Tag: CNN Trump

• Wednesday, August 29th 2018 - 07:57 UTC

  Trump accuses and warns Google, Twitter and Facebook about political bias

  

  United States President Donald Trump has warned Google, Twitter and Facebook they are “treading on troubled territory” amid a row over perceived bias. He said they had to be “very careful”, after earlier accusing Google of rigging the search results for the phrase “Trump news”.

• Friday, August 17th 2018 - 07:45 UTC

  US newspapers coordinately challenge Donald Trump's attacks on the media

  

  More than 300 U.S. newspapers run editorials on Thursday that promote press freedom to counter Donald Trump's attacks on the media, in a move coordinated by The Boston Globe. President Trump has often attacked some media reports as “fake news” and called journalists the “enemy of the people,” and “very dangerous and sick,” in a tweet earlier this month.

• Saturday, January 14th 2017 - 09:36 UTC

  Labour and BBC warn on risks of being infected by contagion of fake news stories

  

  British politics risks being “infected by the contagion” of fake news stories, a senior Labour MP has said. Michael Dugher said the problem was not confined to the US and news outlets everywhere had a duty to scrutinise politicians on the basis of “truth and reality” not “click-bait nonsense”.