Does AP stand for Associated Propaganda? The trusted news initiative currently consists of the BBC,  Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram to Twitter and Microsoft and major news organizations and others – from the European Broadcasting Union, the Wall Street Journal and The Hindu to Reuters, AFP, The Financial Times, CBC/Radio-Canada, First Draft, The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Washington Post, AP and the LA Times. The irony of “The trusted news initiative” is stunning.