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2 weeks ago | 
mediamatters.org | Olivia Little |Chloe Simon |Alyssa Tirrell |Kayla R Gogarty
As part of his tour of nontraditional media prior to the 2024 election, President Donald Trump appeared for interviews with a handful of very popular podcasts that claim to be nonpolitical but discuss news and politics with a right-leaning ideological bent and remain receptive to the MAGA agenda.
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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 26, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Jack Winstanley |Kayla R Gogarty |Jack Wheatley
President Donald Trump has been openly courting MAGA media figures — giving them significant access to his new administration and even appointing former Fox News hosts to prominent positions in the government. The Trump administration has simultaneously welcomed MAGA influencers into the White House, Cabinet departments, and other federal agencies while restricting access of mainstream media that have long covered those institutions.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Kayla R Gogarty |Shelby Jamerson |Lis Power
Media Matters has found that in the weeks leading up to the election, top print newspapers were covering former President Donald Trump on the front page considerably more than Vice President Kamala Harris. These findings follow claims from mainstream media that voters did not know Harris well enough.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Noah Dowe |Kayla R Gogarty
YouTube has allowed and apparently profited from conservative streamer and serial plagiarist Benny Johnson’s false claims of election fraud, enabled by the platform’s decision to roll back its election misinformation policy last year. In a new study, Media Matters reviewed Johnson’s YouTube channel, where he livestreams his program The Benny Show, uploads videos of show segments, and posts Shorts.
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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 31, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Payton Armstrong |Kayla R Gogarty
On May 10, WABC canceled Giuliani’s radio shows, The Rudy Giuliani Show and Uncovering the Truth, after he allegedly ignored warnings from the network to stop claiming the 2020 election was stolen. After the cancelation, Giuliani began streaming those shows on YouTube, in addition to his pre-existing YouTube show America’s Mayor Live.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Kayla R Gogarty |Payton Armstrong
DANA BASH (ANCHOR): Some people have asked: Is she being held to a different standard? Maybe. But that's maybe the world that she's living in. And on the question of who she is, people are understanding that a little bit more. But what she will do, the question about her legislative priorities — name one. There wasn't one. …JOHN KING (ANCHOR): The personal part is sometimes missing. And again, it may be unfair to her, to your point about a different standard.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
nationalmemo.com | Kayla R Gogarty |Alex Kaplan
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested that his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, whom he pardoned at the end of his first term, will be involved in his potential second administration, telling Flynn at a May 2023 event: “We’re going to bring you back.” During an October 14 social media discussion that included QAnon figures, Ben Moore — a QAnon influencer known online as “Sun Tzu” — predicted that Flynn would be appointed as a “special adviser” to Trump...
