Accuracy in Media

Twitter will stop enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy, a move raising concerns among public health experts and being lauded by those who say the social media platform selectively blocked content that questioned conventional wisdom about public policy related to slowing and ending the spread of the virus. Under the new leadership of billionaire Elon Musk, […]

It can be astonishing, even to us, how much the American media will push some progressive goal even if the evidence doesn’t stand up to examination. The latest example is this story that the child tax credit will improve the brain function of poor babies. This is based not just upon bad science, but science […]

A think tank that previously was famous for fostering European and American cooperation on host of issues from trade to national security has rapidly changed its mission since 2008. As a result, it has flirted dangerously close to foreign election interference.   The Atlantic Council, through the establishment of the impressive-sounding Digital Forensic Research Lab, now […]

As far as many in the mainstream media were concerned, the star of the Independence Day celebration on the National Mall was not President Donald Trump. It was not the flyover featuring planes from the U.S. military. It was not the longest and most involved fireworks show ever presented during a Fourth of July celebration […]

The media could hardly wait for Hope Hicks to appear before the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door session on Wednesday. “For Hope Hicks, President Donald Trump is ‘boss man’ no more,” wrote Kaitlin Collins and Kevin Liptak in “She stopped returning some of Trump’s calls. Now Hope Hicks is testifying behind closed doors,” on […]

According to a piece in Psychology Today, supporters of President Donald Trump are unilaterally crazy and paranoid. And that may be one of the biggest dangers to the country today, wrote Bobby Azarian, a Ph.D. cognitive neuroscientist and science writer, under the headline: “The Belief That Trump Is a Messiah Is Rampant and Dangerous” – […]

It gained little attention, but the Trump administration won a major victory in court this week. U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, a 2017 Trump appointee, denied a request from the U.S. House of Representatives to stop President Trump from declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexican border and using funds appropriated for other projects […]

CNN’s Chris Cuomo recently spent time along the border, seeing firsthand the growing crisis. Cuomo summarized the border as the following: “The Republican base cares deeply about immigration. And Trump has spent his first two-plus years in office serving that base. What that means is that the policy is secondary to the politics here. So […]

The Economist, an influential magazine that had a history of being more balanced and has taken a leftward turn under both presidents Obama and Trump, incorrectly called conservative media figure Ben Shapiro “an alt-right sage,” but then later corrected itself. The episode illustrates just how little many mainstream media outlets understand conservative leaders. “.@TheEconomist has […]

President Trump’s plan to rewrite the Clean Water Rule amounts to a “rollback” that “could threaten clean drinking water for millions of Americans,” read the headline on Newsweek’s website. The plan the Trump EPA plans to unveil on Tuesday “would weaken federal clean water rules designed to protect millions of acres of wetlands and thousands […]