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What Does the 2018 Vote Say About 2020?

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For some reason I was noodling about the 2020 election today and suddenly wondered what the 2018 congressional results would look like if you converted them to presidential votes. That is, if you look at which party got the highest popular vote in each state,…

Tomorrow’s (Fox) News Today!

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every once in a while you hear some new crackpot meme—Agenda 21, Pizzagate, “stand down,” etc.—and you wonder what it’s about and where it came from. Usually, though, it’s too much work to figure out the whole bizarro history behind it, so you just shrug…

After Propaganda, Conservative News Was the Most Popular Content Pushed by Russian Trolls

Arriens/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian internet trolls helped expand the reach of conservative media outlets as part of a Kremlin campaign to influence US politics and sow social discord, according to a new report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Conservative content resonated heavily with the trolls’ Facebook…

Russians Have Been Supporting Republicans Since 2013

Metzel Mikhail/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A detailed network analysis based on datasets provided by Facebook, Twitter, and Google outlines the scope of Russian interference in American elections: “What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party — and specifically…