How Wellness Influencers Became Cheerleaders for Putin’s War
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Until a few weeks ago, the Instagram influencer Kimberly Lynn had rarely dabbled in international affairs. With her long fuchsia and magenta dyed hair pulled up into a bun, she regularly updated her 20,000 followers about her…
How Trump and His Crew Boost Putin’s Disinformation
President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin together at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in June 2019. Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our Land. But we wanted to make…
Bill O’Reilly Defends Tucker Carlson—and Makes One Big, Embarrassing Mistake
Nathan Congleton/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Earlier this week, Bill O’Reilly, the disgraced former Fox loudmouth, took to the internet, where he is still permitted to pontificate, to defend current Fox loudmouth Tucker Carlson. This came after Mother Jones revealed…
Has Ukraine “Won the Information War”? Not So Fast.
Mother Jones illulstration; Alexey Nikolsky/AFP/Getty; Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Many people in the global north—at least many voices in the media—are rather optimistic about Ukraine’s ability to dominate the “information war” unleashed by Russia’s invasion. Writers…
Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson
Mother Jones; Tucker Carlson Tonight/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a…
The Misinformation Empire Steve Bannon Built With a Fugitive Chinese Tycoon Is in Trouble
Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui at a November 20, 2018 news conference.Don Emmert /AFP via Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.GTV, a Chinese language video streaming site launched in 2020 by Steve Bannon and fugitive Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui, shut down…