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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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2 months ago | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Noah Dowe |Jack Wheatley |Gideon Taaffe
On March 24, The Atlantic published a bombshell story from Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg reporting that he had been mistakenly added to a group chat on the messaging app Signal in which senior Trump administration officials discussed plans for a U.S. military strike in Yemen.
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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 16, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Wheatley |Noah Dowe
Following Meta’s announcement of significant policy rollbacks — which include “scrapping” fact-checking in the U.S. “entirely” and loosening content moderation — the company’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and the company’s new chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, have been making the rounds in right-wing media.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Noah Dowe |Gideon Taaffe
Right-wing media figures are rushing to defend former Rep.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Noah Dowe |Payton Armstrong
President-elect Donald Trump has named Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth as his choice for secretary of defense, in spite of claims from the Trump campaign and its allies in right-wing media that he would be an “anti-war” president. During his time at Fox News, Hegseth has espoused hawkish views on U.S. military policy, suggesting attacks on Iranian infrastructure and cultural sites and even floating a “preemptive strike” against North Korea.
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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 22, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Craig Harrington |Tyler Monroe |Noah Dowe
Fox News gave Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign stunt at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania nearly 500 times more coverage than it gave to a recent analysis demonstrating how his economic agenda jeopardizes the current and future solvency of Social Security and could result in massive benefit cuts for American seniors.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Noah Dowe |Reed McMaster |Jack Wheatley
Baier’s questioning was described by mainstream outlets as “contentious,” “testy,” and “grievance theater.” “Mr. Baier’s aggressive demeanor was consistent with the kind of tough coverage of Ms. Harris that blankets Fox News’s daily programming,” recounted The New York Times, adding that “looking frustrated, he cut off several of Ms. Harris’s answers after a few seconds.
