For well over a year, The Libertarian Republic has been correctly reporting that the Wuhan Lab was the most likely origin of COVID-19. This while many bodies of authority have been labeling this as a fringe conspiracy theory, despite being the most simple, likely and reasonable explanation the entire time (Occam’s Razor). A regular, low-information…
Andrew Trunsky on April 28, 2021 Hunter Biden will be a guest lecturer at Tulane University for a course titled “Media Polarization and Public Policy Impacts” that focuses, in part, on “fake news.” The son of President Joe Biden is one of nine guest speakers for the class, which focuses on “the current state of…
#FakeNews existed before Facebook, and #CancelCulture existed before Twitter. The press engaged in both of these when all news was in ink. Shamelessly, wild narratives in Opinion Editorials being peddled as fact or universal truth have long existed. Legendary Progressive Rock Band RUSH learned this the hard way when a journalist attempted to sabotage their…
The 2020 presidential race has been a great opportunity to illuminate shady practices, both in politics and in private life. Much like with 2016, it has made it easy to identify mental gymnasts on your Facebook friends list, and which businesses will donate to which side of the aisle. But most of all, it has…
Over the past year, the mainstream media has managed to popularize fake news stories of every kind. Manufactured hate crimes. Climate crises. Fake war footage. Here are just a few of the stories intended to deceive in 2019. MAGA Hat Smirker In January, the media reported that bunch of Covington high school kids surrounded a…
Peter Hasson Vox founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein capped off his year by spreading misleading information in a viral tweet Tuesday. Klein tweeted out a nine-month-old Washington Post article stating counties that hosted Trump rallies saw massive spikes in hate crimes compared to counties that didn’t host Trump rallies. Klein’s tweet garnered more than 7,000 retweets and…
Audrey Conklin Facebook announced Monday an effort to “protect the 2020 U.S. elections” by clearly marking fake news posts, offering protections to politicians’ accounts and offering more transparency. The effort comes after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg defended the social media site’s new advertisement policies, which will effectively allow political campaigns to release misinformation to voters, in an…
Chuck Ross The co-authors of a new book about Brett Kavanaugh blamed New York Times editors on Monday for removing a key passage from an essay they published over the weekend that laid out a new, but uncorroborated, sexual misconduct allegation against the Supreme Court justice. In an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Times reporters Robin…