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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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! […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Continue Reading5/31/2018 - AIM’s Carrie Sheffield Talks Fake News With Lara Trump
3/28/2018 - Trump Attacks Media Bias at ‘Generation Next’ Forum
3/27/2018 - Media Quick to Debunk Image of ‘March for Our Lives’ Student Activist
1/26/2018 - Facebook Implements Two-Question User Survey to Combat Fake News
1/18/2018 - Here’s Who ‘Won’ the Inaugural Fake News Awards
1/4/2018 - President Trump to Announce ‘Fake News Media’ Awards Monday
12/5/2017 - ABC President Castigates Staff Over Flynn Story
11/27/2017 - Trump Suggests Networks Compete in ‘Fake News’ Contest
11/20/2017 - Seventh-Grader Forced to Change ‘Fake News’ T-Shirt Before CNN Tour
11/17/2017 - News Websites Adopt ‘Trust Indicators’ to Combat Fake News
10/20/2017 - Facebook’s Fact-Checking Moves Slowly
10/18/2017 - Poll: Almost Half Think Media Make Up Stories About Trump
10/3/2017 - Mainstream Media Melts Down Over Trump Tweets
10/2/2017 - Pope Francis to Address ‘Fake News’
9/12/2017 - Report: Facebook’s Attempt to Kill Fake News Isn’t Working
8/30/2017 - More Fake News? Report about Border Patrol Checkpoints during Hurricane Harvey Debunked
8/15/2017 - At It Again: CNN’s Jim Acosta Asked President Trump if He Pushes ‘Fake News’
7/31/2017 - Liberal Twitter Goes Wild Over Dem Rep’s Misleading Video of Trump and Handicapped Child
7/25/2017 - School Librarians Getting Into Liberal Indoctrination Biz
7/24/2017 - Liberal Media Ignores Katie Couric’s ‘Fake News’ Comment
7/20/2017 - Conservatives Plan Protest Against Fake News at CNN Headquarters
7/17/2017 - CBS’s CEO Moonves Open to Idea of Buying CNN
7/14/2017 - Pew: Democrats, Republicans Sharply Divided on Media’s Impact
7/10/2017 - Even the Polish President Called Out Fake News on Alleged Handshake Snub of Trump
7/10/2017 - Left-Wing Media Outlet Jezebel Got It Wrong that Paul Ryan Implemented Dress Code
7/7/2017 - Polish President Calls Media Frenzy Over Wife’s Trump Handshake “Fake News”
7/6/2017 - CNN President Jeff Zucker: We Won’t Let Trump Intimidate Us
7/3/2017 - CNN’s Jim Acosta Gets Nailed by Donald Trump, Jr. on Twitter
6/28/2017 - MSNBC’s Scarborough Tweets Support of CNN, Slams Trump’s Integrity
6/27/2017 - Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story on Trump Advisor’s Russia Ties
6/26/2017 - After Retracting Story, CNN Imposes New Rules on Russia Coverage
6/15/2017 - Fake New Protest at Washington Post
5/25/2017 - Liberal Media Spreads ‘Fake News’ about Ivanka Trump, World Bank Fund
5/24/2017 - Liberal Media Continues to Publish Fake News about President Trump
5/17/2017 - Lefty Filmmaker Michael Moore Gets Series on TNT
5/2/2017 - CNN Rejects Trump Ad Calling Mainstream Media “Fake News” [Video]
4/11/2017 - Dana Loesch Blasted New York Times’ Bias in Publishing ‘Fake News’
4/7/2017 - Facebook Rolling Out “Educational Tool” to Help Users Spot Fake News
3/31/2017 - USA Today Duped by North Korean Parody Twitter Account
3/30/2017 - Poll: 6 in 10 Americans Think Media Reports Fake News
3/21/2017 - Conservative Websites Mislead Readers on Rachel Maddow Ratings
3/21/2017 - West Philly Program Teaches Kids How to Spot Fake News
3/18/2017 - Harvard Library Circulates List of ‘Fake News’ Sites, Includes Conservative Websites
3/16/2017 - Democratic Rep: Best Way to Fight Fake News is to Watch MSNBC [Watch]
2/28/2017 - L.A. Times Now Selling ” We Will Not Shut Up” T-Shirts
2/27/2017 - Liberal Media Goes after Trump’s CPAC 2017 Comments on ‘Fake News Media’
2/20/2017 - President Trump Upset Liberal Media with Tweet on Media as the ‘Enemy of the American People’
2/17/2017 - Trump Blasts “Out of Control” Media at Press Conference
2/9/2017 - Dan Rather Launches “News and Guts” Facebook Page to Combat Fake News
2/8/2017 - MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Assails Fake News [Video]
2/7/2017 - The Anti-Trump Fake News Stories that the Liberal Media Loved to Believe
2/2/2017 - CNN “Frozen Out” of Trump’s White House
1/13/2017 - Lots of Speculation from CNN on How 2 Days Showed What’ll Happen Under a Trump Presidency
1/12/2017 - Bias Buzz Podcast: Obama’s Farewell Speech was a Legacy Speech, Meryl Streep, Trump Cabinet and More!
1/12/2017 - Trump: Buzzfeed a ‘Failing Pile of Garbage’, CNN ‘is Terrible’ and is ‘Fake News’
1/12/2017 - CNN Issued Statement to Clarify Differences between Their Trump-Russia Report and Buzzfeed’s
1/12/2017 - Fake News? Buzzfeed Publishes Unconfirmed Reports of Alleged Ties between Russia, Trump
1/12/2017 - Buzzfeed Admitted Their Russia-Trump Ties Report is Filled with Errors
1/11/2017 - CNN Reporter and CNN’s ‘Fake News’ Shut Down by Trump at Press Conference
12/16/2016 - Facebook Partners with Liberal Organizations to Stop Fake News
12/16/2016 - Facebook to Employ Third Party Fact Checkers for Fake News
12/13/2016 - CNN Article: How to Outsmart the Fake News
12/12/2016 - Dear Liberal Media: Fake News Creator is a Liberal in Los Angeles
12/6/2016 - Greta Van Susteren: Fake News Proliferation Due to Poor Reporting
