“Russia spread fake news via Twitter”

Apr 20, 2018 | In the news

Why are we suddenly becoming so exercised about Trump and Putin’s fake news? We’ve had plenty of our own for many a year, the Mail branding judges ‘Enemies of the People, the Express’s  referendum day ‘We must get out of the EU’ headline, The Sun’s ‘Will the last person to leave turn off the lights if Neil Kinnock wins’. Surely, if we try to block Putin’s propaganda, we should turn off our own tabloids’ Twitter accounts? Unless we think our people are bright enough to know a load of twoddle when they hear it. Hmm…

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“Apple versus the world”

Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.