US Public Trust in News Organizations Down to New Low, Some actively pollute the Information Landscape

Only 26 percent of Americans hold a favorable opinion of the news media, the lowest level over the last five years, according to an annual report released by Gallup and the Knight Foundation surveying Americans for insights into how they view the press.

German Foreign Minister Backs Special Ukraine Tribunal over a so-called strike in Ukraine's Dnipro

 

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China to regulate online comments

China's cyberspace authority has issued a document regulating online publicly posted comments.

Facebook prend de nouvelles mesures contre les "fake news"

Le géant des réseaux sociaux Facebook a annoncé mercredi accroître sa lutte contre les fausses informations ("fake news"), via la surveillance de comportements suspects, comme les messages répétitifs ou massifs, et la fermeture de comptes.

Trust in news stories on Facebook depends more on who they're shared by, not who wrote them : study

Social media users are becoming increasingly skeptical about news outlets, and now decide whether to believe a story based on whether a person they trust has shared it, not where it came from, says a landmark US study.

US President Donald Trump has launched another attack on the media

US President Donald Trump has launched another fierce attack on the media at a rally in the city of Melbourne in Florida. He said the media didn't want to report the truth and had their own agenda.

US ‘Fake News’ Controversy Fuels New Era of McCarthyism

The calls to suppress independent alternative news web sites and other information platforms in the United States are the start of a new era of false accusations and repression like the Joe McCarthy hysteria of the 1950s, analysts told Sputnik.