The following is an excerpt from my investigation at Real Clear Investigations. Investigative Issues: The Troubling Fact Is That Media Fact-Checkers Tend to Lean ← Left By Sharyl Attkisson A growing response to today’s chaotic information landscape sounds inviting and elegantly simple: appoint experts to “fact-check” news stories, blogs, speeches, studies, opinions, and political ads. […]
Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz files criminal referral against Facebook's Zuckerberg
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) is asking Attorney General William Barr to file criminal charges against Facebook's Zuckerberg, accusing him of giving false testimony to Congress. The testimony at issue took place in April of 2018 at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing and a joint hearing of two Senate committees. According to Gaetz, Zuckerberg […]
POLL: Americans say censorship of certain ideas and info amounts to manipulation
In the latest unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com, nobody said they believe social media and news are "watching out for us" when they censor ideas/info/people. Everybody said such censorship amounts to "trying to manipulate." When social media/news censors ideas/info/people, it's: 0% Watching out for us 100% Trying to manipulate <1% Not sure <1% Don't care
WATCH: Anti-trust and the Big Four tech companies
(Original air date: November 3, 2019) As Congress turns up the heat on companies like Facebook.. they’re facing added pressure. Nearly every state has now joined an anti-trust investigation that could threaten the way the tech giants do business. Lisa Fletcher talks with the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Karl Racine. Karl Racine: […]
6 secret ways they control information online and in the news
1. Twitter Astroturf and Manipulation In 2015, Twitter made plans for an #AskPOTUS town hall with President Obama to compete with rivals like Reddit, which was drawing a lot of attention for its interactive Q&A sessions with well- known people. But the Twitter session was not the freewheeling event some might have expected. According to […]
POLL: Most say social media companies are politicized
Ninety-nine percent (99%) of the 1,172 people who answered the latest unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com say social media companies have become politicized. Only a few see social media companies as being just "a little" politicized or not at all. Have social media companies become politicized? 99% Yes <1% A little, not too much <1% No
READ: President Trump's Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
After widespread complaints about what many see as partisan censorship tactics deployed by Facebook, Twitter, Google, President Trump today signed the following executive order: Read the order on the White House site here. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is […]
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 […]
