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Trump's coup attempt relies on Fox News

Trump’s coup depends on the right-wing information bubble

  1. chyron reads, "AP: TRUMP SUMMONS MI LAWMAKERS TO WHITE HOUSE"

    Martha MacCallum blames “both sides” for Donald Trump's failure to admit defeat

    Video & Audio 11/19/20 7:51 PM EST

  2. carlson fox news

    Tucker Carlson is becoming Fox’s “news side” assignment editor

    Article 11/19/20 10:31 AM EST

  3. Dobbs press conference

    Fox News figures lavish praise on Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell’s unhinged press conference about their plan to subvert the election

    Article 11/19/20 8:10 PM EST

Featured

  • A mask surrounded by autumn leaves

    Right-wing media dismiss efforts to save thousands of lives as a “War on Thanksgiving”

    Article 11/18/20 7:47 AM EST

  • Sunday Morning Futures Maria Bartiromo Dominion voting machines conspiracy

    Fox News has cast doubt on or pushed conspiracy theories about the election results nearly 600 times

    Research/Study 11/18/20 11:52 AM EST

  • TV with Fox logo

    Fox’s desperate push to preserve viewers exposes the hollowness of its “news” side

    Article 11/18/20 8:13 AM EST

  • election facebook trump

    Experts warned that Facebook’s ad bans wouldn’t stop election misinformation. They were right.

    Research/Study 11/18/20 11:44 AM EST

  • screen grab

    Fox & Friends hosts bash restrictions on Thanksgiving gatherings — after acknowledging that large holiday gatherings are dangerous

    Video & Audio 11/17/20 9:24 AM EST

The Latest

  1. Steve Bannon cites bogus fraud claims to declare that “we're not going to count all the votes”

    Video & Audio 11/21/20 3:14 PM EST

  2. Tucker Carlson on calls to lock up political opponents: “It's not right-wingers, it's the other side”

    Video & Audio 11/20/20 8:41 PM EST

  3. Sean Hannity says it's not true that “rich people have it easy”

    Video & Audio 11/20/20 6:31 PM EST

  4. Fox host: Americans “will be eating zoo animals” if Democrats get their way

    Video & Audio 11/20/20 6:01 PM EST

  5. Right-wing media feud erupts over Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s bonkers election conspiracy theories

    Article 11/20/20 4:50 PM EST

  6. Right-wing media push anti-abortion misinformation to paint Democrats as “radical” ahead of the Georgia runoff election

    Article 11/20/20 4:31 PM EST

  7. Steve Bannon lashes out at his own audience: “Grow up. We are in a war right now"

    Article 11/20/20 4:20 PM EST

  8. Mark Zuckerberg testified that Facebook “performed well” during the 2020 election, but Media Matters has the receipts

    Article 11/20/20 3:50 PM EST

  9. Sinclair is about to air Steve Bannon peddling a discredited voting fraud theory to millions of local TV viewers

    Article 11/20/20 2:10 PM EST

  10. Media Matters, Trans Journalists Association, and Human Rights Campaign publish new resource for reporters covering anti-trans violence

    Article 11/20/20 1:55 PM EST

COVID-19:

  • chyron reads, "DR SCOTT ATLAS TAKING HEAT FOR TELLING MICHIGAN TO 'RISE UP' AGAINST COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS"

    On Fox, Scott Atlas encourages large holiday gatherings: “For many people this is their last Thanksgiving”

    Video & Audio 11/16/20 8:06 PM EST

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    The right-wing case for Sweden’s pandemic response has completely collapsed

    Article 11/17/20 6:43 AM EST

  • Atlas

    Scott Atlas has pushed misinformation during every single Fox News appearance

    Narrative/Timeline 10/22/20 10:30 AM EDT

  • Rupert Lachlan Murdoch

    The Murdochs have blood on their hands

    Article 10/15/20 4:28 PM EDT

  • Fox Covid Magnifying Glass

    As coronavirus surges across the country, Fox propagandists are fighting new efforts to slow its spread

    Article 11/12/20 12:06 PM EST

  • chyron reads: "America is starting to lock down again"

    Tucker Carlson says current spike in coronavirus cases is proof lockdowns didn't work

    Video & Audio 11/16/20 8:34 PM EST

Election integrity:

  • screen grab

    Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo keeps on promoting debunked, tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories about election results

    Article 11/16/20 2:17 PM EST

  • Sean Hannity and Doug Collins

    Sean Hannity complains about Georgia mail-in ballots and tells Rep. Doug Collins to challenge Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp

    Video & Audio 11/16/20 6:07 PM EST

  • trump fox flag

    The Trump-Fox feedback loop is powering an assault on democracy

    Article 11/09/20 10:41 AM EST

  • TVs with a Fox News logo and the US Map

    Fox News propagandists and GOP leaders are pushing the country toward the abyss

    Article 11/06/20 12:06 PM EST

  • Donald Trump maroon

    Pro-Trump media pivot to faithless electors, urging GOP legislatures to assert control

    Article 11/05/20 2:48 PM EST

  • Trish Regan, Lou Dobbs, and Mark Levin

    Conservatives' complaints about media calling presidential elections are desperate nonsense

    Article 11/12/20 1:03 PM EST

Sinclair Broadcasting:

  • Sinclair Broadcast Group coverage of voting

    Sinclair's national news desk is helping Trump undermine the election results in Nevada

    Article 11/09/20 5:06 PM EST

  • Sinclair Broadcast Group's town hall with President Trump

    Sinclair’s Trump town hall spread dangerous COVID-19 misinformation

    Article 10/22/20 12:53 PM EDT

  • Sinclair Broadcast Group's coverage of the coronavirus pandemic

    How Sinclair Broadcast Group is spreading dangerous coronavirus misinformation to local television news audiences

    Research/Study 07/27/20 2:12 PM EDT

QAnon conspiracy theory:

  • QAnon congressional candidates

    Here are the QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2020

    Article 01/07/20 11:42 AM EST

  • An image of a QAnon supporter

    An ongoing list of how Republicans have built up the QAnon conspiracy theory

    Article 08/12/20 1:42 PM EDT

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    QAnon is coming to Congress, and journalists need to be ready

    Article 07/10/20 9:51 AM EDT

Big tech platforms:

  • Fox and YouTube logo

    Fox News continues to amplify election misinformation on YouTube

    Article 11/16/20 12:23 PM EST

  • YouTube ballot

    YouTube has allowed conspiracy theories about interference with voting machines to go viral

    Article 11/13/20 12:04 PM EST

  • Facebook logo

    A new study finds that Facebook is not censoring conservatives despite their repeated attacks

    Research/Study 10/28/20 10:17 AM EDT

  1. Two versions of Donald Trump

    Journalists have been obsessing over Trump supposedly changing his “tone” for five years

    Article 07/27/20 10:41 AM EDT

  2. Tucker Carlson

    Top right-wing media figures rally around “demon sperm” doc

    Article 07/29/20 11:23 AM EDT

  3. Tucker Carlson says coronavirus threat to rural America is small

    Fox’s ongoing attacks on masks are a public health menace

    Article 07/20/20 1:38 PM EDT

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    Dedicated teams focusing on core progressive issues.

  • Abortion Rights & Reproductive Health

    • image of a pro-choice sign and an anti-abortion sign with an official ballot image in the background

      Right-wing media push anti-abortion misinformation to paint Democrats as “radical” ahead of the Georgia runoff election

      Article 11/20/20 4:31 PM EST

    • Right-wing media turn to anti-abortion attacks against Kamala Harris

      Article 08/17/20 4:18 PM EDT

    • Don't believe right-wing media -- overturning Roe v. Wade is a big deal

      Article 09/24/20 2:27 PM EDT

  • Climate & Energy

    • PA-fracking-2020

      Cable news, particularly Fox, overstated the role of Pennsylvania fracking in the 2020 election

      Research/Study 11/19/20 2:25 PM EST

    • Corporate broadcast TV news mentioned climate change only once during its coverage of Hurricane Zeta

      Research/Study 10/30/20 2:32 PM EDT

    • Cable news overwhelmingly adopts conservative, pro-Big Oil framing of Biden's debate comments about transitioning away from oil

      Research/Study 10/29/20 3:45 PM EDT

  • Guns & Public Safety

    • Ken Blackwell speaks at an NRA meeting

      NRA board member shares extremist militia-branded meme that blames shootings on lack of prayer in school

      Article 08/05/19 4:49 PM EDT

    • It is categorically wrong to blame mental illness for mass shootings. Here's why.

      Article 08/05/19 2:30 PM EDT

    • How Fox News pushed propaganda about the El Paso mass shooting

      Article 08/04/19 12:15 PM EDT

  • LGBTQ

    • Name card with information scribbled out in front of a trans pride flag

      News outlets misidentified nearly two out of three victims of anti-trans violence in 2020

      Article 11/19/20 10:58 AM EST

    • Cable news stopped covering anti-trans violence after Pride Month

      Article 09/16/20 2:30 PM EDT

    • Local media keep misidentifying trans murder victims, and the police are often to blame

      Article 07/28/20 11:18 AM EDT

Fox News advertisers:

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    These are Fox News' leading advertisers

    Article 07/26/19 1:37 PM EDT

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    These are Tucker Carlson’s leading advertisers

    Article 12/19/18 12:00 PM EST

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    These are Laura Ingraham's leading advertisers

    Article 10/29/19 12:15 PM EDT

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    These are Sean Hannity's leading advertisers

    Article 07/26/19 1:43 PM EDT

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    These are Jeanine Pirro's leading advertisers

    Article 07/23/19 2:28 PM EDT

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    Fox News is still having major advertiser problems

    Article 08/19/19 5:07 PM EDT

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