Report: Putin Threatened to Arrest Google Exec Over Pro-Democracy App
Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last week, Russia banned Facebook and Twitter within its borders. The week, it barred its citizens from using Instagram. But it turns out that Vladimir Putin’s regime has been cracking down on…
Twitter Made Me Do the Unthinkable: Defend Tulsi Gabbard
Mary Altaffer/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Daily Beast yesterday published an article that immediately electrified liberal Twitter. The headline: “Accused Russian Agent Gave to One Politician: Tulsi Gabbard.” A lot of accounts with blue waves and Ukrainian flags in their…
Ukrainian Refugees Are Being Embraced by Europe. Why Weren’t Syrians?
Women and children wait to board a bus heading to Przemysl after fleeing Ukraine.Visar Kryeziu/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On March 3, a Spanish TV station filmed several guards beating and kicking an African migrant as he climbed down a border…
The GOP’s Four Biggest Lies About Joe Biden and Fossil Fuels
Rep. Jim Jordan is among the Republican lawmakers trying to mislead the public about the Biden administration and its actions.Graeme Jennings/AP This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican lawmakers and right-wing media have responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by waging a misinformation campaign about the Biden…
Russia Has a Long, Cruel History of Attacking Hospitals. Maybe This Time Its Leaders Will Be Prosecuted.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Leonard Rubenstein is a professor of practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He is the author of Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to…
The NRA Can’t Erase Its Ties to a Russian Agent Who Targeted Ukraine
Mother Jones illustration; AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Four days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the political arm of the National Rifle Association published an article praising a “valiant” Ukranian army and resistance from “ordinary Ukrainians taking up arms to…