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Mediaite reports: During Friday’s monologue, Laura Ingraham blamed President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation for adding to the national debt. However, the bill stalled in the Senate last year and does not appear it will pass. “In the end, you just can’t govern very well a country you fundamentally loathe,” she stated. “You can only rule over it.” “If …

From the right wing sports blog OutKick: A disgusting fake news tweet claiming Costco was raising the price on its hot dog meal deal made its way around social media Wednesday until the scumbag Twitter user was outed as a FAKE! FAKE! FAKE!! The scumbag behind the Costco hot dog attack claimed that the membership-only big box store was about …

Media Matters reports: One America News Network recently interviewed its founder and owner, Robert Herring, wherein he made desperate plays to ideologically link OAN to popular conservative figures and goad the audience into contacting cable providers to pick up the network. Herring’s interview — which has aired at least seven times as of Friday morning — covered a wide variety …

The Daily Beast reports: The right-wing cable network One America News Network on Monday ran a pre-recorded 30-second segment acknowledging that there was “no widespread voter fraud” by Georgia election workers in the 2020 presidential election. The segment appears to be part of a recent settlement relating to a defamation lawsuit brought against the network by two such workers. The …

Maybe they don’t want another billion dollar lawsuit: Right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza accused Tucker Carlson and Newsmax on Monday of suppressing any mention of his new conspiracy theory film 2,000 Mules. The Associated Press fact-checked the film, which former President Donald Trump screened at Mar-a-Lago and has hailed as revealing the “great election fraud,” and concluded it is “based on …

“We and you and every other American has an absolute right to seek the truth about elections or any other topic and to say what you think about it, period. So we’re – it turns out – the only news outlet left in America that believes that. “It is now effectively a crime to ask questions about what happened during …

Fox News has the transcript: So, what he said is a lie, but here’s the line that you should never forget and we’re quoting, “This MAGA crowd,” (which is to say the tens of millions people who voted for Donald Trump) is really, we’re quoting, “the most extreme political organization that has existed in history.” In history, all human history, …

The Huffington Post reports: Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield suggested on Tuesday — without evidence or logic — that future Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson may be responsible for the leak of a draft ruling that would dismantle abortion rights. There’s one very big problem with this theory: Jackson isn’t on the Supreme Court yet. Nor was she on the …

Media Matters reports: On Friday, Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance pushed an anti-immigration conspiracy theory that alleged President Joe Biden was deliberately allowing drug smugglers to import fentanyl to the United States to kill Donald Trump voters. The theory has also been put forward by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, whom the New York Times recently characterized as running “what may …

Axios reports: Elon Musk is likely to find out that there’s not a big market for his campaign for more free speech on Twitter, according to an Ipsos poll shared exclusively with Axios. Most Americans don’t have a problem with Twitter or other social media companies removing posts that include misinformation, promote violence or pose a risk to the public, …

Mediaite reports: A lawyer for former President Donald Trump is attempting to crowdsource videos from the January 6 Capitol riot, requesting footage of “Trump protestors being peaceful” and of “police or anyone else waving/encouraging people to go into the Capitol building.” A statement from the Ticktin Law Group was published this week on conservative website The Gateway Pundit from Peter …

“Barack Obama gave a big speech at Stanford yesterday on disinformation. Now, like the Atlantic magazine’s conference on disinformation at the University of Chicago, the conference was all about promoting disinformation, but because self-awareness has been banned, nobody noticed. “So this guy is not just liberal. In fact, he’s not liberal at all. He’s a full-blown fascist who hates you …

“That was from a CNN special. That’s a full hour designed, produced to showcase Joe Biden’s strengths and his fundamental awesomeness. “Now imagine what he must be like around the office, where there are no cameras or special injections from the White House physicians to clear his head? “I mean it’s got to be Thanksgiving at the rest home with …

Media Matters reports: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the first Black woman nominated and confirmed by the Senate to the Supreme Court. In saying that “Democrats also blocked who would have been the first Black woman on the Supreme Court,” Fox host Jesse Watters echoed a false claim that had bounced around social media about Janice Rogers Brown, a Bush …

Ars Technica reports: Roskomnadzor, Russia’s censorship authority, issued another demand on Tuesday for Wikipedia to remove what it called “unreliable socially significant information.” The agency warned that failure to comply could lead to fines of up to 4 million rubles ($50,000). A March 3 statement on the Wikimedia website declared that “we will not back down in the face of …

The Miami Herald reports: In messages to supporters, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t shy about labeling “fake news media” the enemy. But when it comes to raising money for his re-election bid, the Republican governor’s campaign and an associated political committee have sought help from a satire website with the tagline “Fake news you can trust.” The governor’s campaign committee …

Mediaite reports: Far-right One America News is suing DirecTV and its parent company AT&T for breach of contract, after the TV provider announced it would drop the channel from its lineup. Herring Networks, which owns OAN, filed a 36-page lawsuit in the Superior Court of California in San Diego this week. The company stated that its relationship with AT&T, and …

i24 News reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz denied that Russian troops were bombing Ukrainian cities, dismissing such information as fake, the Kremlin said Friday. Putin said reports about “the alleged ongoing air strikes of Kyiv and other large cities are gross propaganda fakes,” the Kremlin said in a statement. He added …

The BBC reports: Never was there a better illustration of the alternative reality presented by Russian state media than at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday. As BBC World TV opened its bulletin with reports of a Russian attack on a TV tower in the capital Kyiv, Russian TV was announcing that Ukraine was responsible for strikes on its own cities. “Judging …

The Daily Beast reports: Tucker Carlson spent his Fox News show Wednesday evening just asking lots of leading and conspiratorial questions about the planting of pipe bombs at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of both major political parties the night before the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the FBI’s subsequent investigation of it. He suggested that the FBI has been withholding information …