Twenty-Three Journalists Have Been Killed Covering the Israel-Gaza War
Palestinians work to help victims amid debris following and apparent Israeli airstrike on a building in in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on October 22, 2023.Naaman Omar/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Roshdi Sarraj, a reporter who co-founded a Palestinian media company, was killed Sunday in…
George Santos Suggested the Chinese Communist Party Kidnapped His Niece. Huh?
George Santos on October 18.Allison Bailey/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this year George Santos, the fabulist congressman facing federal fraud charges, took up the cause of exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, a fellow fabulist who is also facing federal fraud charges. Guo,…
Sidney Powell Is Apologizing to Georgians. Why Stop There?
Sidney Powell made false claims about an an extraordinary amount of people during this Nov. 19, 2020 press conference.Tom Williams/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, we learned Thursday, agreed to write a letter of apology to citizens of the…
Stop Messaging Me, a Black Journalist, About White Irish “Slaves”
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.I create videos about race and history for a living, which results in being inundated with racist comments, dog-whistles, instances of historical revisionism or apologia, and other stupid stuff. Every time I broach the subject of…
House Republicans Descend Into a Flame War of Open Letters and Obscene Tweets
Matt Gaetz and Nancy Mace are running out of friends.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Things are getting wild on Nancy Mace’s Twitter account. The South Carolina congresswoman—an on-again-off-again Trump ally who once told the only funny joke about January 6—was one of the…
Oklahoma Teachers Don’t Know If It’s Legal to Teach “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”Apple TV+ Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After a screening of Martin Scorsese’s slow-drip drama Killers of the Flower Moon in New York earlier this month, an agent with the film’s promotion team asked…