On Facebook, right-wing meme pages play a vital role in condensing and recycling far-right talking points and keeping the MAGA base engaged online.

The mainstream media should be taken to task, but not for the same reasons the president uses in his attacks on the press. By Paul Street.

How is hawkish fanaticism whipped up at home? One exhibition offers insight. By Bradley Anderson.

Operatives are installing malware that could give them remote control of parts of the country's power network.

Trolling by states and parties is changing the political landscape of entire nations, according to journalists and politicians. By Michael Riley, Lauren Etter, Bibhudatta Pradham.

Robert Fisk visits the Syria clinic at the centre of a global crisis.

The rollback of Islamic State must come as a shock to those who spent years insisting that such progress would never happen without toppling the regime of Bashar Assad. By Max Abahms, John Glaser.

The president came to the company's defense Monday, since they're a big cheerleader for him.

A longtime Fox News analyst sharply criticized the network on Tuesday, denouncing the outlet as a "propaganda machine" devoted to President Trump.

Napoleon, with his aggrandizing bulletins and heroic portraits orchestrated down to the smallest detail, was a master of self-promotion. By Nina Martyris.

The war in Syria has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the majority are most likely to be from among the Syrian Arab Army soldiers, defending their country and their people against the wave of terrorism that has been unleashed upon Syria by a cabal of over seventy UN member states. Another regime change war under the familiar banner of “humanitarian” intervention on behalf of the “people” who are, again, dying in droves thanks entirely to this latest US/UK/EU-Coalition proxy military intervention. By Vanessa Beeley.

On Tuesday morning—the day after the House Intelligence Committee voted along partisan lines to send Rep. Devin Nunes’ memo, alleging abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to President Donald Trump for declassification—presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway was confronted with the idea that Russian trolls were promoting the #releasethememo hashtag online. She was offended. Russian trolls, she told a television interviewer, “have nothing to do with releasing the memo—that was a vote of the intelligence committee.” But her assertion is incorrect.

A new national security communications unit has echoes of the past, when the government tried to weaponise information, with mixed results. By Dan Lomas.

The European Union on Wednesday accused Russia of pumping out thousands of pieces of disinformation in an "orchestrated strategy" aimed at destabilising the bloc. Russia faces a barrage of accusations of interfering in a string of seismic political events, including the British vote to leave the European Union, the US election of President Donald Trump and the Catalan independence crisis.

Saudi Arabia and President Trump said a missile fired from Yemen was shot down. But photos and videos from the scene tell a different story. By Max Fisher, Eric Schmitt, Audrey Carlsen and Malachy Browne. (Dec. 4, 2017)

In one sample of a residential area called Qaiyara, near Mosul city, in about a third of fatal strikes Isis had been in close proximity to the civilians, but in half of the cases there had been no discernible Isis presence. By Patrick Cockburn.

Facebook Inc. will show people which Russian propaganda pages or accounts they’ve followed and liked on the social network, responding to a request from Congress to address manipulation and meddling during the 2016 presidential election.

Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has published two exclusives whose import is far greater than may be immediately apparent. They concern Israel’s bombing in 2007 of a supposed nuclear plant secretly built, according to a self-serving US and Israeli narrative, by Syrian leader Bashar Assad... By Jonathan Cook.

Six young Iraqis are taking a strategy straight out of the Kremlin’s mischievous playbook, but with no thanks to Moscow. They’re using hacked accounts to attack the so-called Islamic State and fake news to disrupt its “virtual caliphate.” Given the dangers they face, the six people who make up the little group calling itself, with conscious irony, “Daeshgram”—its name melding the Arabic acronym for ISIS and Instagram—are forced to live something resembling double lives.

“Apparently it has not occurred to anyone that a ‘good American,’ like a ‘good German’ or a ‘good Japanese,’ must be, pro tanto, a bad human being.” By Bertrand Russell. (1922)