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03/12/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Facebook’s “fake news” crackdown is a deliberate attempt to destroy the independent media

In an attempt to fulfill their promise made back in December to crack down on so-called “fake news,” Facebook has begun to mark content they deem unsubstantiated as “disputed.” Tech new website Recode reports that these stories will now contain a message saying that the selected article has been disputed by its fact checkers, and […]

03/10/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Wikipedia has become a dangerous platform for medical disinformation and propaganda

While Wikipedia may seem like a useful site if you need quick information at hand for trivial topics like the average population of Kazakhstan, its reliability and validity have long been questioned by professors, intellectuals and even the media. One reason for this distrust is the fact that quite a bit of the information on […]

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