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NPR reports: Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle one of the last outstanding defamation lawsuits against a news organization for airing false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems – the same voting-technology company that had received a $787 million settlement from Fox News over its election coverage – brought the lawsuit against Newsmax. A trial …

Mediaite reports: Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo fell for a fake rant about anti-Trump “No Kings” protests, reading aloud a spoofed social media post from President Donald Trump as if it were real. In addition to Trump’s military parade Saturday to ostensibly celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, Trump’s 79th birthday was also marked with thousands of …

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 Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Bret Baier admits that President Donald Trump’s decade-long “Fake News” crusade is to blame for plummeting trust in the mainstream media. Baier, 54, said the president “broke the system” and decimated whatever trust remained in the media before he took over the Republican Party in 2016. “Maybe that was part of his MO, …

Mediaite reports: Jordan Conradson asked Trump about the “leftist media” while complimenting his “Gulf of America” hat he was holding. Conradson accused the media of trying to “hide” mugshots of illegal migrant criminals. “They’re trying to hide the mugshots that are featured on the front lawn of rapists, murderers, pedophiles. What do you think of that? Aren’t they proving to …

Ars Technica reports: In a Black Mirror-esque turn, some cash-strapped actors who didn’t fully understand the consequences are regretting selling their likenesses to be used in AI videos that they consider embarrassing, damaging, or harmful. Among them is a 29-year-old New York-based actor, Adam Coy, who licensed rights to his face and voice to a company called MCM for one …

The Hill reports: A transgender military helicopter pilot sued a conservative social media influencer for alleged defamation on Wednesday, two months after she was falsely blamed for a deadly midair collision over the Potomac River in Washington. Jo Ellis, a pilot in the Virginia National Guard, filed the defamation suit against Matt Wallace, a cryptocurrency investor and influencer on the …

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 …

KUDLOW: I want to begin with, among other things, everyone’s attacking you for your position, what are you doing in the government – there was a cyberattack on X today which shut it down and may have been foreign sourced. It’s a big story. You want to give us a moment on that? MUSK: Well, we don’t – we’re not …

“I did a little research on bear attacks and fatalities in North America. During the pandemic, we shut down the national parks and we didn’t have a single park ranger. “You know how many people died from bear attacks that year when there were zero park rangers? One American. “When we rehired all of the park rangers the next year, …

“I just want to say one thing about this, Congressman Vindman saying, ‘It’s a reign of terror for these federal employees.’ How absurd is it that because you have to go to the office, they’re saying you’re being, you know — they’re watching you and it’s a reign of terror, as if working in the office means you’re subject to …

The New York Times reports: The Fox Corporation said on Monday that it had acquired Red Seat Ventures, a growing digital media company that has become a go-to partner for old-media stars like Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan as they create their own independent online programming. The acquisition moves the Fox Corporation into the heart of the online …

“I enjoy my eggs, too. So, this is certainly an issue. Look, I think two things at play here. Number one, the bird flu issue is obviously a concern. Twenty million chickens, egg producing chickens were slaughtered in the fourth quarter of last year. “So, that supply, and that obviously impacts supply and demand. But the other issue is that …

“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 …

“Trump 2028. Could it happen? President Trump seems to be getting younger as he ages. We’ve gone from the Weekend at Bernie’s presidency to the Benjamin Button presidency. One of America’s oldest presidents may be the youngest at heart. “He’s healthy, he’s leading, and he’s actually as popular today as Obama was when elected. In a divided America, that’s a …

“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 …