Donald Trump fires FBI director and a new national nightmare takes hold
Luca Trenta, Swansea University Ever since Donald Trump took office amid revelations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and his team’s connections with the…
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Media Bias Fact Check- The Purple Zone
We get so many messages asking us if Left-Center and Right-Center are trustworthy sources. The answer is YES! Sorry to yell, but we have tried and…
US President Donald Trump has dismissed FBI director James Comey, White House says
Al Jazeera is covering the story from a non-biased position. UPDATE 6: We recommend following the AP for the most current info. UPDATE 5: “The FBI…
Comey’s Testimony on Huma Abedin Forwarding Emails Was Inaccurate
by Peter Elkind, special to ProPublica, May 8, 2017, 10:39 p.m. FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to…
Media Bias Fact Check Quick Website Update
As we have been saying for a long time we are moving to self hosting, which will allow significant freedom in both design and database…
Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Don’t panic: An international survey finds concerns about fake news are overblown. studiostoks/shutterstock.com William H. Dutton, Michigan State University In the early years of the…
How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote
Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) speaks to reporters outside the White House on May 3, 2017 after a meeting with the president on proposed legislation that…
How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web
by Ken Schwencke ProPublica, May 4, 2017, 8 a.m. Since its launch in 2013, the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has quickly become the go-to…
Why America’s public media can’t do its job
PBS headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. melanie.phung/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Christopher Chávez, University of Oregon When the Trump administration released its proposed budget in March, it suggested…
Can Bill Nye – or any other science show – really save the world?
Heather Akin, University of Pennsylvania; Bruce W. Hardy, Temple University; Dietram A. Scheufele, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin-Madison Netflix’s new talk…