The communist government of the former Soviet Union thought that by controlling access to information,

they could keep their citizens in line.

Consistent with the Orwellian nature of the Soviet Union, the country's most important newspaper was Provda.

Provda is the Russian word for truth, but Provda was not truth.

It was full of lies.

But here's the thing.

Almost no one in the Soviet Union was fooled.

They knew they were being lied to.

Ironically, unlike most citizens in the Soviet Union,

citizens in 21st century America are fooled by their news media.

We think we're getting the real story from our major media, but we're not.

When we tune into the networks or read the New York Times or the Washington Post,

we're actually getting a sharply slanted version of the news, slanted to the left.

This should deeply concern people on both sides of the political divide.

To make informed decisions of free society needs a press it can trust,

not one that is hopelessly biased.

In 2017, Project Veritas sent out undercover reporters to see how committed the major media was to objective news gathering,

specifically as it regarded the newly elected president, Donald Trump.

Our first report focused on CNN.

Now producer there, John Bonafield, acknowledged the lack of evidence for his networks efforts to link the Trump campaign

and the Russian government in a plot to rig the 2016 election.

Bonafield told us,

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