Gideon Taaffe | Media Matters for America

Gideon Taaffe is a researcher at Media Matters. He graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in history.

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After the Brown University shooting, right-media baselessly attacked a Palestinian student as a suspect

12/19/25 4:53 PM EST
Truth Social users and callers on right-wing media shows are mad about Trump's comments on Rob Reiner

12/16/25 5:11 PM EST
Asmongold, one of the largest US streamers on YouTube, has leveled up from gaming to politics

12/11/25 4:34 PM EST
What we know about the relationship between Alex Jones and DOJ official Ed Martin

11/26/25 12:31 PM EST
Right-wing media figures are calling a recent video from Democratic lawmakers “treason” and “sedition”

11/20/25 4:42 PM EST
Conservative voices are sounding the alarm about the growing influence of Nick Fuentes and groypers

11/14/25 10:12 AM EST
Following Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, fault lines have emerged as right-wing media battle over the future of MAGA

11/11/25 11:03 AM EST
As the NYC mayoral election approaches, right-wing media back GOP push to denaturalize and deport Zohran Mamdani

11/03/25 3:57 PM EST
CBS Evening News fails to cover Trump's pardon of cryptocurrency executive with ties to Trump business venture

10/24/25 12:45 PM EDT
Right-wing media ramp up anti-Muslim attacks on Zohran Mamdani in the final days of the NYC mayoral election

10/23/25 4:21 PM EDT
Right-wing media said Chicago ICE raid yielded numerous gang members' arrests. New reporting shows hardly any arrests related to Tren de Aragua.

10/16/25 2:06 PM EDT
Right-wing media have long called for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. He's now considering it.

10/09/25 1:45 PM EDT