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Photo by John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The Republican Party is increasingly dominated by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory — the b…
Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria
Oct 22 19
YouTube, Google's video subsidiary, is providing massive distribution to a 22-minute video packed with disinformation about Joe Biden and his son, Hunt…
Judd Legum
Oct 21 10
On June 28, 2018, Trump traveled to Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and announced that Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics company, would be building a 20-mi…
Judd Legum
Oct 20 13
The CEO of SmileDirectClub – a company that markets itself heavily on social media as diverse and inclusive – has donated hundreds of thousands of doll…
Tesnim Zekeria
Oct 19
On Friday at a Trump campaign rally, Senator David Perdue (R-GA) purposely butchered the name of Senator Kamala Harris, the first woman of color on a m…
Judd Legum
Oct 19 16
This week, Donald Trump has been pushing an unhinged conspiracy alleging, without a shred of evidence, that Joe Biden ordered the murder of two dozen N…
Judd Legum
Oct 15 7
Platforms created by major tech companies — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. — are routinely used to incite violence, spread misinformation, and coordi…
Judd Legum
Oct 14 11
As the election heads into its final stretch, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest operator of television stations in the United States, is amplifying…
Judd Legum
Oct 13 10
Since the end of the primary, Democratic nominee Joe Biden has mostly been able to avoid controversy. This has kept the focus on Trump — his disastrous…
Judd Legum
Oct 12 14
A draft report by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice includes disturbing new information about the Trump administration's child separat…
Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria
Oct 8 13
Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic has been erratic. But he has been remarkably consistent about one thing: hydroxychloroquine. For the durat…
Judd Legum
Oct 7 14
Breitbart, the far-right website, published a story over the weekend claiming Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) contracted COVID-19 at a White House event eve…
Judd Legum
Oct 6 6
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