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Jul 08 2019
Perspectives Blog
A House Divided: Polarization, Media Bias, and Why You Should Care
The following is a guest post from Et Socialum.com.
Birds of a Feather
Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, it’s a good bet that most of the people you interact with share many of your beliefs. Republicans flock to Republicans – Democrats flock to Democrats.
If this is an alien concept to you – congratulations! You are the minority and are better for it
Dylan Rose
Dec 03 2021
News
Free speech goes for companies, too: Federal judge blocks Texas social media law
A federal judge in Austin has blocked Texas' new social media law — which targets Twitter, Facebook and other large platforms that Republicans accuse of censoring conservatives — as an unconstitutional violation of the companies' free speech rights.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said the law known as House Bill 20, which prohibits large social media companies from censoring users
Austin American-Statesman
Jun 05 2021
Opinion
3 Points the Media Is Still Getting Wrong About Wuhan Lab Theory, and the Documents to Prove It
Thanks to some confusing verbal gymnastics by Dr. Anthony Fauci, some in the media are giving the impression that there’s no proof U.S. tax money funded “gain of function” research or that, perhaps, the research didn’t qualify as gain of function. However, the evidence on this point is clear cut.
A 2015 published study specifically discloses that the research is gain of function
The Epoch Times
Nov 13 2019
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Coverage of Don Cherry's Firing Differs on Left and Right
Longtime TV personality Don Cherry, considered by many to be a legendary personality due to his 38-year career, was fired by Sportsnet Monday after he said not enough people (or immigrants, depending on whom you ask) in Toronto wear poppies to honor veterans on Remembrance Day. The subsequent coverage revealed significant media bias on the left and the right.
View Cherry’s comments in
Julie Mastrine
Aug 18 2020
News
The spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media and the effect of content moderation
We identified 11,023 unique URLs referring to the origin of COVID-19 appearing in 267,084 Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan posts between January and March 2020. We classified them based on their source (mainstream, alternative, other) and their content (supporting conspiracy theories, used as evidence for conspiracy theories, neither). We considered URLs in the first two content categories
Misinformation Review
Jan 29 2024
Analysis
The nurse practitioner will see you now
In 2021, Nicole Barbosa, a media relations specialist in Austin, Texas, moved back to the US after more than a decade abroad. Getting medical care established stateside was a priority for her — but when she tried to make an appointment with a primary care doctor at a local health care system she trusted, she was surprised to find herself at the end of a months-long wait list.
Meanwhile
Vox
Sep 16 2015
News
Debate night: The media want a Trump fight, with blood and bruises
The press is full of chatter about what the other candidates could, should, must do to derail the Trump juggernaut at tonight’s CNN debate.
Fox News (Online News)
Aug 16 2020
Opinion
The Russia-Obsessed Media Does Its Best to Ignore Clinesmith’s Guilty Plea
As news broke Friday that John Durham’s criminal probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation had resulted in a former FBI lawyer being charged with doctoring FISA evidence used against the Trump campaign, the formerly Russia-obsessed mainstream media did its best to look the other way.
Kevin Clinesmith, who first worked on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team and then under
National Review (News)
Jun 05 2021
News
Federal Judge Strikes Down California’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Assault Weapons Ban, Torches Media
A federal judge in the Southern District of California ruled late on Friday that California’s controversial “assault weapons” ban is unconstitutional.
“This case is not about extraordinary weapons lying at the outer limits of Second Amendment protection,” Judge Roger T. Benitez wrote. “The banned ‘assault weapons’ are not bazookas, howitzers, or machineguns. Those arms are dangerous and
The Daily Wire
Jan 17 2024
News
‘It’s a Disaster’: Electric Car Owners Struggle in Freezing Temps
Freezing temperatures have presented a challenge to charging stations for electric cars and their batteries. According to a local report in Chicago, there have been long lines of cars with dead batteries waiting to charge at stations that aren’t working. Another person told the local media outlet that he had been waiting for three hours in the below-freezing temperatures trying to charge his
The Epoch Times