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Sep 27 2021
News
Texas Attorney General Leads 10-State Coalition Supporting Florida Ban on Big Tech Censorship
Texas Attorney General Paxton announced on Sept. 20 that he is leading a coalition of 10 states in filing an amicus brief with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Florida’s law that attempts to regulate censorship on Big Tech social media platforms.
Paxton signed on behalf of Texas, joining the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri,
The Epoch Times
May 27 2022
Perspectives Blog
What We Know About Mass School Shootings in the US – And the Gunmen Who Carry Them Out
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by James Densley, a Professor of Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University, and Jillian Peterson, a Professor of Criminal Justice at Hamline University. The writers' bias has not been rated.
When the Columbine High School massacre took place in 1999 it was seen
"The Conversation" Contributor
Aug 13 2021
Perspectives Blog
How Liberals and Conservatives Blindly Rated the Bias of Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and Yahoo News
We asked people across the political spectrum to blindly rate the bias of Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and Yahoo News in our July 2021 AllSides Blind Bias Survey. A total of 1,734 people across the political spectrum blindly rated the bias of content from these news outlets.
The survey confirmed our bias ratings for Breibart (Right), The Guardian
AllSides Staff
Sep 08 2021
News
Number of children and teens with COVID-19 exceeds 250,000 for first time since start of pandemic, as mask and vaccination fights continue
The number of children and teens suffering from the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 exceeded 250,000 for the first time since the start of the pandemic in the week through Sept. 2, a worrying trend coming just as they return to school in person.
Data published by the American Academy of Pediatrics showed the number of child cases has been climbing fast through the summer months after
MarketWatch
Feb 02 2020
News
The fact-checker’s dilemma: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
Something is rotten in the state of American political life. The U.S. (among other nations) is increasingly characterized by highly polarized, informationally insulated ideological communities occupying their own factual universes.
Within the conservative political blogosphere, global warming is either a hoax or so uncertain as to be unworthy of response. Within other geographic or
Jan 29 2021
News
Rep. Maxine Waters to Hold GameStop Hearing as 'First Step' to Stop 'Abusive Practices'
Democratic California Representative Maxine Waters, Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, has pledged to convene a hearing to examine "short-selling" and other stock market practices that have recently affected the video game retailer GameStop and other stocks.
This week, members of the subreddit r/WallStreetBets undermined hedge fund and investment firm short-sellers
Newsweek
Feb 01 2020
Opinion
How people profit from perpetuating the false narrative that America is divided
No matter your politics, your education, your income or where you live, Super Bowl Sunday is the one day, aside from Thanksgiving, when most Americans have a unified experience.
This feels all too rare now. Ever since the 2016 election, we’ve heard the same daily refrain: We are a dangerously divided nation. America has never been so fractured, democracy so fragile, the personal
New York Post (News)
Sep 22 2020
News
Replacing RBG: In looming Senate battle, both sides race to the brink
Think politics and fairness belong in the same sphere? Our reporters look at how hardball tactics may be putting party over country in the Supreme Court succession battle.
The battle to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court is shaping up to be a defining moment in politics – a titanic struggle that could shift a presidential election and produce enormous
Christian Science Monitor
May 04 2021
Analysis
What’s Next for the Most Committed Anti-Trump Republican?
Liz Cheney sees a winning strategy where none of her conference colleagues will go.
On Monday morning, a political action committee for Donald Trump—a film extra who served as president of the United States from 2017 to 2021—released a statement saying that “The Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 will be, from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE!” The rebranding edict was
Slate
May 25 2018
News
Trump's campaign has run 4,400 ads on Facebook so far this month
President Donald Trump's campaign team has run more than 4,000 ads on the President's personal Facebook page since May 7, newly available data from Facebook shows.
Between May 7 and May 24, more than 4,400 ads were run on the Donald J. Trump Facebook page, according to the data. The page has more than 24 million followers. The ads were paid for by the Trump Make America Great Again
CNN (Online News)