Category: Washington Post

The Washington Post’s ‘Toy Weapons’ vs. Cops

On Monday, April 19, Edgar Luis Tirado went on a one-man crime spree—important details of which are not recorded in the Washington Post’s often cited “Fatal Force” database of killings by police. Other accounts, though, were clear about the threat Tirado presented. The 28-year-old Texan, who suffered from bipolar disorder, started small, stealing from a…


Washington Post Stops Presidential Fact-Check Database After 100 Days of Biden

The Washington Post announced that it would stop using its presidential fact-checking database after 100 days of President Joe Biden’s administration. “Here’s the Biden database—which we do not plan to extend beyond 100 days,” Washington Post fact-check editor and writer Glenn Kessler wrote on Twitter. “I have learned my lesson.” In elaborating on the “lesson”…


Video: Facts Matter (March 17): Released Phone Record Exposes Fake Quotes, Washington Post Issues Correction

Two months ago, the Washington Post published a story based on a single anonymous source that claimed that President Donald Trump pressured a Georgia investigator over the phone. However, after the phone recordings were revealed, they had to issue a massive correction—as none of the quotes were true. Meanwhile, in Iowa, a Republican lawmaker who…


American Media and Old Soviet Media Are Now Peas in a Pod

Commentary This correction in the “news” pages of the Washington Post a few days ago is simply stunning—and tells you all you need to know about the state of the mainstream media today: “Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone…


Official in Georgia SOS Office Was Sole Source on Trump Phone Call

An official in the Georgia secretary of state’s office was the only source for at least one story that falsely claimed former President Donald Trump told an investigator with the office to “find the fraud.” Jordan Fuchs, deputy secretary of state, relayed details of the conversation to The Washington Post, an official with Georgia Secretary…


Washington Post Blames Source for Falsified Trump Comments on Georgia Election

The Washington Post in a recent correction revealed it printed falsified quotes attributed to former President Donald Trump. A recording of Trump’s December 2020 phone call with an investigator working from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office was sent to media outlets last week. In a March 11 update to a story originally published…


Washington Post Removes Content From 2019 Profile of Kamala Harris

The Washington Post this week removed content from a profile of Vice President Kamala Harris. The 2019 profile relayed how Harris, then a presidential candidate, compared campaigns to prisons as she talked about actually getting some sleep before laughing. “It’s a treat that a prisoner gets when they ask for, ‘A morsel of food please,’”…


China Insider: Trump Campaign Responds to Leaked Phone Call from Georgia

The Trump campaign has responded to a full audio recording, obtained and released by The Washington Post on Jan. 3, of a call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which focused on issues of election integrity.


Washington Post Vies to Become Official State Media

Commentary The Washington Post recently announced that it’s adding more than 150 new jobs to its newsroom, bringing the total number to more than 1,000, the largest staff in the paper’s nearly 150-year history. In the wake of recent layoffs at Vox, Vice, BuzzFeed, Gannett, and the Los Angeles Times, does the Post’s good news…