Some startling rumors emerged shortly after New York Police Department officers — clad in what looked like every piece of riot gear available to the department — stormed Columbia University to forcibly remove and arrest student protesters occupying a campus building.
These weren’t students; these were professional agitators. These skilled infiltrators had used industrial chains to barricade the doors of Hamilton Hall. Even worse, one of the protesters was the wife of a known terror suspect.
The claims were at best misleading and at worst outright false — but that didn’t stop law enforcement,...
These weren’t students; these were professional agitators. These skilled infiltrators had used industrial chains to barricade the doors of Hamilton Hall. Even worse, one of the protesters was the wife of a known terror suspect.
The claims were at best misleading and at worst outright false — but that didn’t stop law enforcement,...
- 5/1/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
On Tuesday, Twitter owner Elon Musk once more took to his social media network to complain about inaccuracies in mainstream media coverage — while trumpeting the site as a more reliable source of information. “News orgs like to control the narrative [and] hate being corrected, but at least people know they can come to this platform for a more accurate understanding of the world,” he boasted.
News orgs like to control the narrative & hate being corrected, but at least people know they can come to this platform for a more accurate understanding...
News orgs like to control the narrative & hate being corrected, but at least people know they can come to this platform for a more accurate understanding...
- 5/9/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
The Justice Department says it’s identified the leaker who posted dozens of highly classified documents online in one of the most brazen and bizarre intelligence community leaks in years.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that the FBI arrested Jack Teixeira, an Air National Guardsman, on suspicion of unauthorized retention and removal of national defense information.
Earlier on Thursday, The New York Times claimed to have identified Teixeira as the administration in charge of running the social media chat group where the leaks were posted. The Times says Jack Teixeira,...
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that the FBI arrested Jack Teixeira, an Air National Guardsman, on suspicion of unauthorized retention and removal of national defense information.
Earlier on Thursday, The New York Times claimed to have identified Teixeira as the administration in charge of running the social media chat group where the leaks were posted. The Times says Jack Teixeira,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Adam Rawnsley
- Rollingstone.com
According to the folklore behind QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory postulating that left-wing political figures are members of a secret pedophile ring, Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day was thought to be “the storm,” or the moment when President Donald Trump would emerge to arrest his evil enemies. Inauguration Day was supposed to be a day of the “Great Awakening,” marked by 10 days of darkness where the media and internet are shut down, Trump’s enemies’ crimes are disclosed over an emergency broadcast system, and all of them — including Joe Biden,...
- 1/20/2021
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Remember when the words “breaking news” used to refer to the thrill of hearing about world events as they happened? These days, it has become the daily sport of autocrats and elected officials alike, who have realized that discrediting once-reputable journalistic sources — quite literally, attempting to break the news — is an effective strategy in not being held accountable to facts. While it can be scary to realize that such misinformation games occur — and often even originate — at the highest levels of government, there is hope in the form of citizen journalists such as those profiled in Hans Pool’s “Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth World,” an exciting look at one such group of self-appointed fact finders that presents their innovative research techniques as a kind of cutting-edge spy thriller.
When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over the Ukraine, sparking vehement denials that Russia had any involvement, Bellingcat went...
When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over the Ukraine, sparking vehement denials that Russia had any involvement, Bellingcat went...
- 11/17/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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