Contrary to popular belief, Fox News is more than just an echo chamber for Donald Trump. Because sometimes Donald Trump is an echo chamber for Fox News. But what’s absolutely certain is that Fox News is not an outlet that anyone should trust when looking for a source of factual, reliable news or analysis. That’s not just the opinion of everyone who has ever bothered to look away from the & Friends couch; it’s also the opinion of the people inside Fox News. As revealed by a series of internal...
In a research paper, a team details Untrue News, a search engine designed to index and highlight news stories that are false or misleading.
A startup called Our.News is working to make its users smarter consumers of the news. In other words, it’s confronting some big, seemingly intractable problems. For one thing, there’s a tremendous amount of disinformation online — as Our.News founder and CEO Richard Zack put it, “Unfortunately, you have thousands of people all over the world [
Across the board, the audience for the State of the Union on Tuesday night was significantly smaller than last year's, and those of years past. But one network bucked the trend in a big way, and
The internal research arm of Fox News produced an incisive 160-plus page primer on Ukraine.
In indicting Larry Ray for the extortion, sex trafficking and forced labor of his daughter’s classmates from Sarah Lawrence College, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said that the investigation and criminal charges stemmed from last year’s New York magazine cover story about the creepy,
So Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has won the New Hampshire primary, after coming in an oh-so-close second place in the Iowa caucuses last week (where he actually won more total votes en route to silver than the declared winner). The bad news for him comes from a new Gallup poll asking whether Americans would vote for various types of candidates, including black ones, Jewish ones, female ones, ones over the age of 70, and more. Gallup finds:
British tourists and travellers currently enjoy unfettered access to the European Union and its 27 member states.
An internal report from the Fox News research department warns that several prominent Fox News guests, aided sometimes by omissions from Sean Hannity, have spread 'disinformation' about Ukraine. The briefing, written by senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy and titled 'Ukraine, Disinformation, and the Trump Administration,' was first disclosed in a series of tweets from former Fox News freelancer Marcus DiPaola, then obtained in full by The Daily Beast. Murphy compiles reports for...
News Corp on Wednesday launched a free news aggregation service, Knewz, to address its long-held criticism of how Google and Facebook treat publishers and journalists.
News Corp on Wednesday launched a free news aggregation service, Knewz, to address its long-held criticism of how Google and Facebook treat publishers and journalists.
Conditions in East Renfrewshire, just south of Glasgow, were so bad that ITV's Scotland correspondent Peter Smith struggled to speak through the snow and the rain. The clip has since gone viral.