Hunter Biden Threatens to Sue Steve Bannon and Exiled Mogul Guo Wengui
Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui in 2018.Don Emmert/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A lawyer for Hunter Biden has threatened to sue Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese mogul closely linked to Steve Bannon, over Guo’s role in disseminating material reputedly copied from Biden’s laptop. In…
How the Case of Arrested FBI Agent Charles McGonigal Is Tied to a Russia-Linked Influence Effort
Joe Minchillo/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was shocking news: Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief for the FBI, was arrested for his alleged role in two separate schemes. In one, he purportedly accepted $225,000 from an Albanian American businessman, while he was…
The Christian Groups Fighting Against the Indian Child Welfare Act
Mother Jones; Getty; Library of Congress Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: This short piece accompanied “Forever Home” in the March+April 2023 print edition of Mother Jones. This spring, the US Supreme Court will hear a case that could decide the future of…
Republicans Swing and Miss on Hunter Biden and Twitter
Mother Jones; Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.House Republicans spent much of their first big oversight committee hearing Wednesday attacking Twitter for denying American voters the chance to look at Hunter Biden’s penis. The lawmakers’ pro-dick-pic position was probably inadvertent. But that is…
Bolsonaro is Living the American Dream: Retired in Florida and Posting on TikTok
Jair Bolsonaro greets people during the Turning Point USA event. Joe Raedle/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Between 2019 and 2022, Jair Bolsonaro governed a country with a population of almost 215 million people, but since losing Brazil’s presidential election to the Worker’s Party’s…
Why Twitter Was Right to Suppress (Some of) the Material From Hunter’s Laptop
Hunter Biden boards Air Force One with the president on Feb. 4, 2023.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Shortly before Election Day in 2020, Steve Bannon was bragging about his success with the “laptop from hell.” He and his allies had been spreading…