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Aug 12 2020
Analysis
Kamala Harris’s Former Press Secretary Is the Face of Twitter Censorship
When CNN hired Sarah Isgur, a former Jeff Sessions spokeswoman and now staff writer at The Dispatch, last year to be a political editor at its Washington bureau, left-wing media types put on a full-court press to smear her professionalism. The CNN newsroom — which, last I looked, included former Obama official Jim Sciutto — was reportedly “demoralized” by her very presence. Conservatives, and
National Review (News)
Nov 22 2020
Opinion
How Joe Biden Can Use the Political Power of Obamacare to Expand It
When President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, much of the media framed the bill as a vast expansion of the existing social safety net. Because a Medicaid expansion was one of the law's cornerstones, it appeared largely as a benefit for the working poor, which narrowcast its public support.
Politico
Jun 02 2021
Opinion
Right All Along Comes with a Cost
The outbreak of COVID-19 has reshaped our country in countless ways. Even beyond the nearly 600,000 tragic deaths in the U.S. alone, Americans continue to face mental-health trauma, domestic violence, and financial hardship in the pandemic’s aftermath.
You might think the venerable New York Times, Washington Post, and other ivy-draped bastions of legacy media would be champing at the
National Review (News)
Oct 25 2021
News
Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Mideast maid abuse
Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast.
After publicly promising to crack down, Facebook acknowledged in internal documents obtained by The Associated Press that it was “under-enforcing on confirmed abusive activity” that saw Filipina maids complaining
Associated Press
Sep 02 2021
Analysis
McCarthy threat offers dark preview of possible Republican House
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is offering a glimpse of the Donald Trump-inspired authoritarian streak likely to animate a Republican majority if the party triumphs in next year's midterm elections.
In the latest manifestation of the possible future House speaker's hard right turn, he warned telecom and social media companies could lose their right to operate on US soil if they
CNN Digital
Feb 15 2021
Fact Check
Did Biden Revoke $250M That Trump Pledged to Historically Black Colleges?
In early February 2021, social media users shared a copypasta meme spreading the baseless rumor that U.S. President Joe Biden had revoked millions of dollars in funding from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a charitable organization that provides scholarships for Black higher education students and institutions, which former President Donald Trump had pledged to give to historically Black
Snopes
Feb 03 2019
News
Biden, NAACP, more: Calls for Gov. Ralph Northam to resign persist for second day
Calls for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign are coming from all sides of the political aisle following the report Friday that Northam appeared in a photo in his medical school yearbook that showed a man dressed in blackface and another person wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood.
USA TODAY
Jan 14 2021
Opinion
AOC and other progressives have a new goal: Silence the press
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been a wellspring of truly terrible ideas for years, but her new one might be her worst on yet: A Ministry of Truth.
During a live stream on her Instagram page, Ocasio-Cortez was asked by a viewer if, to help with national healing, there were congressional plans to institute any “truth and reconciliation or media literacy initiatives.”
New York Post (News)
Nov 16 2020
Fact Check
How we know Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential race
Joe Biden is president-elect of the United States. But President Donald Trump and his supporters aren’t giving up the race.
Trump has brought a barrage of legal challenges contesting vote totals in several key swing states. He has repeatedly made unfounded assertions of victory and allegations that widespread voter fraud affected the outcome of the election. And on social media, his
PolitiFact
Oct 04 2021
News
Facebook Whistleblower Claims Profit Was Prioritized Over Clamping Down on Hate Speech
A Facebook whistleblower, who is due to testify before Congress on Tuesday, has accused the Big Tech company of repeatedly putting profit before doing “what was good for the public,” including clamping down on hate speech.
Frances Haugen, who told CBS’s “60 Minutes” program that she was recruited by Facebook as a product manager on the civic misinformation team in 2019, said she and her
The Epoch Times