Leaked Messages Show Gettr in Crisis Mode Over Joe Rogan Criticism
Getty Images/Michael S. Schwartz, AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Getty Images/Don Emmert Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last week, Gettr, the social media site that sells itself as a MAGA alternative to Twitter, entered damage control mode. The hugely popular podcaster Joe Rogan, who…
Olympic Sponsors Have “Entirely Ghosted” Activists Ahead of the Beijing Games
Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Once the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing more than six years ago, Mandie McKeown and her colleagues at the nonprofit International Tibet Network got right to work. McKeown had…
“History Is Watching Us”: Democratic Senators Go All In for Voting Rights
Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.After two days of debate on the Senate floor, the Democrats’ Hail Mary push for voting rights came up short, as Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin joined with the GOP to block a rules change…
Atlanta Prosecutor Requests Special Grand Jury in Trump Election Probe
Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA investigating Trump’s Georgia election meddlingAlyssa Pointer/TNS/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In early January 2021, then-President Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and demanded that he “find 11,780 votes” to sway the state’s…
If You’re Wondering Who’s Paying for All That Ivermectin—You Are
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Doctors have known for more than a year now that the antiparasitic drug ivermectin isn’t effective against Covid. The FDA has explicitly warned against prescribing it to Covid patients, but many physicians still do—and public and private insurance companies…
The January 6 Committee Just Asked to Speak With Ivanka Trump
Stefani Reynolds/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In a letter sent Thursday, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol requested the voluntary cooperation of Ivanka Trump, a notable escalation in the panel’s attempts to interview Donald…