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Salem Media retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s bogus voter fraud film 2000 Mules after two years of...
Media Matters· 5 days agoThe widely debunked documentary was mentioned in dozens of articles on The Gateway Pundit and pushed by conservative media figures including ...
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
NBC NEWS· 2 days agoRight-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump...
Election criminal cases stall, but defamation lawsuits notch victories
Atlanta Journal-Constitution· 3 days agoElection-related criminal cases against Donald Trump and others have stalled in Georgia and...
Right-wing media spread misleadingly edited video of Biden to claim he isn’t fit to serve
Media Matters· 4 days agoSome right-wing figures used the clip to claim that “Joe Biden possibly soiled himself” or was...
... a Tiny Proportion of People Spread Almost All the Fake News, and They Turn Out to Be Exactly Who...
Futurism via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNaomi Wolf Pipeline A new study shows that a wildly small subset of "supersharers" spread the...
A Little to the Left
Columbia Journalism Review· 8 hours agoBarbara Hawkins—a grandmother from Arizona who is a registered independent—discovered the MeidasTouch Network eighteen months ago, when she was between...
Trump’s COVID Response Was Worse Than We Remember
The Bulwark· 5 days agoMy friend had watched Trump’s coronavirus press conference and called me to ask, “What the f—?” The president had just suggested inserting ultraviolet...
After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIn the week after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Twitter suspended some 70,000 accounts associated...
Russian propaganda in 2024 includes deepfakes, sham websites and social media swarms
MPR News· 4 days agoA deepfake video of a State Department official falsely claiming a Russian city is a legitimate target for Ukrainian strikes using U.S. weapons. Pro-Russia social media accounts amplifying stories ...