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2 weeks ago | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Jack Wheatley |Chloe Simon |Courtney Hagle |Shelby Jamerson
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s June 12 press conference in Los Angeles amid ongoing protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests. Right-wing media immediately began to justify the incident, falsely claiming that the senator had not identified himself, misrepresenting Padilla’s behavior, and defending the actions of law enforcement. In a video of the incident, Padilla is clearly heard identifying himself as “Sen.
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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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Nov 5, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Shelby Jamerson
Multiple states have enacted legislation or executive orders with restrictions or provisions that overlap with Project 2025’s goals, offering case studies of the harm that the playbook could unleash on a federal level. The Project 2025 initiative — which has deep ties to former President Donald Trump and his campaign — presents a road map to pack the next GOP administration with extreme Trump loyalists and implement extremist federal policy.
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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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Nov 1, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Winstanley |Alex Kaplan |Shelby Jamerson
Right-wing and far-right media have amplified a baseless claim that touch screen voting machines in Kentucky are flipping votes from former President Donald Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris, with similar claims emerging from Texas.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Kayla R Gogarty |Shelby Jamerson
MAGA street artist Sabo — who previously made news by posting right-wing, hateful, and conspiratorial signs across Los Angeles — claims he is responsible for posting racist and anti-immigrant signs at bus stops across both Chicago and the Denver metro area. As Coloradan officials denounce the signs, Sabo is trying to sell them on Facebook for thousands of dollars.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Shelby Jamerson |Carly Evans |Kayla R Gogarty
Meta’s Community Standards include a policy against slurs that are used to attack people on the basis of gender identity, a protected characteristic.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Shelby Jamerson |Kayla R Gogarty
Right-wing media figures are attempting to cast vice presidential candidate Tim Walz as a “Radical Leftist Tyrant” who has declared “War on the Constitution” by latching onto one line from a 2022 post-midterms interview in which he described longstanding federal laws against spreading election falsehoods.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Payton Armstrong |Kayla R Gogarty |Shelby Jamerson
Right-wing figures are sharing memes attempting to brand the new Democratic vice presidential pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as “Tampon Tim” for signing a bill to provide menstrual products in public school bathrooms. This is the latest in a series of bizarre attacks that right-wing figures have launched at Walz. In 2023, Walz signed a bill requiring Minnesota public schools to provide access to free menstrual products, including tampons, in bathrooms for all students in grades 4 through 12.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Eric Kleefeld |Charis Hoard |Shelby Jamerson
“I've always said that Elmo is a groomer”: Right-wing media figures did not appreciate “woke” Elmo teaching children that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is safe and effective. Elmo and his dad Louie got vaccinated against COVID-19 in June 2022, with Elmo explaining to all of the children at home that he felt okay after “a little pinch” and his dad discussing questions that he talked about with his pediatrician before getting vaccinated.
