On his Facebook page Wednesday night, President Trump shared a conversation I had with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump about Accuracy in Media’s work with the new media bias scorecard to mitigate the problems of low trust that many voters have toward the national mainstream news media. Accuracy in Media has been exposing media bias for […]
It was an honor to represent Accuracy In Media at the White House last week at the “Generation Next: A White House Forum” on how to help young people thrive in our economy, get a better return on their education, defeat opioid addiction and preserve campus free speech. The forum featured conversations with President Trump, […]
Emma Gonzalez, a student activist from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has been one of several students front-and-center of the gun control debate after the high school was victim to a mass shooter. Gonzalez spoke at the pro-gun-control March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., where multiple liberal and gun control advocacy groups had […]
Social media giant Facebook’s latest answer to stem the flow of fake news is to send a two-question survey to randomly selected users. Facebook head of newsfeed Adam Mosseri said that the company will sample a new set of users each day and only use those responses for the company’s evaluations of trustworthiness. Mosseri did not […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won first place in the inaugural Fake News Awards unveiled Wednesday by the Republican National Committee. Krugman has been relentlessly critical of the president. His latest piece Friday, headlined, “Republicans Simply Want to Hurt People,” insisted that “making low-income Americans worse off has become a goal in itself for the […]
President Trump tweeted Tuesday that he will announce the winners of the “fake news media” awards on Monday afternoon. I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned! […]
ABC News president James Goldson castigated staff Monday over an erroneous report about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Goldson announced that chief investigative reporter Brian Ross, who wrote the story, will no longer cover stories related to the president. “I don’t think ever in my career have I felt more rage and disappointment and […]
President Trump kept the heat on the media this morning when he tweeted a suggestion that the networks — minus Fox News — should have a contest to determine which one of them has had the most dishonest political coverage of him. We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN […]
A seventh-grade student in Georgia was forced to change out of a “Fake News” T-shirt before going a class trip to tour CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta. The shirt had the letters FNN emblazoned on the front with the words “Fake News Network” below in a style similar to CNN’s lettering. The student Jaxon Jester ordered the shirt […]
In an effort to combat the proliferation of fake news, news websites including Facebook and Google have agreed to abide by a set of “trust indicators” as set forth by The Trust Project that they hope will restore their credibility as news providers. The eight core indicators are: Best Practices: What Are Your Standards? Who funds the […]