After decades of speculation about network kingmaker Dan Schneider’s reign of terror over Nickelodeon, the Investigation Discovery documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV finally blows the lid off the network’s rot. Streaming service documentaries are a dime a dozen these days, and the sheer volume has diluted the wow factor of […]
Jimmy Kimmel got blindsided by football great Aaron Rodgers earlier this year. The 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' host hit back, and hard. Could you blame him? Rodgers insinuated Kimmel had something to fear from files tied to the late financier, Jeffrey Epstein, on 'The Pat McAfee Show.' So Kimmel fired back from his ABC pulpit, with an adoring press at his back. It wasn't the first time Kimmel and Rodgers clashed, but when the Jets quarterback stepped over the line it got personal. Now, Kimmel is...
The long overdue introduction of Fuel Efficiency Standards in Australia is meeting with the usual resistance from the fossil fuel lobby and car enthusiasts. The Melbourne Grand Prix is an annual reminder of their deceit.
Parliamentary elections thought vulnerable to fake news will test social media firms and bloc’s new DSA lawsSocial media firms including TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram will be required to put an army of factcheckers and moderators in place with a collective knowledge of 24 EU languages amid fears that the European parliamentary elections will be a prime target for disinformation campaigns run by Russia and others including the far right.The new rules flow from the EU’s Digital Services Act...
The media have been pseudo-analyzing Trump to impart dark meaning to his every word. Sometimes a metaphor is just that.
Kremlin propaganda is spinning a fake story about an alleged attack by the Ukrainian forces on one of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant’s facilities. — Ukrinform.
It should come as no surprise that Joe Biden’s White House is attempting to keep a bogus narrative alive because it suits their political agenda.
'The View' cohosts say they 'feel awful' for previously discussing Kate Middleton conspiracy theories after the princess shared her cancer diagnosis: 'I'm going to shut my mouth.'
Tame Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera has wiped a report alleging IDF rapes in a Gaza hospital, moving Monday in a tacit admission the story was fabricated.
The government on Wednesday notified the Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit (FCU) as the nodal agency to flag fake news or misinformation related to the central government on social media and the internet.The move – coming weeks ahead of the general elections – gives “legal backing” to the PIB fact-check unit, established in November 2019, a senior government official said.“If they (FCU) flag any news related to the central government as false, intermediaries are now bound to take it...
While the first hour of CNN’s Friday morning coverage on Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling allowing District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the 2020 election case against Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants was fairly restrained, the same couldn’t be said about the second hour as Fake News Jim Acosta arrived for his hour of CNN Newsroom. Between Acosta and his not-so-merry band of fellow leftist analysts and journalists, CNN viewers were treated to a meltdown about how...
For weeks, hundreds of people online have spread conspiracy theories, posted memes and cracked jokes in an attempt to answer one question: Where is Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales? Kensington Palace repeatedly said that Kate was recovering from a planned January abdominal surgery. Still, official responses, as well as an edited image posted to the palace’s social media channels, only fueled more unsubstantiated rumors. But many people who had partaken in the online frenzy found themselves...