Fake News

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration has sharply expanded its campaign against experts who track misinformation and other harmful content online, abruptly canceling scores of scientific research grants at universities across the country. The grants funded research into topics like ways to evade censors in China. One grant at the Rochester Institute of Technology, for example, sought to …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Right-wing cable channel Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems by falsely reporting that the company was involved in rigging the 2020 presidential election, a Delaware judge ruled Wednesday. Damages will be decided by a jury in a trial that will begin April 28 unless a settlement is reached. Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion. The ruling from …

“I’m waiting to see how things play out in the next three to six months. That’ll tell us a lot more than one day. And I personally know a lot of people who are buying into this market. That’s how people always make money. The panicked sellers always regret it. I mean, they regretted it in 2008. They regretted it …

“I want to start with something that the president said about his third or fourth paragraph. This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation’s capital and in our nation’s history and a tragedy of terrible proportions. As one nation we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly and we are a country …

“I’m a conspiracy theorist, and I hope you are too. Yes, it was made official today. They finally just, for everybody — when they say you’re a conspiracy theorist, that means you’re a critical thinker. That means you’re independent. “That means you don’t necessarily go with the fake news preferred narrative. You see things for yourself. You are not afraid …

“We talk about how the government doesn’t work, I don’t think we meant that quite literally, but now we have proof. Nearly all of the federal employees didn’t go back to work. We have to be honest. They gamed the COVID benefit and they gamed it on our dime. We are paying them billions to sit home and binge watch …

Media Matters has the transcript: Let me just prepare you for what’s going to happen this week. We have Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, and there will be their hearings before the Democrats in the United States Senate. Let me tell you what to expect. Expect vile, vicious, Robert Bjork, Clarence Thomas, Justice Brett Kavanaugh style …

The Daily Beast reports: Right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson claimed the Biden administration tried to have Russian President Vladimir Putin assassinated without offering any evidence to support his incendiary allegation. “The Biden administration did, they tried to kill Putin,” the onetime Fox News broadcaster said on the Monday episode of his The Tucker Carlson Show podcast. After his guest, journalist Matt …

Law & Crime reports: Fox News sued Los Angeles County this week in an effort to pry away documents related to the municipality’s relationship with voting software and hardware company Smartmatic Corp. Attorneys filed the public records lawsuit days after a New York-based court of appeals declined to dismiss Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit over false “conspiracy theories” about rigging …

Fox News reports: Americans around the United States are heading to grocery stores and noticing that many egg shelves are nearly empty or empty, period. “You can’t get eggs anywhere, I mean anywhere,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said on Primetime. “The national egg supply has been strained due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza — also known as HPAI or …

The Associated Press reports: Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids made a rare apology to Prince Harry in settling his privacy invasion lawsuit and will pay him a substantial sum, his lawyer announced Wednesday. News Group Newspapers offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private …

“Big Tech, who has been in the pockets of the Democratic party for years, they sit out one election cycle because things are going bad with the country. And now you want to make them the enemy? They helped you out the last time. “What about apologizing to the American people? When you said that the laptop was disinformation. You …

Fox News reports: Former first lady Michelle Obama will not attend the inauguration of President-elect Trump on Monday, which will mark the second absence in two weeks from a gathering of former presidents and their spouses. Obama was not in attendance at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral last week. Former President Barack Obama is scheduled to attend the Jan. 20 …

“You know, the more we learn about these LA wildfires, the angrier that everybody, I think, should get. I think everybody should be very angry. Because this is what radical environmentalism is all about. It’s also rooted and deeply tied into the socialist, Marxist, statist agenda, hence the Green New Deal. “Now, at the end of the day, I’m telling …

“You know, listen, a lot of people have been talking about, you know, who’s to blame, you know, whether it’s Gavin Newsom or the mayor. She has ties to communism —she was cutting sugar cane in Cuba, um, she’s had 15 trips to Cuba, met with Fidel Castro. “She is a solid communist, so don’t be surprised that your policies …

Media Matters reports: The last full jobs report of the Biden administration showed a gain of 256,000 jobs during December 2024, about 100,000 more than expected, while the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%, about where it’s held for the past year. Yet, just seconds prior to the report’s release, Heritage Foundation economist and long-time Trump adviser Stephen Moore was …

“Everyone knows wildfires in California are going to happen. They’re like hurricanes in Florida, you know they’re coming. The Santa Ana winds blow like this every single year. If you live in Los Angeles, the Santa Anas are a part of life. “Wildfires are a part of life. There was always going to be a fire. Fire ecology has existed …

“A warning to those on the left, those of you that are obsessed, those of you that believe with religious fervor in this eco-socialist, Marxist, statist utopia under the Green New Deal, it’s not going to end well. “Pay attention to what’s happening in California. You know, free universal health care, day care, childcare, guaranteed healthy food and housing and …

The Wrap reports: A New York state appeals court rejected Fox’s bid to dismiss a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit by voting machine company Smartmatic over statements made on air after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Reuters reported on Thursday. The decision was issued by a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division in Manhattan. Fox Corporation and Fox News Network were …

“Please do not be fooled by what you’re hearing from the media. These are not once-in-a-generation wildfires. This is not climate change. In Los Angeles, it’s the exact same story. Death by DEI, this time with their brand new fire chief. “This coming right from the city’s website. ‘Kristin Crowley is the 19th fire chief of the Los Angeles Fire …