Tag: Media suppression

Categories Russia

If YouTube’s block of RT’s German channels is about ‘misinformation’, when will MSNBC & CNN be banned for Russiagate conspiracies?

Posted on Posted onBy Editor

Russia is locked into yet another standoff with an American tech company. This time, it’s YouTube, which has taken down two of RT’s German-language news channels and provoked a furious response from Moscow’s most senior officials. … Read More >If YouTube’s block of RT’s German channels is about ‘misinformation’, when will MSNBC & CNN be banned for Russiagate conspiracies?

Categories Russia

YouTube could face total BAN in Russia if tech giant doesn’t unblock RT’s German-language channels, Moscow’s media regulator warns

Posted on Posted onBy Editor

Officials in Moscow have issued a sternly-worded ultimatum to YouTube’s parent company, Google, saying the video streaming site could face restrictions after it took down two channels run by RT’s German-language service. … Read More >YouTube could face total BAN in Russia if tech giant doesn’t unblock RT’s German-language channels, Moscow’s media regulator warns

Categories World

Australian police attempt to keep reporters from covering Covid-19 protests, back off after news outlet threatens legal challenge

Posted on Posted onBy Editor

Melbourne police partially backed off an order to keep news helicopters out of the sky over anti-lockdown protests after media pushed back with a legal challenge. Police said protesters were tracking cops’ movements via newsfeeds. … Read More >Australian police attempt to keep reporters from covering Covid-19 protests, back off after news outlet threatens legal challenge

Categories World

Australian High Court rules news outlets can be held liable for comments under their social media posts

Posted on Posted onBy Editor

Australian media companies could be liable for third-party comments made on their social media posts after the High Court upheld a ruling on a case by a formerly imprisoned teen who sued media companies over comments about him. … Read More >Australian High Court rules news outlets can be held liable for comments under their social media posts

Categories Asia & Pacific

‘Severe restriction to freedom of information’: UN urges South Korea to amend bill that penalizes ‘fake news’

Posted on Posted onBy Editor

The UN’s top media-rights official has warned that South Korea’s “disproportionate” anti-fake-news bill undermines the freedom of journalists and will impose self-censorship on the press. … Read More >‘Severe restriction to freedom of information’: UN urges South Korea to amend bill that penalizes ‘fake news’

Categories Shows

The real winner from the Afghanistan war, record breaking heat, Nabisco on strike

Posted on Posted onBy Editor

The occupation of Afghanistan was an outrageous attack on human rights from the beginning and now the corporate media are outraged that the US is leaving after two decades. Lee Camp highlights the many losers and the wealthy winners from the occupation. He then covers the record-breaking heat across the planet and the movements responding to it, and the US Empire’s next target for regime change. … Read More >The real winner from the Afghanistan war, record breaking heat, Nabisco on strike

Categories World

Ukraine shuts down leading independent news site Strana as part of new crackdown on journalists, judges & opposition politicians

Posted on Posted onBy Editor

One of Ukraine’s most prominent news outlets has been taken offline after the country’s National Security and Defense Council marked it out as a threat, thus adding the title to the growing list of banned opposition media groups. … Read More >Ukraine shuts down leading independent news site Strana as part of new crackdown on journalists, judges & opposition politicians

Categories Shows

Angry panel skewers ‘clownish’ US foreign policy & media lies (Full show)

Posted on Posted onBy Editor

Is all that has happened as the US ends its efforts in Afghanistan really as catastrophic as US media is currently reporting, or are US journalists overplaying a war they have all but ignored for more than a decade? Rick Sanchez argues that the outcome of the US invasion and ill-considered withdrawal was only unexpected to those not paying attention. … Read More >Angry panel skewers ‘clownish’ US foreign policy & media lies (Full show)