#MediaMatters

Still thinking about this screen cap from Hannity's February 27 show During that show, Hannity wanted to put things "in perspective" by noting that more than 100 people die each
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NEW: @SpoxHHS Michael Caputo pushed COVID-19 conspiracy theories and praised white supremacists in unearthed podcasthttps://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/hhs-spokesperson-michael-caputo-pushed-covid-19-conspiracy-theories-and Th
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Unclear whether the press will sustain the coverage, but this is what using the agenda-setting power looks like. When I say it matters whether the press sustains the coverage, this
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Media Matters and the left have been trying to scare their readers about hydroxychloroquine for weeks despite promising initial studies. I'm sad for their readers who got the virus and
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Fox's analysis is that Joe Biden succeeded by taking the virus seriously, building his margin in the suburbs, and because the GOP didn't push mail-in voting.In other words, the network's
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Hey, I know this is going to come as a huge surprise, but the people in conservative media going to extreme lengths to defend Trump on COVID-19 weren't so generous
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I spoke with @Finneganporter at @BusinessInsider about Tucker Carlson's mainstreaming of white nationalist talking points. The interview was actually conducted before he went all-in on the great replacement theory last
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Fox News gave that Alex Berenson guy his own show on their Fox Nation platform... If you're not familiar with Fox Nation, it's Fox's streaming platform with shows that could
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THREAD:Here's just a few times Fox News has claimed the coronavirus crisis has passed: Feb 25, Fox medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat said of coronavirus, “We have it contained in
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Vaush launches misogynistic, bigoted attack on Sen. Kamala Harris, criticizes her for not being "aggressive" enough: "She would do this weird shit, like folksy aphorism in between trying to be
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, The Trump-and-McCarthy-backed QAnon candidate, is also a 9-11 Truther who claimed in 2018 that there's no evidence a plane was crashed into the Pentagon.https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/qanon-candidate-marjo
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The first ten minutes of tonight's Tucker Carlson Tonight are the closest thing I think I've ever seen to pure, unfiltered fascism in American public life. Going out to the
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How Fox News convinced Trump that it found a miracle cure for coronavirushttps://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how-fox-news-convinced-trump-it-found-miracle-cure-coronavirus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDcMPi_3nkk&feature=youtu.be I hope they
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Brian "These Aren't Our Kids" Kilmeade is very concerned about white nationalists going to Trump events: "This has got to be stopped." Earlier in this episode, Brian Kilmeade implied that
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An important backstory to the hydroxychloroquine enthusiasm is the weird paranoid fears of virus vaccine research. Apparently, Bill Gates is researching vaccines in order to insert controlling microchips into our
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There's been a few pieces on Scott Atlas, Trump's new coronavirus "adviser." But I don't think they fully capture the extent to which he has been consistently wrong about the
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