We don’t need to traffic in conspiracy theories to realize how outrageous Trump is. By Masha Gessen.

Louise Mensch is delusional, which is why she gets to write for the New York Times… By Nathan J. Robinson and Alex Nichols.

From fake news to covert ops, aspects of Russia’s alleged efforts to boost Trump echo tactics pioneered in 1940. By Steve Usdin.

“The media never intended to learn anything from Iraq except how to better peddle fables, and it hasn’t even learned that.” By Jason Hirthler.

In the current D.C. climate on Russia, all relevant journalistic incentives encourage and reward false news. By Glenn Greenwald.

False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid. By Glenn Greenwald.

The travesty of war in Syria represents a defining political issue today. By Anthony DiMaggio.

Bana al-Abed, the Syrian girl whose Tweets from eastern Aleppo captured the world’s attention, meets with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his palace in Ankara.

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

Bana al-Abed, 7, has more than 220,000 followers on Twitter, where she chronicles the deprivations of a child in war-torn Syria. But she has also raised questions of authenticity. By Rick Gladstone, Megan Specia and Sydney Ember.

Video of the controversial aid group Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the “White Helmets,” has leaked showing the staging of a fake rescue. By Dan Wright.

With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about “fake news” ended up disseminating far more than it exposed. By Ben Norton, Glenn Greenwald.

Where’s the evidence? So much effort has been thrown at implicating the Russians in some way and none of the evidence has stuck — time and time again the evidence fizzles and people move onto the next big scandal that also evaporates on closer inspection… By Yasha Levine.

Until he joined Trump’s team, Steve Bannon ran a news site that stoked hatred of everyone from women on birth control to President Obama. By Elisabeth Sherman.

Just because Facebook isn’t doing anything about it doesn’t mean you can’t. By Madison Malone Kircher.

How Breitbart News rose on the darkest of money to hijack the conservative media – and how liberals helped them do it. By Matthew Phelan.

The Conservative Blogger’s Legacy Of Losers. By Mark Ames and Max Blumenthal. (April 2, 2013)

A conference in London this week brings together military and intelligence officials hoping to use social media as a tool in the armed forces. By Nafeez Ahmed.

Going Underground with Afshin Rattansi (RT)

British missionaries hated the sari; US feminists would ban the burqa. Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes? By Rafia Zakaria.