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April 1, 2020
Third-party fact-checkers have the ability to cause pages on Facebook to be suppressed. These fact-checkers, who are paid by Facebook, are putting efforts into fact-checking satire and editorial cartoons. In other words — opinion.
Lone…
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April 3, 2020
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign released a video in March deceptively depicting President Donald Trump calling the coronavirus a “hoax.” Twitter refused to label or take the video down, in accordance…
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April 6, 2020
Twitter has been accused of shadowbanning prominent conservatives in the past. One conservative business owner says the company is still doing it — to him.
“Twitter seems to be restricting how many people can see my tweets!” wrote…
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April 8, 2020
Twitter automatically tags interests for accounts based on the user’s activity. However, it appears as if accounts are being flagged based on their interests. In at least one prominent user’s case, it may have caused his account to be…
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April 14, 2009
Armen Keteyian was befuddled by oil companies’ unwillingness to start drilling in leased land. The CBS correspondent filed a report on the CBS “Evening News” on April 13 wondering why the oil companies, ExxonMobil in particular, are allowing some of…
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April 3, 2009
After months of doom and gloom, suggestions of the next Great Depression and stories on “tent cities,” the New York Times and CNN.com ran similar, positive pieces on the housing market.
While the depressed housing market and economic recession…
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March 10, 2009
For all intents and purposes, Jim Cramer has left the Obama
“Hope and Change” express. In an interview with Meredith Viera on the March 10
“Today” show, Cramer, along with Erin Burnett of CNBC, sounded off on the Obama
administration’s plan to…
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March 20, 2009
Maybe he’ll fare better than other aging child stars, but for now, he’s something of an embarrassment. Cute and cuddly sold climate panic. Predatory and perilous does not.Two years ago on March 23, Knut the polar bear cub who was saved by zookeepers…
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March 6, 2009
On March 5, Jim Cramer published a response on his website to White House attacks on his credibility on financial issues. The most startling aspect of the response was Cramer’s admission on his politics. “To be totally out of the closet, I actually…
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March 9, 2009
Even with our economic troubles, things are not yet as bad at the Depression-era with its unemployment level of about 25 percent. But that didn’t stop the “Today” show from drawing the comparison with a “modern day shanty town” near the “railroad…