Tag: misinformation

Why No One Trusts the Media in 30 Minutes or Less

It’s no secret that trust in the mainstream media has fallen to record lows within the last decade. Recent polls show a paltry 16 percent of the U.S. population currently trust televised news content to be giving them accurate information, while newspapers garner only 21 percent confidence in their reporting. Only Congress fares worse with…


State-Sponsored Censorship

Commentary Two leading officials of the federal government—the press secretary and the surgeon general—have revealed the Biden administration’s plan to coordinate with social media platforms to censor dissident voices that disagree with the official position on COVID-19 and the efficacy of vaccines. This raises First Amendment concerns of the highest order. At a recent press…


Now More Than Ever, Twitter Isn’t Real Life

Commentary What matters on Twitter … often just stays on Twitter. Those who use the platform to voice opinions on faith, politics, guns, culture, the military, the police, and a whole host of other issues just aren’t representative of popular opinion. They tend to hold positions not just to the left but to the far,…


The Soviet Roots of Far-Left Antisemitism

Commentary On social media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok, antisemitism and harassment against Jews has skyrocketed following the most recent outbreak of conflict between Israel and Hamas. Variations of the phrase “Hitler was right” were posted more than 17,000 times in just a one-week span on Twitter. In the United States alone, the Anti-Defamation…


Why Americans Should Learn to Spot Media Bias

Commentary Many Americans are waking up to the fact that our media ecosystem is not giving us an honest, balanced view. Instead of objective journalism that just gives us the facts and lets us decide what we think for ourselves, we’re increasingly subjected to partisan spin, slant, sensationalism, and other types of media bias that…


Facebook Freezes Maduro’s Page Over COVID-19 Misinformation

CARACAS—Facebook has frozen Venezuelan regime leader Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about COVID-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure the disease, a company spokesman said on Saturday. Maduro in January described Carvativir, an oral solution derived from thyme, as a “miracle” medication that neutralizes the coronavirus with…