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Manufacturing fear: How Fox News invented a terrorist attack and used it to demonize Muslims

  1. Hillary clinton and Donald Trump on a green and blue background

    Major news outlets gave much less coverage to Trump’s “vermin” attack than they did Clinton’s “deplorables” remark

    Research/Study 11/28/23 10:40 AM EST

  2. Fox News misleads about its own reporter’s question to Biden

    Article 11/27/23 1:27 PM EST

  3. BlazeTV host Steve Deace: "The problem with the American church today is no one wants to kill its pastors anymore. No one wants to arrest its pastors anymore. And there's a lot of truth to that"

    BlazeTV host: “The problem with the American church today is no one wants to kill its pastors anymore. No one wants to arrest its pastors anymore. And there's a lot of truth to that.”

    Video & Audio 11/28/23 12:06 PM EST

The Latest:

  • A TikTok trend that allegedly went viral received more coverage on cable news than many of Trump’s recent extreme claims

    Research/Study 11/17/23 2:31 PM EST

  • Fox-current-former-staffers-destructive-propaganda-machine-02.png

    Fox News vice president accused of making Islamophobic comments in the newsroom oversaw the network’s anti-Muslim coverage of numerous terror attacks

    Research/Study 11/21/23 3:05 PM EST

  • Rupert Murdoch

    As Rupert Murdoch steps down as the head of Fox, his destructive legacy remains

    Research/Study 11/17/23 10:17 AM EST

  1. Fox News' Laura Ingraham demands House Republicans defund and investigate special counsel Jack Smith

    Video & Audio 11/29/23 7:42 PM EST

  2. Media Matters’ Evlondo Cooper joins The Climate Conversation podcast to discuss a few issues national TV news should include in its COP28 coverage

    Article 11/29/23 12:37 PM EST

  3. BlazeTV co-host: “The Democrats are running on jabbing you with poison, trans-ing your kids, and kill the Jews”

    Video & Audio 11/29/23 12:26 PM EST

  4. Daily Wire co-CEO: “If 5 million people came out today and said the N-word -- not recommending it -- but no one would ever get fired for saying the N-word again”

    Video & Audio 11/29/23 11:39 AM EST

  5. The conspiracy subreddit is full of COVID-19 and anti-vaccine health misinformation that Reddit claims to prohibit

    Research/Study 11/29/23 11:02 AM EST

Pagination

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    National broadcast and cable networks are barely covering Trump’s recent gaffes and incoherent statements

    Research/Study 10/30/23 10:40 AM EDT

  2. A stylized image of Fox News host Jesse Watters with his his Islamophobic quote "We've had it with them"

    Right-wing media ramp up Islamophobia, spread paranoia about all Muslims

    Research/Study 11/13/23 9:19 AM EST

  3. Trump lines

    Cable and broadcast news networks largely failed to cover Trump's alarming statement

    Research/Study 11/06/23 11:09 AM EST

Elon Musk and Twitter/X

  • Elon Musk Free Speech

    Far-right figures and white nationalists celebrate Elon Musk’s antisemitic post: “What we were saying in Charlottesville”

    Research/Study 11/16/23 4:12 PM EST

  • Elon Musk Twitter X

    As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content

    Article 11/16/23 10:05 AM EST

  • Musk and Yaccarino

    X is placing ads for Amazon, NBA Mexico, NBCUniversal, and others next to content with white nationalist hashtags

    Article 11/17/23 12:16 PM EST

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    Elon Musk praises antisemitic replacement theory that motivated a mass shooting as “the actual truth”

    Article 11/15/23 7:39 PM EST

  • Linda Yaccarino on CNBC

    Pro-Hitler and Holocaust denier account: X has paid me $3,000 in ad revenue sharing

    Article 11/13/23 10:31 AM EST

  • Yaccarino and the logos of MLB, the NFL, and the Pittsburgh Steelers

    X is placing ads for MLB, the NFL, and the Pittsburgh Steelers on antisemitic and Holocaust denial accounts

    Article 10/12/23 1:00 PM EDT

Rising authoritarianism:

  • Trump calls his political enemies “vermin,” to muted national news coverage

    Article 11/13/23 1:37 PM EST

  • Bannon 2025

    Bannon’s “War Room” is the media home of Project 2025 and Trump’s retribution plans

    Article 11/09/23 10:27 AM EST

  • Image of Donald Trump with a Fox News logo

    The right’s vision for a second Trump administration would empower Fox’s authoritarian extremism

    Article 11/13/23 12:28 PM EST

Rumble:

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    On Rumble, right-wing creators use the violence in Israel and Gaza to spread antisemitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigrant rhetoric

    Research/Study 10/26/23 12:44 PM EDT

  • Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski has repeatedly interacted with and praised far-right and antisemitic figures

    Research/Study 10/24/23 10:02 AM EDT

  • Rumble is profiting from creators who spread antisemitism

    Research/Study 10/16/23 5:21 PM EDT

  • Special Programs

    Dedicated teams focusing on core progressive issues.

  • Abortion Rights & Reproductive Health

    • The false premise at the heart of Sean Hannity’s GOP abortion strategy

      Article 11/08/23 2:22 PM EST

    • With Jezebel shutting its doors, abortion coverage in the US will be worse off

      Article 11/10/23 12:22 PM EST

    • Michael Knowles: “The conservative argument on abortion, the conservative desire, the conservative goal is not merely to leave the issue to the states”

      Video & Audio 11/09/23 10:32 AM EST

  • Climate & Energy

    • NationalTV_ClimateChange

      National TV news covered Trump’s buried climate assessment with gusto. Biden’s assessment barely made the air.

      Research/Study 11/17/23 1:10 PM EST

    • Right-wing figures are using the cancellation of two offshore wind projects to make misleading claims about renewable energy

      Research/Study 11/14/23 2:47 PM EST

    • After decades of climate deception, Shell uses Fortnite to court demographic most concerned about climate change

      Article 10/02/23 1:12 PM EDT

  • Guns & Public Safety

    • Fox News' Newt Gingrich uses ongoing mass shooting in Maine to push less restrictive gun laws

      Video & Audio 10/25/23 9:43 PM EDT

    • Virulent antisemite tells Jeanine Pirro that the 2nd Amendment is needed “to take care of these vermin” who “rigged” elections

      Article 07/07/23 10:19 AM EDT

    • YouTube is profiting off of Tim Pool’s abhorrent commentary on mass shootings

      Article 05/12/23 12:10 PM EDT

  • LGBTQ

    • Pride and solidarity

      The San Bernardino Pride flag murderer and the inevitable consequences of right-wing media hate

      Article 08/24/23 3:11 PM EDT

    • Bomb threat and hate speech against library follow targeted harassment from Riley Gaines and other right-wing media figures

      Article 08/23/23 3:23 PM EDT

    • Matt Walsh flouted YouTube guidelines with anti-LGBTQ hate after being stripped of advertiser revenue. The platform responded by restoring the revenue

      Article 09/08/23 11:19 AM EDT

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    How Fox Corp. leverages sports and entertainment to force cable providers to charge more for Fox News

    Article 08/16/23 1:25 PM EDT

  2. Fox News / Woke

    200+ things that Fox News has labeled “woke”

    Research/Study 06/08/23 8:58 AM EDT

  3. Lachlan-Murdoch-wants-fox-news-critics-more-tolerant.png

    Fox’s Lachlan Murdoch promises to use sports to raise your cable bill. Learn how to fight back.

    Article 08/08/23 2:58 PM EDT

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