Media Bias
Articles related to defining, tracking, and fighting media bias, propaganda, and fake news.
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‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America
He had launched his new website on Facebook during the 2016 presidential campaign as a practical joke among friends — a political satire site started by Blair and a few other liberal bloggers who wanted to make fun of what they considered to be extremist ideas spreading throughout the far right.…
Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros
Facebook hired a PR firm that attempted to discredit the company’s critics by claiming they were agents of the billionaire George Soros, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Soros is a Jewish philanthropist who is the frequent subject of antisemitic conspiracy theories. At the same ti…
'They were threatening me and my family': Tucker Carlson's home targeted by protesters
Fox News host Tucker Carlson was at his desk Wednesday evening, less than two hours before his 8 p.m. live show, when he suddenly started receiving multiple text messages.
There was some sort of commotion happening outside his home in Northwest D.C.
"I called my wife," Carlson to…
White House shares doctored video to support punishment of journalist Jim Acosta
This apparent subtle edit shows how video has become as vulnerable to politicized distortion as everything else.
November 8 at 1:14 PM
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday night shared a video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta that appeared to have been altered to make h…
White House suspends credentials for CNN's Jim Acosta
Press secretary Sarah Sanders says the White House is suspending Jim Acosta's access.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders says a reporter's access was removed because he put "his hands on a young woman".
Mr Acosta, chief White House correspondent for CNN, was called a "rude, terrible p…
How Donald Trump's amoral approach to the presidency is changing everything
Former president of the Tree of Life Synagogue Lynette Lederman says President Trump is a "purveyor of hate speech" and is not welcome in Pittsburgh in the wake of a shooting that killed 11.
On the day that the man who killed 11 Jewish people in a synagogue -- inspired by the baseless cl…
Trump slams 'so incorrect' NYT report on unsecured phone use
President Donald Trump on Thursday hit back at a New York Times article about his use of an unsecured iPhone to call friends outside of the White House, labeling the report “so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it.”
“The so-called experts on Trump over at the New York Times wr…
Trump attacks 'media hostility' after mail bombs
The US president was speaking after a series of suspect packages were sent to high-profile figures.
In scripted remarks at a Wednesday night rally in Wisconsin, the president vowed to catch the perpetrator, while calling on the media to end "constant negative and oftentimes false attacks…
Trump praises U.S. congressman from Montana who body-slammed reporter
President Donald Trump on Thursday heaped praise on a U.S. congressman from Montana who body-slammed a reporter during a campaign for a special election in 2017.
Trump, who has called the media the enemy of the American people and regularly derides journalists as “fake news,” made his l…
Supreme Court agrees to hear a case that could determine whether Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies can censor their users
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine whether users can challenge social media companies on free speech grounds.
The case, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, No. 17-702, centers on whether a private operator of a public access television network is co…
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