TeleSur | – – With the April 16 referendum having expanded Erdogan’s powers, the AKP leader continues to lead a mass crackdown against his citizens. While a hotly contested referendum earlier this month expanded Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian powers — it appears the Justice and Development (AKP) party leader is wasting no time exercising […]
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Now Iraqi Elections are infected by Facebook, Twitter Fake News
Mustafa Habib. | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The latest trend in politics in Iraq involves the creation of seemingly innocuous Facebook pages, that are used to spread rumours and lies about the opposition. It’s a trend that will only get worse as elections near. Over the past few months ordinary Iraqis have noticed […]
Israeli Software to plant Propaganda on Social Media
IMEMC | – – The Israeli government has purchased a software system enabling it to monitor social media and specific users to plan ideas in online discourse. The bid, which was won by a company called Buzzilla, specifies that the software must have the ability to “plant an idea in the debate on social networks, […]
Why Trump loves both Torture and Fake News: Doing Violence to the Truth
By Scott Beauchamp | (Informed Comment) | – – One of the more disturbing elements of Trump’s promised renewal of military dominance is a return of torture. Back on the campaign trail last year, then-candidate Trump defended torture as something that “works” and that only a “stupid person” would claim otherwise. In his typically self-serving […]
Tomorrow, they will say, “Donald Trump rants and raves at the press.”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – So Trump did rant and rave at the press on Thursday. But not at all the press. He has never attacked Breitbart, the vehicle for white supremacist falsehoods piloted by his Rasputin, Neofascist Steve Bannon (White House chief of strategy and National Security Council eminence grise). […]
10 Social Media Lessons from the Middle East for 2017
by Damian Radcliffe | ( Mediashift.org ) The past year has been another fascinating 12 months for social media watchers in the Middle East. I’ve been charting these developments in an annual round-up for the past five years, with my 2016 report showing an intensifying of a several previously highlighted trends. In particular, we’ve seen […]
The Thin Line Between Political Censorship and Fighting Fake News in Iran
By Mahsa Alimardani | (Global Voices) | – – The Iranian government is reportedly taking steps to expand regulations on large public news channels on the instant messenger Telegram. The move would apparently affect groups with more than 5,000 subscribers. It remains unclear, however, if state officials seek dramatic changes to controls on these online […]
Why do we fall for fake news?
By S. Shyam Sundar | (The Conversation) | – – In recent weeks, the amount of online fake news that circulated during the final months of the presidential race is coming to light, a disturbing revelation that threatens to undermine the country’s democratic process. We’re already seeing some real-world consequences. After fake news stories implicated […]
The Last Days of Democracy?
By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | Foreign Policy in Focus | – – A fraudulent campaign has resulted in the election of a fraudulent president. What can be done to save American democracy? The recent presidential campaign season brought political pornography to the American people. Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, his senior counselor […]
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