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Media outlets need to rebuild public trust as audiences increasingly turn to unverified social media for news, Khairul Alam has told RT Journalism must remain “independent of political power” and offer audiences verification, context and accountability as social media increasingly competes with traditional news, Bangladeshi journalist and editor Khairul Alam has told RT.Alam, editor of DBARTA24 and former General Secretary of the Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ), spoke to RT on Wednesday on the sidelines of the International Forum ‘Dialogue about Fakes 4.0’ in Moscow.“Rebuilding public trust begins with one simple principle: journalism must be independent of political power,” he…

Screencap of YouTube video. It’s a tough time to work at CNN, apparently. In addition to their White House ban, insiders say that the mood at the network is like a funeral over the impending Paramount merger which could force the far left outlet to change their precious ‘resistance TV’ programming. The people who work there and steer the network’s slanted coverage don’t want anything to change. They like things the way they are. Too bad, so sad. The mood at CNN is “like a funeral,” according to a source, as Paramount Skydance prepares to acquire the company in October.…

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda lieutenant who lead an alliance of insurgents and jihadis to depose dictator Bashar Assad in December 2024, began his second address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday by justifying his violent past as a struggle against “evil” and “injustice.” “Good people choose the right path. Those who fight are very different from those who engage in bloodshed,” he asserted. “When land is usurped, when sanctity is violated, people suffer and people pay the price. Falsehood forces people to confront evil. Many wars were waged over history,” he said. Sharaa said that…

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “Money, Power, Politics,” Michigan Senate Senator Mallory McMorrow (D) said people in Michigan are “so happy” former Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the campaign trail in their state. McMorrow said, “We have to understand, the Republican party has been successful, especially in a state like Michigan, understanding you don’t have to fall in love, you’ve got to fall in line. And it doesn’t matter who they run. It doesn’t matter what they say. You have Mike Rogers, who hasn’t been held accountable for the fact that his campus organizer at the University of Michigan is…

Ben Swann and investigative journalist Elizabeth Lane examine fake accounts, purchased engagement and efforts to shape online narratives NATO has spent years researching online influence techniques involving fake profiles, targeted advertising and purchased social media engagement. RT’s America Now has examined the bloc’s experiments and what they could reveal about efforts to shape online narratives.Host Ben Swann and investigative journalist Elizabeth Lane reviewed NATO promotional material, published research and reports on experiments involving social media manipulation.One example is a 2024 NATO promotional video featuring predominantly white European women as the alliance’s “future” in a potential conflict, apparently with Russia. Swann…

Screencap of Twitter/X video. The city of Los Angeles is now reporting an outbreak of the disease Typhus. It is connected to fleas on rats which are flourishing in the city’s numerous homeless encampments. California has the highest tax rate in the country. Why? What do people get for paying such high taxes? They get preventable diseases because their leaders are worthless. There’s really no excuse for this at all. NBC News in Los Angeles reports: Flea-borne typhus rising in LA County with latest case reported in Wilshire Center Typhus, a flea-borne bacterial disease, is on the rise in Los…

British counter-terrorism police say they took proactive steps to foil an imminent terrorism plot targeting the Jewish community in Manchester, just hours away from Yom Kippur, and a year after the 2025 Yom Kippur synagogue attack in the same city. Two men in their 30 were arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act on Sunday by specialist officers from counter-terrorism police and Britain’s domestic intelligence agency MI5. Police have been granted extra time to question the suspects in custody after they were transferred under armed guard to London, reports The Telegraph. A hostel in Salford based in a substantial Victorian…

The State Department will deny visas to foreigners who run or help run birth tourism operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the restrictions Wednesday under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that lets the secretary declare a foreigner inadmissible on foreign policy grounds. The policy covers the people who own, run, and manage commercial birth tourism networks. It also covers visa “fixers” who coach applicants on how to lie, along with foreign doctors who knowingly help arrange the travel and the fraudulent use of Medicaid. Certain family members can be swept in too. Rubio said these networks…

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is facing criticism for rolling out city-funded security guards for grocery stores to buffer them against theft instead of focusing her efforts on stopping crime citywide by jailing criminals in the first place. The socialist mayor earlier this week debuted rollout of the security funding as part of a $1.7 million grocery-support initiative from the city’s 2026 budget, saying in a statement reported by Fox News: “Keeping our neighborhood grocery stores safe and supported is essential to making sure every Seattleite has a reliable, affordable grocery store near them.” Fox reported: The plan will help 10 independent…

Politico’s parent company is bestowing its highest award on Peter Thiel, who serves the same globalist agenda Germany’s Axel Springer media monolith is about to award its highest honor to Palantir founder Peter Thiel, in a ceremony illustrating the incestuous relationship between the mainstream media, the defense tech industry, and the US-Israeli order. Thiel will receive the ‘2026 Axel Springer Award’ at a ceremony in Berlin on Thursday. According to Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner, Thiel “is one of the rare entrepreneurs who does not merely found or finance companies but helps determine the direction of technological development.”“He reminds us…