September 2018

Mobile phone on a table next to a mug full of coffee.

Did the WSJ Report That a Sex Crimes Prosecutor Was Pulled from a Hearing for Asking Too Many Questions?

As the United States debated putting Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court despite multiple assault allegations, rumors began to fly about a hearing the previous day, including a bombshell that purportedly appeared in the Wall Street Journal: WSJ: Mitchell advised Republicans that to continue questioning Kavanaugh she was required by her oath in Arizona to …

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Supreme Court building from outside underneath a blue sky.

Did Two Men Confess to Assaulting a Woman Accusing a Supreme Court Nominee?

On the eve of a scheduled hearing for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who has credibly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party in 1982, what looked like a potential bombshell story appeared on social media: Senate Judiciary Rs release a Kavanaugh investigative summary that includes: -an …

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Salisbury Cathedral spire.

Investigative Journalists: Russian Agents Were Responsible for Britain Poisonings

On March 4, 2018, the quiet and picturesque British town of Salisbury was rocked by the discovery of former Russian military officer Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia Skripal foaming at their mouths on a bench outside an Italian restaurant. The culprit: Novichok, a nerve agent known to have been developed and used by …

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Justin Trudeau’s Surprise Conversion

In order to boost circulation and rake in more advertising money, hoax and satire sites will sometimes re-run some of their older work hoping to catch clicks while the topics of their stories are once again relevant. This is a common practice with many media sites, but satirical or fake stories can wind up getting …

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Identifying Fake News Series: Fake News Generators

For the last several years, we have been hearing about foreign governments subverting United States elections using sophisticated teams that create fake stories and circulate them on social media. While foreign governments and large teams are most certainly a major source of disinformation, there are also tools available online that make it easy for anyone …

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Viktor Yanukovych (painted portrait on a wall.)

Was CRC Public Relations Registered as a Foreign Agent?

The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court was already a topic of controversy well before multiple women came forward with credible claims that he had sexually harassed and victimized them during the summer of 2018. Before Kavanaugh himself had even had a chance to respond to the charges publicly, others swooped …

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The Canada-United States Relationship, According to a Florida Judge

Much of the United States’ economic policy agenda in 2018 has revolved around instituting higher tariffs, protectionism, and mitigating perceived or real trade deficits. This has extended to the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA for short, which U.S. president Donald Trump has called “the worst trade deal ever.” We are in the NAFTA (worst …

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Designed by George Bernard Shaw and created by Caroline Townshend in 1910 as a commemoration of the Fabian Society. It shows Shaw with Sidney Webb and ER Pease, among others, helping to build a new world: 'Remould it nearer to the heart's desire'. Currently housed in the Shaw Library at the London School of Economics (founded by Sidney and Beatrice Webb and Shaw).

What Is the Fabian Society?

As the political fervor roiled around sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in September 2018, a number of explanations and excuses for his purported behavior appeared even before the details of the reports were widely known. Some of these excuses bordered on the mystical; others ignored the border and just went straight …

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