Articles by Ben Swann

The Facebook scandal involving personal data mishandled by Cambridge Analytica has raised concerns over the privacy of the information we share on our social media accounts. Some countries have gone as far as to legislate Internet data privacy with laws granting the “right to be forgotten.” Yet Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says we don’t need such regulations here in the states. Is he right? This is a Reality Check you won’t get anywhere else. It’s an unsettling thought: your personal data, b...

Alexander Matsegora, Moscow’s envoy to North Korea says that any more sanctions on the country’s oil supply would be perceived as a declaration of war. He went on to tell President Trump, “If the supplies of oil and oil product are stopped, it would mean a complete blockade of the DPRK (North Korea).” According to Newsbreakouts.com, “Before Christmas, the UN Security Council unanimously voted to cut exports of gasoline, diesel and other oil products by 89 per cent.” And The Express UK reports...

Friday, the White House released a controversial memo meant to provide some context to the whole Trump/Russia investigation. The Nunes memo is four pages long, and it explains many of what seem to be very questionable actions by the Department of Justice and the FBI in how they got their hands on FISA warrants on Trump campaign officials. But more than just this case, this memo backs up what civil libertarians have been screaming about for years. And begs the question—can the FISA court system...

Editor's note: The following is a transcript of the above video. Reality Check is a segment by investigative journalist Ben Swann on CBS46 in Atlanta, Georgia. Well it seems like a ridiculous concern: President-elect Donald Trump takes a phone call from the prime minister of Taiwan, and the media and political establishment go into a frenzy. Well, it turns out Trump is right. Not specifically about the phone call, but about the fact that the U.S. has been arming Taiwan for years. This is a rea...

In what has been an election year unlike any other, things could become even more unusual. As we head toward the presidential debates, is it possible that we will see 3 candidates on the stage, not only 2? Let’s give it a reality check. While most media wants to talk about the increasing lead of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, they are missing a major part of the story. This is not a two party race, and for the first time since Ross Perot in 1992, we could actually see 3 presidential candida...

The Quest for Peace and Justice Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Lecture -- December 11, 1964 “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9t7Q4H7efg Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, was physically ejected from a Monday Goucher College senatorial debate featuring Republican and Democratic candidates after she took the stage in defiance of a last-minute rule change that reportedly caused her to be disinvited from the event. Dramatic footage seen above captured the moment when audience members chanted “Let her speak” as she was being forced out of the buildi...

Reality Check: Dem Super-delegates Include Registered Lobbyists!Ben Swann A week ago I told you about the Democratic Party’s superdelegate problem. And that problem may be worse than we first thought. Could registered lobbyists have a bigger vote in the process than you do? This is a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else. Hillary Clinton continues to hold a delegate lead in her race for the Democratic nomination against Sen. Bernie Sanders. After Super Tuesday, the pledged delegates look...

The Libertarian Party just scored a major victory in its quest to fulfill candidate Gary Johnson’s promise that the party will be on the ballot in all 50 states as an alternative to the Republicans and Democrats in the 2016 presidential election. Ballot Access News is reporting that the Oklahoma Election Board announced on Monday that it has verified the Libertarian Party’s petition to become a qualified party in the state, meaning that its presidential candidate will appear on the 2016 ballot ...