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…
Pro-Putin Disinformation on Ukraine Is Thriving in Online Anti-Vax Groups
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve seen how conspiracy theories can overlap and collide. I’ve documented how anti-vaccine groups embraced QAnon disinformation about liberal elites conspiring to unseat Trump, and how white nationalists find willing audiences for…
In 1871, Congress Crafted a Law to Break the Klan. Today, It’s Targeting Trump.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In the final week of the 2020 elections, a Biden campaign bus departed San Antonio on the last afternoon of a three-day Texas tour. The bus had already encountered intimidation and harassment from Trump supporters on the state’s…
Exclusive: White Nationalists and Anti-Vax Moms Plot Ottawa Copycat Convoys on Telegram
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Before dawn on January 30, Regina Anne Bateson, a resident of Ottawa, Canada, loaded her skis into her car and headed out to one of her favorite cross-country trails. She was looking forward to some solitude—she rarely…
Trump Declares Support for January 6 Insurrectionists
Trump speaks at a rally, Jan. 29, 2022, in Conroe, Texas.Jason Fochtman/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.During a speech at a rally in Texas on Saturday, Donald Trump further escalated his efforts to whitewash the horrific assault on the US Capitol…
Ted Cruz Is Fundraising Off a Debunked 1/6 Conspiracy Theory
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In the spring of 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) exploded when Donald Trump cited a baseless conspiracy theory that claimed Cruz’s Cuban-born father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. At a…