Today, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI released a report alleging Russian hacking. The report itself is only five and a half pages long in large print...

Assuring users that the company’s entire team of engineers was working hard to make sure a glitch like this never happens again, Facebook executives confirmed during a press conference Tuesday that a horrible accident last night involving the website’s algorithm had resulted in thousands of users being exposed to new concepts. [Satire]

Democracy Now! hosts a debate between Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, and Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University.

Our political masters are in league with the Syrian rebels, and for the same reason as the rebels kidnap their victims – money. By Robert Fisk.

Eva Bartlett (Dec. 9, 2016)

“Mostly it has to do with words, especially binary oppositions like ‘real’ and ‘fake,’ and ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal,’ which are, of course, essentially meaningless … their value being purely tactical. Which is to say they denote nothing.” By CJ Hopkins.

CBS News reported developers increased pressure on Facebook to address its “fake news problem” with a browser extension called the “B.S. Detector.” It claimed the extension relies upon “a constantly-updated list of known fake news sites, propaganda mills and ‘promoters of kooky conspiracy theories’” as a reference point. However, CBS News was wrong. By Kevin Gosztola,

A writer with considerable expertise about Russian and Ukrainian politics connects the dots after scrutinizing the shadowy PropOrNot and a controversial Washington Post article. By Mark Ames.

John Laurits reports on the danger unleashed by the US Senate recently passing a 'counter propaganda' bill hidden in the National Defense Authorization Act.