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1 month ago | 
mediamatters.org | Kayla R Gogarty |Payton Armstrong |Jack Winstanley |Pete Tsipis |Ben Van Bloem |Jack Wheatley | +1 more
During the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, popular online shows that self-identify as nonpolitical but have a right-leaning ideological bent have repeatedly discussed key figures, policies, and events of his administration. For example, they talked about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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1 month ago | 
mediamatters.org | Kayla R Gogarty |Courtney Hagle |John Whitehouse |Payton Armstrong |Jack Wheatley |Jack Winstanley | +6 more
In a new study of top pro-Trump online shows in the days after President Donald Trump launched his formal tariff plan, Media Matters has found some dissension as his economic policy disrupts the global economy — even as this ecosystem still overwhelmingly supports him.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz |Ben Van Bloem
The right-wing disinformation machine on Wednesday transformed the banal reality that the federal government purchases subscriptions for news outlets into what President Donald Trump described as potentially “THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY.”Federal employees need accurate, up-to-date information relevant to their areas of expertise in order to do their jobs.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Payton Armstrong |Jack Winstanley |Noah Dowe |Ben Van Bloem |Kayla R Gogarty
After rolling back its election misinformation policy last year, YouTube allowed right-wing media figures to undermine confidence in the 2024 election results even before any votes were cast, with streamers asserting that “the only way this election can be won from the left is if it's stolen,” suggesting that “illegal ballots” might be “slipped in” in Pennsylvania, and claiming that Democrats are trying “to rig and steal the election” including with an “illegal alien push.” In December 2020,...
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Harrison Ray |Rob Savillo |Tyler Monroe |Ben Van Bloem |Lis Power
On September 6, Johnson unveiled a continuing resolution to fund the federal government that included the text of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, “legislation backed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump requiring proof of citizenship to vote.” As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump put it, the SAVE Act is “a Republican effort to combine election denialism and border alarmism” that “would make Americans’ lives more difficult in service of addressing a problem that is not...
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz |Tyler Monroe |Ben Van Bloem |Harrison Ray |Noah Dowe
Fox News has not mentioned on air new data released on Friday showing that violent crime dropped sharply in major cities over the first half of 2024, even as it devoted more than 4.5 hours of coverage to violent crime during that period. Much of Fox’s crime coverage during this period was reporting on individual anecdotes featuring alleged migrant offenders.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Pete Tsipis |Reed McMaster |Gideon Taaffe |Ben Van Bloem
Since Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was announced as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, right-wing media have attempted to misleadingly claim that “crime rates have soared” in Minnesota under Walz’s watch. In reality, the total crime rate in Minnesota hit a 60 year low in 2023, including a steep decline in violent offenses from pandemic-era levels. Minnesota’s overall crime rate hit a 60 year low in 2023, with violent crime down from pandemic highs.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz |Tyler Monroe |Harrison Ray |Sage Hodil |Ben Van Bloem
The GOP convention claims that “thanks to Joe Biden,” “unvetted illegal aliens… terrorize everyday Americans.” A joint Trump campaign/RNC press release describes the theme for Tuesday, “Make America Safe Once Again,” as follows: “Once iconic American cities and communities have become hollowed out, dystopian nightmares thanks to Joe Biden and Democrats’ ‘woke’ soft-on-crime and open border policies.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz |Ben Van Bloem |Rob Savillo
Fox News is airing soft-focus interviews on Fox & Friends with the apparent finalists for the Republican vice presidential nomination and their partners. The interviews demonstrate Fox’s preeminent position in the GOP — and serve as final auditions before an audience of one, Donald Trump. Fox & Friends’ interviews with vice presidential hopefuls began on Wednesday, when co-host Lawrence Jones aired portions of his sit-down with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and his wife Usha Vance.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz |Rob Savillo |Harrison Ray |Ben Van Bloem
Major news outlets provided dramatically more coverage of Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial than former President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations this month that, if reelected as president, he may direct prosecutions of his political enemies.
