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April 23, 2020
The coronavirus dominates the news on every network. NBC Nightly News had covered the virus that started in China since January 17, the “first day the networks arrived at the coronavirus story.”
None of the on-air coverage between…
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December 16, 2019
Facebook announced a new policy to label state-funded media on its platform. Qatar-backed outlet Al Jazeera has a problem with that.
In a letter sent by the media outlet’s lawyers to Facebook’s Vice President Jennifer Gillian Newstead…
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August 7, 2019
NBC News promoted a new idea to mitigate “rising seas:” build more icebergs with a fleet of ice-making submarines.
NBCNews.com reported the “audacious plan” on Aug. 6, writing “Designers in Indonesia have offered…
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August 2, 2019
Facebook announced that it had removed 259 accounts, allegedly part of a Saudi Arabian propaganda network.
The accounts, the pages set up by the accounts, and the events hosted by the pages promoted propaganda about the Saudi Arabian Crown…
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May 29, 2019
Big Tech companies say Iranian hackers used social media to interfere with the American 2018 midterm election.
A group of anonymous hackers infiltrated social media sites in April 2018 to influence the midterm elections. According to prominent…
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April 25, 2019
A $1.25 trillion giveaway program to college grads and future college students deserves scrutiny, not praise as a “bold,” “sweeping” or “ambitious” plan that could “distinguish” Sen. Elizabeth Warren…
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March 13, 2019
Twitter is getting ready to make major changes that are already being criticized as new ways to limit speech and benefit what the company CEO calls “healthy conversation.”
Twitter unveiled new changes at the SXSW (South by…
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November 14, 2018
Censoring political opinions as “hate speech” has made its way to Instagram.
Mimi Hecht, a business owner on Instagram, posted several statements on her Instagram story after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pennsylvania. She…
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April 11, 2018
You’ve probably heard already. April 10, was “Equal Pay Day,” a symbolic day media, politicians and celebrities use each year to complain about gender-based pay discrimination — by abusing a statistic that does not illustrate…
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November 7, 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ducked a question from a gay newspaper about her foundation taking millions of dollars from countries that persecute gays.
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Blade published Nov. 3, Clinton…