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In 2021, social media platforms enabled the deadly spread of COVID-19 lies and anti-vaccine misinformation

12/30/21 9:15 AM EST
Tucker Carlson's Fox News show undermined vaccines 99% of the days it covered them since Biden became president

12/29/21 11:34 AM EST
Fox's “straight news” didn't exist in 2021

12/29/21 9:13 AM EST
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

In 2021, social media platforms enabled the deadly spread of COVID-19 lies and anti-vaccine misinformation

Tucker Carlson's Fox News show undermined vaccines 99% of the days it covered them since Biden became president

Fox's “straight news” didn't exist in 2021

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 Business guest on deportations of legal Venezuelan migrants, “To send them back to Venezuela is the worst possible thing for them. … but I kind of want to see them shipped back to Venezuela”

Fox's Harris Faulkner defends the deportation of pregnant women, children

Trump ally Benny Johnson says Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum had “a hysterical menopausal meltdown”

Benny Johnson: “Some little birdies tell me” that Julie Kelly is “perhaps the architect of the current salting of the earth inside of federal agencies”

CNBC calls out Project 2025 contributor Peter Navarro for exaggerating threat of fentanyl at US-Canada border