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2 days ago | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Winstanley |Jack Wheatley |Helena Hind |Jane Lee
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has warned that Medicaid cuts in Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would cause millions of people to lose health coverage. Right-wing media figures — who have continued to support the legislation in spite of this warning — have misled their audiences about the extent of the cuts and who will be impacted by them.
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2 months ago | 
independent.ie | Jane Lee |Ian M. King
Breaking | Intel to cut 20pc of global workforce, putting hundreds of Irish jobs at riskJane Lanhee Lee and Ian King©BloombergToday at 09:21Intel is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20pc of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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2 months ago | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Noah Dowe |Pete Tsipis |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski | +1 more
Right-wing media are predicting a “golden age” as President Donald Trump's so-called “Liberation Day” hits some of the United States’ closest trading partners with sweeping tariffs.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Craig Harrington |Jack Wheatley |Chloe Simon |Zachary Pleat |Jane Lee
In the weeks since his second inauguration, President Donald Trump's chaotic governance and threatening rhetoric have wreaked havoc on the “dream economy” that he inherited from the Biden-Harris administration, which was called “the envy of the world” in the lead-up to Election Day. have already begun to flash warnings that Trump's policy agenda, and promises of even more disruptive moves to come, may send the economy into a recession.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Isabella Corrao |Courtney Hagle |Helena Hind |Jane Lee |Alicia Sadowski |Chloe Simon
On February 18, President Donald Trump pushed multiple false claims about the war in Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky’s involvement in it, falsely suggesting that Ukraine started the war and that Zelensky is a “dictator without elections.” Both claims echo Russian propaganda about the war. Many right-wing media figures praised Trump's comments, with some commentators even following in his footsteps to target Zelensky.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Helena Hind |Chloe Simon |Sage Hodil
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Imagine if that's just what we started to do. What do you think the Democrats would do? Well, let's — let's — let's expand it out to social issues. Oh, well, we have a lot of people who believe that their First Amendment rights have been violated in protesting near abortion clinics, prayerful protests. You know something? I know the Supreme Court has said this, that, or the other thing.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Noah Dowe |Helena Hind |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski |Alex Kaplan | +1 more
On Tuesday, during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said the United States “will take over” and take “ownership” of Gaza, displacing its population and redeveloping it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Right-wing media immediately justified — and in some cases, outright endorsed — Trump’s statements, with some figures arguing Palestinians and others in the region “should be grateful” and declaring that “the strategic goal in...
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Helena Hind
President Donald Trump has issued pardons or commuted the sentences of all January 6 offenders, violent and nonviolent, flouting the advice of Fox hosts who previously urged him to grant a narrower pardon.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
nationalmemo.com | Helena Hind |Jane Lee
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, making it abundantly clear that this will be round two of the revolving door between Fox News and Trump’s administration.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee
Fox News personalities have been calling for pardons for January 6 rioters as early as February of 2022, and continue to do so as President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches. Trump first suggested pardons at his rally in January of 2022, officially cementing the idea in March of 2024.
