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Misinformer of the Year: Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” approach is destroying American democracy

12/28/21 10:37 AM EST
By the numbers: A year of conservative media fearmongering over “critical race theory”

12/28/21 9:12 AM EST
In 2021, right-wing media scapegoated unions for supposed school indoctrination, COVID-19 restrictions, and global supply chain shortages

12/27/21 9:06 AM EST
Fox News spent 2021 mainstreaming the white supremacist “great replacement” theory

12/27/21 9:05 AM EST
A dozen times right-wing media said something ridiculous about climate change in 2021

12/23/21 10:25 AM EST
Fox News employs its own familiar anti-vaccine tactics to attack COVID booster shots

12/22/21 9:38 AM EST
“Kill shot,” “deadly,” “ambush”: Fox host Jesse Watters tells audience to go after Dr. Anthony Fauci

12/21/21 12:28 PM EST
Fox News attacks NIH chief Francis Collins for urging debunk of COVID-19 misinformation

12/20/21 11:11 PM EST
Conservative media spread false claims and fearmonger about medicated abortion after FDA approved mailing the drug

12/20/21 3:49 PM EST
TikTok and negligent reporting created mass panic about an unfounded national school shooting day hoax

12/20/21 2:08 PM EST
Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone: “Because there is a consensus forming around the destructive power of Fox News, it incentivizes the call to action, which is to go to cable companies and say, ‘Do not make me pay more money for Fox News.’”

12/19/21 2:06 PM EST
On WNYC's On The Media, Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone explains how Fox’s COVID-19 misinformation “changed the relationship” with the rest of news media

12/19/21 1:49 PM EST
Fox guest: “We need a military full of Type A men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls”

12/19/21 12:48 PM EST
Fox host: “Maybe we could afford to give glasses to senior citizens if we weren't raping the economy with these arbitrary climate mandates”

12/19/21 12:27 PM EST
Fox host claims vaccine boosters could prevent people from getting “a more effective kind of vaccination, nature's vaccination”

12/19/21 12:21 PM EST
Fox hosts were privately begging the Trump administration to stop the January 6 insurrection while publicly downplaying and deflecting responsibility

12/17/21 4:32 PM EST
Fox News suggests retailers are to blame for crime because they supported Black Lives Matter

12/17/21 3:22 PM EST
Fox News pushes to ban two LGBTQ books, lies that they “promote pedophilia”

12/17/21 2:40 PM EST

Misinformer of the Year: Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” approach is destroying American democracy

By the numbers: A year of conservative media fearmongering over “critical race theory”

In 2021, right-wing media scapegoated unions for supposed school indoctrination, COVID-19 restrictions, and global supply chain shortages

Fox News spent 2021 mainstreaming the white supremacist “great replacement” theory

A dozen times right-wing media said something ridiculous about climate change in 2021

Fox News employs its own familiar anti-vaccine tactics to attack COVID booster shots

“Kill shot,” “deadly,” “ambush”: Fox host Jesse Watters tells audience to go after Dr. Anthony Fauci

Fox News attacks NIH chief Francis Collins for urging debunk of COVID-19 misinformation

Conservative media spread false claims and fearmonger about medicated abortion after FDA approved mailing the drug

TikTok and negligent reporting created mass panic about an unfounded national school shooting day hoax

Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone: “Because there is a consensus forming around the destructive power of Fox News, it incentivizes the call to action, which is to go to cable companies and say, ‘Do not make me pay more money for Fox News.’”

On WNYC's On The Media, Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone explains how Fox’s COVID-19 misinformation “changed the relationship” with the rest of news media

Fox guest: “We need a military full of Type A men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls”

Fox host: “Maybe we could afford to give glasses to senior citizens if we weren't raping the economy with these arbitrary climate mandates”

Fox host claims vaccine boosters could prevent people from getting “a more effective kind of vaccination, nature's vaccination”

Fox hosts were privately begging the Trump administration to stop the January 6 insurrection while publicly downplaying and deflecting responsibility

Fox News suggests retailers are to blame for crime because they supported Black Lives Matter

Fox News pushes to ban two LGBTQ books, lies that they “promote pedophilia”

Fox interviews car dealer about Trump tariffs: “We're afraid. It's going to have a gigantic impact on our business.”

CNBC's Joe Kernen mocks media “hyperventilating” about turmoil caused by Trump's policies

Fox Business guest: “These tariffs are really scary ... it has a real possibility of bringing on a recession”

Fox host on Trump's tariffs: “There might be some pain in the beginning, but ultimately this is to help all of us”

Fox host Brian Kilmeade shocked by co-hosts' suggestion that Starlink could be shut off for Ukraine: “You are saying Zelensky is worse than Putin”