Sharyl Attkisson

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Massachusetts considers eliminating religious exemptions to vaccinations

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The Massachusetts state legislature is considering removing vaccine religious exemptions. That’s according to Vera Sharav and Dr. Meryl Nass of the pro-vaccine safety Alliance for Human Research Protection. If vaccine religious exemptions are removed, many Massachusetts children would not be allowed to “opt out” of the childhood vaccination schedule on religious grounds. Dr. Nass argues […]

When news is paid propaganda

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You see it all the time, but you might not have heard of it: paid-propoganda-as-news – or as we’ll use the Epoch Times’ abbreviation, PPAN. PPAN is exactly what it sounds like. An interested party pays news outlets piles of cash in order to have them air a biased story. People, corporations, and even countries […]

“Wikipedia is…broken,” controlled by special interests and bad actors, says co-founder

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I’ve done quite a bit of reporting about how Wikipedia is definitely not “the encyclopedia anyone can edit.” It’s become a vehicle for special interests to control information. Agenda editors are able to prevent or revert edits and sourcing on selected issues and people in order to control the narrative. Watch Sharyl Attkisson’s TedX talk […]

Measles: Facts and Misconceptions in a Near-Hysterical Media Environment

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A fact check of the 2019 measles outbreak amid a near-hysterical media environment.

The Dark Side of Wikipedia

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Right now, this very second, people are busily editing away on the website Wikipedia, at a rate of more than ten edits per second. There are over five million articles written in English on Wikipedia, with a thousand being added every day. But there’s a dark side to Wikipedia you probably don’t know about. The […]