Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) An unfortunate byproduct of the arguments over climate change has been the publication of some truly awful books. Think tank staff members, disgruntled scientists, and self-appointed experts have produced page after page of arguments we knew were wrong decades ago, framing them as earth-shattering revelations that will cause […]
Enlarge / A man walks through “In America: Remember,” a public art installation commemorating all the Americans who have died due to COVID-19, on the National Mall September 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images / Drew Angerer) From the very beginning, misinformation has plagued the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, undermining efforts […]
Enlarge / A Smartmatic warehouse. (credit: Smartmatic ) Voting machine maker Smartmatic yesterday filed lawsuits against Newsmax and the owner of One America News Network (OANN), claiming the conservative news organizations conducted a “disinformation campaign against Smartmatic” and “acted with actual malice and ill will” by falsely claiming “that Smartmatic fixed, rigged, and stole the […]
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Dominion Voting Systems filed another round of lawsuits today, alleging that the company was defamed by conservative news channels Newsmax and One America News Network when they aired segments that claimed the 202 US election was rigged. Dominion also filed a defamation suit against Patrick Byrne, the founder and former […]
Greg Kelly is getting smoked out by Twitter over his wacky weed claims! The Newsmax anchor perplexed social media on Wednesday after warning followers not to smoke cannabis by sharing a personal story that’s quite impossible to believe. In an apparent response to Hunter Biden’s new memoir and the legalization of cannabis in New York, […]
Who possibly could’ve thought this was a good idea? And is this really all right-wing weirdos have against Joe Biden, that they’re making arguments about his rescue dogs? On Friday night on far-right-wing conservative TV network Newsmax, host Greg Kelly aired a segment on his show where he had a pair of guests on to… talk about how […]
Mike Ditka did a phone interview with Newsmax, the halfway house for wayward Fox News personalities and dollar store version of Mike Gundy’s favorite ultra-Trumpy “news network” OAN, and told kneeling NFL players to “get the hell out” of America. Read more…