With each passing day of the Trump administration, facts are harder and harder to come by. We’re still coping with the consequences of weaponizing social media and the proliferation of fake news, which in no small part defined the 2016 election. So it should come as no surprise—but is still extremely depressing all…

President Donald Trump and his aides’ hatred of White House staffers dishing to journalists is matched only by their collective inability to stop dishing to journalists. There are plenty of reasons to talk to reporters—protest and self-preservation first among them—and slices of life behind the Oval Office curtain…

Donald Trump only attracts the best people. The biggest patriots. America–lovers, one and all.

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Journalists’ introspection following the 2016 presidential election has included endless re-litigation of the role played by fake news and other low-quality information sources. So right on time, we have a report in Politico detailing how a new, hyper-partisan press is emerging in states around the country, muscling…

House Intelligence Committee Chairman and Trump stooge Devin Nunes apparently has been operating a “news” site for months that no one seems to have known about.

On average, Donald Trump lobbed a “fake” insult more than once per day since he became president. Here are just a few!

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With bated breath, American journalists have waited for President Donald Trump to release his list of the worst media outlets in the country. He finally did so Wednesday night, but the GOP’s official website, which hosted the list, promptly crashed.

Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, self-styled (pseudo) critic of Donald Trump, joined ABC News on Sunday to discuss a speech he plans to deliver Wednesday on the Senate floor, the same day our president will take time from his golfing to deliver “fake news” awards.

Fox News blowhole and mixed martial arts enthusiast Sean Hannity tweeted this on Thursday:

As Facebook has slowly come clean about its distribution of Russian-financed political ads during last year’s presidential race, the tech giant has launched a major PR salvo to show how much it loves democracy. CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the ways the company will be a “force for good” in a video last month. Ads in…

Thomas Jefferson was looking for someone to write a hit piece. It was July 1793, just months after the U.S. declared neutrality in a war between Britain and France. The then-Secretary of State wanted a writer—or better yet, an entire publication—to criticize the government’s decision and respond to the colleague who…

On Tuesday, The Arizona Republic ran an 1,100-word obituary of a 38-year-old man named Paul Horner. Horner, who died of a suspected drug overdose, was famous for gaming digital advertising networks with widely shared fake news stories to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. Some of his false stories were…

A fake story about a make–believe Houston mosque turning away Hurricane Harvey evacuees is going viral among right–wing Islamophobes who are too lazy to see that it’s a hoax.

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Fox News is caught up in a fake news scandal of its own making because the network didn’t bother checking with The New York Times before accusing the newspaper of interfering with a U.S. military operation targeting the Islamic State in 2015.