It's easy to find fact checks about Trump. And he's given us plenty to write about. This article measures some of the media's fact-challenged reporting.
Special Investigations
YouTube censorship of hydroxychloroquine facts
UPDATE: Thank you! YouTube has reinstated the video. http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/hydroxychloroquine The heavy-handed censorship of social media companies continues at a breakneck speed. YouTube has removed the "Full Measure" investigation that followed the money regarding hydroxychloroquine and the IV medicine remdesivir, calling the story "dangerous." It is chilling to see third parties with so much control respond […]
A tidy takedown of Media Matters and its propaganda about hydroxycholoroquine
For most thinking Americans, it is unnecessary to bother to fact check the propaganda group Media Matters. If they have heard of Media Matters at all, they typically understand it’s a smear group funded by donors with political and corporate interests whose names are kept secret. (The last big Media Matters donor whose name was […]
Fast and Furious Story Links
2012 Emmy Award for Investigative Reporting/2012 Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting Primer on Fast and Furious Scandal Sept. 22, 2019 Exclusive: Another Fast and Furious weapon recovered June 25, 2017 Fast and Furious 6 years later, interview with Special Agent John Dodson Jan. 20, 2016 20+ examples of the violent legacy of Fast and Furious Dec. […]
How information manipulation could be destroying our health (PODCAST)
When the media purposefully controversializes issues, life-saving facts become harder to find. Hear how Facebook and other self-appointed censors are making certain facts and views hard to find. As part of today's podcast, hear Democrats and Republicans discuss getting bullied out of investigating issues involving the safety of vaccines and other medicine. Also, hear the […]
U.S. investigators validate ICE agent's complaints about deadly cartel ambush
Nine years after the fact, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has validated complaints of mismanagement involving a deadly cartel assault he survived in Mexico. In 2011, Victor Avila and his colleague Jaime Zapata were sent on an ill-advised mission that required them to drive along one of Mexico's most infamous and dangerous highways patrolled […]
Facebook's dangerously fake "fact checking"
The following is a news analysis. I've been drawing attention to the increasingly aggressive efforts by political and corporate interests to control the information you get on the new and online. I have often spoken of disingenuous "fact checking" efforts conducted by conflicted third parties who are actually trying to shape public opinion and control […]
Photo of same boy faked to claim "youngest UK coronavirus death"
His photo has been widely shared on social media claiming he is a 13-year old who died of coronavirus in Great Britain. A post on Facebook claimed he was a "schoolboy...with no health conditions" who became "UK's youngest coronavirus victim." The post went on to read: “Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, sadly died without any […]
