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STUDY: NewsGuard Ratings System STILL Has Heavy Left-Wing Bias

January 6th, 2023 1:12 PM

Discredited leftist website ratings firm NewsGuard has had a year to prove that its ratings system isn’t prejudiced against conservative media, but it’s failing miserably. A new analysis shows that liberal media outlets were rated 25 points higher on average than right-leaning media outlets illustrates how NewsGuard’s self-projection as a credibility gatekeeper is a complete joke.

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Propaganda Avalanche: Soros Spreads $131M to Influence Global Media

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January 5th, 2023 1:24 PM

Leftist billionaire George Soros has been using his enormous fortune to buy influence around the world through news and activist media organizations for decades.

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STUDY: Cable News POUNCES on Suspensions, Yawned at Twitter Files

December 16th, 2022 1:30 PM

CNN and MSNBC are pouncing on Twitter’s suspension of several liberal journalists, but those same cable news giants had about 15 times less interest in evidence of the same platform’s suspensions, blacklists and shadow banning aimed at conservatives when the so-called Twitter Files were released two weeks ago.

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Propaganda Czar: Soros Bankrolls 253 Groups to Influence Global Media

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December 6th, 2022 1:00 PM

Leftist billionaire George Soros used his charities to build ties with hundreds of media organizations around the world involved in news and activist media. The journalism and activist media groups Soros supports mold public opinion on practically every continent and in many languages. They also insulate him from inquiry because reporters see him as an ally, not a target for investigation.

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Georgia Run-Off: Walker 88% Negative News, 71% POSITIVE for Warnock

December 1st, 2022 8:30 AM

With the decisive Georgia run-off just days away, a new study by the Media Research Center finds the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts have blasted GOP candidate Herschel Walker with 88 percent negative coverage, while Democratic incumbent Raphael Walker has enjoyed 71 percent positive press.

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Secondhand Censorship: Big Tech Kept Info from People 251M Times Q1-Q3

November 18th, 2022 9:32 AM

As the 2022 midterm elections approached, social media platforms aggressively championed political ideas benefiting left-wing candidates while silencing dissenting opinions that don’t fit the liberal worldview in the third quarter.

STUDY: 47 Liberals, 0 Conservatives on Late Night During Fall Campaign

November 14th, 2022 1:30 PM

The late-night comedy scene has been reliably liberal for a long time, but the 2022 midterm election was a regular messaging machine for the Democrats, a NewsBusters study has revealed.

MRC analysts found that during the fall campaign, from Labor Day through the Monday night before Election Day, liberal guests outnumbered conservative guests 46 to 0.

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Study: The Dangerous Partisanship of TV’s Midterm Coverage

November 1st, 2022 7:55 AM

A new MRC study of midterm election coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts finds Republicans are being walloped with 87% negative coverage while the networks' agenda for these stories — GOP candidate controversies, abortion rights and the danger of “election deniers” — perfectly match the topmost items in Democrats’ campaign playbook.

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Secondhand Censorship: The Real Impact of Big Tech’s Thought-Policing

July 20th, 2022 9:04 AM

Big Tech in recent years has consistently discriminated against conservatives and independent thinkers by censoring them online. This has affected everyone from the former president of the United States to everyday men and women.

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Priorities: Networks Spend Over 3x More on J6 Than Kavanaugh Attack

June 9th, 2022 12:47 PM

On Thursday ahead of the first primetime hearing of the House Select Committee hearing on January 6 (which could be described as Nancy Pelosi's third run at impeaching Donald Trump), the morning broadcast network news programs showed total devotion to the cause of their fellow leftists by spending over three times more airtime on January 6 than the attempted assassination by a disturbed…

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Nets Smeared Border Agents for Whipping Migrants, Hide Their Clearing

April 25th, 2022 8:25 PM

All three broadcast networks in the fall of 2021 smeared border patrol agents as monsters who “whipped” illegal immigrants in “horrific,” “alarming” video. The footage showed a small number of agents on horseback trying to stop migrants from crossing the Rio Grande. 

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Big Tech ABOLISHES Biden Criticism Over 600 Times Since Spring 2020

April 21st, 2022 6:43 AM

Big Tech’s campaign to protect President Joe Biden and his agenda has continued unabated. The Media Research Center found more than 640 examples of bans, deleted content and other speech restrictions placed on those who criticized Biden on social media over the past two years. This included 140 cases of Big Tech censoring people over the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden story in…

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17,000 Reasons WashPost Hopes Musk ‘Doesn’t Win His Bid for Twitter’

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April 20th, 2022 11:16 AM

The leftist newspaper owned by the second richest man in the world is obsessed with smearing his main competitor’s $43 billion Twitter takeover bid. It was willing to spend over 17,000 words to do it.

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STUDY: How Big Tech Tried to Kill the Hunter Biden Story

April 20th, 2022 7:38 AM

Twitter and Facebook worked in lockstep to restrict the flow of the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 presidential election. These platforms stifled the spread of that story at the same time that Big Media did, as MRC research found.