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From fictionalized tweets to made-up stories, ‘fake news’ is about ego and greed

Some conservatives pointed to Barrett and this entire mess as another example of “fake news” and proof that readers can’t trust The Atlantic, which came under intense attack from Donald Trump and his supporters after reporting Trump had disparaged the U.S. military. These same people are in large part the same ones who’ve spent the […] More

by Tonya Frazier December 3, 2020, 2:20 am
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In a Fox News interview, Parscale blames Trump’s lack of coronavirus empathy for his election loss.

Brad Parscale, the former Trump campaign manager who was demoted in July, claimed in a Fox News interview on Tuesday night that President Trump would have handily won the election if he had expressed more empathy about the coronavirus pandemic. “We lost suburban families,” Mr. Parscale said. “I think that goes to one thing: the […] More

by Tonya Frazier December 2, 2020, 2:53 pm
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Trump Accuses DOJ Probe Into Alleged Bribery-For-Pardon Plot Of Being ‘Fake News’

President Donald Trump called the Justice Department’s investigation into an alleged scheme involving a bribe in return for a presidential pardon “fake news” on Tuesday night. “Pardon investigation is Fake News!” he tweeted. It’s unclear whether Trump’s brief tweet is a denial of the probe’s existence as a whole or of the suspected activity being […] More

by Tonya Frazier December 2, 2020, 12:43 pm
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Opinion | Good News for Salmon, Bad News for Prospectors

That determination did not kill the mine, because the company was still free to file for a permit from the Army corps, which wobbled for a while but ultimately denied the request. The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., a sportsman who has fished in the region, tweeted his opposition to the mine in August, […] More

by Tonya Frazier December 1, 2020, 11:00 pm
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Trump’s new Fox News interview on the election results was a smorgasbord of disinformation

President Donald Trump made his first television appearance since losing reelection on Sunday in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. Over the course of 45 rambling minutes, Trump, mired in election denialism, used the platform to promulgate a slew of thoroughly disproven lies, disinformation, and conspiracy theories about nonexistent election […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 29, 2020, 7:24 pm
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Trump’s new Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo on the election results was full of disinformation

President Donald Trump made his first television appearance since losing reelection on Sunday in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. Over the course of 45 rambling minutes, Trump, mired in election denialism, used the platform to promulgate a slew of thoroughly disproven lies, disinformation, and conspiracy theories about nonexistent election […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 29, 2020, 7:24 pm
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Rich Trump allies want a new ‘Fox News’ competitor for only one reason: To bleed conservatives dry

That said, it does seem to be true that wealthy Trump-adjacent conservatives are scoping out the creation of a new conservative news network to challenge Fox. The stories are always the same: Donald Trump’s enablers and supporters are outraged, positively outraged, by Fox News slip-ups in which cold, hard reality manages to make it to […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 29, 2020, 2:30 am
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12 times Trump really did say that awful, racist thing you thought had to be fake news

1. “I want to hate these muggers and murderers.” Trump’s full-page ad “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” references the Central Park Five, Black and Latino men wrongly convicted as children of assaulting a white woman in 1989, and it ran in the New York Times and three other city papers. Trump said in […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 29, 2020, 12:00 am
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Former Trump Campaign Chief Brad Parscale Will Be Interviewed On Fox News Next Week. Will He Be Spilling the Beans on Team Trump?

It’s been a pretty wild year for Brad Parscale. He originally came onto the political scene by taking care of Donald Trump’s digital campaign in 2016. He impressed the president so much that he was made the 2020 campaign manager. Back in the spring, Parscale said that he was about to unleash the “Death Star” […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 27, 2020, 11:15 pm
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Fake news in Asian American communities can affect elections. Organizers are worried.

Less than a week after Election Day, a spreadsheet titled “Battling Asian American Misinformation” began circulating in progressive Asian American social media circles, primarily among those of Vietnamese and Chinese descent. The most popular YouTube channels flagged on the spreadsheet accumulated hundreds of thousands of subscribers, in which pundits discussed misleading claims about election fraud, […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 27, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Covid-19 News: Live Updates – The New York Times

Here’s what you need to know: A restaurant in Paris this week that was closed under France’s national lockdown. The country will begin loosening restrictions starting Saturday.Credit…Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times As Americans spent a holiday torn between hope and heartbreak — with the promise of coronavirus vaccines competing with the reality of […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 27, 2020, 12:42 pm
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Black Friday: Live Updates and Latest News

Here’s what you need to know: Best Buy employees preparing Xbox consoles for pickup earlier this month in Oakland, Calif. Many stores have encouraged shoppers to order online for curbside pickup on Black Friday.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York Times Retailers have experienced a stark split in fortunes during the pandemic. The mass shutdowns this spring fueled […] More

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