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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 …

Media Matters has the transcript: ROBERT HERRING, SR. (OAN FOUNDER AND OWNER): Hello, my name is Robert Herring, and I’m owner and CEO of One America News Network. I’m sure by now a lot of you have heard the news that AT&T and DirecTV have decided to take us off their service. It was a major surprise to me when …

Reuters reports: Two Georgia election workers targeted by former President Donald Trump in a vote-rigging conspiracy theory have sued a far-right website that trumpeted the false story, alleging it incited months of death threats and harassment against them. The defamation suit against The Gateway Pundit was filed Thursday by Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a voter registration officer in the Fulton County …

“So much white supremacy coming our way. White supremacy is a existential threat to America. Democrats all over the place have been saying this, basically since Donald Trump showed up. “So it’s just a left-wing talking point. None of that’s true. None of that is true. Now we went looking for this white supremacy stuff that they’re talking about, right? …

Mediaite reports: Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to mock President Joe Biden during a Facebook Live on Sunday, invoking a debunked video that was manipulated to look like Biden fell asleep during a meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. “The videos on social media, however, have been misleadingly cropped: seconds later, longer footage shows that Biden responds to Bennett,” …

Media Matters has the transcript: GRANT STINCHFIELD (HOST): We know that one of the key components to enacting socialism in America is not just gun control, but gun confiscation. I have told you that much of the tyrannical response to the China virus is about the left’s quest to control you. Well, quietly, a plan is now underway to use …

CBS News reports: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has fired a longtime flutist after months of issues with her controversial social media posts. “Principal Flutist Emily Skala has been dismissed from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in accordance with the progressive discipline policy agreed to in our collective bargaining agreement with the Musicians’ Association of Metropolitan Baltimore Local 40-543, AFM,” BSO President …

The Daily Beast reports: Pro-Trump right-wing cable outlet One America News is launching a Spanish-language sister network that should debut this fall, the network’s founder and CEO confirmed to The Daily Beast on Friday. OAN has been working on the launch of the separate channel specifically as a means to target a conservative Spanish-speaking audience. The channel would largely feature …

The Verge reports: Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that mostly shields politicians from the content moderation rules that apply to other users, a sharp reversal that could have global ramifications for how elected officials use the social network. The change, which Facebook is set to announce as soon as Friday, comes after the Oversight Board — an independent …

From Facebook’s corporate blog: Today, we’re launching new ways to inform people if they’re interacting with content that’s been rated by a fact-checker as well as taking stronger action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on Facebook. Whether it’s false or misleading content about COVID-19 and vaccines, climate change, elections or other topics, we’re making sure fewer people see misinformation …

“We all know what happened on Jan. 6, and the big story that day was when Vice President Pence turned his back on Trump nation. That’s the biggest story on that day. Nothing else mattered that day. The media’s been making up these lies about this insurrection, where people are peacefully walking through the U.S. Capitol. “We are dealing with …

Salon reports: A pro-Trump blog stirred up a bizarre conspiracy theory Wednesday, claiming that President Joe Biden wasn’t actually driving during a Tuesday event in which the 78-year-old took an electric truck for a spin in front of the press. The claim originated on right-wing blog The Gateway Pundit, an outfit known for their rather sticky relationship with the facts. …

Via press release from Newsmax: Newsmax and the hosts of “Spicer & Co.” — Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith — will air an exclusive town hall with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, May 12, at 6 p.m. ET. The event at The Villages, a sprawling retirement community, will feature discussions with a live studio audience of American voters, an …

Mediaite reports: The New York Post published an inaccurate story last week that claimed Vice President Kamala Harris’ book Superheroes are Everywhere was being handed out to migrant children at the border. The link to that story now just leads directly to the Post’s homepage. CNN fact checker Daniel Dale took to Twitter on Monday to reveal that the post, …

Retraction Watch reports: A study that warned of the perils of using face masks as a precaution against contracting Covid-19 appears slated for retraction, Retraction Watch has learned. The 2020 paper, “Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis,” was written by Baruch Vainshelboim, who listed his affiliation as Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto Health System. But the …

The New York Post reports: And they say Russia doesn’t rig elections. When asked who the most handsome man in their country was, 18% of Russia’s men and 17% of its women allegedly thought of their bare-breasted, horseback-riding, scandal-immune leader, Vladimir Putin. The highly suspect and mildly terrifying poll by job board site Superjob.ru surveyed 2,000 Russians and determined that …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Former Rep. Michelle Bachmann, who was named dean of Regent University’s Robertson School of Government in December, is hosting an “election integrity” conference Tuesday, March 23, featuring a mix of longtime voter suppression advocates and right-wing pundits who have promoted former President Donald Trump’s bogus “stolen election” claims. She recently told radio host …

The Daily Beast reports: For Newsmax, it looks like midnight is approaching, and the upstart TV channel is in danger of turning back into a pumpkin. The pro-Trump cable news network—which barely registered in Nielsen ratings for the first six years after its chief executive and majority owner, Chris Ruddy, launched it in May 2014—prompted massive media attention for seemingly …