Glenn Kessler is the chief writer and editor of The Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog, which began in 2011. Kessler and other writers rate the accuracy of public figures’ statements using a Pinocchio rating system, with four Pinocchios being the worst rating. Prior to the Fact Checker, he held several reporting and editing positions at the Post throughout his career.

Frank Gaffney is the leader of the Center for Security Policy, which has been designated as an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He also opposed allowing LGBTQ Americans to serve openly in the U.S. military and advised President Donald Trump’s transition team and Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign.

David Daleiden is a right-wing activist who founded the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress (CMP), which in 2015 began releasing deceptively edited and illicitly obtained videos smearing Planned Parenthood for providing fetal tissue to medical researchers. He formerly worked at the anti-abortion group Live Action, which uses similar tactics.

In 2011, the British tabloid News of the World, then owned by a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., shut down after media reports that its staff had hacked into the private voicemails of British celebrities and ordinary citizens to generate content for its stories. The scandal resulted in the shuttering of News of the World, trials and imprisonment of multiple News of the World staffers, and millions of dollars in costs.

Jared Kushner is President Trump’s son-in-law and serves as a senior adviser in his administration. Kushner’s presence in the administration has generated a lot of controversy, chiefly due to his repeated failures to properly detail foreign contacts in his security clearance forms and for being given security clearance by the president after career officials denied it to him. Trump has also made Kushner his envoy for peace negotiations in the Middle East.

Ed Rogers is the chairman of the lobbying firm BGR Group and has long written his Washington Post column without disclosure of his multiple conflicts of interests on the topics he writes about. Following the Saudi Arabian government's murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, the Post forced him to dump Saudi Arabia as his lobbying client as a condition for retaining his position at the newspaper.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee when President Donald Trump took office and he went all-out to defend Trump from the committee's probe on Russia's interference in the 2016 election by cutting out Democrats from committee business, wrongly accused Obama administration officials of targeting Trump associates, and worked to discredit the FBI's investigations into Trump. He is currently the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.

A retired and highly accomplished neurosurgeon, Ben Carson became a right-wing media celebrity for making a speech attacking Obamacare during an official event with President Barack Obama. Soon after, he was hired as a contributor by Fox News, where he was groomed into becoming a Republican presidential candidate and repeatedly defended by Fox hosts for his many bizarre and outrageous statements. After unsuccessfully seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, he became President Donald Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Roy Moore was a long-serving judge in Alabama, including serving as the state’s chief justice. He refused orders to remove religious monuments from the grounds of the state’s main judicial building and ignoring the Supreme Court’s recognition of same-sex marriage, which led to his suspension and resignation. He ran as a Republican Senate candidate in a 2017 special election but was defeated after several women, including some who had been minors at the time, said Moore had previously sexually assaulted them.

James Delingpole was one of the chief architects of a manufactured scandal in late 2009 that was called “Climategate,” in which hackers stole emails from some climate scientists at the University of East Anglia and leaked them. Climate deniers such as Delingpole then published out-of-context excerpts from those emails to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change, which were then spread by conservative media. Before joining the right-wing website Breitbart, Delingpole wrote for several British newspapers and tabloids.

Donald Trump Jr. is President Donald Trump’s oldest son and is an executive vice president in the Trump Organization. Trump Jr. also worked on his father’s presidential campaign and has been embroiled in scandal for meeting with Russian nationals to seek compromising material on 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr. has also repeatedly spread far-right fake news and conspiracy theories on social media. Trump Jr. is beloved by white nationalists.

Corey Lewandowski was President Donald Trump's campaign manager until June 2016. During his time as campaign manager, he was charged with battery for grabbing a reporter, but the charge was soon dropped. After leaving the campaign, he briefly joined CNN as a political commentator while still receiving severance pay from the Trump campaign. Lewandowski later worked as a political commentator for One America News Network, but he was fired in July 2017.

Ed Whelan has clerked for conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and worked in the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel during the first half of George W. Bush’s presidency. In 2004 he became president of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, and he also writes on legal issues at National Review. During Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle in 2018, he briefly stepped down from his position for concocting a ridiculous conspiracy theory to defend Kavanaugh from an accusation that he sexually assaulted a girl in high school.

Christine Blasey Ford is a psychology professor who was the first woman during Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation process to say he sexually assaulted her in the past. She testified publicly to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary about her recollection of the assault prior to Kavanaugh's confirmation vote. Right-wing media and Trump allies slandered her for speaking publicly and spread hoaxes attempting to discredit her, and death threats caused her to move out of her home.

Harris Faulkner anchors Outnumbered Overtime and co-hosts Outnumbered for Fox News, which she joined in 2005.

After Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in an apparent botched robbery during the 2016 presidential election, Fox News and others in the right-wing media pushed a conspiracy theory that his death was linked to hacked DNC emails that were released by WikiLeaks. In particular, Fox's Sean Hannity doggedly pushed the conspiracy theory even after Rich's family asked him to stop until advertisers began departing his program. Rich's family sued Fox News for continuing to promote the conspiracy theory even after it had retracted a false story about it.

President Bill Clinton instituted the policy known as “don't ask, don't tell” (DADT) in 1994 to allow closested LGBTQ Americans to serve in the U.S. military, but barring open LGBTQ Americans from service. The policy led to the discharge of many service members who were outed as LGBTQ during their service. Congress successfully repealed DADT at the end of 2010 with President Barack Obama's support, and the policy expired in September 2011. Conservative media attempted to prevent the repeal of DADT by pushing bigoted falsehoods about LBGTQ Americans and service members.

A conservative commentator, Pavlich is a Fox News host and contributor and an editor for Townhall.