The pro-Trump, conspiracy-laden Epoch Times is now the 4th-most subscribed to newspaper in America according to a new NBC report. It claims the January 6th terrorist attack and climate change are both hoaxes. While most news sites are struggling to keep the doors open, The Epoch Times’ revenue grew 685% in two years to $122 million.
There are some Republican governors, like Ron DeSantis or Kristi Noem, that don’t seem to care if their constituents die of COVID. Many other GOP governors, like Jim Justice, Mike DeWine, Charlie Baker and Asa Hutchinson have pushed hard to get their followers vaccinated. But Utah’s Spencer Cox took it up a notch on Monday….
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an all hands on deck response from many business owners. Among the most prominent CEO’s looking to help was Bill Gates. Thanks to the Conservative push to minimize the effect of the pandemic, Gates became a frequent target for Fox News. Gates appeared on Ari Melber‘s MSNBC show on Wednesday…
Three years of Donald Trump and his crazy reality show showed us how messaging destroyed the democracy show. You may have seen the video portraying Donald Trump as a mass killer going after his long list of “enemies†that included a past president, current possible opponents and people Trump and his crowd just don’t like…
I seldom pay attention to stories about the trending hashtags on Twitter. Yet, #Brokeahontus caught my eye. Not because it was trending, but because of a tweet by Walter Schaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics. Mr. Shaub responded to a story about the hashtag unfavorably for reasons he, and I, thought…
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Wednesday said it would team with two U.S. non-profits to slow the global spread of misinformation that could influence elections, acknowledging that fake news sites were still read by millions. The largest social network, under intense pressure to combat propaganda, said it would work abroad…
By refusing to air this ad, Fox News is protecting its viewers from a reality they don’t want to see and cementing its status as a propaganda network.
This petty attack on one of our closest allies was embarrassing enough. But he solidified his image as the laughingstock of the world by inadvertently attacking a private citizen instead.
The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission is moving to quickly undo roadblocks to increased consolidation among media companies, potentially unleashing an onslaught of deals among TV, radio and newspaper owners as they seek to better compete with online media.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt made a propaganda video for a private group opposing regulations he is supposed to be enforcing and he did it on the taxpayer’s dime. Now Democrats want him investigated, as he may have broken the law.
It was three minutes of North Korea-style propaganda, served up to portray Trump as a president who’s fighting for working men and women.Â
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had found that an influence operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May.
A senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan apologized on Wednesday for a “highly offensive” leaflet which contained a passage from the Quran used in the Taliban militants’ banner superimposed on to the image of a dog.
The deliberate omission of white extremist attacks is necessary for Trump to convince Americans that the only one thing they have to fear is Islam.
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s an important reminder of where hate leads.
Lewandowski repeated a Trump campaign lie and said: “Donald Trump won the election campaign by the largest majority since Ronald Reagan in 1984.â€
The appearance by Dep. National Sec. Advisor Tony Blinken on Fox News Sunday was an example of the Obama White House directly confronting right-wing propaganda at the source.
There is a saying that a person is known by the company they keep, and the Republicans praising, excusing and defending Ted Nugent should be regarded as Nazi sympathizers.
Republicans are in the habit of planting stories in the press, and your “free press” falls for it over and over again. However, tt’s really not that hard to spot a planted story. They have tells.
Feeding the GOP propaganda machine is a necessity in the minds of the GOP.
Unlike the test marketed talking points on health care and tax reform, the mythology from which GOP propaganda on fast and furious had comparatively more humble beginnings.
Hate group president Brian Carmenker says that Elizabeth Warren is a communist because she supports everything conservatives hate
27 years of inflammatory speech have finally caught fire in a campaign that hopes to send Rush Limbaugh into retirement.
In order to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, Republicans use entitlement society language to stigmatize using government benefits.
In the years after the President Obama’s inauguration, America has been bombarded with insinuations, unfounded allegations, that are designed to wear down the masses.
They blame healthcare reform but if any physicians drop their patients, it won’t be because of “Obamacare.” It will be because of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act.
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Obama’s declaration of 9/11 as a day of service is really nothing more than Obama recruiting people to support him. He said, “There are endless and countless examples of subtle and not so subtle efforts by this White House to recruit and organize Americans.”
Laura Ingraham was guest hosting The O’Reilly Factor last night, and she went on the attack against Al Gore. She claimed that Gore’s climate change position has been very profitable for him. To make her point, Ingraham used doctored video of Gore’s recent congressional testimony that omitted Gore saying that he donates all of his profits back to the cause.
A threat analysis done by the Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the FBI has found that the combination of the election of the nation’s first black president, along with a bad economy is leading to resurgence in radicalization and recruiting for right wing groups.
In an editorial written for today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune Alaska Gov.
Poor Brian Schweitzer. Or maybe not.
After a phenomenal, grounded, very human speech in Denver last night, all attention is on Hillary Clinton this morning. Her one-line zinger, “No way, no how, no McCain” is being run as the headline in many newspaper stories covering her speech from last night.
Despite the supposed political neutrality that the Olympic Games carries within its very essence, some had come to question the morality and correctness of holding the games in a state with a questionable human rights record.
Nonetheless, the anticipation was tangible.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain held a town hall meeting in New York City that was carried live on Fox News tonight that was billed as town hall with Democrats and Independents. The problem is that this wasn’t really true. The McCain campaign pre-screened the audience, and invited only supporters to attend.
While the majority of the world rested easy after the intellegence assessment revealing that Iran had no nuclear weapons, nor had any plans of making them for more than 5 years, and many thinking an attack is far off into the future, it is my belief that the war had already started with a sale pending sign on it for the American people.
