The Washington Examiner, Breitbart News, The Gateway Pundit and The Washington Times (i.e., The Moonie Times) and other conservative media (ahem, Fox News) amplify false claims of rampant voter fraud in what a new Harvard study calls a “propaganda feedback loop.” I have been warning you about Epistemic closure and the ‘conservative misinformation feedback loop’ media bubble … Read more
During the final presidential debate last week, Donald Trump in one of his rants introduced a conspiracy theory: But now, with what came out today, it’s even worse. All of the emails, the emails, the horrible emails of the kind of money that you were raking in, you and your family. And Joe, you were … Read more
Cheeto Benito went the full fascist banana Republican tinpot dictator on Tuesday. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, “we have a republic, if we can keep it.” Steve Benen reports, Echoes of Nixon reverberate as Trump presses Barr to target Biden: When it comes to Donald Trump’s presidency, the “this is not normal” observation has long since … Read more
Above: New York Daily News cover mocking Rudy Giuliani and Rupert Murdoch’s yellow rag, the New York Post. Donald Trump says he is going to participate in Thursday’s presidential debate. By that he means he will be there in a last ditch attempt to smear Joe Biden with the Russian disinformation campaign for which he was … Read more
Just to be clear: The FBI has identified the QAnon cult movement as a domestic terrorist threat, according to an FBI intelligence bulletin (Scribd) from the bureau’s Phoenix field office, dated May 30, 2019. Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat: The document specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in … Read more