Anna Merlan
Senior Reporter at Mother Jones
Senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering disinformation, tech and extremism. Author of REPUBLIC OF LIES. Tips: [email protected]. DM for Signal.
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1 week ago |
motherjones.com | Anna Merlan
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In a press conference Wednesday morning that surely delighted his allies in the anti-vaccine movement, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to a report about apparent rising autism rates with a vow to look at “environmental factors” as a possible cause.
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1 week ago |
motherjones.com | Anna Merlan
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the summer of 2023, Mohammad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a 55-year-old retired teacher, was sentenced to death by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for posts he made on Twitter and YouTube, criticizing the country’s ruling family and calling for freedom for religious clerics.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Anna Merlan
On Tuesday, MAGA Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna presided over a colorful hearing devoted to one specific goal: speedrunning a revival of 61 years of conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jr.In that goal, Luna, the chairwoman of the brand-new Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, and her witnesses—a bouquet of JFK researchers, including famed director Oliver Stone—succeeded admirably.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Anna Merlan
A fake website meant to look like a CDC webpage was put up sometime this month and quickly taken offline, but not before diligent information manipulation researchers noticed several signs that it was likely connected to Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The site falsely suggested a link between vaccines and autism, using “testimonial” videos made by CHD and long-debunked scientific disinformation.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Anna Merlan
President Donald Trump stormed into the Justice Department on Friday to give a speech that news outlets described with a grab-bag of foreboding words, including “bellicose” and “unprecedented.” In the speech, Trump railed at his political opponents, whom he described as “scum” and “thugs,” and falsely claimed, once again, that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.
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