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How Social Media Came To The Rescue After India's Floods (National Public Radio)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 16:39Impact Of Facebook's False Posts Is Difficult To Measure (National Public Radio)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 06:22On Appeals Court, Judge Kavanaugh Helped To Loosen Political Money Laws (National Public Radio)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 08/08/2018 - 06:21Week Of Trump Reversals Puts 2018 Election Security In The Spotlight (National Public Radio)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 07/20/2018 - 06:17New Charges Confirm That 'Infiltration' Was An Aspect Of Russian 2016 Attack (National Public Radio)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 07/17/2018 - 06:26Rising Seas Could Cause Problems For Internet Infrastructure (National Public Radio)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 07/16/2018 - 13:28
President Trump Calls His Criticism Of British Prime Minister 'Fake News'
President Donald Trump denied criticizing British Prime Minister Theresa May on her home soil July 13, despite being quoted in an interview with a British tabloid saying she had gone "the opposite way" and ignoring advice he gave her regarding Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. President Trump declared as "fake news" his criticism of May in an interview in The Sun, although the tabloid itself released a recording of the session. In the interview, President Trump said he would have done Brexit "much differently.
Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News
Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 election cycle sought to take advantage of the greater trust that Americans tend to place in local news.The information operatives who worked out of the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg not only sought to pose as American social media users or spread false information from purported news sources, according to new details. They also created a number of Twitter accounts that posed as sources for Americans' hometown headlines.