Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Patel promised journalists who reported, correctly, that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election: “We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly.” And yet, despite the plentiful on-record examples of Patel saying …
Kash Patel’s claim that he knows nothing about Stew Peters, a conspiracy theorist who has promoted anti-semitic beliefs, was flatly rejected by the far-right host, whose show the FBI director nominee has appeared on multiple times. He absolutely does know who I am,” Peters said Thursday on his show, “The Stew Peters Show.” Peters, who has been labeled as an …
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The discourse on social media, particularly on X, appears to be dominated by racists these days from White Supremacists and their lackeys. Peters told the police officer that he had visited a “buddy’s house” and had likely had “three beers.” He was described by the officer as “swaying slightly,” slurring his words, and having a “smell of alcohol emanating from …
CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab that draws on the work of its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check, to recap the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation. Debunking Died Suddenly, an anti-vax video making waves online A slapdash conspiracy film baselessly alleging that COVID-19 vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths, particularly in young …
