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Fox News retracted a hit piece against former President Donald Trump and admitted they “inaccurately attributed” an anti-Trump quote to former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

Barack Obama, who was instrumental in fueling the media’s “misinformation” narrative before he left office, has a new buzzword — “digital fingerprints.”

A new bill making its way through the California state legislature would require students in K-12 to learn about “fake news,” according to standards that will be set by the state.

The BBC announced on Monday the formation of a new disinformation unit in its newsroom to counter alleged conspiracy theories and fake news.

Six out of ten Americans say the establishment media are to blame for misinformation, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights poll revealed Monday. 

Lawmaker Orlando Silva of the Communist Party of Brazil submitted the final version of an anti-”fake news” bill to Congress Thursday, aimed at censoring alleged disinformation.

A German politician has been fined $3,800 for painting a swastika and runes on his own car and home before going to the police.

The Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a foreign think tank headquartered in the United Kingdom, released an assessment of American online media, designed to blacklist conservative media outlets and choke off their advertising revenue. The information is kept on what GDI calls its “Dynamic Exclusion List.”

German news magazine Der Spiegel has retracted a number of false reports of a dead Syrian child on the Greek border after the Greek Migration Minister insisted the reports were erroneous. The magazine published the retraction on Friday, clarifying that

Far-left CNN’s total day viewership average dipped below 500,000 during the week of November 28.

Nolte: In one more indignity, far-left CNN will move its Los Angeles bureau from an iconic building in Hollywood to … Burbank.

A “bloodbath” at far-left CNN has terminated several correspondents and on-air contributors and totally wiped out HLN.

Failed, failing, and flailing CNN anchor Don Lemon went on Stephen Colbert to again prove how little he cares about his public credibility.

A five-year-old migrant girl reported to have died trying to cross from Turkey into Greece may never have existed in the first place, an investigation has claimed.

A viral infographic that claimed the government of Iran has sentenced 15,000 protesters to death was uncritically reposted and signal-boosted by several top left-leaning celebrities on Monday, including actresses Viola Davis and Sophie Turner – and perhaps most disturbingly, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who responded to the disinformation with an official condemnation as the Canadian head of government.

Democrat operatives are reportedly using seemingly local news outlets to push articles favoring their party as the midterm elections approach.

Former President Donald Trump is suing CNN in a $475 million defamation lawsuit, according to a complaint filed in federal court on Monday.

Despite even her own enemies calling it “absolutely fake news”, the establishment media is certain Meloni is Italy’s next fascist leader.

Conservative Giorgia Meloni declared she is ready to govern as Italy’s first female prime minister, but accused the left-wing of “fake news”.

Attorney and legal commentator Preston Moore says he was offered, and rejected, $400 by the “Good Information Foundation” to make a video attacking Donald Trump.

At the center of every viral fake news hoax targeting conservatives is usually a Hollywood celebrity who is gullible or dishonest enough to spread the lie Typhoid Mary-like all over social media. This week, it was Mark Hamill’s turn to serve as super-spreader for the left, sharing fake news that Florida schools had banned Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Stephen King is sorry, not sorry for spreading fake news about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

Police arrested Rohit Ranjan, a television anchorman for India’s Zee News, on Tuesday for allegedly spreading “fake news” by misquoting embattled opposition leader Rahul Gandhi.

The serial lying Fox News is not only the number one cable news outlet in America; it is frequently the number one overall cable channel in America.

Fox News and other members of the corporate press praised Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony to the January 6 Committee just hours before Secret Service agents reportedly announced their intent to contradict Hutchinson’s testimony under oath. 

The DeSantis campaign this week debunked fake news touted by the establishment media, describing the attempt as yet another “embarrassing effort to distract from Democrat failures.”

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) demanded an apology from Associated Press writer Jill Colvin for her “racist and dehumanizing” remarks about Miller’s adopted grandchildren.

Former President Donald Trump said the new name for the “Fake News” media would be “Corrupt News” at a rally in Mendon, Illinois, on Saturday evening.

USA Today removed 23 articles from its website after an internal investigation found that one of its reporters fabricated sources. 

Pope Francis warned Wednesday of the dangers of a “society of weariness” that has lost its passion for truth and justice and turns to superstition instead.

Brandi Buchman, a leftist who self-identifies as a “senior staff writer” for leftist blog Daily Kos “covering Jan. 6 probe,” has been caught spreading disinformation about the January 6 investigation, Breitbart News has learned.

Brazil’s conservative President Jair Bolsonaro turned to the Prosecutor General’s office to investigate top judge Alexandre de Moraes for abuse of power on Wednesday in response to de Moraes ordering violent raids against comedians, journalists, and Youtubers over alleged dissemination of “fake news.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday bashed the Biden administration after it announced the creation of a Disinformation Governance Board led by radical “disinformation chief” Nina Jankowicz, concluding that the administration simply wants to “put out false narratives,” “perpetuate hoaxes,” and silence critics.

Another big tech clampdown on free speech online appears to be forthcoming after the European Union agreed in principle more online censorship laws on Saturday.

Leftists in Britain celebrated St George’s Day on Saturday with their annual issuing of false claims that the Roman soldier of Cappadocian Greek ethnicity was, variously, “Turkish”, “Arab”, and “a migrant worker” in an effort to “own” English patriots.

Nigel Farage on Thursday blasted Piers Morgan and his team for what “Mr. Brexit” described as “fake news” over Morgan’s interview with former President Donald Trump, which Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle described as incredibly misleading and “deceptively edited.”