“Tit-For-Tat”: Russia Accuses CNN Of “Violating Russian Media Law”

Russian president Putin said that “such pressure on Russian media is unacceptable” and that any hostile actions taken against Russian media in the U.S. would be met with a “tit-for-tat response.”

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The "Russian collusion" crusade took a bizarre turn yesterday when Twitter, apparently in the absence of any tangible evidence that Kremlin spies exploited the social media service to undermine the 2016 election, decided to publicly disclose the exact amount of advertising revenue it received from Russia Today during 2016. It's unclear what that

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Al-Qaeda Propagandist Employed By CNN To Make Prize-Winning Syria Doc

CNN is trying to distance itself from an al-Qaeda propagandist who helped the network create a documentary about the Syrian conflict. The man’s ties to the network are just the latest in a series of scandals that have dealt a blow to the network’s already tenuous grasp on credibility.

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By Whitney Webb
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CNN has had a difficult few weeks, with scandals ranging from false reporting in order to boost ratings to blackmailing a private citizen who created a meme lampooning the network. As a result, CNN has seen a massive drop in its prime-time ratings, suggesting that its viewership is shrinking amid the controversy. Now, yet another controversy

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CNN Threatens to Blackmail Trump Wrestling Meme Creator

A meme that depicts President Trump “attacking” CNN recently went viral, leading the network to claim that it promotes violence against journalists. The network has since gone on to blackmail the alleged creator of the meme, threatening to expose his identity if he mocks the network again.

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By Whitney Webb
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It has been a difficult week for CNN, the New York Times and the Associated Press, with all three news organizations’ “Russiagate” coverage found to be flawed and based on false claims. The latter two organizations were forced to issue retractions for some of their coverage as a result. But CNN has apparently decided to further fan the flames of

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Ron Paul: Trump is Just Like CNN, Putting Out His Own Fake News to Start War in Syria

“So President Trump is fighting against CNN’s ‘fake news’ while he is putting out fake news that the Syrian government is about to attack its citizens with gas? Trump has more in common with CNN than he would like us to believe.”

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By Claire Bernish

In a peculiar move, the White House announced Monday evening a chemical weapons attack in Syria will be carried out soon by the regime of Bashar al-Assad against civilians — the second government-launched attack on his own people in the past few months — and that the U.S. would pulverize Syrian forces as retribution. If, that is, gargantuan

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Three CNN Employees ‘Resign’ Over ‘Russia Collusion’ Fake News Retraction

Thursday afternoon, CNN posted a story, by none other than Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter Thomas Frank, claiming that “Congress was investigating a Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.”

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A few days ago we noted that CNN was forced to retract one of their bombshell 'Russian collusion' stories when it was apparently revealed that the whole thing was nothing more than their latest, anonymously-sourced fake news debacle.  Like most CNN stories on the topic, this one carried a salacious title ("Congress was investigating a Russian

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Tortured Women’s Rights Advocate Smeared By CNN Following Guilty Plea

This was a political case from the beginning, but one would not know that from reading CNN’s atrocious coverage .

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Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Recognizing the United States government would probably deport her eventually whether she won or lost her case, Rasmea Odeh pled guilty to a charge that she “procured” U.S. citizenship by failing to disclose she was previously convicted of a crime by an Israeli military court in 1969. The plea was

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