LOL if you actually believe this. The DNC hack was done from the inside by a Bernie bro who was mad bc Bernie got the shaft. His name was Seth Rich and there is a reason that Wikileaks put out a reward for his killers. Crowdstrike knows this, everyone at the DNC knows this as do most people who were paying attention.TexasScientist said:Your mind is so cluttered with disinformation that you can't see straight. Of course there is misinformation on both sides. So far, most mainstream media has tried to maintain some journalistiThere is a steady diet of misinformation from the far right, mixed with some truth, because it sells to their audience (per Fox admissions). It's clear Russia, and other bad actors have attempted to influence our elections, and it's clear Russian hacked the DNC. I've never said Hunter's laptop was fake. I'm "butthurt" over the 2020 election because Rs were too stupid not to get rid of Trump. Anyone else would have beaten Biden, and anyone else would beat him this time.Harrison Bergeron said:What do you think about this disinformation:TexasScientist said:That's right, and you can take that first step by reviewing the documents produced in Dominion vs. Fox. Admission of disinformation is exposed and displayed in the texts and emails produced.Harrison Bergeron said:The first step is you have to understand what disinformation means (hint: it does not mean "disagrees with my tribal POV.")TexasScientist said:Happy to, as soon as I find a good article.drahthaar said:TexasScientist said:
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
Ahead of another contentious presidential election, media companies that promoted false claims four years ago are filing for bankruptcy, issuing apologies or settling lawsuits.
June 8, 2024, 6:00 AM CDT
By Erik Ortiz
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges or facing new ones.
In just a few months, a handful of high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom losses.
The Gateway Pundit, an influential far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy in April in the wake of defamation lawsuits that said the company suggested election workers committed fraud during the previous presidential election. That same month, voting machine company Smartmatic reached a confidential settlement in its defamation suit against One America News Network, which allowed false election fraud claims on air, while its pending defamation litigation based on similar vote-rigging allegations continues against Newsmax as well as Fox News, which is being sued for $2.7 billion. Both Newsmax and Fox News deny Smartmatic's allegations.
Fox News last year paid another company, Dominion Voting Systems, $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. The network did not admit to any specific claims.
In May, "2000 Mules," a book and film by right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza, was pulled by the publisher, Salem Media Group, and the company issued a public apology to a Georgia man who is suing the author and publisher on defamation claims after he was accused of ballot stuffing. That case is still ongoing.
Other conservative media outlets that had promoted right-wing misinformation in the 2020 election are facing financial troubles unrelated to those events. This week, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones agreed to sell off his assets to satisfy $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones earlier warned his company could shut down.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors allege a top executive of The Epoch Times laundered millions of dollars.
The Justice Department said the charges against Weidong "Bill" Guan, the company's chief financial officer, are unrelated to its newsgathering activities, and an Epoch Times spokesperson said it plans to "fully cooperate with any investigation dealing with the allegations." Still, the indictment brings scrutiny to one of the most popular pro-Trump outlets. Guan has pleaded not guilty, and a request for comment to a public defender appointed to his case was not immediately returned.
"Right-wing media has finally faced the consequences of running disinformation campaigns," said Yunkang Yang, an assistant professor of communication at Texas A&M University. "Some of them are finally being held accountable for the lies they spread."
Yotam Ophir, an associate professor of communication at the University at Buffalo who studies misinformation and extremism, said he's encouraged by repercussions when "misinformation contaminates our information environment, leads to real harms to people, and erodes trust in institutions and the government."
"The recent lawsuits against those who made a career out of spreading lies and falsehoods will hopefully help limit the spread and amplification of some of the misinformation we can expect in 2024," he said.
But whether that translates to a change in coverage of the November election and post-Election Day results remains to be seen, researchers say.
Trump in recent interviews and at rallies has aired his grievances about the 2020 election, saying it's necessary to challenge election results when the process isn't fair. At a Michigan campaign rally last month, the former president falsely said, "Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020," adding that "we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election" in 2024.
But as for companies that would want to avoid further litigation, Yang said, "If Trump loses again, and denies the election again, if that might happen, I think they'll be more careful."
However, "right-wing media doesn't have to say the election was stolen," Yang added, "but they can let the readers say the quiet part out loud."
He said that's already happening on certain right-wing sites, writing in a 2023 report that they "rely on a small group of highly active commenters to instigate online discussion, draw attention to conspiratorial comments, reinforce conspiratorial beliefs, and drive the sharing of propaganda content on social media."
Amid their legal issues, some sites are hitting back, suggesting to their audiences they're being unfairly targeted because of their ideologies.
Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit, blamed "progressive liberal lawfare attacks" for leading the outlet to file for bankruptcy, and said doing so did not indicate "an admission of fault or culpability" in the lawsuits.
One of the suits involves two former Georgia election workers who were the subject of vote-rigging conspiracy theories that were debunked; the suit is headed toward trial. Another suit, filed in Colorado by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive against Gateway Pundit and other prominent defendants, remains ongoing.
A request for comment from Gateway Pundit about its financial situation prior to filing for bankruptcy was not immediately returned, although Hoft has vowed to continue to publish.
"Despite the radical left's efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today," Hoft said in a statement.
Such rhetoric is in line with how Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has gone after his political foes as he awaits sentencing on 34 felony counts in his historic hush money trial, said A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alabama who focuses on right-wing media.
Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was part of an effort by President Joe Biden's administration to interfere with his election prospects.
The coverage of Trump's trial and the unprecedented verdict notched Fox News a ratings coup over its competitors.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday forcefully pushed back before a House panel led by Trump's congressional allies, noting how some Republicans are echoing unfounded conspiracy theories.
To claim that a New York jury's verdict was "somehow controlled by the Justice Department" is "an attack on the judicial process itself," Garland said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had called Trump's trial a "sham" and proclaimed a "weaponization" of the justice system against Trump.
With Republican leadership continuing to prop up Trump ahead of the election, Bauer said, the former president doesn't necessarily need those media outlets that can be "loose with the facts" to boost his beliefs.
Bauer said social media users on platforms like X and internet livestreamers who cover Trump's events one prominent YouTube channel, Right Side Broadcasting Network, has more than 1.65 million subscribers represent another form of broadcasting that's developed further since the last presidential election. Trump also started his own social media platform, Truth Social, after he was banned by Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Truth Social reported an accumulated loss of tens of millions of dollars last fall.
In the meantime, conservative and right-wing news sites havereportedly struggled with traffic amid larger financial struggles across the entire legacy and digital news media industry, as once-reliable traffic sources like Facebook and Instagram limit "political content" to users' feeds.
On the flip side, the progressive advocacy website Media Matters for America laid off dozens of staffers last month, with its president blaming a "legal assault on multiple fronts," including a lawsuit filed last fall by X owner Elon Musk over an investigative report about advertising on the social media platform.
"The terrain on which this election is being run is fundamentally, materially different than four years ago," Bauer said.
Ophir, the University at Buffalo researcher, said that while the public's right to free speech and the media's ability to remain independent must be considered, social media companies can also remove "harmful content" and media outlets spreading false propaganda can be held responsible, at least through the courts.
But "without a systematic change," he added, the public "will continue to suffer from the havoc of misinformation in the years to come."
Goody!
Now do the left wing media to be just.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-when-russian-hackers-targeted-the-u-s-election-infrastructure/
The difference between many on the left and the right is that folks like me are not blind to disinformation coming from fringe sources. What you and other regressive-TDSers are blind to is the disinformation coming from so-called "mainstream," corporate left-wing "news." You still believe the Russia Hoax was real and Hunter's laptop was fake. The butthurt over the 2020 election is an eye-roller when LWNJ were parroting a stolen 2016 election for four years. You're too low-EQ to notice your gaslighting and hypocrisy.
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading misinformation
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I don't think you know what "news" means.TexasScientist said:You can find examples of all you want in the texts, emails and discovery Fox turned over to Dominion. You don't have to fact check that, it's their admission and production. Ultimately, it compelled them to settle for $800 million to avoid publicity and additional production.Harrison Bergeron said:TexasScientist said:Your mind is so cluttered with disinformation that you can't see straight. Of course there is misinformation on both sides. So far, most mainstream media has tried to maintain some journalistiThere is a steady diet of misinformation from the far right, mixed with some truth, because it sells to their audience (per Fox admissions). It's clear Russia, and other bad actors have attempted to influence our elections, and it's clear Russian hacked the DNC. I've never said Hunter's laptop was fake. I'm "butthurt" over the 2020 election because Rs were too stupid not to get rid of Trump. Anyone else would have beaten Biden, and anyone else would beat him this time.Harrison Bergeron said:What do you think about this disinformation:TexasScientist said:That's right, and you can take that first step by reviewing the documents produced in Dominion vs. Fox. Admission of disinformation is exposed and displayed in the texts and emails produced.Harrison Bergeron said:The first step is you have to understand what disinformation means (hint: it does not mean "disagrees with my tribal POV.")TexasScientist said:Happy to, as soon as I find a good article.drahthaar said:TexasScientist said:
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
Ahead of another contentious presidential election, media companies that promoted false claims four years ago are filing for bankruptcy, issuing apologies or settling lawsuits.
June 8, 2024, 6:00 AM CDT
By Erik Ortiz
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges or facing new ones.
In just a few months, a handful of high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom losses.
The Gateway Pundit, an influential far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy in April in the wake of defamation lawsuits that said the company suggested election workers committed fraud during the previous presidential election. That same month, voting machine company Smartmatic reached a confidential settlement in its defamation suit against One America News Network, which allowed false election fraud claims on air, while its pending defamation litigation based on similar vote-rigging allegations continues against Newsmax as well as Fox News, which is being sued for $2.7 billion. Both Newsmax and Fox News deny Smartmatic's allegations.
Fox News last year paid another company, Dominion Voting Systems, $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. The network did not admit to any specific claims.
In May, "2000 Mules," a book and film by right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza, was pulled by the publisher, Salem Media Group, and the company issued a public apology to a Georgia man who is suing the author and publisher on defamation claims after he was accused of ballot stuffing. That case is still ongoing.
Other conservative media outlets that had promoted right-wing misinformation in the 2020 election are facing financial troubles unrelated to those events. This week, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones agreed to sell off his assets to satisfy $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones earlier warned his company could shut down.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors allege a top executive of The Epoch Times laundered millions of dollars.
The Justice Department said the charges against Weidong "Bill" Guan, the company's chief financial officer, are unrelated to its newsgathering activities, and an Epoch Times spokesperson said it plans to "fully cooperate with any investigation dealing with the allegations." Still, the indictment brings scrutiny to one of the most popular pro-Trump outlets. Guan has pleaded not guilty, and a request for comment to a public defender appointed to his case was not immediately returned.
"Right-wing media has finally faced the consequences of running disinformation campaigns," said Yunkang Yang, an assistant professor of communication at Texas A&M University. "Some of them are finally being held accountable for the lies they spread."
Yotam Ophir, an associate professor of communication at the University at Buffalo who studies misinformation and extremism, said he's encouraged by repercussions when "misinformation contaminates our information environment, leads to real harms to people, and erodes trust in institutions and the government."
"The recent lawsuits against those who made a career out of spreading lies and falsehoods will hopefully help limit the spread and amplification of some of the misinformation we can expect in 2024," he said.
But whether that translates to a change in coverage of the November election and post-Election Day results remains to be seen, researchers say.
Trump in recent interviews and at rallies has aired his grievances about the 2020 election, saying it's necessary to challenge election results when the process isn't fair. At a Michigan campaign rally last month, the former president falsely said, "Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020," adding that "we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election" in 2024.
But as for companies that would want to avoid further litigation, Yang said, "If Trump loses again, and denies the election again, if that might happen, I think they'll be more careful."
However, "right-wing media doesn't have to say the election was stolen," Yang added, "but they can let the readers say the quiet part out loud."
He said that's already happening on certain right-wing sites, writing in a 2023 report that they "rely on a small group of highly active commenters to instigate online discussion, draw attention to conspiratorial comments, reinforce conspiratorial beliefs, and drive the sharing of propaganda content on social media."
Amid their legal issues, some sites are hitting back, suggesting to their audiences they're being unfairly targeted because of their ideologies.
Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit, blamed "progressive liberal lawfare attacks" for leading the outlet to file for bankruptcy, and said doing so did not indicate "an admission of fault or culpability" in the lawsuits.
One of the suits involves two former Georgia election workers who were the subject of vote-rigging conspiracy theories that were debunked; the suit is headed toward trial. Another suit, filed in Colorado by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive against Gateway Pundit and other prominent defendants, remains ongoing.
A request for comment from Gateway Pundit about its financial situation prior to filing for bankruptcy was not immediately returned, although Hoft has vowed to continue to publish.
"Despite the radical left's efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today," Hoft said in a statement.
Such rhetoric is in line with how Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has gone after his political foes as he awaits sentencing on 34 felony counts in his historic hush money trial, said A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alabama who focuses on right-wing media.
Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was part of an effort by President Joe Biden's administration to interfere with his election prospects.
The coverage of Trump's trial and the unprecedented verdict notched Fox News a ratings coup over its competitors.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday forcefully pushed back before a House panel led by Trump's congressional allies, noting how some Republicans are echoing unfounded conspiracy theories.
To claim that a New York jury's verdict was "somehow controlled by the Justice Department" is "an attack on the judicial process itself," Garland said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had called Trump's trial a "sham" and proclaimed a "weaponization" of the justice system against Trump.
With Republican leadership continuing to prop up Trump ahead of the election, Bauer said, the former president doesn't necessarily need those media outlets that can be "loose with the facts" to boost his beliefs.
Bauer said social media users on platforms like X and internet livestreamers who cover Trump's events one prominent YouTube channel, Right Side Broadcasting Network, has more than 1.65 million subscribers represent another form of broadcasting that's developed further since the last presidential election. Trump also started his own social media platform, Truth Social, after he was banned by Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Truth Social reported an accumulated loss of tens of millions of dollars last fall.
In the meantime, conservative and right-wing news sites havereportedly struggled with traffic amid larger financial struggles across the entire legacy and digital news media industry, as once-reliable traffic sources like Facebook and Instagram limit "political content" to users' feeds.
On the flip side, the progressive advocacy website Media Matters for America laid off dozens of staffers last month, with its president blaming a "legal assault on multiple fronts," including a lawsuit filed last fall by X owner Elon Musk over an investigative report about advertising on the social media platform.
"The terrain on which this election is being run is fundamentally, materially different than four years ago," Bauer said.
Ophir, the University at Buffalo researcher, said that while the public's right to free speech and the media's ability to remain independent must be considered, social media companies can also remove "harmful content" and media outlets spreading false propaganda can be held responsible, at least through the courts.
But "without a systematic change," he added, the public "will continue to suffer from the havoc of misinformation in the years to come."
Goody!
Now do the left wing media to be just.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-when-russian-hackers-targeted-the-u-s-election-infrastructure/
The difference between many on the left and the right is that folks like me are not blind to disinformation coming from fringe sources. What you and other regressive-TDSers are blind to is the disinformation coming from so-called "mainstream," corporate left-wing "news." You still believe the Russia Hoax was real and Hunter's laptop was fake. The butthurt over the 2020 election is an eye-roller when LWNJ were parroting a stolen 2016 election for four years. You're too low-EQ to notice your gaslighting and hypocrisy.
Every accusation is a confession. It's amazing how TS ignores actually facts and just screams the same talking points.
I could ask for five examples of knowing posted by Fox News, but we know he runs from specifics.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-fact-checker-admits-trump-never-called-charlottesville-neo-nazis-very-fine-people-blow-biden
Name five stories Fox News intentionally shared as disinformation such as the Russia Hoax, Hunter's laptop, Juicy Smollett, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Juicy Smalls, Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse, Charlottesville, Don't Say Gay ...
You can't do it. So just keep believing the world is flat.
https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afeHarrison Bergeron said:I don't think you know what "news" means.TexasScientist said:You can find examples of all you want in the texts, emails and discovery Fox turned over to Dominion. You don't have to fact check that, it's their admission and production. Ultimately, it compelled them to settle for $800 million to avoid publicity and additional production.Harrison Bergeron said:TexasScientist said:Your mind is so cluttered with disinformation that you can't see straight. Of course there is misinformation on both sides. So far, most mainstream media has tried to maintain some journalistiThere is a steady diet of misinformation from the far right, mixed with some truth, because it sells to their audience (per Fox admissions). It's clear Russia, and other bad actors have attempted to influence our elections, and it's clear Russian hacked the DNC. I've never said Hunter's laptop was fake. I'm "butthurt" over the 2020 election because Rs were too stupid not to get rid of Trump. Anyone else would have beaten Biden, and anyone else would beat him this time.Harrison Bergeron said:What do you think about this disinformation:TexasScientist said:That's right, and you can take that first step by reviewing the documents produced in Dominion vs. Fox. Admission of disinformation is exposed and displayed in the texts and emails produced.Harrison Bergeron said:The first step is you have to understand what disinformation means (hint: it does not mean "disagrees with my tribal POV.")TexasScientist said:Happy to, as soon as I find a good article.drahthaar said:TexasScientist said:
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
Ahead of another contentious presidential election, media companies that promoted false claims four years ago are filing for bankruptcy, issuing apologies or settling lawsuits.
June 8, 2024, 6:00 AM CDT
By Erik Ortiz
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges or facing new ones.
In just a few months, a handful of high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom losses.
The Gateway Pundit, an influential far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy in April in the wake of defamation lawsuits that said the company suggested election workers committed fraud during the previous presidential election. That same month, voting machine company Smartmatic reached a confidential settlement in its defamation suit against One America News Network, which allowed false election fraud claims on air, while its pending defamation litigation based on similar vote-rigging allegations continues against Newsmax as well as Fox News, which is being sued for $2.7 billion. Both Newsmax and Fox News deny Smartmatic's allegations.
Fox News last year paid another company, Dominion Voting Systems, $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. The network did not admit to any specific claims.
In May, "2000 Mules," a book and film by right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza, was pulled by the publisher, Salem Media Group, and the company issued a public apology to a Georgia man who is suing the author and publisher on defamation claims after he was accused of ballot stuffing. That case is still ongoing.
Other conservative media outlets that had promoted right-wing misinformation in the 2020 election are facing financial troubles unrelated to those events. This week, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones agreed to sell off his assets to satisfy $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones earlier warned his company could shut down.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors allege a top executive of The Epoch Times laundered millions of dollars.
The Justice Department said the charges against Weidong "Bill" Guan, the company's chief financial officer, are unrelated to its newsgathering activities, and an Epoch Times spokesperson said it plans to "fully cooperate with any investigation dealing with the allegations." Still, the indictment brings scrutiny to one of the most popular pro-Trump outlets. Guan has pleaded not guilty, and a request for comment to a public defender appointed to his case was not immediately returned.
"Right-wing media has finally faced the consequences of running disinformation campaigns," said Yunkang Yang, an assistant professor of communication at Texas A&M University. "Some of them are finally being held accountable for the lies they spread."
Yotam Ophir, an associate professor of communication at the University at Buffalo who studies misinformation and extremism, said he's encouraged by repercussions when "misinformation contaminates our information environment, leads to real harms to people, and erodes trust in institutions and the government."
"The recent lawsuits against those who made a career out of spreading lies and falsehoods will hopefully help limit the spread and amplification of some of the misinformation we can expect in 2024," he said.
But whether that translates to a change in coverage of the November election and post-Election Day results remains to be seen, researchers say.
Trump in recent interviews and at rallies has aired his grievances about the 2020 election, saying it's necessary to challenge election results when the process isn't fair. At a Michigan campaign rally last month, the former president falsely said, "Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020," adding that "we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election" in 2024.
But as for companies that would want to avoid further litigation, Yang said, "If Trump loses again, and denies the election again, if that might happen, I think they'll be more careful."
However, "right-wing media doesn't have to say the election was stolen," Yang added, "but they can let the readers say the quiet part out loud."
He said that's already happening on certain right-wing sites, writing in a 2023 report that they "rely on a small group of highly active commenters to instigate online discussion, draw attention to conspiratorial comments, reinforce conspiratorial beliefs, and drive the sharing of propaganda content on social media."
Amid their legal issues, some sites are hitting back, suggesting to their audiences they're being unfairly targeted because of their ideologies.
Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit, blamed "progressive liberal lawfare attacks" for leading the outlet to file for bankruptcy, and said doing so did not indicate "an admission of fault or culpability" in the lawsuits.
One of the suits involves two former Georgia election workers who were the subject of vote-rigging conspiracy theories that were debunked; the suit is headed toward trial. Another suit, filed in Colorado by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive against Gateway Pundit and other prominent defendants, remains ongoing.
A request for comment from Gateway Pundit about its financial situation prior to filing for bankruptcy was not immediately returned, although Hoft has vowed to continue to publish.
"Despite the radical left's efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today," Hoft said in a statement.
Such rhetoric is in line with how Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has gone after his political foes as he awaits sentencing on 34 felony counts in his historic hush money trial, said A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alabama who focuses on right-wing media.
Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was part of an effort by President Joe Biden's administration to interfere with his election prospects.
The coverage of Trump's trial and the unprecedented verdict notched Fox News a ratings coup over its competitors.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday forcefully pushed back before a House panel led by Trump's congressional allies, noting how some Republicans are echoing unfounded conspiracy theories.
To claim that a New York jury's verdict was "somehow controlled by the Justice Department" is "an attack on the judicial process itself," Garland said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had called Trump's trial a "sham" and proclaimed a "weaponization" of the justice system against Trump.
With Republican leadership continuing to prop up Trump ahead of the election, Bauer said, the former president doesn't necessarily need those media outlets that can be "loose with the facts" to boost his beliefs.
Bauer said social media users on platforms like X and internet livestreamers who cover Trump's events one prominent YouTube channel, Right Side Broadcasting Network, has more than 1.65 million subscribers represent another form of broadcasting that's developed further since the last presidential election. Trump also started his own social media platform, Truth Social, after he was banned by Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Truth Social reported an accumulated loss of tens of millions of dollars last fall.
In the meantime, conservative and right-wing news sites havereportedly struggled with traffic amid larger financial struggles across the entire legacy and digital news media industry, as once-reliable traffic sources like Facebook and Instagram limit "political content" to users' feeds.
On the flip side, the progressive advocacy website Media Matters for America laid off dozens of staffers last month, with its president blaming a "legal assault on multiple fronts," including a lawsuit filed last fall by X owner Elon Musk over an investigative report about advertising on the social media platform.
"The terrain on which this election is being run is fundamentally, materially different than four years ago," Bauer said.
Ophir, the University at Buffalo researcher, said that while the public's right to free speech and the media's ability to remain independent must be considered, social media companies can also remove "harmful content" and media outlets spreading false propaganda can be held responsible, at least through the courts.
But "without a systematic change," he added, the public "will continue to suffer from the havoc of misinformation in the years to come."
Goody!
Now do the left wing media to be just.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-when-russian-hackers-targeted-the-u-s-election-infrastructure/
The difference between many on the left and the right is that folks like me are not blind to disinformation coming from fringe sources. What you and other regressive-TDSers are blind to is the disinformation coming from so-called "mainstream," corporate left-wing "news." You still believe the Russia Hoax was real and Hunter's laptop was fake. The butthurt over the 2020 election is an eye-roller when LWNJ were parroting a stolen 2016 election for four years. You're too low-EQ to notice your gaslighting and hypocrisy.
Every accusation is a confession. It's amazing how TS ignores actually facts and just screams the same talking points.
I could ask for five examples of knowing posted by Fox News, but we know he runs from specifics.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-fact-checker-admits-trump-never-called-charlottesville-neo-nazis-very-fine-people-blow-biden
Name five stories Fox News intentionally shared as disinformation such as the Russia Hoax, Hunter's laptop, Juicy Smollett, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Juicy Smalls, Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse, Charlottesville, Don't Say Gay ...
You can't do it. So just keep believing the world is flat.
Dominion presented volumes of internal emails and text messages that showed Fox executives and personalities saying they knew the accusations were untrue, even as the falsehoods were aired on programs hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeannine Pirro.
“It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.” ~ Upton Sinclair
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/misleading-gop-videos-biden-viral-fact-checks-rcna133316
Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/biden-g7-video-conservative-media-uses-misleading-camera-angle-rcna157112
Conservative media uses misleading camera angle of Biden to falsely claim that he was wandering aimlessly
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-they-are-pushing-disinformation-right-wing-media-shares-clip-of-biden-minus-context-212990021547
This week, right-wing media seized on a moment at the G7 Summit where President Biden apparently 'wandered off' while taking a group photograph.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fake-video-joe-biden-g7-italy-rcna157767
Why the fake Biden videos flooding social media are more insidious than they appear
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-checking-cnn-27-times-they-left-out-key-details/ss-BB1hnOgA
Fact-Checking CNN: 27 Times They Left Out Key Details
Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/biden-g7-video-conservative-media-uses-misleading-camera-angle-rcna157112
Conservative media uses misleading camera angle of Biden to falsely claim that he was wandering aimlessly
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-they-are-pushing-disinformation-right-wing-media-shares-clip-of-biden-minus-context-212990021547
This week, right-wing media seized on a moment at the G7 Summit where President Biden apparently 'wandered off' while taking a group photograph.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fake-video-joe-biden-g7-italy-rcna157767
Why the fake Biden videos flooding social media are more insidious than they appear
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-checking-cnn-27-times-they-left-out-key-details/ss-BB1hnOgA
Fact-Checking CNN: 27 Times They Left Out Key Details
Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? I was puzzled, frustrated... Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?
Left wing media told us Biden was sharp
Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? I was puzzled, frustrated... Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?
TexasScientist said:https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afeHarrison Bergeron said:I don't think you know what "news" means.TexasScientist said:You can find examples of all you want in the texts, emails and discovery Fox turned over to Dominion. You don't have to fact check that, it's their admission and production. Ultimately, it compelled them to settle for $800 million to avoid publicity and additional production.Harrison Bergeron said:TexasScientist said:Your mind is so cluttered with disinformation that you can't see straight. Of course there is misinformation on both sides. So far, most mainstream media has tried to maintain some journalistiThere is a steady diet of misinformation from the far right, mixed with some truth, because it sells to their audience (per Fox admissions). It's clear Russia, and other bad actors have attempted to influence our elections, and it's clear Russian hacked the DNC. I've never said Hunter's laptop was fake. I'm "butthurt" over the 2020 election because Rs were too stupid not to get rid of Trump. Anyone else would have beaten Biden, and anyone else would beat him this time.Harrison Bergeron said:What do you think about this disinformation:TexasScientist said:That's right, and you can take that first step by reviewing the documents produced in Dominion vs. Fox. Admission of disinformation is exposed and displayed in the texts and emails produced.Harrison Bergeron said:The first step is you have to understand what disinformation means (hint: it does not mean "disagrees with my tribal POV.")TexasScientist said:Happy to, as soon as I find a good article.drahthaar said:TexasScientist said:
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
Ahead of another contentious presidential election, media companies that promoted false claims four years ago are filing for bankruptcy, issuing apologies or settling lawsuits.
June 8, 2024, 6:00 AM CDT
By Erik Ortiz
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges or facing new ones.
In just a few months, a handful of high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom losses.
The Gateway Pundit, an influential far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy in April in the wake of defamation lawsuits that said the company suggested election workers committed fraud during the previous presidential election. That same month, voting machine company Smartmatic reached a confidential settlement in its defamation suit against One America News Network, which allowed false election fraud claims on air, while its pending defamation litigation based on similar vote-rigging allegations continues against Newsmax as well as Fox News, which is being sued for $2.7 billion. Both Newsmax and Fox News deny Smartmatic's allegations.
Fox News last year paid another company, Dominion Voting Systems, $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. The network did not admit to any specific claims.
In May, "2000 Mules," a book and film by right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza, was pulled by the publisher, Salem Media Group, and the company issued a public apology to a Georgia man who is suing the author and publisher on defamation claims after he was accused of ballot stuffing. That case is still ongoing.
Other conservative media outlets that had promoted right-wing misinformation in the 2020 election are facing financial troubles unrelated to those events. This week, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones agreed to sell off his assets to satisfy $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones earlier warned his company could shut down.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors allege a top executive of The Epoch Times laundered millions of dollars.
The Justice Department said the charges against Weidong "Bill" Guan, the company's chief financial officer, are unrelated to its newsgathering activities, and an Epoch Times spokesperson said it plans to "fully cooperate with any investigation dealing with the allegations." Still, the indictment brings scrutiny to one of the most popular pro-Trump outlets. Guan has pleaded not guilty, and a request for comment to a public defender appointed to his case was not immediately returned.
"Right-wing media has finally faced the consequences of running disinformation campaigns," said Yunkang Yang, an assistant professor of communication at Texas A&M University. "Some of them are finally being held accountable for the lies they spread."
Yotam Ophir, an associate professor of communication at the University at Buffalo who studies misinformation and extremism, said he's encouraged by repercussions when "misinformation contaminates our information environment, leads to real harms to people, and erodes trust in institutions and the government."
"The recent lawsuits against those who made a career out of spreading lies and falsehoods will hopefully help limit the spread and amplification of some of the misinformation we can expect in 2024," he said.
But whether that translates to a change in coverage of the November election and post-Election Day results remains to be seen, researchers say.
Trump in recent interviews and at rallies has aired his grievances about the 2020 election, saying it's necessary to challenge election results when the process isn't fair. At a Michigan campaign rally last month, the former president falsely said, "Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020," adding that "we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election" in 2024.
But as for companies that would want to avoid further litigation, Yang said, "If Trump loses again, and denies the election again, if that might happen, I think they'll be more careful."
However, "right-wing media doesn't have to say the election was stolen," Yang added, "but they can let the readers say the quiet part out loud."
He said that's already happening on certain right-wing sites, writing in a 2023 report that they "rely on a small group of highly active commenters to instigate online discussion, draw attention to conspiratorial comments, reinforce conspiratorial beliefs, and drive the sharing of propaganda content on social media."
Amid their legal issues, some sites are hitting back, suggesting to their audiences they're being unfairly targeted because of their ideologies.
Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit, blamed "progressive liberal lawfare attacks" for leading the outlet to file for bankruptcy, and said doing so did not indicate "an admission of fault or culpability" in the lawsuits.
One of the suits involves two former Georgia election workers who were the subject of vote-rigging conspiracy theories that were debunked; the suit is headed toward trial. Another suit, filed in Colorado by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive against Gateway Pundit and other prominent defendants, remains ongoing.
A request for comment from Gateway Pundit about its financial situation prior to filing for bankruptcy was not immediately returned, although Hoft has vowed to continue to publish.
"Despite the radical left's efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today," Hoft said in a statement.
Such rhetoric is in line with how Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has gone after his political foes as he awaits sentencing on 34 felony counts in his historic hush money trial, said A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alabama who focuses on right-wing media.
Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was part of an effort by President Joe Biden's administration to interfere with his election prospects.
The coverage of Trump's trial and the unprecedented verdict notched Fox News a ratings coup over its competitors.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday forcefully pushed back before a House panel led by Trump's congressional allies, noting how some Republicans are echoing unfounded conspiracy theories.
To claim that a New York jury's verdict was "somehow controlled by the Justice Department" is "an attack on the judicial process itself," Garland said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had called Trump's trial a "sham" and proclaimed a "weaponization" of the justice system against Trump.
With Republican leadership continuing to prop up Trump ahead of the election, Bauer said, the former president doesn't necessarily need those media outlets that can be "loose with the facts" to boost his beliefs.
Bauer said social media users on platforms like X and internet livestreamers who cover Trump's events one prominent YouTube channel, Right Side Broadcasting Network, has more than 1.65 million subscribers represent another form of broadcasting that's developed further since the last presidential election. Trump also started his own social media platform, Truth Social, after he was banned by Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Truth Social reported an accumulated loss of tens of millions of dollars last fall.
In the meantime, conservative and right-wing news sites havereportedly struggled with traffic amid larger financial struggles across the entire legacy and digital news media industry, as once-reliable traffic sources like Facebook and Instagram limit "political content" to users' feeds.
On the flip side, the progressive advocacy website Media Matters for America laid off dozens of staffers last month, with its president blaming a "legal assault on multiple fronts," including a lawsuit filed last fall by X owner Elon Musk over an investigative report about advertising on the social media platform.
"The terrain on which this election is being run is fundamentally, materially different than four years ago," Bauer said.
Ophir, the University at Buffalo researcher, said that while the public's right to free speech and the media's ability to remain independent must be considered, social media companies can also remove "harmful content" and media outlets spreading false propaganda can be held responsible, at least through the courts.
But "without a systematic change," he added, the public "will continue to suffer from the havoc of misinformation in the years to come."
Goody!
Now do the left wing media to be just.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-when-russian-hackers-targeted-the-u-s-election-infrastructure/
The difference between many on the left and the right is that folks like me are not blind to disinformation coming from fringe sources. What you and other regressive-TDSers are blind to is the disinformation coming from so-called "mainstream," corporate left-wing "news." You still believe the Russia Hoax was real and Hunter's laptop was fake. The butthurt over the 2020 election is an eye-roller when LWNJ were parroting a stolen 2016 election for four years. You're too low-EQ to notice your gaslighting and hypocrisy.
Every accusation is a confession. It's amazing how TS ignores actually facts and just screams the same talking points.
I could ask for five examples of knowing posted by Fox News, but we know he runs from specifics.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-fact-checker-admits-trump-never-called-charlottesville-neo-nazis-very-fine-people-blow-biden
Name five stories Fox News intentionally shared as disinformation such as the Russia Hoax, Hunter's laptop, Juicy Smollett, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Juicy Smalls, Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse, Charlottesville, Don't Say Gay ...
You can't do it. So just keep believing the world is flat.
Dominion presented volumes of internal emails and text messages that showed Fox executives and personalities saying they knew the accusations were untrue, even as the falsehoods were aired on programs hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeannine Pirro.
You appear to be 1.. 2.. 3.. 4..
You appear to be 4 news stories short
“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.”
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
TexasScientist said:https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afeHarrison Bergeron said:I don't think you know what "news" means.TexasScientist said:You can find examples of all you want in the texts, emails and discovery Fox turned over to Dominion. You don't have to fact check that, it's their admission and production. Ultimately, it compelled them to settle for $800 million to avoid publicity and additional production.Harrison Bergeron said:TexasScientist said:Your mind is so cluttered with disinformation that you can't see straight. Of course there is misinformation on both sides. So far, most mainstream media has tried to maintain some journalistiThere is a steady diet of misinformation from the far right, mixed with some truth, because it sells to their audience (per Fox admissions). It's clear Russia, and other bad actors have attempted to influence our elections, and it's clear Russian hacked the DNC. I've never said Hunter's laptop was fake. I'm "butthurt" over the 2020 election because Rs were too stupid not to get rid of Trump. Anyone else would have beaten Biden, and anyone else would beat him this time.Harrison Bergeron said:What do you think about this disinformation:TexasScientist said:That's right, and you can take that first step by reviewing the documents produced in Dominion vs. Fox. Admission of disinformation is exposed and displayed in the texts and emails produced.Harrison Bergeron said:The first step is you have to understand what disinformation means (hint: it does not mean "disagrees with my tribal POV.")TexasScientist said:Happy to, as soon as I find a good article.drahthaar said:TexasScientist said:
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
Ahead of another contentious presidential election, media companies that promoted false claims four years ago are filing for bankruptcy, issuing apologies or settling lawsuits.
June 8, 2024, 6:00 AM CDT
By Erik Ortiz
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges or facing new ones.
In just a few months, a handful of high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom losses.
The Gateway Pundit, an influential far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy in April in the wake of defamation lawsuits that said the company suggested election workers committed fraud during the previous presidential election. That same month, voting machine company Smartmatic reached a confidential settlement in its defamation suit against One America News Network, which allowed false election fraud claims on air, while its pending defamation litigation based on similar vote-rigging allegations continues against Newsmax as well as Fox News, which is being sued for $2.7 billion. Both Newsmax and Fox News deny Smartmatic's allegations.
Fox News last year paid another company, Dominion Voting Systems, $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. The network did not admit to any specific claims.
In May, "2000 Mules," a book and film by right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza, was pulled by the publisher, Salem Media Group, and the company issued a public apology to a Georgia man who is suing the author and publisher on defamation claims after he was accused of ballot stuffing. That case is still ongoing.
Other conservative media outlets that had promoted right-wing misinformation in the 2020 election are facing financial troubles unrelated to those events. This week, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones agreed to sell off his assets to satisfy $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones earlier warned his company could shut down.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors allege a top executive of The Epoch Times laundered millions of dollars.
The Justice Department said the charges against Weidong "Bill" Guan, the company's chief financial officer, are unrelated to its newsgathering activities, and an Epoch Times spokesperson said it plans to "fully cooperate with any investigation dealing with the allegations." Still, the indictment brings scrutiny to one of the most popular pro-Trump outlets. Guan has pleaded not guilty, and a request for comment to a public defender appointed to his case was not immediately returned.
"Right-wing media has finally faced the consequences of running disinformation campaigns," said Yunkang Yang, an assistant professor of communication at Texas A&M University. "Some of them are finally being held accountable for the lies they spread."
Yotam Ophir, an associate professor of communication at the University at Buffalo who studies misinformation and extremism, said he's encouraged by repercussions when "misinformation contaminates our information environment, leads to real harms to people, and erodes trust in institutions and the government."
"The recent lawsuits against those who made a career out of spreading lies and falsehoods will hopefully help limit the spread and amplification of some of the misinformation we can expect in 2024," he said.
But whether that translates to a change in coverage of the November election and post-Election Day results remains to be seen, researchers say.
Trump in recent interviews and at rallies has aired his grievances about the 2020 election, saying it's necessary to challenge election results when the process isn't fair. At a Michigan campaign rally last month, the former president falsely said, "Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020," adding that "we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election" in 2024.
But as for companies that would want to avoid further litigation, Yang said, "If Trump loses again, and denies the election again, if that might happen, I think they'll be more careful."
However, "right-wing media doesn't have to say the election was stolen," Yang added, "but they can let the readers say the quiet part out loud."
He said that's already happening on certain right-wing sites, writing in a 2023 report that they "rely on a small group of highly active commenters to instigate online discussion, draw attention to conspiratorial comments, reinforce conspiratorial beliefs, and drive the sharing of propaganda content on social media."
Amid their legal issues, some sites are hitting back, suggesting to their audiences they're being unfairly targeted because of their ideologies.
Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit, blamed "progressive liberal lawfare attacks" for leading the outlet to file for bankruptcy, and said doing so did not indicate "an admission of fault or culpability" in the lawsuits.
One of the suits involves two former Georgia election workers who were the subject of vote-rigging conspiracy theories that were debunked; the suit is headed toward trial. Another suit, filed in Colorado by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive against Gateway Pundit and other prominent defendants, remains ongoing.
A request for comment from Gateway Pundit about its financial situation prior to filing for bankruptcy was not immediately returned, although Hoft has vowed to continue to publish.
"Despite the radical left's efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today," Hoft said in a statement.
Such rhetoric is in line with how Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has gone after his political foes as he awaits sentencing on 34 felony counts in his historic hush money trial, said A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alabama who focuses on right-wing media.
Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was part of an effort by President Joe Biden's administration to interfere with his election prospects.
The coverage of Trump's trial and the unprecedented verdict notched Fox News a ratings coup over its competitors.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday forcefully pushed back before a House panel led by Trump's congressional allies, noting how some Republicans are echoing unfounded conspiracy theories.
To claim that a New York jury's verdict was "somehow controlled by the Justice Department" is "an attack on the judicial process itself," Garland said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had called Trump's trial a "sham" and proclaimed a "weaponization" of the justice system against Trump.
With Republican leadership continuing to prop up Trump ahead of the election, Bauer said, the former president doesn't necessarily need those media outlets that can be "loose with the facts" to boost his beliefs.
Bauer said social media users on platforms like X and internet livestreamers who cover Trump's events one prominent YouTube channel, Right Side Broadcasting Network, has more than 1.65 million subscribers represent another form of broadcasting that's developed further since the last presidential election. Trump also started his own social media platform, Truth Social, after he was banned by Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Truth Social reported an accumulated loss of tens of millions of dollars last fall.
In the meantime, conservative and right-wing news sites havereportedly struggled with traffic amid larger financial struggles across the entire legacy and digital news media industry, as once-reliable traffic sources like Facebook and Instagram limit "political content" to users' feeds.
On the flip side, the progressive advocacy website Media Matters for America laid off dozens of staffers last month, with its president blaming a "legal assault on multiple fronts," including a lawsuit filed last fall by X owner Elon Musk over an investigative report about advertising on the social media platform.
"The terrain on which this election is being run is fundamentally, materially different than four years ago," Bauer said.
Ophir, the University at Buffalo researcher, said that while the public's right to free speech and the media's ability to remain independent must be considered, social media companies can also remove "harmful content" and media outlets spreading false propaganda can be held responsible, at least through the courts.
But "without a systematic change," he added, the public "will continue to suffer from the havoc of misinformation in the years to come."
Goody!
Now do the left wing media to be just.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-when-russian-hackers-targeted-the-u-s-election-infrastructure/
The difference between many on the left and the right is that folks like me are not blind to disinformation coming from fringe sources. What you and other regressive-TDSers are blind to is the disinformation coming from so-called "mainstream," corporate left-wing "news." You still believe the Russia Hoax was real and Hunter's laptop was fake. The butthurt over the 2020 election is an eye-roller when LWNJ were parroting a stolen 2016 election for four years. You're too low-EQ to notice your gaslighting and hypocrisy.
Every accusation is a confession. It's amazing how TS ignores actually facts and just screams the same talking points.
I could ask for five examples of knowing posted by Fox News, but we know he runs from specifics.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-fact-checker-admits-trump-never-called-charlottesville-neo-nazis-very-fine-people-blow-biden
Name five stories Fox News intentionally shared as disinformation such as the Russia Hoax, Hunter's laptop, Juicy Smollett, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Juicy Smalls, Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse, Charlottesville, Don't Say Gay ...
You can't do it. So just keep believing the world is flat.
Dominion presented volumes of internal emails and text messages that showed Fox executives and personalities saying they knew the accusations were untrue, even as the falsehoods were aired on programs hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeannine Pirro.
Name five stories Fox News was wrong about.
Harrison Bergeron said:TexasScientist said:https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afeHarrison Bergeron said:I don't think you know what "news" means.TexasScientist said:You can find examples of all you want in the texts, emails and discovery Fox turned over to Dominion. You don't have to fact check that, it's their admission and production. Ultimately, it compelled them to settle for $800 million to avoid publicity and additional production.Harrison Bergeron said:TexasScientist said:Your mind is so cluttered with disinformation that you can't see straight. Of course there is misinformation on both sides. So far, most mainstream media has tried to maintain some journalistiThere is a steady diet of misinformation from the far right, mixed with some truth, because it sells to their audience (per Fox admissions). It's clear Russia, and other bad actors have attempted to influence our elections, and it's clear Russian hacked the DNC. I've never said Hunter's laptop was fake. I'm "butthurt" over the 2020 election because Rs were too stupid not to get rid of Trump. Anyone else would have beaten Biden, and anyone else would beat him this time.Harrison Bergeron said:What do you think about this disinformation:TexasScientist said:That's right, and you can take that first step by reviewing the documents produced in Dominion vs. Fox. Admission of disinformation is exposed and displayed in the texts and emails produced.Harrison Bergeron said:The first step is you have to understand what disinformation means (hint: it does not mean "disagrees with my tribal POV.")TexasScientist said:Happy to, as soon as I find a good article.drahthaar said:TexasScientist said:
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
Ahead of another contentious presidential election, media companies that promoted false claims four years ago are filing for bankruptcy, issuing apologies or settling lawsuits.
June 8, 2024, 6:00 AM CDT
By Erik Ortiz
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges or facing new ones.
In just a few months, a handful of high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom losses.
The Gateway Pundit, an influential far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy in April in the wake of defamation lawsuits that said the company suggested election workers committed fraud during the previous presidential election. That same month, voting machine company Smartmatic reached a confidential settlement in its defamation suit against One America News Network, which allowed false election fraud claims on air, while its pending defamation litigation based on similar vote-rigging allegations continues against Newsmax as well as Fox News, which is being sued for $2.7 billion. Both Newsmax and Fox News deny Smartmatic's allegations.
Fox News last year paid another company, Dominion Voting Systems, $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. The network did not admit to any specific claims.
In May, "2000 Mules," a book and film by right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza, was pulled by the publisher, Salem Media Group, and the company issued a public apology to a Georgia man who is suing the author and publisher on defamation claims after he was accused of ballot stuffing. That case is still ongoing.
Other conservative media outlets that had promoted right-wing misinformation in the 2020 election are facing financial troubles unrelated to those events. This week, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones agreed to sell off his assets to satisfy $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones earlier warned his company could shut down.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors allege a top executive of The Epoch Times laundered millions of dollars.
The Justice Department said the charges against Weidong "Bill" Guan, the company's chief financial officer, are unrelated to its newsgathering activities, and an Epoch Times spokesperson said it plans to "fully cooperate with any investigation dealing with the allegations." Still, the indictment brings scrutiny to one of the most popular pro-Trump outlets. Guan has pleaded not guilty, and a request for comment to a public defender appointed to his case was not immediately returned.
"Right-wing media has finally faced the consequences of running disinformation campaigns," said Yunkang Yang, an assistant professor of communication at Texas A&M University. "Some of them are finally being held accountable for the lies they spread."
Yotam Ophir, an associate professor of communication at the University at Buffalo who studies misinformation and extremism, said he's encouraged by repercussions when "misinformation contaminates our information environment, leads to real harms to people, and erodes trust in institutions and the government."
"The recent lawsuits against those who made a career out of spreading lies and falsehoods will hopefully help limit the spread and amplification of some of the misinformation we can expect in 2024," he said.
But whether that translates to a change in coverage of the November election and post-Election Day results remains to be seen, researchers say.
Trump in recent interviews and at rallies has aired his grievances about the 2020 election, saying it's necessary to challenge election results when the process isn't fair. At a Michigan campaign rally last month, the former president falsely said, "Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020," adding that "we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election" in 2024.
But as for companies that would want to avoid further litigation, Yang said, "If Trump loses again, and denies the election again, if that might happen, I think they'll be more careful."
However, "right-wing media doesn't have to say the election was stolen," Yang added, "but they can let the readers say the quiet part out loud."
He said that's already happening on certain right-wing sites, writing in a 2023 report that they "rely on a small group of highly active commenters to instigate online discussion, draw attention to conspiratorial comments, reinforce conspiratorial beliefs, and drive the sharing of propaganda content on social media."
Amid their legal issues, some sites are hitting back, suggesting to their audiences they're being unfairly targeted because of their ideologies.
Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit, blamed "progressive liberal lawfare attacks" for leading the outlet to file for bankruptcy, and said doing so did not indicate "an admission of fault or culpability" in the lawsuits.
One of the suits involves two former Georgia election workers who were the subject of vote-rigging conspiracy theories that were debunked; the suit is headed toward trial. Another suit, filed in Colorado by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive against Gateway Pundit and other prominent defendants, remains ongoing.
A request for comment from Gateway Pundit about its financial situation prior to filing for bankruptcy was not immediately returned, although Hoft has vowed to continue to publish.
"Despite the radical left's efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today," Hoft said in a statement.
Such rhetoric is in line with how Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has gone after his political foes as he awaits sentencing on 34 felony counts in his historic hush money trial, said A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alabama who focuses on right-wing media.
Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was part of an effort by President Joe Biden's administration to interfere with his election prospects.
The coverage of Trump's trial and the unprecedented verdict notched Fox News a ratings coup over its competitors.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday forcefully pushed back before a House panel led by Trump's congressional allies, noting how some Republicans are echoing unfounded conspiracy theories.
To claim that a New York jury's verdict was "somehow controlled by the Justice Department" is "an attack on the judicial process itself," Garland said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had called Trump's trial a "sham" and proclaimed a "weaponization" of the justice system against Trump.
With Republican leadership continuing to prop up Trump ahead of the election, Bauer said, the former president doesn't necessarily need those media outlets that can be "loose with the facts" to boost his beliefs.
Bauer said social media users on platforms like X and internet livestreamers who cover Trump's events one prominent YouTube channel, Right Side Broadcasting Network, has more than 1.65 million subscribers represent another form of broadcasting that's developed further since the last presidential election. Trump also started his own social media platform, Truth Social, after he was banned by Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Truth Social reported an accumulated loss of tens of millions of dollars last fall.
In the meantime, conservative and right-wing news sites havereportedly struggled with traffic amid larger financial struggles across the entire legacy and digital news media industry, as once-reliable traffic sources like Facebook and Instagram limit "political content" to users' feeds.
On the flip side, the progressive advocacy website Media Matters for America laid off dozens of staffers last month, with its president blaming a "legal assault on multiple fronts," including a lawsuit filed last fall by X owner Elon Musk over an investigative report about advertising on the social media platform.
"The terrain on which this election is being run is fundamentally, materially different than four years ago," Bauer said.
Ophir, the University at Buffalo researcher, said that while the public's right to free speech and the media's ability to remain independent must be considered, social media companies can also remove "harmful content" and media outlets spreading false propaganda can be held responsible, at least through the courts.
But "without a systematic change," he added, the public "will continue to suffer from the havoc of misinformation in the years to come."
Goody!
Now do the left wing media to be just.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-when-russian-hackers-targeted-the-u-s-election-infrastructure/
The difference between many on the left and the right is that folks like me are not blind to disinformation coming from fringe sources. What you and other regressive-TDSers are blind to is the disinformation coming from so-called "mainstream," corporate left-wing "news." You still believe the Russia Hoax was real and Hunter's laptop was fake. The butthurt over the 2020 election is an eye-roller when LWNJ were parroting a stolen 2016 election for four years. You're too low-EQ to notice your gaslighting and hypocrisy.
Every accusation is a confession. It's amazing how TS ignores actually facts and just screams the same talking points.
I could ask for five examples of knowing posted by Fox News, but we know he runs from specifics.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-fact-checker-admits-trump-never-called-charlottesville-neo-nazis-very-fine-people-blow-biden
Name five stories Fox News intentionally shared as disinformation such as the Russia Hoax, Hunter's laptop, Juicy Smollett, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Juicy Smalls, Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse, Charlottesville, Don't Say Gay ...
You can't do it. So just keep believing the world is flat.
Dominion presented volumes of internal emails and text messages that showed Fox executives and personalities saying they knew the accusations were untrue, even as the falsehoods were aired on programs hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeannine Pirro.
Name five stories Fox News was wrong about.
Be careful: he'll cite Wikipedia as proof.
Jack and DP said:
Left wing media told us Biden was sharp
They also told us Russia Russia Russia
They also told us vax or die
Elons right. Only fools listen to the media. Sadly, there are lots of fools
Fre3dombear said:Jack and DP said:
Left wing media told us Biden was sharp
They also told us Russia Russia Russia
They also told us vax or die
Elons right. Only fools listen to the media. Sadly, there are lots of fools
Juicy Smollett
kyle Rittenhouse
George Floyd
Hands Ip Don't Shoot
Jacob Blake
Hunter Laptop
Don't Say Gay
Muslim Ban
Global Ice Age
Russian Pee Hookers
"Losers" at Normandy
Matthew Sheppard
Fre3dombear said:Jack and DP said:
Left wing media told us Biden was sharp
They also told us Russia Russia Russia
They also told us vax or die
Elons right. Only fools listen to the media. Sadly, there are lots of fools
Where do you get your info?
I have found theres only two ways to go:
Living fast or dying slow.
I dont want to live forever.
But I will live while I'm here.
Living fast or dying slow.
I dont want to live forever.
But I will live while I'm here.
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