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President Donald Trump lashed out at the press this morning, bragging he personally has “kept many of them in business” and that in six years, which would be the end of his second term, “they all go bust.” Triggering Trump’s Wednesday tweetstorm was a New York Times report, <a…

YouTube is changing its new video recommendation algorithm to prevent promoting conspiracies and false information, according to a post on its official blog on Friday. The company said it would target content that “comes close to – but doesn’t quite cross the line” of violating its rules. Some contend that YouTube…

President Donald Trump put a target on the backs of the press, via Twitter. “The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country,” Trump tweeted one day after an alt-right subscriber gunned down 11 at…

President Donald Trump’ latest Fox & Friends interview gave POTUS yet another chance to declare press the Enemy of the People. These day he thinks that’s about 80% of media. “The New York Times cannot write a good story about me.  They’re crazed.  They’re like lunatics,” he whined to Ainsley Earhardt. He ticked off…

President Donald Trump revealed today via his usual Sunday morning tweetstorm that he has met with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the White House. The topic: fake news. Trump has been a harsh critic of the media outlet, often referring to it as the “failing New York Times” in his attacks.  The…

Donald Trump’s morning tweet-tantrum was particularly wild today, an apparently violent reaction to his administration’s Contraction-gate clean-up. “Fake News Media is going Crazy! They make up stories without any backup, sources or proof. Many of the stories written about me, and the good people surrounding me, are…

Facebook is again drawing criticism for its handling of fake news on the platform — this time, around its tentative treatment of InfoWars, one of the Internet’s leading peddlers of conspiracy theories. The social media giant’s executives said Alex Jones’ media operation, which traffics in bogus theories like one…

President Donald Trump tweet-complained again today about the “fake” New York Times and Washington Post – nothing unusual there, even if he did add what sounds like a legal-advice qualifier (“in my opinion”) and was oddly specific about how long the two publications will remain in business (“7 years!”). “Twitter is…

Melania Trump sent us more cryptic messages today – this time as she left the White House to visit some of the 2,300 immigrant children her husband had snatched from mothers who dared to defy him and illegally cross the southern border into Texas. Melania's latest message was written on her back. "I really don't care…

Two new Gallup polls have found that wide swaths of the American population believe that the media is biased, inaccurate and full of misinformation – just as President Donald Trump says. One poll found that 62% of U.S. adults believe that the news they see in newspapers, on television or hear on the radio is biased…

Facebook is deleting its problematic Trending Topics section as the social network rethinks how to showcase news. The section, which appears to the right of the main news feed on the desktop and in search on mobile, has been a lightning rod for criticism almost since its launch in 2014. Conservatives were outraged by…

Oprah Winfrey took aim at fake news in her commencement speech today to the graduates of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and challenged them to push back on false narratives with real information. Winfrey condemned the internet and social media for eroding trust in public institutions and…