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tonight. theres new cnn polling of likely voting in two key senate races in wisconsin and pennsylvania. wisconsin showing no clear leader in the showdown between incumbent republican ron johnson and democrat mandela barnes. pennsylvania with document lieutenant governor fetterman narrowly ahead of mehmet oz. we learned late today that former president obama will be campaigning there along with president biden on the final weekend before election day. a party official familiar with the ...

Misinformation is an issue that has come firmly to the fore over recent years, fuelled by increased access to the internet throughout the world. While higher internet usage provides enormous benefits, enabling people to stay more informed and interconnected, the scourge of fake news is a significant side effect. A variety of perpetrators, ranging from cyber-criminals intent on scams to nation state actors aiming to create discord in rival countries, are increasingly taking advantage of the abil...

Check stories. third parties do. fact checks are not designed to show up for more more often for sites political leanings. >> not designed is the key word there. pete: left wing guests neither of them are getting at all. >> these are examples. as a whole i think they are trying to make this work. google has certainly made a misstep here. pete: are they? facebook has new filters. >> facebook banned on them. pete: facebook bailed one of my videos about the iraq war. is the left not making concerte...

>> fake news peddlers. >> you are fake news. >> heres the real bad news, you aint seen nothing yet. a big data analysis of online media released this summer by three communications professors shows the production of fake news articles has been rapidly growing. to be clear, fake news is not news you dont like. it is content that is intentionally created to mislead the public and is untrue. and the researchers came to a capitol hilli chilling conclusion, when news organizations take the time to f...

And, therefore, harmful to the president. so it gets complicated but the issue here, ali, is that the white house is saying that there is information known to the fbi that the fbi is not letting the public know, the fbi suggesting that they cant fact check stories, thats not their role. ali? >> it is complicated story. thank you for making some sense of it. kelly odonnell for us at the white house as the president returns from cpac to the white house. i want to bring in the senior fellow in the ...

Coming up on the bottom of the hour now. lets check stories developing right now. greek parliament voted to approve reforms and in a few hours, eurozone leaders will be meeting to decide if the nation will get a galobailout package. the reforms are similar to the same ones rejected by the greek people in a referendum last sunday. one person is dead and seven others injured in downtown cairo after a car bomb exploded outside the italian consulate this morning. two officers are among those inj...

yes, a moon base. just listen as things got pretty fire ri over immigration. >> is he still the moet anti-immigrant candidate? >> i think of the four of us, yes. >> go ahead, governor. >> that is simply inexcusable. actually, senator marco rubio came to my defense and said that ad was inexcusable, inappropriate. im not anti-immigrant. my father was born in mexico. my wifes father was born in whales. they came to this country. the idea that im anti-immigrant is repulsive. to say that en...

details. we wrap it up here. "starting point." im going to hop on a plane and get to south carolina. we hand it over to "cnn newsroom." ill see you back here tomorrow ill see you back here tomorrow morning. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. we start this hour with that doomed cruise ship off italy and fading hope to find anymore survivors. people are still missing in those frigid waters. two americans. at least 11 people have been killed. rescue operations...

and for now at this point, kyra, ive reached out to some republicans here on the hill. theyre reserving judgement at this point. as you know, they frequently talk about wanting smaller government, so on its face this seems like something that they could go along with but, of course, theyre waiting right now to see what president obama says. theyre waiting to see if there are any catches. you see president obama here doing a couple of things. hes trying to make good on some promises abo...

its going to be hilarious. stay home. deep on cnn. stay with us. the countdown to the republican caucuses. the first contest over who will face president obama in november. well take you live to des moines. and a corporation bows to public pressure. verizon convenience fee, fuhgedaboudit. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we start with iowa and the republican presidential race. there are just three days now until the first votes are cast, which means plenty of action this wee...