CPAC Hastily Deletes a Pro-Russia Tweet
The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), Matt Schlapp, delivers the welcome speech at the CPAC conference in Budapest, Hungary, this May.Szilard Koszticsak/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s mostly surprising that it took this long. CPAC has deleted a tweet that…
Brazilians Go the Polls and Democracy Hangs in the Balance
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva during the closing rally of his presidential campaign in São Paulo. Allison Sales/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During a vacation earlier this year, a stranger, who later said he was a real estate agent, approached me…
Two Texas Men Are Accused of Killing a Migrant. Their Governor Blames Joe Biden.
Lev Radin/Pacific Press via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this week, two West Texas men—one of whom was a former warden of a migrant detention center—were arrested and charged with manslaughter in the death of a Mexican national who had recently crossed…
Inside Anti-Abortion Groups’ Campaign to Sell Women on Unreliable Birth Control “Alternatives”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.About five years ago, Kat decided to stop taking her birth control pills. She wanted to give her menstrual cycle a chance to return to normal before trying to get pregnant in the future—and anyway, she was beginning to…
J.D. Vance’s Flip-Flop on the Nazi March in Charlottesville
Joe Maiorana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, which was organized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis to celebrate white nationalism and that led to the tragic killing of counter-protester Heather Heyer, became an…
Trump Continues to Escalate His Dangerous Incitement
Trump at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio on September 17, 2022.Jeff Swensen/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For years, conventional wisdom has held that Donald Trump could wriggle his way out of any personal jeopardy, no matter how evident his alleged malfeasance. But now…