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 2023-03-30 00:00 

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Tucker Carlson: "In Trump's defense, and maybe because he's a little bit autistic, he saw the stakes of this"...
 2023-03-29 19:53 

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New details in Dominion suit reveal damning evidence of deception in Fox News' 2020 election coverage...

In one instance, in response to anchor Eric Shawn fact-checking one of Donald Trump's election lies, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said, "This has to stop now. ... This is bad business. ... The audience is furious and we are just feeding them materia...

 2023-03-29 17:38 

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YouTube streams of Trump's Waco campaign rally speech seemingly violated the platform's election misinformation policies...

A little over a week after YouTube reinstated former President Donald Trump, his false election narratives were broadcast through livestreams on the platform. Media Matters identified 9 YouTube channels that livestreamed Trump's campaign rally speech ...

 2023-03-29 17:16 

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Fox reporter ignores Republican Senate filibusters while blaming Biden for the failure to pass an assault weapon ban...

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy criticized the Biden administration for calling out Republicans in Congress over their failure to pass a ban on assault weapons commonly used in mass shootings, saying, "The assault weapons ban he wants w...

 2023-03-29 16:44 

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How climate correspondents are driving improvements in corporate broadcast news' climate coverage...

Dedicated climate correspondents allow networks to focus on covering the issue with more consistency and substance — their expertise enables them to quickly assess the significance of breaking stories and events related to climate change and to prov...

 2023-03-29 16:42 

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Ben Shapiro: "There's no question the United States needs to raise its retirement age"...
 2023-03-29 15:00 

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Tucker Carlson: Covenant school shooting happened "because of a deranged and demonic ideology"...
 2023-03-28 02:23 

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Fox News abruptly cuts off Donald Trump as he's criticizing Ron DeSantis for "voting against social security, voting against Medicare"...
 2023-03-26 16:29 

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Fox & Friends hosts gush over Trump's first 2024 rally...
 2023-03-26 15:45 

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Fox News host calls Trump's campaign speech "very interesting"...
 2023-03-26 15:33 

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Fox News host: Granting asylum to Chinese nationals who fled in fear means that the U.S. "does not have a country"...
 2023-03-26 13:21 

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Angelo Carusone: As a trial looms, Fox is shifting its strategy in the Dominion case to "pressure other news media into shifting the way that they've been covering their story"...
 2023-03-24 18:37 

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Fox host Pete Hegseth calls for Republicans to run on getting "rid of the Federal Department of Education."...
 2023-03-24 16:07 

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Ben Shapiro: "Not having books in school libraries is not the same thing as banning the books"...
 2023-03-23 23:53 

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Fox News host mocks French protests over raise to the retirement age...
 2023-03-23 22:03 

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Rep. Raul Ruiz cites Media Matters study about COVID-19 misinformation on TikTok while questioning company CEO Shou Zi Chew...
 2023-03-23 20:07 

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Latest lawsuit against Fox shows network's toxic and sexist culture persists...

A new lawsuit against Fox News, filed by a booking producer, highlights the network's misogynistic and hostile work environment and details how it affects all of its employees, including some of its biggest names. The lawsuit demonstrates that Fox'...

 2023-03-23 19:10 

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Fox News' lawyer throws Mike Lindell under the bus in recent Dominion defamation lawsuit...

A lawyer for Fox News and Fox Corp. told a judge in Delaware that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a top advertiser for the network, was not a reliable source of information when he appeared on Tucker Carlson's show in January of 2021, during a hearing held...

 2023-03-23 19:02 

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Darren Beattie: Ron DeSantis should use Florida resources to create a "standoff-type situation" at Trump's residence to protect him from an indictment...
 2023-03-23 18:54 

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Most mainstream coverage of SVB's collapse did not include mentions of Congress' 2018 bank deregulation...

The sudden collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have brought the 2018 rollback of banking reforms back into the public eye. That year, in a bipartisan vote supported by then-President Donald Trump, 67 senators and 258 representatives agreed...

 2023-03-23 18:46 

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Salem Media Group's Larry Elder defends racist rant from Dilbert creator: "I did not think it was offensive at all"...
 2023-03-23 16:15 

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Steven Crowder encourages TikTok ban citing "trans, you know, infiltration that happens there"...
 2023-03-23 15:27 

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Trump to return to Fox as they rekindle their mutually beneficial relationship...

Donald Trump's reported "soft ban" from Fox News is at an end, and he's getting the band back together for the 2024 Republican presidential primary....

 2023-03-23 15:21 

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YouTube has done nothing to stem the tide of COVID-19 misinformation from Outkick's Clay Travis...

Clay Travis, a regular Fox News guest and founder of Fox-owned sports website Outkick, has used Outkick's YouTube channel to repeatedly spread COVID-19 misinformation, and the platform has done nothing about it....

 2023-03-23 14:40 

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Several January 6 defense teams have cited Fox News as a reason for storming the Capitol...

As Fox News faces a lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems over its lies about the 2020 election, the network has also had a notable presence in another legal arena: the criminal proceedings against January 6 insurrectionists. Several people involved with Jan...

 2023-03-23 14:39 

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Misinformation about recent whale deaths dominated discussions of offshore wind energy on Facebook...

After a slew of whale deaths along the east coast of the U.S., right-wing media have been promoting false fossil fuel industry talking points about offshore wind projects on Facebook....

 2023-03-22 18:26 

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Charlie Kirk says Chinese military installations are using TikTok to "make our children more likely to be trans"...
 2023-03-22 16:49 

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On YouTube, Steven Crowder: "If you see a Black American, there's a 50-50 shot that they don't know if they think you have the right to exist"...
 2023-03-22 16:47 

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Charlie Kirk calls on Gov. Ron DeSantis to make a "sanctuary state" for Donald Trump...
 2023-03-22 15:40 

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When Fox hosts were overjoyed about a potential indictment shifting a presidential race...

Fox News hosts are currently denouncing a potential indictment of former President Donald Trump as a corrupt attack on a political opponent aimed at interfering with the course of the 2024 presidential election, saying it would destroy American democracy ...

 2023-03-22 15:25 

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Fox host calls out Trump and his surrogates for attacking DeSantis...
 2023-03-22 15:19 

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Daily Wire's Michael Knowles says children are "scandalized" by trans people appearing in public...
 2023-03-22 14:29 

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Fox's pitch to advertisers featured network executives and personalities complicit in its 2020 election lies...

Fox is kicking off its upfronts season with a pitch highlighting network executives and program anchors and hosts who were complicit in the network's spread of lies about voter fraud in the 2020 election....

 2023-03-22 00:44 

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Tucker Carlson calls January 6 rioters "patriotic Americans"...
 2023-03-21 21:23 

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Over half of articles from top US newspapers and news wires excluded key background on the conservative activist judge who could upend abortion pill access...

Last year, a coalition of anti-abortion groups represented by the right-wing legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit asking the federal court to reverse the Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of mifepristone, which is u...

 2023-03-21 21:07 

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Tucker Carlson makes pathetic and desperate attempt to walk back his private confession that he hates Donald Trump...

Correction (3/21/23): The date of this interview has been updated....

 2023-03-21 20:45 

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Study: Latest IPCC report calling for urgent action on climate change garners just 14 minutes of corporate broadcast and cable TV news coverage...

On March 20, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on climate change which warns that "there is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all."...

 2023-03-21 20:02 

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The behind-the-scenes toxicity of Tucker Carlson exposed by a lawsuit from one of his staffers...

Abby Grossberg, who worked as a senior booking producer on Tucker Carlson's prime time Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, said in a lawsuit against the right-wing network that the work space assigned to the show was decorated with sexist imagery an...

 2023-03-21 18:49 

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Fox News promoted Tom Lowell to oversee all of its editorial content. The Dominion filings show he knew the network was pushing election lies....

Legal filings released in February and March in relation to a Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News show that the network's recently promoted senior executive Tom Lowell acknowledged Fox News let lies about Dominion go unchalleng...

 2023-03-21 18:30 

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Charlie Kirk: "The new America is who can put the most amount of political opponents in jail"...
 2023-03-21 18:27 

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Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon, and a QAnon conspiracy theorist are all boosting a far-right Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate...

A far-right QAnon conspiracy theorist and conservative group Turning Point USA are inserting themselves into Wisconsin's high-stakes Supreme Court race, set to take place early next month....

 2023-03-21 17:18 

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Alex Jones: "I've got an issue with Trump" calling for protests against his arrest; "He's trying to use the public to push right up to the edge"...
 2023-03-21 17:15 

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"There will be no 'fact checking' today": Fox News producer's lawsuit makes it clear Fox is not a news organization...

A Fox News producer is now suing the network, claiming it set her up to take a fall in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for spreading false claims about the 2020 election. The real news from this lawsuit, however, is ...

 2023-03-21 17:02 

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As a Trump indictment looms, Fox's response shows the network hasn't moved on...

Fox News is rallying to former President Donald Trump's defense amid reports that he may soon be indicted in a New York court. The network's stars have denounced the potential move as an attack on Trump's voters who are also their viewers that...

 2023-03-21 16:49 

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Discussing adoption, The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles says surrogacy should be outlawed...
 2023-03-21 01:18 

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Tucker Carlson claims the National Hockey League is promoting child sacrifice...
 2023-03-21 00:42 

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Tucker Carlson: "Paying people to not talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern America"...
 2023-03-20 22:17 

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Fox News host struggles to define woke: "It could be a feeling, it could be a sense"...
 2023-03-20 21:37 

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Right-wing media scramble to defend Trump ahead of a potential indictment and arrest...

After former President Donald Trump predicted his own arrest and indictment, right-wing media pundits were quick to provide cover for him and attack an investigation that they claimed would help the 2024 hopeful's reelection campaign....

 2023-03-20 20:46 

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NYT reporting pushes back on Hunter Biden allegations amid House GOP investigation...

After House Republicans released a report connecting some of President Joe Biden's relatives to a Chinese energy company, the New York Times pushed back on the right-wing narrative that this indicates Biden and his family have engaged in "improper...

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