About Elon Musk
After reading Benjamin Soskis’ interesting and thoughtful assessment earlier this week in The Chronicle of Philanthropy of Elon Musk’s role in the 2024 U.S. election, I began to thumb through a copy of Nixon…
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Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Rise of the Fact-Checking
A casual political observer may take the “fact-checker” label at face value. But the entire industry (with little exception) serves as a Trojan horse to justify censorship for the political…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Money Behind Fact-Checking
PolitiFact takes the cake as the worst of the faux fact-checkers and has rightly garnered a reputation for being the most clearly biased in favor of the Left. PolitiFact originated…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Other Major Players
Other major players currently operating include Lead Stories, which is among the most prolific fact-checkers policing content on Facebook. Its staff reveals the operation to be practically a CNN offshoot.
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Pushing Censorship
In January 2018, Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s algorithm would get two changes to help boost “trusted” news outlets while suppressing their competitors. In effect, this was a Trojan horse to push…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Future of Fact-Checking
Following his acquisition of Twitter (now X), Elon Musk revamped the Twitter fact-checking system from one only ever used to benefit the Left, to one that fact-checks everyone.
Capital Research, April 2024
In the April 2024 issue of Capital Research—a special issue on nonprofit journalism—the landscape of journalism is changing. The Left is building a nonprofit journalism empire. Fact checkers provide cover…
The Rise of Left-Wing Nonprofit Journalism
The decline of traditional metropolitan “objective” media outlets has affected the news landscape dramatically. Those outlets were more liberal and less objective than they pretended, and their business model, which…
President of Teachers Union Tries to Rewrite History . . . and Fails
A group of education experts testified to the House Committee on Education this year, stating that the school closures during the COVID pandemic were the “biggest domestic policy failure of…
The Left’s Censorship Industry: Brazen Advocacy for Censorship
Over the past almost two and a half centuries, faith in the common sense of Americans to make rational judgments—along with the protections of the First Amendment—preempted attempts to “protect”…