Google Puts CNN, Washington Post, NYT In Charge Of Fact-Checking News

Currently, the growing list of 115 organizations includes the likes of CNN, The Washington Post, NBC, CBS, and The New York Times, to name a few.

The Anti-Media
By The Anti-Media
A man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google recently noted ‘Usage of our services have increased every year, and so have the user data request number.’

Google announced Friday that it’s adding a special feature to its news service — Fact Check. Searchers will now know who checked the validity of a news story and the conclusion they arrived at. The Fact Check tag “identifies articles that include information fact checked by news publishers and fact-checking organizations.” Each Fact Check

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NBC Claims Putin ‘Personally’ Directed US Election Hack

Accusations surrounding the hacking of Democratic Party websites were a centerpiece of Clinton’s campaign, with the underlying claim that Putin was plotting to get President-elect Donald Trump elected.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with defense officials in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. (Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The latest in an endless flurry of escalating reports alleging Russia “hacked the US election,” NBC News is reporting tonight that Russian President Vladimir Putin “personally” directed the entire hacking campaign against Hillary Clinton, with the narrative suggesting he did so primarily because of a “personal vendetta” he had against

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Crowdfunded Indie News Site Newsbud Takes On NBC Over Turkey Coup Propaganda

The independent journalists demanded that NBC retract a report about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeking asylum in Germany — an allegation they called ‘highly irresponsible and harmful.’

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Newsbud is requesting that NBC and MSNBC issue a public retraction of and an official explanation for a false report about the Turkish Coup, claiming President Erdogan sought asylum in Germany, NBC quoted an anonymous senior Pentagon official as the source of the claim. (YouTube screenshot)

NEW YORK --- An independent news outlet is demanding accountability from the mainstream media over inaccurate reporting during last month’s attempted coup in Turkey. At the time this article was being written on Wednesday afternoon, reporters from Newsbud, a crowdfunded outlet focused on media integrity, were en route to New York in hopes of

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New Details On Syrian Kidnapping Of Richard Engel Reveal Rebel ‘False Flag’

New evidence has emerged about the 2012 kidnapping of Richard Engel and his NBC News team that reveals how, like a later chemical weapons attack, it was a false flag designed to encourage war with Assad.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
This image taken from undated amateur video posted on the Internet shows NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, center, with NBC Turkey reporter Aziz Akyavas, left, and NBC photographer John Kooistra, right, after they were taken hostage in Syria. More than a dozen heavily armed gunmen kidnapped and held Engel and several colleagues for five days inside Syria, keeping them blindfolded and tied up before they finally escaped unharmed during a firefight between their captors and anti-regime rebels, Engel claimed, but later admitted it was actually the rebels who carried out the kidnapping.

This image taken from undated amateur video posted on the Internet shows NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, center, with NBC Turkey reporter Aziz Akyavas, left, and NBC photographer John Kooistra, right, after they were taken hostage in Syria. More than a dozen heavily armed gunmen kidnapped and held Engel and several colleagues for

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Poll: Religion Is No Reason To Deny Employees Contraceptive Access

A recent poll finds that the majority of Americans don’t think that employers should use their religious beliefs as a reason to deny employees contraceptive access.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Meghan McMahon, Alex Terranova

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether an employer can be mandated to offer birth control to their employees via employer-paid health plans. According to reforms made under the Affordable Care Act to increase coverage for women’s preventive services, access to contraceptive options is one of the deductible-free

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As TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening

Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership—dubbed ‘NAFTA on steroids’—is receiving unprecedented popular opposition and nearly no news coverage by major outlets.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

Last week, more than 550 groups, representing tens of millions of individual members, signed a letter to members of Congress urging them to vote against a push by President Obama for 'fast track' authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a so-called "free trade" now under negotation between the U.S. and eleven other Pacific rim nations. The

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