The warping of the American mind: How Trump's two 'Big Lies' have metastasized
1 year, 6 months ago

The warping of the American mind: How Trump's two 'Big Lies' have metastasized

Raw Story  

America is heading into a presidential election in which Donald Trump is basing his candidacy on two Big Lies — that President Biden stole the 2020 election from him, and that Biden is orchestrating a prosecutorial witch hunt against him. So you might think the social media companies that in 2020 responded to Trump’s first Big Lie by removing him from their platforms would at least continue their practice. The Google-owned video platform nonsensically argues that it had to balance protecting users from lies with protecting “open discussion and debate,” and because it did not wish to “curtail political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of real-world harm,” it’s now reopened to Trump’s first Big Lie. Trump’s team has been posting to Facebook regularly since then, including Big Lie #2 — that his arraignment on possession of classified documents is “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.” Don’t even get me started about Elon Musk. Not long ago I spoke with a Trump supporter who told me he believed the 2020 election was stolen and that Biden’s “deep state” was persecuting Trump.

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'That claim is false': Trump's 'biggest lies' from his 'Meet the Press' interview ranked
2 weeks, 2 days ago

'That claim is false': Trump's 'biggest lies' from his 'Meet the Press' interview ranked

Raw Story  

Donald Trump lied about a variety of subjects in his latest NBC interview, according to a report from Rolling Stone. But the president-elect ended that streak with a well-publicized interview in which NBC host Kristen Welker pushed back on Trump after he claimed that gangs of immigrants were "taking over." "Donald Trump gave his first network interview since the election …

Column: Trump lied incessantly and still won. Should others do the same?
1 month ago

Column: Trump lied incessantly and still won. Should others do the same?

LA Times  

Donald Trump lied with remarkable audacity and velocity as he sought restoration to the White House. As Kevin Madden, a veteran Republican communications strategist noted, Trump “was a celebrity first and a politician second” after marinating for decades in New York’s saucy tabloid culture, then residing in America’s living rooms as a make-believe boardroom baron in “The Apprentice.” Simply put, …

Donald Trump dismisses ‘fake and illegal’ Truth Social ‘rumours’ spreading after his election victory
Top News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Donald Trump dismisses ‘fake and illegal’ Truth Social ‘rumours’ spreading after his election victory

Hindustan Times  

Former US President Donald Trump has finally broken his silence on social media following his recent election victory, addressing speculation around his investment in Truth Social, the platform he founded after his Twitter ban in early 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake/File Photo Earlier rumors had circulated that Trump might sell shares in Truth Social, which he strongly refuted in a statement, calling …

Trump promises he won't sell Truth Social shares, calls for investigation into rumors
Trending News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump promises he won't sell Truth Social shares, calls for investigation into rumors

Salon  

Donald Trump promised not to sell off shares of Truth Social's parent company and called for an investigation into rumors that he would on Friday. Trump's commitment to his stock came in a post to his social media platform, his first written post to the site since his election victory. "There are fake, untrue, and probably illegal rumors and/or statements …

'Truth Social is dead in the crib' after election win: analyst
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Truth Social is dead in the crib' after election win: analyst

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's Truth Social platform may have its future as a viable — yet money-losing — site impacted now that the former president is headed back to the Oval Office, according to an analyst. He added that the Trump win could end up being his Truth Social investor's loss – particularly if he sells off a substantial amount of stock …

Truth Social: Why Trump being president again is horrible for his social media company.
Top News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Truth Social: Why Trump being president again is horrible for his social media company.

Slate  

At least the stock market is happy about the election. One big mover on Wednesday, though, was nonsense: Trump’s social media company, Trump Media and Technology Group, rose by 6 percent, beating an already hot market. Although his victory has already been good for Trump Media stock, his return to power is unambiguously horrible for Truth Social’s actual business. But …

2024 election results: It was supposed to be our great defense against Trump. It failed badly.
1 month, 2 weeks ago

2024 election results: It was supposed to be our great defense against Trump. It failed badly.

Slate  

On Sept. 10, during the presidential debate hosted by ABC News, Republican candidate Donald Trump told an obvious lie. Although Trump’s claim had gained credence in right-wing social-media circles in the days preceding the debate, Muir noted that ABC News had consulted the city manager of Springfield, Ohio, who attested that “there have been no credible reports of specific claims …

The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously
2 months, 2 weeks ago

The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously

Salon  

The way political journalism worked before Donald Trump seems quaint in retrospect. Trump lied his way all the way into the last month of the 2016 presidential election before the New York Times deigned to use the words “lie” and “Donald Trump” in the same sentence. The national media certainly didn’t know what to make of Trump, and neither did …

Republicans are drowning in Donald Trump's lies
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans are drowning in Donald Trump's lies

Salon  

I happened to spend some time with a highly intelligent 17-year-old over the weekend who's taking AP Government and is keenly interested in the election. It's also true that we never had election campaigns like Donald Trump's presidential campaigns and we certainly never had a presidency like his. This really started back in the 1990s with Newt Gingrich and the …

Truth Social reaches a tricky milestone. Will Donald Trump cash out his stake?
3 months, 1 week ago

Truth Social reaches a tricky milestone. Will Donald Trump cash out his stake?

NPR  

Truth Social reaches a tricky milestone. The parent company of Truth Social, the social media company majority-owned by former president Donald Trump, is turning a complicated corner on Thursday. "The stock price of Truth Social is like his crowd size," said professional investor Matthew Tuttle, in a reference to Trump's ongoing fixation with the attendance at his rallies and other …

Inside the GOP's Big Lie 2.0 — and their plan to shut down America this Fall
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside the GOP's Big Lie 2.0 — and their plan to shut down America this Fall

Raw Story  

Donald Trump has made good use of the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie 1.0, famously claiming that the 2020 “election was stolen” from him. Most even behave as if the GOP’s phony claims of “voter fraud” are legitimate, so they continue to aggressively use them to make voting hard, reject mail-in signatures, and purge voting rolls. Claiming widespread …

The Big Lie is meant to finish off America
7 months, 1 week ago

The Big Lie is meant to finish off America

Raw Story  

On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, America began tallying the vote to see who would be her next president. Slowly the Big Lie starting gaining noxious steam among the terrible cowards in his revolting party, who suddenly couldn’t wait to blow Trump’s sweaty horn. The day Joe Biden would officially become president … they day the people who truly love America …

Donald Trump’s social media company soars in Wall Street debut
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Donald Trump’s social media company soars in Wall Street debut

Al Jazeera  

Shares of former Donald Trump’s social media company soared by as much as 59 percent on the first day of trading on Wall Street, boosting the former United States president’s expected windfall as he faces a growing list of legal bills. The Trump Media & Technology Group reached $79.38 per share at its peak on Tuesday, before closing 16 percent …

Trump's lawyers should be held accountable for promoting his Big Lie in court: expert
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's lawyers should be held accountable for promoting his Big Lie in court: expert

Raw Story  

Legal expert Kim Wehle highlighted Thursday Donald Trump's recent court filing about his actions around 2020 and Jan. 6 in a desperate effort to prove that intervening in the election was part of his role as president. The final brief to the Supreme Court isn't the same as his conspiracy report, however, and it's unclear if the Trump lawyers would …

Donald Trump’s Truth Social is in trouble. So where will he post if it fails?
1 year, 1 month ago

Donald Trump’s Truth Social is in trouble. So where will he post if it fails?

Slate  

Long gone are the days of Donald Trump shitposting his way to the presidency. Stories about Truth Social’s business troubles have proliferated ever since late 2021, when the platform’s parent company brought in a $300 million fundraising haul through a planned merger with a SPAC known as Digital World Acquisition Corp. Related From Slate The Supreme Court Needs to Decide …

Opinion: Lies, damn lies and social media — there's a reason this country is so deeply polarized.
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: Lies, damn lies and social media — there's a reason this country is so deeply polarized.

LA Times  

A Trump supporter, left, and an anti-Trump protester exemplify American divisions outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, where former President Trump would be arraigned on New York charges in April. We also encounter MIT management professor Sinan Aral, who wrote “The Hype Machine,” a 2020 book about the “perils and promise” of social media. “Social media is rewriting the central nervous …

The Network Behind Trump’s Election Lies Hasn’t Backed Down — Despite His Indictment
1 year, 4 months ago

The Network Behind Trump’s Election Lies Hasn’t Backed Down — Despite His Indictment

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A key point of Donald Trump’s indictment Tuesday ― for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the 2020 election results and deprive Americans of their voting rights ― is prosecutors’ allegation that Trump knowingly spread lies about the election. Former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell ― apparently “Co-Conspirator 3” in the indictment ― was sanctioned in federal court for …

"These people are admitting they lied to you": Trump’s own men undermine his “delusional” defense
1 year, 4 months ago

"These people are admitting they lied to you": Trump’s own men undermine his “delusional” defense

Salon  

"For those that still believe there was widespread voter fraud, these people are admitting they lied to you." Most GOP leaders — who are all also lying through their teeth — like to pretend that Trump and his followers "really believed" the Big Lie. "We'll have fun on the stand with all of these people that say the Presidential Election …

Trump rages about election cheaters as Georgia charges loom
1 year, 6 months ago

Trump rages about election cheaters as Georgia charges loom

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's Truth Social platform may have its future as a viable — yet money-losing — site impacted now that the former president is headed back to the Oval Office, according to an analyst. He added that the Trump win could end up being his Truth Social investor's loss – particularly if he sells off a substantial amount of stock …

Trump reportedly made less than $201 from Truth Social but up to a million from NFTs
1 year, 8 months ago

Trump reportedly made less than $201 from Truth Social but up to a million from NFTs

Raw Story  

Editor's note: This piece has been updated to include additional information that has not changed the story. Former President Donald Trump's finances are in the news again, this time with a focus on what he made from his "Truth Social" social network venture: reportedly less than $201. Trump made very little from the social network popular among right-wing media personalities, …

Donald Trump announces 2024 White House bid: How the media can cover his presidency campaign responsibly
2 years, 1 month ago

Donald Trump announces 2024 White House bid: How the media can cover his presidency campaign responsibly

Firstpost  

Now that Donald Trump is running for US president in 2024, journalists cannot follow the usual rules for covering a candidate who routinely defies democratic norms and lies with abandon Now that he’s in the 2024 presidential race, the media circus that is Donald Trump is returning for a new season. There’s a third reason that Trump will get the …

Donald Trump sues CNN claiming defamation, seeks $475 million in damages
2 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump sues CNN claiming defamation, seeks $475 million in damages

Live Mint  

Former US President Donald Trump on Monday sued the news organization CNN, seeking USD 475 million in damages, saying the network defamed him in an effort to short-circuit any future political campaign, according to the news agency The Associated Press. Primarily, the lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, focuses on the term "The Big Lie" about …

How the Big Lie poison continues to spread — and why it's getting worse
2 years, 3 months ago

How the Big Lie poison continues to spread — and why it's getting worse

Salon  

Donald Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 presidential election — which is now supported by most of the Republican Party — continues to spread across America. That list "includes five incumbent senators and 11 other candidates who have at least a reasonable chance of winning in November": The success of election deniers in Republican Senate primaries around the country — …

'Trump’s deranged outrage style' is history as Truth Social becomes a 'slow-cooking financial disaster': analyst
2 years, 3 months ago

'Trump’s deranged outrage style' is history as Truth Social becomes a 'slow-cooking financial disaster': analyst

Raw Story  

In his column for Politico, analyst Jack Shafer predicted Donald Trump's Truth Social will go down as "one of the biggest social media flops of the decade" and the former president has no one to blame but himself. As Schafer pointed out, the former president had attracted 89 million followers on Twitter before the platform banned him over, as the …

Donald Trump's Truth Social App Is Failing Fantastically, Report Says
2 years, 8 months ago

Donald Trump's Truth Social App Is Failing Fantastically, Report Says

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The former president’s social media network for MAGA disciples has sunk to about 60,000 new users a week. “We estimate that Truth Social has so far reached approximately 1.2 million installs since its launch.” Truthsocial.com reportedly has fallen to 1.9 million weekly visits from a high of 6 million in the debut week for the Twitter-like platform, …

​Trump’s Truth Social shouldn't be trusted with users' info after disastrous launch: privacy expert
2 years, 10 months ago

​Trump’s Truth Social shouldn't be trusted with users' info after disastrous launch: privacy expert

Raw Story  

The "disastrous launch" of former president Donald Trump's social media app — Truth Social — shows it shouldn't be trusted with people's private information, according to one expert. “The basic thing they needed to actually get right to get someone in the door, they couldn’t get right,” privacy researcher Bill Fitzgerald told the Washington Post, adding the “ineptitude of the …

Michael Cohen Calls Trump's 'Big Lie' The 'Biggest Grift In U.S. History'
3 years ago

Michael Cohen Calls Trump's 'Big Lie' The 'Biggest Grift In U.S. History'

Huff Post  

Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen on Sunday blasted the former president’s baseless claim that the election was somehow rigged against him as the “greatest grift in U.S. history.” Cohen insisted in an interview with Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Trump continues to cry fraud to raise money to line his pockets. Trump “has …

Truth Social | The Trump network
3 years, 2 months ago

Truth Social | The Trump network

The Hindu  

Last December, with just about a month to go for Donald Trump’s presidential stint to end, CNN highlighted a much-debated aspect of his presidency with data points. It said, Mr. Trump “has tweeted more than 25,000 times — an average of 18 times per day — since taking office in January 2017.” It added: “His longest break from Twitter was …

There are decades of deceit behind Trump's 'Big Lie'
3 years, 7 months ago

There are decades of deceit behind Trump's 'Big Lie'

Raw Story  

Since the 2020 presidential election, the phrase "The Big Lie" has been deployed to describe the former president's undermining of American democracy. Trump's own "Big Lie" began with a refusal to concede electoral defeat. Since then, members of the GOP have either explicitly endorsed Trump's "The Big Lie" or tacitly allowed it to flourish in the consciousness of their voters, …

Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ imperils Republicans who don’t embrace it
3 years, 7 months ago

Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ imperils Republicans who don’t embrace it

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Allegiance to a lie has become a test of loyalty to Donald Trump and a means of self-preservation for Republicans. “Republicans need to stand for genuinely conservative principles, and steer away from the dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality.” Everyone enmeshed in Trump’s relentless election claims agrees a “Big Lie” is at the heart of the matter. …

Whose ‘Big Lie’? Trump’s proclamation a new GOP litmus test
3 years, 7 months ago

Whose ‘Big Lie’? Trump’s proclamation a new GOP litmus test

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and his supporters are intensifying efforts to shame — and potentially remove — members of their party who are seen as disloyal to the former president and his false claims that last year’s election was stolen from him. “It’s scary,” said Michael Wood, the Texas Republican congressional candidate who based his campaign on a vow to …

Whose ‘Big Lie’? Trump’s proclamation a new GOP litmus test
3 years, 7 months ago

Whose ‘Big Lie’? Trump’s proclamation a new GOP litmus test

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and his supporters are intensifying efforts to shame — and potentially remove — members of their party who are seen as disloyal to the former president and his false claims that last year’s election was stolen from him. “It’s scary,” said Michael Wood, the Texas Republican congressional candidate who based his campaign on a vow to …

Trump’s big lie wouldn’t have worked without his thousands of little lies (opinion)
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump’s big lie wouldn’t have worked without his thousands of little lies (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion, is professor of history at New York University and the author of “Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.” The views expressed here are her own. This is Trump’s “Big Lie,” a brazen falsehood with momentous consequences. Let’s break down the smaller lies that prepared Trump’s followers to accept the Big …

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