News orgs prove Trump’s outlandish claim wrong as they continue spotlighting coronavirus
4 years, 1 month ago

News orgs prove Trump’s outlandish claim wrong as they continue spotlighting coronavirus

CNN  

CNN Business — A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Wednesday’s WaPo A1 features a map accompanied by a headline that warns, “Surge shows no sign of easing.” CNN’s homepage is featuring a story with a headline that reads, “Coronavirus hospitalizations in US reach an all-time high with more than 60,000.” And NYT’s homepage focuses in on the grim reality taking place in El Paso: “As Hospitalizations Soar, El Paso Brings in New Mobile Morgues.” “All this conservative messaging about how the media will stop caring about covid now that Biden is president-elect seems very strange as The Media is continuing to insane explosion of death and illness, and will obviously continue to do so,” The Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng observed Tuesday. “COVID cured, the very instant the networks called the race for Biden.” But the RNC official Cruz was retweeting was clearly wrong: CNN has continued to use the coronavirus tracker. As The Daily Beast’s Kelly Weill reported, “Hours after Pfizer’s Monday announcement, conspiratorial social media channels lit up with baseless claims. And, with masks, we’ve seen how quickly science can be undermined by bad-faith actors on social media and via irresponsible media outlets like Fox News.

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Trump’s first term brought world-changing vaccine. His second could bring retreat
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Trump’s first term brought world-changing vaccine. His second could bring retreat

LA Times  

President Trump once celebrated the COVID-19 vaccines released at the end of his first term as “one of the greatest achievements of mankind,” echoing the sentiments of mainstream medical officials who praised their rapid development as pivotal in combating the then-raging pandemic. There’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who …

"Bad news for public health": Jay Bhattacharaya, Trump's pick to lead NIH, got COVID-19 all wrong
3 weeks, 6 days ago

"Bad news for public health": Jay Bhattacharaya, Trump's pick to lead NIH, got COVID-19 all wrong

Salon  

By most accounts, President-elect Donald Trump bungled the federal response to COVID-19, publicly downplaying concern about a virus that he privately admitted was “deadly stuff.” “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear,” Trump said in Feb. 2020, at the same time he was admitting to journalist Bob Woodward that the virus was …

Column: Trump’s appointment of anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. to his Cabinet has scientists fearing a catastrophe for public health
1 month ago

Column: Trump’s appointment of anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. to his Cabinet has scientists fearing a catastrophe for public health

LA Times  

In a tweet he posted shortly before the election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took arms against the Food and Drug Administration and its scientists. — Epidemiologist Robert Morris Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as his secretary of Health and Human Services, which oversees key public health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the …

One-third of Americans don’t trust the COVID vaccines, survey finds
1 month, 2 weeks ago

One-third of Americans don’t trust the COVID vaccines, survey finds

Salon  

Across the U.S., 35% of adults reported that they did not trust COVID-19 vaccines, without much variation across years 2021-2023, according to a survey published in the journal Vaccine: X this week. Vaccine hesitancy is one piece of a growing distrust in public health exacerbated by the government’s pandemic response that many experts fear will only deepen with the new …

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember

Salon  

At a campaign event in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump asked the crowd a question Ronald Reagan also asked voters in the 1980 election against Jimmy Carter, and one many presidents before have asked. “People are still framing questions like that as if where we were four years ago was not in the early stages of a …

Trump leads — on vaccine skepticism
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump leads — on vaccine skepticism

Raw Story  

More than four years ago, former President Donald Trump’s administration accelerated the development and rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. But a substantial number of Republican voters now identify as vaccine skeptics — and Trump rarely mentions what’s considered one of the great public health accomplishments in recent memory. In a recent tour with former Fox News broadcaster Tucker Carlson, Kennedy …

"I don't think it's defensible": Under Trump, a Pentagon campaign spread anti-vaccine misinformation
6 months, 1 week ago

"I don't think it's defensible": Under Trump, a Pentagon campaign spread anti-vaccine misinformation

Salon  

In the thick of the pandemic, the Trump-era U.S. military launched what Reuters describes as a “clandestine operation” to spread anti-vaccine sentiments, particularly in the Philippines, as part of an apparent effort to harm Chinese interests, an initiative that ended only after President Joe Biden took office. As part of its campaign to sow doubt about public health measures, the …

Column: Disinformation is a public health crisis. Here’s how scientists and doctors are fighting it
10 months ago

Column: Disinformation is a public health crisis. Here’s how scientists and doctors are fighting it

LA Times  

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Is there a way to inoculate the public against his anti-vaccine lies? “Scientists really recognize this as a problem, from what they see in the community and read in the news,” says Tara Kirk Sell of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security. It’s part of an emerging genre of advice for scientists, public health officials …

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
11 months ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Associated Press  

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. In the days leading up to Wednesday’s panel on the topic, social media users began sharing a range of posts misrepresenting Disease X as real, and portraying it as an imminent threat to society. THE FACTS: News that migrants living in a temporary …

What is the latest from Dominic Cummings on No 10’s handling of the Covid crisis?
1 year, 1 month ago

What is the latest from Dominic Cummings on No 10’s handling of the Covid crisis?

The Independent  

Dominic Cummings’s bravura performance at the Hallett inquiry has obviously attracted huge attention, and not just because of his potty-mouthed ways. As Cummings explains in paragraph 465 of his witness statement: “A low point was when he circulated a video of a guy blowing a special hair dryer up his nose ‘to kill Covid’ and asked the CSA and CMO …

Column: Scientists are paying a huge personal price in the lonely fight against anti-vaxxers
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: Scientists are paying a huge personal price in the lonely fight against anti-vaxxers

LA Times  

In the preface of the new book by vaccine expert and pro-science crusader Peter Hotez, there are several acknowledgments of a kind that may never have appeared before in a book like it. Things have only gotten worse since then, as Hotez reports in his new book, “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning.” A professor of pediatrics and …

Opinion: Scientists have become sitting ducks. We need leaders to step up and defend us
1 year, 3 months ago

Opinion: Scientists have become sitting ducks. We need leaders to step up and defend us

LA Times  

In April 2020, when President Trump and Anthony Fauci appeared at a news conference to discuss the pandemic, the backlash against COVID scientists was already building. During the pandemic, our team at the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine developed a low-cost COVID vaccine that was scaled for production in India and Indonesia, where almost 100 million doses …

Column: Does Ron DeSantis even believe his dangerous B.S. about COVID vaccines?
1 year, 3 months ago

Column: Does Ron DeSantis even believe his dangerous B.S. about COVID vaccines?

LA Times  

The latest government advisories on the new monovalent COVID-19 vaccines were not much of a surprise. “I chose to lift Florida up, not follow the lead of Dr. Fauci and lock Florida down.” Ladapo opened the roundtable by stating, “We continue to live in a world where the CDC and the FDA, when it comes to COVID at least, are …

COVID-19 pandemic three years later: Has the coronavirus won?
1 year, 9 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic three years later: Has the coronavirus won?

LA Times  

A person is taken on a stretcher into United Memorial Medical Center in Houston after undergoing COVID-19 testing on March 19, 2020. “Whatever the virus is doing today, it’s still working on finding another winning path,” said Dr. Eric Topol, head of Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla. The achievements add up to a new normal where COVID-19 “doesn’t …

No government consensus on COVID lab leak theory, says White House
1 year, 9 months ago

No government consensus on COVID lab leak theory, says White House

Firstpost  

New Delhi: Even as the Department of Energy determined that a lab leak was the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House has downplayed and refused to acknowledge this information, claiming that there is still no government consensus on the origins of the outbreak. “The intelligence community and the rest of the government is still looking at …

‘No conclusion on Covid origin theory’: White House on lab leak report
1 year, 9 months ago

‘No conclusion on Covid origin theory’: White House on lab leak report

Live Mint  

A day after the US Department of Energy said the coronavirus pandemic likely arose from a Chinese laboratory leak, the White House on Monday asserted that there is no definitive conclusion on the origin of Covid-19, according to the news agency ANI. Speaking to media persons at a daily White House news conference, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications …

COVID “lab-leak” debate: Three years in, it’s unresolved. That’s OK.
1 year, 10 months ago

COVID “lab-leak” debate: Three years in, it’s unresolved. That’s OK.

Slate  

On Jan. 30, 2020, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton addressed military leaders at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing and presented a startling idea. But right from the start, the “debate” itself was peculiar: It was justified by the hope that identifying the origins of COVID-19 would help us better prepare for future public health threats. And a 2016 survey of …

How scientists trained computers to forecast COVID-19 outbreaks weeks ahead
1 year, 11 months ago

How scientists trained computers to forecast COVID-19 outbreaks weeks ahead

LA Times  

Researchers hope to harness the power of machine learning to forecast COVID-19 outbreaks the way meteorologists forecast the weather. In their bid to create an early-warning system for COVID-19 outbreaks, the study authors built a “machine learning” system capable of chewing through millions of digital traces, incorporating new local developments, refining its focus on accurate signals of illness, and generating …

Elon Musk Turns Over Twitter Records To Key Source Of COVID Misinformation
1 year, 11 months ago

Elon Musk Turns Over Twitter Records To Key Source Of COVID Misinformation

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Twitter owner Elon Musk turned over access to internal company documents to a top source of vaccine misinformation who’s been giving out bunk public health advice for years, the latest in a far-right shift on one of the most influential social media sites in the world. Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter — whom The …

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
2 years ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The article suggests that these …

Twitter bans enforcement of Covid misinformation policy, experts raise concerns
2 years ago

Twitter bans enforcement of Covid misinformation policy, experts raise concerns

India Today  

Twitter has stopped its Covid misinformation policy enforcement, raising concerns among health and media experts over the move’s effect on efforts to combat the still-spreading virus, like vaccination. Alert users spotted the change Monday night, figuring out that a one-sentence update had been made to Twitter’s online rules, “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading …

Covid a result of China 'lab leak’, hints US Senate report
2 years, 1 month ago

Covid a result of China 'lab leak’, hints US Senate report

Hindustan Times  

Republicans in the US Senate on Thursday presented a report on how Covid-19 virus could have started from a laboratory leak, although underscoring that the findings still lack indisputable evidence. The report is seen as an attempt by the Republican party to pressurise the Biden administration and congressional Democrats to take the Covid virus lab leak theory more seriously, reported …

Biden sent the wrong message on COVID. He can still fix it
2 years, 2 months ago

Biden sent the wrong message on COVID. He can still fix it

LA Times  

President Biden talks with CBS correspondent Scott Pelley in an interview at the White House for “60 Minutes.” “The pandemic is over,” President Biden declared last week as he toured the Detroit Auto Show. “We are not where we need to be if we are going to, quote, ‘live with the virus,’” Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical advisor, said …

Trump's Truth Social rants against the FBI inadvertently undercut his main January 6 defense
2 years, 3 months ago

Trump's Truth Social rants against the FBI inadvertently undercut his main January 6 defense

Salon  

Over the course of the January 6 committee hearings earlier this summer, Donald Trump defenders churned through a number of defenses, each less plausible than the last. Trump inadvertently proved the argument of the January 6 committee: He doesn't actually believe his own conspiracy theories. While it seemed motivated by the so-far unrelated scandal over classified documents, in this rant, …

‘The next public health disaster in the making’: Studies offer new pieces of long Covid puzzle
2 years, 4 months ago

‘The next public health disaster in the making’: Studies offer new pieces of long Covid puzzle

CNN  

CNN — There’s no test for long Covid. Yet with vast numbers of people having had Covid-19, and estimates ranging from 7.7 million to 23 million long Covid patients in the US alone, researchers say it has the potential to be “the next public health disaster in the making.” The Biden administration released two reports this week to initiate a …

Fake News, Disinformation Penetrates Brazil Election Discourse
2 years, 5 months ago

Fake News, Disinformation Penetrates Brazil Election Discourse

News 18  

Three months out from the Brazilian presidential election, disinformation about the two main candidates, President Jair Bolsonaro and ex-leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is having a major impact. “The election content has taken over the space” previously dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic, said Sergio Ludtke, the coordinator of the Comprova information verification collective made up of 42 media outlets, …

‘Get used to it’: Recent outbreaks give a taste of living with the coronavirus
2 years, 8 months ago

‘Get used to it’: Recent outbreaks give a taste of living with the coronavirus

LA Times  

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker at the opening night of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway late last month in New York. “If you’re not an actor in a Broadway play or a politician you might fall through the testing cracks.” The public health response will vary from community to community based on what’s happening …

‘Anti-science extremist’: Tory MP shut down for claiming Covid jabs ‘disaster in the making’
2 years, 8 months ago

‘Anti-science extremist’: Tory MP shut down for claiming Covid jabs ‘disaster in the making’

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A Tory MP …

Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it
2 years, 9 months ago

Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it

LA Times  

Conspiracy theorists’ disinformation has led to the deaths of thousands of Americans every week by discouraging COVID-19 vaccinations. One study found that people who believe “9/11 truther” theories are more likely than average to also believe COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an influential anti-vaxxer, said at a recent rally in Washington: “Bill Gates and his 65,000 satellites …

Fox News guests use questionable lockdown study to launch misleading attacks on masks, vaccines
2 years, 10 months ago

Fox News guests use questionable lockdown study to launch misleading attacks on masks, vaccines

Salon  

UPDATED: This story was updated at 2:20pm to include commentary on the Studies in Applied Economics whitepaper from scientists at the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis in London. Experts are tired of debunking him The study was published in a publication called Studies in Applied Economics, which is not a peer-reviewed journal and describes itself as a "series …

'A race to the bottom': House GOP gets slammed for ‘really disgraceful’ anti-vaccine tweet
2 years, 11 months ago

'A race to the bottom': House GOP gets slammed for ‘really disgraceful’ anti-vaccine tweet

Raw Story  

At a time when former President Donald Trump is surprising his critics by encouraging Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19, the House Judiciary GOP posted an anti-vax tweet this week. On Thursday, a tweet from @JudiciaryGOP read, “If the booster shots work, why don’t they work?” In fact, booster shots of the COVID vaccines have been shown to significantly increase …

Trump tested COVID-positive pre-debate, ex-aide says in book
3 years ago

Trump tested COVID-positive pre-debate, ex-aide says in book

Associated Press  

Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first presidential debate in September 2020 with Joe Biden, according to a new book by Trump’s former chief of staff. In “The Chief’s Chief,” obtained by The Guardian before its Dec. 7 release, Mark Meadows writes that the then-president received a negative test shortly after the positive test and resumed …

Trump may have exposed ‘hundreds’ to COVID-19 by hiding his positive test: CNN
3 years ago

Trump may have exposed ‘hundreds’ to COVID-19 by hiding his positive test: CNN

Raw Story  

Donald Trump may have exposed hundreds of people to the deadly coronavirus if his former chief of staff is correct that he concealed a positive test result, CNN said Wednesday. "His former chief of staff has said in a new book that Trump tested positive days before the White House at the time, the administration revealed that fact to the …

Trevor Noah Thinks Republicans Are Behaving Just Like COVID-19
3 years ago

Trevor Noah Thinks Republicans Are Behaving Just Like COVID-19

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Trevor Noah suggested Tuesday that some Republicans are mutating like the coronavirus. GOP talking points on the pandemic have changed since former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, Noah noted on “The Daily Show.” Republicans — including the ex-president’s son Eric Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz — had predicted that COVID-19 would not be talked about after …

Study: Fox viewers more likely to believe COVID falsehoods
3 years, 1 month ago

Study: Fox viewers more likely to believe COVID falsehoods

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — People who trust Fox News Channel and other media outlets that appeal to conservatives are more likely to believe falsehoods about COVID-19 and vaccines than those who primarily go elsewhere for news, a study has found. “It may be because the people who are self-selecting these organizations believe going in,” said Liz Hamel, vice president and director …

Covid misinformation is everywhere
3 years, 1 month ago

Covid misinformation is everywhere

CNN  

New York CNN Business — The information landscape about Covid-19 is bewildering, with factual and fictional claims competing for attention. “Most commonly,” the report’s authors wrote, “six in ten adults have heard that the government is exaggerating the number of Covid-19 deaths by counting deaths due to other factors as coronavirus deaths and either believe this to be true or …

How to fight COVID vaccine misinformation?
3 years, 2 months ago

How to fight COVID vaccine misinformation?

Al Jazeera  

Opposition to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself. Although vaccines save five lives every minute, and even though 85 percent of children worldwide are vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, some people are resisting the life-saving shots. Although this opposition has not prevented many countries from reaching very high vaccine uptake – for example in Spain, nearly 80 …

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
3 years, 3 months ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Associated Press  

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. Here are the facts: ___ Supreme Court hasn’t ruled on COVID-19 vaccines or ‘universal vaccination’ CLAIM: After a legal challenge from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a group of scientists, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe and “canceled universal …

White House virologist was reassigned from Covid to election fraud by 2020 obsessed Trump, new emails reveal
3 years, 3 months ago

White House virologist was reassigned from Covid to election fraud by 2020 obsessed Trump, new emails reveal

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A virologist responsible for the White House’s response to the …

Opinion: Why this Covid news could finally get us back to normal
3 years, 3 months ago

Opinion: Why this Covid news could finally get us back to normal

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Dr. Lawrence C. Kleinman, a pediatrician, is a professor and vice-chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he is founding director of the Division of Population Health, Quality, and Implementation Sciences. Despite global distribution of vaccines remaining unsolved, Monday brings the essentially good news that it is possible, even likely, that …

These four words are helping spread vaccine misinformation
3 years, 3 months ago

These four words are helping spread vaccine misinformation

CNN  

CNN — Four little words — “do your own research” — are hurting the US pandemic response, CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. Minaj helped raise doubts about Covid-19 vaccines on Twitter last week, claiming she would only get the shots once she’d “done enough research.” It may seem like a reasonable, even positive, attitude, …

Opinion: The pandemic is being weaponized
3 years, 3 months ago

Opinion: The pandemic is being weaponized

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. But there’s one key reason why the world’s wealthiest nation, home to many of the planet’s top public health experts, is the red-hot bubbling epicenter of a pandemic that just won’t quit. After Biden revealed his six-step plan against the still raging pandemic, which includes …

Opinion: Fighting vaccine disinformation is crucial to ending the pandemic
3 years, 3 months ago

Opinion: Fighting vaccine disinformation is crucial to ending the pandemic

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Ann M. Ravel is the Digital Deception Project director at MapLight and previously served as chair of the Federal Election Commission. According to its policy, YouTube prohibits “content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s medical information about COVID-19.” While these short suspensions are grabbing headlines, they’re also obscuring the larger …

Opinion: Conservative radio host’s Covid death should prompt others to end vaccine lies
3 years, 4 months ago

Opinion: Conservative radio host’s Covid death should prompt others to end vaccine lies

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. In June, he aired a parody of The Beatles song “Taxman” on his show that mocked the vaccine rollout with lines like: “Yeah, I’m the Vaxman…if you don’t like me coming round, be thankful …

Trump spews lies about Covid on Fox Business: 'It was virtually gone when I left — it was over'
3 years, 4 months ago

Trump spews lies about Covid on Fox Business: 'It was virtually gone when I left — it was over'

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump ranted against vaccine booster shots and falsely insisted that the Covid-19 virus was "virtually gone" when he left office. During an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday, Trump said that he was "proud" to have taken the Covid vaccine. "When I was president, you didn't have this problem with people not wanting to …

Let’s Keep the Vaccine Misinformation Problem in Perspective
3 years, 4 months ago

Let’s Keep the Vaccine Misinformation Problem in Perspective

Wired  

With Covid cases surging in parts of the United States and vaccinations proceeding at a crawl, all eyes are on social media platforms. Then, late last week, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota introduced a bill that would strip away Section 230 immunity for vaccine content promoted by social media algorithms. As my former colleague Daniel Engber recently pointed out in …

Republican representative calls Covid a bioweapon and claims to have been targeted with it twice
3 years, 4 months ago

Republican representative calls Covid a bioweapon and claims to have been targeted with it twice

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Republican congressman from Louisiana has described the coronavirus as …

Conservative media offers mixed messages on COVID-19 vaccine
3 years, 5 months ago

Conservative media offers mixed messages on COVID-19 vaccine

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Two recent exchanges in recent days on Fox News Channel’s popular morning show, “Fox …

Progressive pundit launches campaign against Fox News: "Something more needed to be done"
3 years, 5 months ago

Progressive pundit launches campaign against Fox News: "Something more needed to be done"

Salon  

Dean Obeidallah, radio host and regular contributor to Salon, filed a complaint on Tuesday against Fox News for coordinating a "misinformation campaign" around COVID, suggesting that the channel has systematically downplayed coronavirus and sowed doubt around the efficacy of the vaccine. The complaint, first announced in an MSNBC op-ed, alleges that Fox News violated the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act, a …

More GOP lawmakers embrace vaccine but still aren’t calling out misinformation about it
3 years, 5 months ago

More GOP lawmakers embrace vaccine but still aren’t calling out misinformation about it

CNN  

CNN — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’s “perplexed” why so many people in the country still aren’t vaccinated. Buddy Carter, a pharmacist and member of the House GOP Doctors Caucus, said on CNN that fellow Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene – whose Twitter account was recently suspended for vaccine misinformation – has “every right” to her opinion, …

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