paid commentators, trolls, bots, false news sites, and propaganda outlets were among the techniques used by leaders to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 8, 2017 Oh, the stories they tell. On the morning of Nov. 6, the Mainstream Media on the road in Japan with U.S. President Donald Trump was slamming the president for what they said was a major faux paus in the way he fed goldfish. Trump dumped a box of food […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2017 President Donald Trump, who said in Phoenix on Aug. 22 that “if I didn’t have social media, I wouldn’t be here tonight,” returned to Twitter on Aug. 24 to again slam the “fake news” media, call out former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and take GOP congressional leaders […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 “If you wanted to discover the source of the division in our country, look no further than the fake news and the crooked media,” President Donald Trump told an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in Phoenix on Aug. 22. “It’s time to expose the crooked media deceptions and to challenge the media […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2017 A recent report from the liberal Harvard Kennedy School and Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy noted that 80 percent of news stories in the first 100 days of the Trump administration were critical of the president. For CNN, it was 93 percent negative. “By the time […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2017 The battle royal between the Trump administration and the major media outlets the president refers to as “fake news” has been amplified by a number of recent developments. The White House, fresh from a Supreme Court victory that upheld President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban, used the June 27 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 28, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump has returned from his widely-hailed first foreign trip, back to the nation’s capital, aka “The Swamp”, which has been boiling with rumors of scandals and his imminent demise. Washington is awash with media reports of firings of malcontents and leakers on the White House staff. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2017 Donald Trump “is being hammered” by the media “as no other president before him, except perhaps Nixon during Watergate,” columnist and former Nixon aide Pat Buchanan wrote on May 1. Trump is at war with a mainstream media that “loathe him and intend to oust him, as they relished […]
