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    Backdating the Recession: A Report by Media Matters for America ; Release date: May 3, 2004

    Article 05/01/04 4:41 PM EDT

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    Sean Hannity

    Sean Hannity has been a Fox News host since its launch in 1996 and hosts the prime-time show Hannity. He was a huge promoter of birtherism and has engaged in multiple conspiracy theories to defend President Donald Trump from numerous investigations, including exploiting the tragic murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich and amplifying claims of a “deep state” plot to take down the president. Hannity is also a close unofficial adviser to Trump, even appearing at a campaign rally alongside him.

  • Michael Flynn

    Michael Flynn

    Flynn was ousted from the Trump administration after information surfaced highlighting his connection to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn has since plead guilty for making false statements to the FBI about his contact with Kislyak. 

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    Joe Bastardi

    Joe Bastardi is a weather forecaster and climate change denier who dismisses the harmful effects of fossil fuel emissions during his appearances on Fox News and Sean Hannity’s radio show.

  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, marking a major escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war, which started in 2014. Right-wing media proceeded to embrace pro-Kremlin and anti-Ukraine propaganda, while social

  • Alan Colmes

    Alan Colmes

    Alan Colmes had a nationally syndicated talk radio show on Fox News Radio and co-hosted Fox's Hannity & Colmes from 1996 through the beginning of 2009, then continued as a commentator for the channel. He died in 2017.

  • Sara Carter

    Sara Carter

    Sara Carter was formerly a reporter at the right-wing website Circa News. She now publishes stories on her personal blog and mostly appears on Fox News' Hannity, where she regularly attempts to undermine the special counsel probe into any Trump campaign involvement in Russia's 2016 election interference.

  • Dan Bongino

    Dan Bongino

    Dan Bongino unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Republican multiple times after leaving his job in the Secret Service during the Obama administration. He then became a pro-Trump right-wing pundit, hosting a show on NRATV, and frequently appeared on Fox News shows such as Hannity and Fox & Friends. Bongino had his own shows on Fox News and Fox Nation before he and the network parted ways in April 2023. In February 2025, Donald Trump appointed Bongino to the deputy director role at the FBI.

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    Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory

    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.

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    John Solomon

    Formerly a Washington Post reporter, then executive editor for the right-wing Washington Times and a reporter at Sinclair Broadcasting Group's Circa, John Solomon wrote misleading opinion pieces criticizing the special counsel's probe into President Donald Trump at The Hill, where he was also its executive vice president for video. Solomon's opinion pieces were often promoted by Trump allies such as Sean Hannity.

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      He's A Full-Blown Propagandist

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      Tell Facebook: Stop Enabling Cambridge Analytica, The Trump Campaign, and Other Cheaters
      Stop enabling businesses that game the system

      Facebook needs to ban every entity, be it the Trump campaign or any other, that is using a copy of Cambridge Analytica's data or any other data set acquired by cheating. 

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      Tell Facebook: The Weekly Standard is Not Fit to Fact Check
      The Weekly Standard is a right-wing misinformer

      Facebook is trying to team up with The Weekly Standard, a right-wing publication with a history of pushing partisan lies, to fact-check news shared on its platform. We can't let it happen. 

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      Fox needs to fix its culture of sexual harassment

      Getting rid of Roger Ailes was a long overdue start to addressing these very serious charges of sexual misconduct. Fox has an obligation to take this matter seriously, not just for the sake of its staff, but also for its audience.

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      Having Trump as an executive producer is intolerable

      Variety reported on December 8 that Donald Trump will remain as executive producer of The Celebrity Apprentice when the show returns in 2017. This will mean that NBC will have a fiduciary relationship with the president of the United States, creating an unprecedented conflict of interest for the network.

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