TruthSocial Won’t Have Exclusive Rights to Donald Trump’s Political Posts
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The business model of former President Donald Trump’s new digital media empire is largely dependent on one man: Donald Trump. For all the talk about freedom of speech and fighting the tech monopoly of…
QAnon’s Chief Enabler Ran a Website Where He Brushed Off Concerns About Pedophilic Content
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The QAnon conspiracy has always stood on a morbidly ironic contradiction: “Q,” the pseudonymous poster who claimed to be a government insider batlling elite liberal pedophiles, infamously became a phenomenon by posting on 8chan, a website where users…
Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Fed Trump Interview Questions in Advance
Maria Bartiromo, moderating a Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate in 2016.Andrew Burton/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Fox News star Sean Hannity has a go-to response for when he’s accused of flagrant violations of journalistic ethics: He never claimed to…
Exclusive: Leaked Messages Reveal the Origins of the Most Vile Hunter Biden Smear
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Late in the 2020 presidential campaign, trailing in the polls, Donald Trump and his allies worked to make a campaign issue out of a trove of files on a laptop that his opponent’s son, Hunter Biden,…
Trump’s Social Media Empire Is Flailing
Former former President Donald Trump enters the stage during a rally for Georgia GOP candidates at Banks County Dragway in Commerce on Saturday, March 26, 2022. Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.When Donald Trump announced he planned…
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…