Fake News

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk received multiple fact-checks on his own social media platform Tuesday after he shared a report that was so overtly doctored that Community Notes got involved. The X owner shared a tweet from a relatively small account that purported to be a screenshot from The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg. The fake story was headlined, “TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER” …

Fox News is just shamelessly lying: A Pennsylvania mom who was served by former President Trump at McDonald’s discussed the one request she asked of the former president when he surprised her at the drive-thru window on Sunday. Trump cooked and served french fries to customers at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, while accusing his 2024 opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, …

“The only thing Kamala has in the bag is a bottle of Pinot Grigio. The race is over, but the integrity of the election is still in question. I’m extremely confused by the polls, right? They say– everybody says, ‘Look at these polls.’ “But the internal polls are different, and it’s like, okay, if the internal polls are better, why …

“Now, it is a little bit of an outlier, our Fox News poll still shows Kamala Harris ahead, albeit by a much smaller margin than Democrats won in the last cycle. So this is President Trump saying, ‘Come to me. Trust me on immigration.’ “Latinos support President Trump at our Fox poll, plus 15. They trust him on the issue. …

“I bring this up because Kamala had a birthday yesterday. She is now 60 years old. Kamala Harris, 60 years old. Happy birthday. Whatever. But let’s face it, she is not exactly a baby, right? This is no spring chicken. “You’re a senior citizen now, 60 years old. She’s not that young anymore. She’s older than the average president. I …

“Donald Trump respects the taste of the American people, Kamala Harris doesn’t. She says she knows better. ‘Drive this car, don’t watch this show, you’re racist if you like borders.’ She thinks Trump’s crazy for listening to music at a rally. Kamala’s no fun, is she? Maybe she used to be, but not anymore. They want to throw Trump in …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News‘s digital story on the rally made no mention of Trump’s genitalia-laced remarks in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, instead characterizing the Palmer comments as “a tribute to his late friend and PGA golf legend.” As a result, it left out the most incendiary of the former president’s comments: “This man was strong and tough. And I refused …

ProPublica reports: With a classic typeface and traditional newspaper design, the mass-mailed Catholic Tribune newspapers carry signposts of legitimacy. But most of the articles in the papers are inflammatory and overtly partisan, focusing on culture-war issues that resonate with conservative voters. A headline in the Wisconsin Catholic Tribune, and repurposed in other states’ versions, provocatively asks, “How many ‘sex change’ …

“I’m going to see Rupert Murdoch. That’s a big event. I don’t know he’s thrilled that I say it. And I’m going to tell him something very simple, because I can’t talk to anybody else about — don’t put on negative commercials for 21 days, don’t put them on, and don’t put on their horrible people that come and lie. …

“I did make a mistake. And I did want to say that I did make a mistake. When I called for a soundbite, I was expecting a piece of the ‘enemy from within’ from Maria Bartiromo’s interview to be tied to the piece from your town hall, Harris, where you asked the former president about ‘the enemy from within.’ It …

“President Trump is talking about the enemy within, within the United States. And absolutely — antifa, the woke crazy mob, and prosecutors who use the law in a corrupt way to take down a president. I think he’s on pretty solid ground to say enemy within. Remember the assassination attempt again? Enemy within, sure enough. And the guy has been …

“You can make fun of Donald Trump, but he at least explains more than Kamala Harris that we are sitting on gold and energy, and when we’ve got energy and we don’t have to buy it from other countries that we can use it to build things, use it to develop things, to drive cars, to heat our homes, to …

CNN reports: Fox News hosted an all-women town hall with former President Donald Trump, billed as an opportunity for female voters to ask the Republican candidate questions that matter to them. But Fox News did not disclose that the female audience it selected for the event was packed with local Republican supporters and the network edited its broadcast to remove …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Sean Hannity delivered effusive praise for former President Donald Trump following a chaotic interview with Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, lauding Trump’s performance as his “all-time greatest moments on the campaign trail.” Despite the former president’s meandering responses and frequent tangents during his interview on Tuesday at the Economic Club of Chicago, at one point …

“Black men have been asking, ‘How are you going to make my life better? Because my life was better under Trump.’ So Kamala, after four years of doing nothing, just came out with a plan for Black men: legalize weed and $20,000 welfare checks. “That’s right. Kamala wants to win the Black vote with free money and drugs. But protecting …

“They should be ashamed of themselves that they never put Melania Trump on the cover. That’s my opinion. And the fact is she was a model, OK, and they refused to put Melania Trump on the cover even when she was first lady. And she was all the talk of the town when they got married. Hillary Clinton was at …

The Guardian reports: The far-right website The Gateway Pundit acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that there was not any fraud during ballot counting in Atlanta in 2020 when Donald Trump lost the presidency, a significant concession from one of the most influential conservative sites that plays a key role in spreading election misinformation. The statement, the first acknowledgment …

The Guardian reports: The Gateway Pundit, the far-right news website that played a critical role in spreading false information about the 2020 election, has settled a defamation lawsuit with Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers it falsely accused of wrongdoing. Notice of the settlement was filed in circuit court in Missouri, where Freeman and Moss had sued …

Media Matters has the transcript: BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): All I care about is if Taylor Swift finally gets engaged. That’s all I think about. It’s the only thing on my mind. LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): Come on, I thought the story was dead — AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Hey, I was thinking about this — JONES: — and you had to bring …

Media Matters reports: Right-wing media figures have amplified a conspiracy theory that Democrats are attempting to steal the 2024 election by weaponizing a longstanding law that allows Americans overseas to vote. As researchers at the University of Washington explained, right-wing junk site The Gateway Pundit appears to have originated the false claim in early September, and former President Donald Trump …