In January 2010, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doing what she does best, grasped a platitude and ran with it in launching, of all things, an institution called the Newseum. “Information freedom,” she declared, “supports the peace and security that provide a foundation for global progress.” The same figure has encouraged the…
In the second half of June 2023, a wave of claims hit the world media that North Korea was allegedly experiencing a famine comparable to the Arduous March of the 1990s. A BBC article supposedly based on covert interviews with anonymous sources straight from North Korea (DPRK) and a documentary film based on the same…
At best, regional media were confused by the DC-based Diplomat’s suspiciously timed piece or wanted to generate clickbait, while the worst-case scenario is that some are deliberately spreading disinformation. South Asia has been hit by a fake news cyclone in recent days after reports began virally circulating about Nepali Gorkhas allegedly joining Wagner en masse….
Pakistani Minister of State for Petroleum Musadik Malik’s official statement about Pakistan’s intent to import 35% of its total crude oil requirement from Russia, which was obviously approved by new Chief Of Army Staff Asim Munir, sharply contrasts with the prior fake news about Russian oil that circulated immediately after last April’s post-modern coup. Some…
CIA Director, William Casey is reputed to have said to Ronald Reagan ‘We’ll know our disinformation is complete when everything the American public believes is false.’ Fast forward thirty years, and there’s no piece of fiction the masses will not swallow. From Woke to COVID to the war in Ukraine, people no longer make their…
No reasonable observer can be expected to believe that Russia would bomb its own nuclear power plant together with flooding the same region that just reunified with it, not to mention depriving Crimea’s residents of water and thus immediately inflicting a massive humanitarian crisis on its own people. For these obvious reasons, Kiev’s weaponization of…
