Amid Union Drive, Howard Schultz Is Back in Charge of Starbucks
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz at Arizona State University in 2019.Brian Cahn/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When companies are flailing, the founder comes back. It’s happened at Apple, at Tinder, and at Twitter. Now Starbucks is joining the list. On Wednesday, the…
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…
Invoking Pearl Harbor and 9/11, Zelenskyy Issues Extraordinary Plea for Help
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In an unprecedented video address from the besieged capital of Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded with Congress to help his country by protecting Ukraine’s air space, supplying it with weapons and equipment, and…
Has Ukraine “Won the Information War”? Not So Fast.
Mother Jones illulstration; Alexey Nikolsky/AFP/Getty; Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Many people in the global north—at least many voices in the media—are rather optimistic about Ukraine’s ability to dominate the “information war” unleashed by Russia’s invasion. Writers…
Top Putin Propagandist Says the Ukraine War Is Just the Beginning
Journalist, television and radio host Vladimir Solovyov at a Federation Council meeting. Vladimir Fedorenko/Sputnik via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A key champion in the Russian media of Vladimir Putin’s illegal attack on Ukraine served up a troubling threat on Monday:…
China’s State Media Propagandists are Pushing Putin Talking Points
Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has opted for what one scholar calls a “pro-Russia neutrality.” That looks in practice as weird as it sounds. Instead of silence, the Chinese…