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Outrage Over Trump, Silence for Christians: The Media’s Double Standard on Full Display
Recent media outrage over President Donald Trump has exposed a deeper double standard, argued The Daily Signal’s senior national security and legal analyst Mehek Cooke in a television interview. Appearing on BBC News on Monday, Cooke responded to controversy over a White House social media image that some critics said depicted Trump as Jesus, arguing…Daily Signal Staff -
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CBS Errs as It Airs Radical Professor on ‘Misinformation’
The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Donald Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been “misinformation research,” in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods. In the Joe Biden years, “misinformation” experts at major universities worked with the federal government and…Tim Graham -
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Americans Want to Protect Speech Over Giving Government Power to Censor ‘Disinformation’: Poll
Americans say they are concerned about the spread of fake news, but about 8 in 10 say they prefer freedom of speech that allows false information rather than allowing government censorship in an attempt to stop it. A survey of 1,000 registered voters found 85% believed it’s a “better approach” to allow free speech even…Fred Lucas -
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House Report Documents Biden-Harris Misinformation About COVID-19
Biden-Harris administration officials seriously misled the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a detailed and devastating report, the Republican majority of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations exposes “We Can Do This,” the administration’s two-year, $900 million public relations campaign during the pandemic. (The subcommittee is part of the House Energy and Commerce…Robert Moffit -
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EXCLUSIVE: Coalition of Pro-Life Medical Professionals Challenges Misinformation About Chemical Abortion
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of doctors and medical organizations are calling for transparency surrounding women's health to combat misinformation about the abortion pill and pro-life laws. ProPublica published two articles claiming Georgia women died after taking abortion pills because the state's abortion ban after six weeks of pregnancy prevented them from getting necessary treatment. Vice…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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‘Beatdown’ for GOP Candidate: How Michigan Combats Election ‘Misinformation’
When a Republican primary candidate for a local township post in Michigan made posts on social media, she didn’t anticipate what she characterized as a “Shut up, lady” letter from the state attorney general’s office threatening to prosecute her. The GOP candidate, Kerry Lynn Elieff, described new polling locations in a June 12 post on…Fred Lucas -
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Will ‘Misinformation’ Prosecutions Go Viral Under a Harris-Walz Administration?
The top prosecutor’s office in the state of Michigan has threatened to prosecute a citizen for spreading allegedly “false election information” in the swing state months ahead of the 2024 presidential vote—an ominous sign critics warn could metastasize throughout society in a Harris-Walz administration, since the Democratic vice-presidential candidate has said the First Amendment does…Ben Johnson -
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‘Greatest Misinformation Campaign Since Russia Hoax’: Project 2025 Director Counters Lies
Left-wing smears of Project 2025 constitute “probably the greatest misinformation campaign since the Russia hoax,” the head of the initiative for the next conservative president said Monday at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project for Heritage, was referring to the eventually…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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How Biden’s Mental Decline Went From ‘Misinformation’ to Fact in a Week
Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame recently told CNN views that people close to President Joe Biden — people “who loved him, have supported him, and among them are some people who would raise a lot of money for him” — say his disastrous debate performance wasn’t a “one-off.” There have been, according to insiders, “15,…David Harsanyi -
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Doctor Accuses Media and Medical Industry of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation
From President Joe Biden to the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to your local physician, those in authority repeated the mantra that COVID-19 vaccines were “safe and effective.” However, Dr. Pierre Kory, a pulmonary critical care physician and the head of a team of medical professionals who develop prevention and…Brian Gottstein -
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NBC’s ‘Misinformation’ Reporter Assembles Team of Deniers of Leftist Misinformation
The year has hardly begun, and the pro-Biden media are already in a full-blown panic. They’re upset many polls show Donald Trump ahead of President Joe Biden. When Democrats are losing, they warn that democracy is dying and disinformation is thriving. In this spirit of dread, NBCNews.com posted a story with the headline “Disinformation poses…Tim Graham -
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Women ‘Deserve Better’ Than Misinformation on Chemical Abortion, Physician Says
The abortion pill ends one life and damages another, Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., said Monday during a panel on chemical abortion held by The Heritage Foundation, referring to the death of the baby and its effects on the mother’s mental health. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) “We need to…Sara Garstka -
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Amid Israel-Hamas War, EU Fires Salvo at Musk’s X Over ‘Disinformation,’ Censorship
Billionaire Elon Musk’s X—formerly Twitter—and the European Union have been clashing over censorship rules during the Israel-Hamas War. A top EU commissioner sent an “urgent letter” to Musk on Tuesday criticizing his platform’s insufficient censorship of “disinformation” and unlawful content, warning about potentially massive fines for not complying with the EU’s Digital Services Act. Musk pushed back against the…Jason Cohen -
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DHS Team Recruits Officials Who Falsely Called Hunter Biden Laptop Story ‘Russian Disinformation’
The Department of Homeland Security has sparked controversy by adding to its Intelligence Board multiple members who signed on to the since-debunked 2020 letter saying the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation.” Now, House Republicans want answers, saying the new additions bring into question the federal group’s credibility and impartiality. “Your decision to appoint…Casey Harper -
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Social Media Censorship BACKFIRES: Biden Admin Flags Itself, Pro-Ukraine Accounts as Russian Disinformation, Docs Reveal
Using the power of the federal government to pressure Big Tech into censoring "disinformation" is a modern Pandora's box. Sure, the Biden administration may decrease the influence of its critics—in an astonishing violation of the First Amendment—but it also enables bad actors to weaponize this very tool against the U.S. government itself, in an utterly…Tyler O’Neil -
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The Great Left-Wing Disinformation Operation Against the Supreme Court
The past five weeks has seen a flurry of media activity, clearly coordinated, against the right-of-center U.S. Supreme Court. First, the outlet ProPublica began publishing a series of pieces “exposing” the well-known fact of Justice Clarence Thomas’ long-running friendship with billionaire real estate tycoon Harlan Crow, and alleging ethical improprieties pertaining to the justice’s purported…Josh Hammer -
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Rogue Censorship Regime Tries to Shut Down Conservative News Sites Using ‘Disinformation’ Label
There’s a movement brewing to shut down conservative websites that offer views and information contradicting left-wing orthodoxy. Investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky did an excellent job of uncovering how activist organizations, some partnered with the State Department, work to blacklist and defund conservative media. His ongoing series at the Washington Examiner is worth reading and explains…Jarrett Stepman -
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Obama Warns About the ‘Raw Sewage’ of Disinformation—Ignores Democrats’ Own Garbage
In the wake of the “Twitter Files,” let’s revisit former President Barack Obama’s warning last April about the spread of misinformation: “You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to…Larry Elder -
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Not Just Misinformation: In Emails to White House, Facebook Admits Suppressing ‘Often-True Content’ on COVID-19 Vaccines
Facebook told an official at the Biden White House that the Big Tech company not only suppressed misinformation but took action against the "virality" of "often-true content" regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey released the documents earlier this week. Bailey obtained them through a court case, Missouri v. Biden, alleging that some…Tyler O’Neil -
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EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Censors Doctors, Heritage Foundation Expert for ‘Medical Misinformation’ on COVID-19
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Nearly three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and just after President Joe Biden effectively claimed the pandemic is over by trying to reverse Title 42, YouTube removed footage of a panel involving doctors and a Heritage Foundation expert discussing COVID-19 and restrictions imposed on religious liberty in…Tyler O’Neil