On Ukraine, It’s Hard to Tell Fox News and 4Chan Apart
Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images, edited by Mother Jones Last week, as President Donald Trump was battered by headlines detailing a whistleblower allegation that he sought Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election, right-wing media outlets rallied to support him by pumping out stories downplaying the revelations. “Democrats Wrote to Ukraine in May 2018, Demanding It Investigate…
The Biden Campaign Is Demanding That TV Execs Stop Booking Guiliani
September 25, 2019, Manhattan Beach, California, USA: Presidential candidate Joe Biden leaves a private fundraiser at a home in Manhattan Beach on Wednesday, Sep. 25, 2019. (Credit Image: © Wire)Scott Varley/Orange County Register via ZUMA Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is reportedly asking television news executives to not book Rudy Guiliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer,…
Anti-Semites are Using a Popular Chat App to Compile a List of Jewish People
Yui Mok/PA Wire/AP Anti-Semetic trolls are creating an online list of Jewish people who are critical of white nationalism. Since its creation almost a month ago, it has become the fastest-growing alt-right group on the popular Telegram chat service. The list is mostly made of archived tweets from individuals criticizing white supremacy, misogyny, and other…
Inside the Pro-Andrew Yang Influence Machine
Win McNamee/Getty Images After the first set of Democratic presidential debates in June, Andrew Yang dominated several online surveys asking who won the contest. He came in first in one run by the conservative news aggregator Drudge Report, another run by the Washington Examiner, and second in one on NJ.com. The results seemed like a…
A Lawyer for 8chan Says the Site Could Be Back Online as Soon as Next Week
8chan’s logo A lawyer representing Jim Watkins, the owner of the image posting forum website 8chan, tells Mother Jones that the site could be back online as soon as next week. 8chan went dark in the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso last month that left 22 dead and injured 24 more—its internet…
Trump Holds Up a Doctored Chart to Try to Show Hurricane Dorian Hitting Alabama
Evan Vucci/AP Who needs memory holes when you can alter the truth with a stroke of black Sharpie? A White House video released Wednesday shows President Donald Trump holding up a chart of the trajectory of Hurricane Dorian. But there’s one problem: Added onto the National Hurricane Center’s “cone of uncertainty” forecast, outlined in white on the map,…