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Oct 16 2020
Analysis
A Group of Scientists Wants To Reopen Society. Here's What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About What They Said.
A trio of epidemiologists released a public letter last week rebuking the lockdown-focused approach to combating COVID-19. Their alternative: a model called Focused Protection, outlined in their Great Barrington Declaration, which would reopen society and allow young people to live their lives normally while implementing safeguards for the elderly.
Reactions were predictably polarized,
Reason
Jul 09 2021
News
Trump vs. Big Tech
“Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country’s biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored… Trump announced the action against Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, along with the companies’ Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai, at a press conference Wednesday in New Jersey, where he demanded that his
The Flip Side
Mar 26 2021
News
Twitter torches PBS journalist over her question on the border crisis to President Biden at first media briefing
Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS, faced a torrent of backlash after she tossed softball questions to President Joe Biden at the first official media briefing of his presidency Thursday.
Alcindor pressured Biden to allow more illegal immigrants into the country while telling him that migrants are coming to the border because of the perception that he was a "moral
The Blaze
Aug 17 2019
News
Trump threatens to designate Antifa a terrorist organization ahead of expected Portland clashes
President Trump said “major consideration” is being given by his administration to designating the far-left antifa movement a terrorist organization, as the city of Portland, Ore., prepares for dueling protests between right-wing demonstrators and antifa on Saturday. “Major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an ‘ORGANIZATION OF TERROR,’” the president tweeted. “Portland is being
Fox News Digital
Jun 06 2019
News
Hell freezes over as Jim Acosta, Joe Scarborough praise Trump’s D-Day speech
President Trump’s speech on Thursday honoring the brave Allied fighters who "stood in the fires of hell" on the 75th anniversary of D-Day drew unexpected acclaim from two of his biggest mainstream media critics: CNN’s Jim Acosta and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.
“This is perhaps the most on-message moment of Donald Trump’s presidency today. We were all wondering if he would veer from his
Fox News Digital
Apr 08 2020
News
5 facts about Fox News
Fox News, the influential cable network launched by Rupert Murdoch in 1996, holds a unique place in the American media landscape, particularly for those on the ideological right. While Democrats in the United States turn to and place their trust in a variety of media outlets for political news, no other source comes close to matching the appeal of Fox News for Republicans.
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Pew Research Center
Jul 27 2018
Facebook Finally Dumps Alex Jones — But Only for 30 Days
Facebook finally took action Thursday against the far-right conspiracy theorist and Trump-backer Alex Jones, banning the Infowars host from its platform for 30 days and removing four of his videos.
Vice
Dec 28 2020
News
The new UK coronavirus mutations, explained
Health officials in the United Kingdom and around the world are worried about a new, seemingly more contagious variety of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19), which has emerged in the country and was announced over the weekend. The evidence that this new strain spreads more easily between people is not rock solid, but it’s concerning enough to have forced dramatic action.
Vox
Dec 28 2020
News
Journalism changed under Trump — will it keep changing under Biden?
Journalism, by taking an increasingly oppositional stance toward the Trump administration over the past four years, has begun to transform itself far more fundamentally than any digital technology (blogging, podcasting, the iPhone) ever has.
For the past 60 years — the occasional well-publicized in-depth investigation aside — most political reporting in the United States has tended to
Nieman Lab
Apr 21 2021
News
As Chauvin is convicted on all counts, what’s next for him and the other police officers tied to George Floyd’s death?
The nation is still abuzz Wednesday after a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on all counts of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. The verdict, which found Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after he knelt on Floyd for more than nine minutes last May, set off celebrations
Washington Post