A Deepfake Is Already Spreading Confusion and Disinformation About the Moscow Terror Attack
A massive blaze is seen over Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on Friday after several gunmen burst into the music venue and fired automatic weapons at the crowd, killing at least 133 people.Sergei Vedyashkin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After gunmen on the outskirts of…
A Whistleblower, a Sudden Death, and the Most Dangerous Prison in California
Inmates walk through the exercise yard at California State Prison Sacramento, near Folsom. This season of ‘On Our Watch’, featured on this week’s episode of Reveal, follows in the footsteps of a whistleblower officer, whose tragic death helps uncover the secrets hidden inside the most dangerous prison in California. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the…
Are You Better Off Than Four Years Ago? OMG You Have Got to Be Kidding Me.
Here’s Trump four years ago. At his daily briefing that day, April 5, he said the federal government had stockpiled 29 million doses of hydroxychloroquine. “What do you have to lose?” he said.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN…
Is This the “Anthropocene” Epoch? Nope, Geologists Say.
The Wall, a geologic feature of eroded Talampaya Formation sandstone in Talampaya National Park, Argentina.Jon G. Fuller This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The guardians of the world’s official geological timescale have firmly rejected a proposal to declare an Anthropocene epoch, after an epic academic row. The…
What a Coup! NBC News Just Hired Ronna McDaniel.
Mother Jones illustration; Ricky Fitchett/ZUMA Wire; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, NBC News announced the newest hire to its politics team—former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, who stepped down from her old post earlier this month so that former President…
Candace Owens and the Far-Right Influencer Who Helped Make Antisemitism Mainstream
Brett Carlsen/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After making a string of antisemitic statements, Candace Owens has left the far-right media company the Daily Wire. Headlines about the split have framed it as a disagreement between Owens and host Ben Shapiro over the Israel-Hamas…