Congress Might Want a TikTok Ban, But Their Questions Suggest Going Further
Mother Jones; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.What if the United States government banned every single social media app? Not just TikTok. All of them. Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter–sayonara. It may sound ludicrous, but if you apply the logic behind the kinds of questions…
We’ve Got What It Takes to End Poverty in America
Unemployed men line up for free food in Chicago, circa 1931.Photo12/Universal Images Group/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by America,…
Is Florida’s Blogger Registration Bill Inspired by Viktor Orbán?
Paul Hennessy/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this week, Florida State Sen. Jason Brodeur introduced a bill that would require bloggers to register with the state government when they are paid to write about the governor and other political figures. After registering, bloggers…
Columbia Journalism Review’s Big Fail: It Published 24,000 Words on Russiagate and Missed the Point
Mother Jones illustration; AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Misdirection, an essential tool for magicians, is not usually a component of media criticism. But in a lengthy critique of the coverage of the Trump-Russia scandal published this week by the Columbia Journalism Review, veteran investigative reporter…
Remembering Victor Navasky, the Unflappable Ringmaster of The Nation
Brian ZAK/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was a usual day in the offices of the Nation, a collection of cluttered warrens overflowing with stuffed filing cabinets, piles of books, and file folders containing who-knows-what in an undistinguished building below 14th Street on…
Bowen Yang Gave the George Santos Impression I Didn’t Know I Needed
Can’t you see the resemblance?Tom Williams/CQ/Roll Call/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.George Santos’ ceaseless lies might further diminish the often dubious reputation of Republicans in Congress, but they are also occasionally very funny. On this week’s Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang offered a…