US President Donald Trump swiftly shut down the suggestion that Washington would suspend import tariffs for a quarter of a year amid the Covid-19 crisis, dubbing recent source-based reporting on the question as “fake news.” Asked about a new ‘scoop’ in the Wall Street Journal blaring from its headline: “US plans to stop collecting import tariffs for three months,” the president dismissed the idea immediately, insisting […]
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After a former Swedish prime minister accused Serbia of hyping coronavirus aid that it received from China but ignoring ‘far more substantial’ help from the European Union, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic moved to set the record straight. “When China sent an aircraft with help to Serbia President [Aleksandar] Vucic made a great show of it,” Carl Bildt tweeted on Friday morning, “But when far more substantial […]
Cults are fertile ground for exploring gender dynamics in a vacuum, and so The Other Lamb, helmed by Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska, is perfectly fitted to the conditions of insularity. Bordering horror and psychological thriller, the film meanders through a crisp aesthetic, first seducing the viewer into the remote and idealized country lives of the Shepherd (Game of Thrones’ Michiel Huisman), his red-frocked “wives,” and blue-frocked […]
Joe Biden has reemerged from an almost week-long disappearance to post a video on Twitter addressing the Trump administration’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis, but his return has been greeted with mockery and concern. Biden sounded tired and slow as he spoke for one minute and 20 seconds while standing in front of what appeared to be a green screen with a set of bookshelves digitally […]
Twenty people have died in a week in Istanbul after drinking fake alcohol, CNN Turk reported. The people who drank the counterfeit alcohol from different parts of the city were all nationals of Turkmenistan and 34 of them have been hospitalised due to the consumption of isopropyl alcohol, a type of alcohol not suitable for digestion, police said. Police said some of the victims also rubbed […]
The English Football Association has reportedly rubbished a claim spread on social networking platforms which said that it was converting Wembley Stadium into a giant oven to make the world’s largest lasagne. A voice message began circulating in WhatsApp groups across the UK on Thursday which purported to be from a person with a contact in the Ministry of Defense. According to the message, the home […]
An alleged failed attempt at satire has landed a Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager in hot water after a video showing him appearing to lick his finger and wipe it on a handrail went viral. Professional hedge fund manager and apparent part-time comedian, Joel Werner, claims the stunt was intended to draw attention to the scourge of fake news. In the video, which has been spread […]
With most of Europe and Asia presently under some form of emergency measures to fight the spread of Covid-19, now is probably not the best time to scare people even more. A woman in Russia’s Far East is set to appear before a court on charges of spreading false information about coronavirus in her remote region. The Amur Oblast where she resides has yet to report […]
Viral 21:49 GMT 18.03.2020(updated 21:50 GMT 18.03.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106380/44/1063804417_0:180:3456:2124_1200x675_80_0_0_bcfd4721c42b17d93dadfc612bd49ffa.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202003181078618080-awful-fake-thing-oprah-winfrey-discredits-false-sex-trafficking-rumors/ American media executive Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday took to Twitter to shut down rumors that she had been arrested for sex trafficking after fake news reports surfaced online. According to the rumors, Winfrey was arrested by the US National Guard at her Boca Raton, Florida, home. Facebook user Lili […]
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A video which has swept across Indian social media, depicting visibly distraught passengers pleading with airport police to “shoot them,” is both old and not what it claims to be as fake news exacerbates coronavirus anxiety. The footage began circulating on WhatsApp across India on Wednesday, purporting to show harrowing scenes of beleaguered passengers screaming “Shoot us!” and “kill us!” at authorities as they were trapped […]
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images As America faces ongoing pandemonium because of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump decided to take a little break from the pandemic by getting on Twitter and railing against his political enemies. While Trump started his Twitter proclamations on Sunday by focusing somewhat on the coronavirus, he mostly was interested in thanking his supporters for praising him and attacking his foes. Thank […]
Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, via Twitter. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) have seized a package arriving from the United Kingdom that contained vials falsely labeled as coronavirus test kits. In a press release on the agency’s website, CBP stated that the parcel manifest had declared the contents as “Purified Water Vials” valued at $196.81. […]
International Media Uses Fake Journalist To Spread Disinformation About Nicaragua By Nora Mitchell and Nan McCurdy, Afgj.org March 14, 2020 International Media Uses Fake Journalist To Spread Disinformation About Nicaragua2020-03-142020-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/image2.png200px200px Above Photo: Carl David Goette Luciak with armed opposition On Feb. 20, 2020, Vox.com published a piece entitled “Burnt radio stations and 18-month newsprint blockades: Inside the slow culling of Nicaragua’s free press” that has multiple problems. The first […]
Egyptian police arrested three people for allegedly spreading fake news on social media regarding the number of people affected by the coronavirus in the country. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior said in a statement that legal measures are being taken against the three detainees who are being investigated. Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday the launching of a government campaign […]
The outbreak of coronavirus has ratcheted up anxiety levels in the UK, especially in light of a health minister contracting the disease, but the Times has provided a distraction with a ‘fake news’ story about Boris Johnson’s dog. On Tuesday evening, it emerged that Junior Health Minister Nadine Dorries had tested positive for coronavirus, less than a week after attending an event hosted by Prime Minister […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has arrested two residents accused of spreading fake news about the coronavirus in the West Bank. The pair are suspected of recording an audio message announcing the discovery of new cases of the virus in the occupied city of Hebron. A third Palestinian has been arrested for posting a fake comment on Facebook which claimed that 12 new cases had been detected […]
The coronavirus outbreak has not killed anyone in India so far, but it has been absolutely lethal to the poultry industry, with a false rumor leading one farmer to destroy his entire livelihood. Dr. Suresh Bhatlekar, a poultry farmer from the town of Dahanu in the state of Maharashtra, is one of the many local poultry producers that have fallen victim to the coronavirus-linked panic, fueled […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is clamping down on Palestinians suspected of spreading fake news about the COVID-19 virus in the West Bank. The PA General Intelligence Service recently arrested two Palestinians suspected of spreading false audio messages about the novel coronavirus in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. In addition, a Palestinian was arrested in the city of Bethlehem after being accused of spreading fake […]
MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough fell for a fake tweet on Monday which purported to show President Donald Trump saying that any president who lets Dow Jones fall more than a thousand points should be shot out of “a very big cannon.” The fake tweet was posted by NeverTrump commentator Rick Wilson and writer Reza Aslan before being shared by Scarborough. I’ll get the cannon. pic.twitter.com/JMX4G05fk5 […]
With the Dow Jones down nearly 1,500 points Monday as of this writing, President Donald Trump has identified his scapegoats: Saudi Arabia, Russia, and “Fake News.” In a Monday morning tweet, the president blamed the Dow freefall on the burgeoning feud over oil prices between Russia and Saudi Arabia. “Saudi Arabia and Russia are arguing over the price and flow of oil,” Trump wrote. “That, and […]
President Donald Trump started the week by blaming “Fake News Media” for irresponsibly inflaming public hysteria in their coverage of the potential Coronavirus pandemic. The Trump administration and its media surrogates have been blaming Democrats for “weaponizing” the looming public health risk amidst non-stop media coverage of spiked cases of coronavirus in China, Italy, Iran and possibly Washington state. While many senior members of Trump’s coronavirus task […]
President Donald Trump defended the U.S.’ response to coronavirus this morning and once again attacked the “fake news.” Trump tweeted this morning, “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus. We moved VERY early to close borders to certain areas, which was a Godsend.” He praised the work Mike Pence has done before adding, “The Fake […]
While coronavirus continues to rapidly spread throughout the world – officially having infected nearly 100,000 and killing 3,347 as of this writing, China has reported a steady decrease in the number of new cases – insisting they’ve got the outbreak under control within their borders. Why anyone believes the official numbers coming out of Beijing is anyone’s guess – as the ‘official’ numbers coming from the […]