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Most of the “Fact-Checking” Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Directly Funded by Washington

In light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook’s official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Most of the “Fact-Checking” Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Directly Funded by Washington

In light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook’s official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction.

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How Spooks and Establishment Journalists Are Circling The Wagons

In the second of this two-part series, we examine why so many journalists are keen to cooperate with and parrot the key messages of the US and British intelligence agencies.

Jonathan Cook
By Jonathan Cook
How Spooks and Establishment Journalists Are Circling The Wagons

In the second of this two-part series, we examine why so many journalists are keen to cooperate with and parrot the key messages of the US and British intelligence agencies.

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DHS ‘Concerned’ Over Nazis Returning to US After Fighting in Ukraine. Why Isn’t the Media?

US corporate media has provided glowing coverage to Paul Gray, a notorious American white nationalist fighting in Ukraine. A DHS document warns he’s not the only US fascist drawn to Kyiv.

Alexander Rubinstein
By Alexander Rubinstein
DHS ‘Concerned’ Over Nazis Returning to US After Fighting in Ukraine. Why Isn’t the Media?

US corporate media has provided glowing coverage to Paul Gray, a notorious American white nationalist fighting in Ukraine. A DHS document warns he’s not the only US fascist drawn to Kyiv.

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From UK Troll Farms to Covert Psyops: The Troubling Past of Nina Jankowicz

Kit Klarenberg exposes the troubling past and murky connections of Nina Jankowicz, head of Biden’s recently shuttered “Disinformation Governance Board.” Jankowicz, Klarenberg reveals, has a long history of acting as a de facto government propaganda agent.

Kit Klarenberg
By Kit Klarenberg
From UK Troll Farms to Covert Psyops: The Troubling Past of Nina Jankowicz

Kit Klarenberg exposes the troubling past and murky connections of Nina Jankowicz, head of Biden’s recently shuttered “Disinformation Governance Board.” Jankowicz, Klarenberg reveals, has a long history of acting as a de facto government propaganda agent.

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Kyiv Independent Deep Dive: The West’s In-Kind Answer to Putin’s Propaganda 

While staff members of The Kyiv Independent grandstand about how “independent journalism is the cornerstone of democracy,” they are quietly being funded by Western governments – a fact that should ring alarm bells with critical media consumers. 

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Kyiv Independent Deep Dive: The West’s In-Kind Answer to Putin’s Propaganda 

While staff members of The Kyiv Independent grandstand about how “independent journalism is the cornerstone of democracy,” they are quietly being funded by Western governments – a fact that should ring alarm bells with critical media consumers. 

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The Notorious London Spy School Churning Out Many of the World’s Top Journalists

The fact that the very department that trains high state officials and agents of secretive three letter agencies is also the place that produces many of the journalists we rely on to stand up to those officials and keep them in check is seriously problematic.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
The Notorious London Spy School Churning Out Many of the World’s Top Journalists

The fact that the very department that trains high state officials and agents of secretive three letter agencies is also the place that produces many of the journalists we rely on to stand up to those officials and keep them in check is seriously problematic.

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The MH17 Trial: The Dangers of Presuming the Fairness of a Geopolitically-Driven Enterprise

Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on that account be above reproach.

Oliver Boyd-Barrett
By Oliver Boyd-Barrett
The MH17 Trial: The Dangers of Presuming the Fairness of a Geopolitically-Driven Enterprise

Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on that account be above reproach.

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