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Media Matters for America is the nation's premier progressive media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News' "Brain Room"
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Dec 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
We've obtained the 1023 filing of Parents Defending Education, the Koch-affiliated anti-Critical Race Theory dark money group. Here are some details 1/ "Edward Blum" is listed as director. This appears to be the same Edward Blum who is a right-wing zealot who has tried to overturn civil rights law for decades 2/
Jul 16, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Fox News has relentlessly undermined the effort to get Americans vaccinated. Over two weeks, 57% of segments about coronavirus vaccines on the network included claims that undermined vaccination efforts.

Read the new study: mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-h… Image Forty-five percent of Fox segments in this time period included claims suggesting that the vaccination drive is coercive or that it represents government overreach.
Mar 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
These are Tucker Carlson’s leading advertisers mediamatters.org/these-are-tuck… As @GoAngelo noted last night, Carlson has lost almost all of his remaining advertisers.
Jan 11, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Fox News: Don’t remove Trump from office — you’ll just make his supporters angry again mediamatters.org/january-6-insu… Andy McCarthy 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 calling for Obama's impeachment. Now McCarthy says that Trump should not be impeached because “our deeply divided country is a tinderbox right now” mediamatters.org/january-6-insu…
Dec 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Over a period of a week, national broadcast news shows only mentioned relief bill negotiations 12 times total, with just one mention on a flagship evening news show.

But, it gets worse ... 1/

mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co… When network broadcast news has covered relief negotiations, they don't mention that Senate Republicans had months to pass the multi trillion-dollar HEROES Act, which would provide more comprehensive relief than the current bill ... 2/

mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
Oct 15, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Sinclair stations are set to air a monologue falsely claiming masks and lockdown precautions do not help slow the spread of COVID-19

mediamatters.org/sinclair-broad… Yesterday, we reported Sinclair stations were set to air a monologue containing egregious COVID misinformation.

Sinclair has now responded to @nytimes, saying *some* of this misinformation will be edited out of the program.

nytimes.com/2020/10/16/bus…

May 28, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Mark Zuckerberg (and by extension, Facebook) is extremely comfortable being the “arbiter of truth,” so long as “truth” matches what Trump and pro-Trump groups say mediamatters.org/facebook/mark-… Now that Trump is being criticized, Zuckerberg claims that Facebook is not the arbiter of truth. Here's the reality.
Mar 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Every contributor expected to appear on Fox's virtual town hall has participated in the dangerous spread of medical misinformation about coronavirus. Follow along here ⬇️ Brought to you by Fox advertisers including @ChevyTrucks, @SoFi, and @JohnDeere:
Mar 11, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
We've released our annual report on how broadcast TV networks coverage climate change. mm4a.org/4Xa

Thread to follow with some of the key findings. Broadcast news coverage of climate change dropped 45% in 2018
Nov 30, 2018 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Bernie Sanders is right to criticize TV networks for their coverage of climate change. Here are some details 1/ mediamatters.org/blog/2018/11/3… In their coverage of the recent National Climate Assessment report, CNN, NBC, and of course Fox News all featured climate deniers. CNN in particular kept bringing them back on. mediamatters.org/blog/2018/11/2…
Oct 15, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Sean Hannity says that he never heard of the Proud Boys.

Hannity has hosted Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes 24 times on his show, and in one instance, even agreed with McInnes' call to violence. mm4a.org/4Sv Sean Hanniity on the Proud Boys today: "A viral video surfaced showing, in New York City, members of the group, which I've also never heard of, Proud Boys, some type of male chauvinist organization beating two or three protesters"

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