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NYT Enthuses Over 'Occupy Democrats': Immigrant Twins vs Trump Machine
May 19th, 2020 4:09 PM
New York Times reporter Nick Corasaniti celebrated the creators of the Facebook page Occupy Democrats in a big profile on Tuesday, “Immigrant Twin Brothers Battle Trump Machine on Facebook.” It was a friendly chat: "Meet Rafael and Omar Rivero, the co-founders of Occupy Democrats, the social media mavens of the left who are quickly emerging as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing online…
CNN's Tapper Insists He Wasn’t Calling Trump ‘Insane’ With Retweet
April 7th, 2020 12:06 PM
Jake Tapper, host of CNN’s The Lead and State of the Union, had to respond to serious scrutiny about his journalistic credibility and judgment Tuesday morning after this author and others called him out for retweeting an unsubstantiated allegation that President Trump was “100% insane.” In his weak defense, Tapper played the dishonest “RTs do not nec. = agreement” card. The retweet had since been…
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U.S. Press Disgusted Trump Grilled Hong Kong Reporter on China Ties
April 7th, 2020 12:11 AM
At Monday’s coronavirus press conference, President Trump sparred with a female reporter from the Hong Kong-based news outlet, Phoenix TV. Following her question that portrayed China as heroes coming to the aid of the United States, the President pressed her on who she worked for and whether they were in league with the communist regime. This drew outcry from American reporters such as PBS White…
MRC VP Dan Gainor Calls Out WaPo Story Accusing Facebook
February 24th, 2020 12:18 PM
Dan Gainor, Media Research Center (MRC) Vice President of TechWatch, issued the following statement Monday in response to a recent article from The Washington Post that claimed Facebook has “titled rightward” to avoid “Republican wrath.”
Party Time! WashPost Reporters Wish Everyone a ‘Merry Impeachmas’
December 19th, 2019 12:57 AM
In a late Wednesday night, post-impeachment tweet devoid of all self-awareness, Washington Post congressional reporter Rachael Bade flaunted how she and four other journalists from the paper were celebrating President Trump’s impeachment.
DNC Starts ‘Intelligence Unit’ To Combat Drudge, CNSNews.com
December 17th, 2019 3:54 PM
The 2020 election is going to be fought online and the left has decided to create its own fact-check unit. The Democratic National Committee started a “counter-disinformation unit” to “serve[] as a knowledge base and intelligence unit” for the party.
Twitter Suspends Account After Tweets About Hunter Biden’s Activities
November 21st, 2019 11:48 AM
A Twitter account that had been previously retweeted by President Trump was censored by the platform. Breaking News Live News had tweeted a story about Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, on Nov. 20.
Silicon Valley Tech Firms Donate $254,717 to Elizabeth Warren
October 23rd, 2019 7:57 AM
Even though Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to break up Big Tech and regulate it, those who profit from the tech industry support her anyway. Warren had her most successful fundraising quarter yet, raising $125,305 from employees at Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and their subsidiaries.
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Nets Ignore Zuckerberg Helping Buttigieg With Campaign Hires
October 22nd, 2019 12:14 AM
While ABC, CBS, and NBC were continuing to push for President Trump’s impeachment during their Monday newscasts, they didn’t care to mention that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg aided the presidential campaign of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg by recommending some people to hire. A simple thing that the liberal media would likely treat as an administration rocking scandal if it involved…
China’s TikTok Video App Censors Posts about Trump, Christianity, LGBT
October 3rd, 2019 4:51 PM
One of the news social media apps is copying the strategies of big name sites — censorship. TikTok, a wildly popular app that is managed by a sinister moderation system, is censoring posts about President Donald Trump, Christianity and the LGBT community, according to leaks sent to The Guardian.
Trump Jr. Makes Case to Break Up Big Tech
October 1st, 2019 12:25 PM
“The free press that the founders envisioned looked a lot more like” Reddit. It didn’t look like New York Times writers who misrepresent basic tenets of free speech and demand censorship to protect their friends from “online harassment.” So said Donald Trump Jr. en route to arguing “the greatest threat to free speech and our democracy today is not the government, but the technology giants that…
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Bozell Torches ‘Two-Year-Olds’ at Twitter for Locking McConnell’s Page
August 12th, 2019 12:29 PM
Appearing on the Monday edition of the Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co., Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell tore into Twitter for being “like two-year-olds” with their attempt to lock Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign account for sharing video of angry, far-left protesters last week outside his home threatening to inflict fatal harm on the Kentucky…
‘Victory!’ Twitter Surrenders And Restores Team Mitch
August 9th, 2019 1:48 PM
Twitter’s initial decision to suspend the official campaign account of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) caused a massive boycott of the site’s advertising platform from the GOP. After the senator told a radio station that the GOP was “in a major war with [Twitter],” the company backed down and restored Team Mitch’s account.
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Wallace Apologizes for Her False, UGLY Comments About Trump, Hispanics
August 6th, 2019 10:10 PM
On Tuesday night, failed McCain/Palin campaign official, former Republican, and MSNBC’s Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace apologized for claiming during Monday’s show that President Donald Trump has been “talking about exterminating Latinos.” Wallace’s comments were first flagged by our very own contributing writer Mark Finkelstein.
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