Former Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace Describes How Bad It Was to Work at Fox News
Pool/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace explained his decision to leave the conservative network last December after 18 years. “Before, I found it was an environment in which…
An Expert Weighs in on Ukraine Bioweapons Lab Conspiracy
Russia’s Vladimir Putin.Kremlin Pool/Russian Look via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The New York Times ran a piece Wednesday about US right-wingers parroting Kremlin talking points and swapping pro-Russian conspiracy theories with Moscow—most notably the unproven claim that the US government…
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…
Is It Amnesia or Hypocrisy That Fuels the GOP’s Crazy Response to Putin?
Donald Trump meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak at the White House on May 10, 2017.Russian Foreign Ministry Photo/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In the midst of an international crisis created by…
The January 6 Committee Just Revealed Alarming Text Messages From Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity on August 25, 2020Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, Sean Hannity texted that he was “very worried about the next 48 hours,” the House committee investigating the insurrection…
How One Mom Launched a Porn Panic That Helped the GOP Take Virginia
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When Stacy Langton showed up at a September meeting of the Fairfax County, Virginia, school board to complain about two books in her children’s high school library, she came prepared. The Catholic mother of six had never…