In these occasions of political division, Individuals on the far ends of the political spectrum usually accuse one another of misinformation — however one GOP lawmaker desires CNN and the Washington Put up to be formally declared “faux information.” ...

Glasgow Celtic have refused Sky Sports activities accreditation to cowl their video games after the broadcaster erroneously translated an interview with Rangers' Alfredo Morelos during which they declare he mentioned that he was a sufferer of racial abuse. ...

The BBC has employed Angelina Jolie to show children tips on how to spot pretend information and make up their very own minds on urgent points. However given its personal historical past of bias, is the BBC the correct authority to lecture kids on the true and the pretend? ...

Though Western media has a shoddy monitor report of mendacity on Syria (and Libya, Iraq...), the US State Division will pump $ 35 million extra into future warfare propaganda on Syria, beneath the guise of selling trustworthy reporting. ...

For those who had been making a documentary on pretend information and needed to get journalists concerned behind the scenes, there are a couple of individuals you could wish to keep away from. A kind of is CNN host Brian Stelter. ...

Feminists and chest-beating xenophobes have shaped an odd alliance to freely forged doubt on a courtroom verdict for seemingly no different purpose than the involvement of ‘foreigners’ within the case. ...

US Congresswoman Maxine Waters has allegedly fallen for a prank name by which she thought activist Greta Thunberg was providing her a tape of Donald Trump confessing to pressuring Ukraine into investigating his political rivals. ...

If a Hollywood star can’t discover a date what hope do the remainder of us have? Social media customers have been haunted by this existential query after Sharon Stone revealed that she had made an account on a courting app – however was blocked. ...

The grocery store chain tweeted on Christmas Eve that Fb posts promising a 12 months’s price of free groceries to 4 “fortunate” households are pretend and urged clients to not share or work together with the posts. One of many pretend posts has been shared greater than 2,600 occasions and ...

The Grinch apparently isn't the one one trying to steal Christmas. Police in Florida are warning vacation customers this week that scammers have been putting pretend barcodes on present playing cards at shops. “Scammers are printing out their very own barcodes and putting them over the precise present card barcode ...