AltFacts
AltFacts
Previously we might have simply called these 'lies', but 'Alternative Facts' sounds so much more truthy.
Wednesday 20 March 2019
Along with the workers, Trump also attacked U.S. Sen. John McCain and went on a tirade about renewable energy during his appearance
Saturday 16 February 2019
Texas secretary of state admits there weren't 95,000 "illegal" voters, but still wants to purge state's voter rolls
Friday 15 February 2019
...lawyers representing both the White House and the Trump Organization repeatedly provided false information to ethics officials, including “evolving stories” about whether payments were made to Mr. Cohen and the purposes of those payments.
Health experts warn that the claim is not true and adds to misinformation that could cause harm.
Tuesday 12 February 2019
The El Paso Fire Department late Monday denied President Donald Trump's claim that officials gave him special permission to pack more people in to his rally than the facility allowed.
Monday 28 January 2019
Sunday 27 January 2019
An attractive narrative emits a powerful force, whether it’s about politics or things less serious, and we’re all susceptible to its allure.
Tuesday 22 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 32
...his admission that he fears that lying for Donald Trump will be on his gravestone stood out as the most honest answer among screeds of spin and distraction.
Thursday 17 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 27
Trump’s legal spokesman Rudolph W. Giuliani on Wednesday night appeared to grant the possibility that members of Trump’s campaign did, in fact, collude with the Russians during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Friday 11 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 21
"From the beginning, we have alleged that Alex Jones and his financial network trafficked in lies and hate in order to profit from the grief of Sandy Hook families."
Monday 7 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 17
Jimmy Carter became the latest ex-POTUS to come forward and call BS on Trump.
Friday 4 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 14
Trump claimed without evidence on Friday that past presidents have privately confided to him that they regret not building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Saturday 29 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 8
The inspector general of the president’s own Justice Department concluded the texts were missing due to technological glitches; 20,000 were recovered.
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 5
Trump incorrectly told troops in Iraq on Wednesday that he gave them their first pay raise in more than 10 years -- a falsehood he has repeatedly told.
Monday 17 December 2018
The agreement requires Mr. Stone to run ads in national newspapers [...] apologizing for making defamatory statements [...] It also requires Mr. Stone to publish a retraction of the false statements on social media.
Social media lies have real-world consequences.
Sunday 16 December 2018
President also claims 'Fake News' won't report on developments despite major national outlets covering inspector general report
Saturday 15 December 2018
Friday 14 December 2018
“You’re saying he’s not telling the truth. That’s a slur. That’s a slur.”
Monday 10 December 2018
Trump’s willingness to constantly repeat false claims has posed a unique challenge to fact-checkers.
Friday 7 December 2018
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Friday 30 November 2018
“Is the provocation started by Kiev in this area (Azov Sea) a real reason for the cancellation? We heard that as an official version and we accepted that. Is it a real one? I believe we should look for answers in the U.S. domestic political situation”
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Tuesday 27 November 2018
She also claimed that the report was not “data-driven.”
Wednesday 21 November 2018
...his willingness to stretch the truth for his own gain is nothing new. But his willingness to stretch the truth in defense of blatant human rights abuses may be.
Sunday 18 November 2018
...“in five years, everyone will know the Earth is flat” and the knowledge will bring about a kind of “societal collapse” because everything stems from a spherical understanding of the Earth.
Saturday 17 November 2018
Monday 12 November 2018
From “200,000” to … 85. In total, 0.0007 percent of Florida voters were found to be improperly registered. There’s no evidence that any of those voters cast any ballots — especially in 2018, six years after they were removed from the voter rolls.
Friday 9 November 2018
Despite his claims, the president has presented no evidence that officials are attempting to rig the election in favor of Democratic candidates.
Thursday 8 November 2018
Sanders tweeted out the doctored video, writing, “We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.”
Thursday 1 November 2018
Republicans are now squarely the party of McCarthy
Wednesday 31 October 2018
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Saturday 27 October 2018
Monday 22 October 2018
"Reporters got played or took liberties. Bloomberg should retract."
Sunday 14 October 2018
Thursday 4 October 2018
Imagine the volume of lies we’d be subjected to if these “daily” briefings happened more frequently than once every few weeks.
Thursday 27 September 2018
While a Devil’s Triangle is defined as a sex act involving two men and a woman in a decade-old posting on urbandictionary.com, Kavanaugh insisted under oath that it was a drinking game involving three glasses.
Thursday 13 September 2018
Trump's penchant for saying false things is exponentially increasing as his presidency wears on.
Monday 10 September 2018
“He just says, ‘Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.’ Well, what, how exactly are you going to negotiate that?” Obama continued. “What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is, he doesn’t have an answer.”
But Trump got it wrong — way wrong — when he said it hasn't happened in a century.
In the last 70 years, it's happened in at least 62 quarters, most recently in 2006.
Thursday 30 August 2018
A Texas judge denied the motion by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against him and his Infowars operation by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim
Wednesday 29 August 2018
The president falsely claimed Google did not link to State of the Union addresses
...saying it had found no evidence that the private servers she used while secretary of state had been compromised.
Tuesday 28 August 2018
McCain never had cancer, either. Instead, all that "cancer" talk was simply McCain laying the groundwork for his eventual suicide, so he wouldn't be taken off to Guantanamo
Thursday 23 August 2018
It’s now clear that the president’s statement was a lie — and that the people speaking for him repeated it.
Warren said, “Is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real problems are.”
The tweet gives prominence to a false narrative pushed by some right-wing groups in South Africa that there have been numerous seizures of white-owned land and widespread killings of white farmers.
Wednesday 15 August 2018
“I’m sorry for the mistake, but no apologies for the 700,000 jobs for African Americans created under President Trump.”
Tuesday 14 August 2018
Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the economy added only 195,000 jobs for African-Americans under President Barack Obama. In fact, it added about three million.
Monday 13 August 2018
While signing the annual funding bill, President Trump inaccurately claimed that the amount was “historic” and the military had “never” previously received funding.
Friday 10 August 2018
Trump Jr. shared a doctored image that makes his father's Gallup presidential approval rating look 10 points higher than it actually is
Monday 6 August 2018
“We have plenty of water to fight these wildfires, but let’s be clear: It’s our changing climate that is leading to more severe and destructive fires”
...asserting that “facts develop” and saying that the president “misspoke” — while saying something he has said dozens of times.
In fact, the economy and jobs are nowhere close to historic bests based on several measures.
Friday 3 August 2018
The previous gold standard in Presidential lying was, of course, Richard Nixon.
The President, for example, has a habit of repeating the same falsehoods over and over again, especially as they concern his core political causes, such as trade or immigration
Thursday 2 August 2018
The late al-Qaeda leader’s communication to aides via satellite phone had already been reported in 1996
Wednesday 1 August 2018
Under Trump, conspiracy theories and an all out assault on the truth have created a strange new reality
“Q” feeds disciples, or “bakers,” scraps of intelligence, or “bread crumbs,” that they scramble to bake into an understanding of the “storm”
Tuesday 31 July 2018
Giuliani essentially conceded that he was saying things not necessarily because they were correct but because he was being strategic.
Saturday 28 July 2018
Trump on Sunday repeated false claims that his poll numbers among Republican are higher than former President Lincoln.
Tuesday 24 July 2018
“Just remember: What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what's happening,” he said. “Just stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you see from these people — the fake news.”
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." --George Orwell, "1984"
Monday 23 July 2018
Wednesday 18 July 2018
Bogacheva and Arsov are among more than 20 people being looked at in two overlapping investigations in Macedonia
His assessment of Russia’s current aggression is at odds with the views of U.S. intelligence officials.
Tuesday 17 July 2018
...reviewing the guard is something she's been photographed doing many times over the years.
Monday 16 July 2018
Despite Trump’s repeated feverish claims to the contrary, no machines are actually missing.
Saturday 14 July 2018
Facebook's admission that fake news hurt Facebook users' experience and the company's pledges to change have the ring of "sorry not sorry" to them.
Friday 13 July 2018
“I didn't criticize the prime minister,” he said. He went on to suggest a recording would vindicate him.
The recording exists. And it completely and utterly contradicts Trump's claim.
Trump insisted Friday morning that he did not criticize British prime minister Theresa May in an interview with The Sun, even though the tabloid recorded his comments, which were very obviously critical of May.
He claims that he is more popular among Republicans than Abraham Lincoln.
Tuesday 3 July 2018
...publicly debunking allegations [...] suggesting he was a Pakistani operative who stole government secrets with cover from House Democrats.
Wednesday 27 June 2018
...mischaracterizing the California congresswoman’s call for a public “push back” against the Trump administration’s policies.
Thursday 21 June 2018
Until Trump signed the order on Wednesday, the administration was insisting that it didn’t have a policy of separating families (false), that several laws and court rulings were forcing these separations (false), that Democrats were to blame (false), that only Congress could stop family separations (false) and that an executive order wouldn’t get the job done.
Tuesday 19 June 2018
The false claims come as the president — emboldened by fewer disciplinarians inside the West Wing — indulges in frequent Twitter screeds.
Monday 18 June 2018
Trump remained resistant on Monday..., repeating the false assertion that Democrats were the ones to blame for it, and suggesting that criminals — not parents — were toting juveniles to the United States.
Saturday 16 June 2018
His comments are the latest example of his asking the public to discount what it sees with its own eyes and instead believe his own self-serving version of reality.
In fact, there is no law that requires families to be separated at the border.
Friday 15 June 2018
Monday 4 June 2018
“You said last August that the president did not dictate the statement about the Trump Tower meeting during the campaign, but the lawyers wrote to the special counsel that the president did dictate the statement,” a reporter said, and then asked, “what’s the reason for that discrepancy?”
Sunday 27 May 2018
Trump referred to an unnamed White House official as a “phony source” in a Saturday tweet—an official who had in fact spoken to the press in a White House-approved briefing.
Saturday 26 May 2018
The senior White House official cited by the Times spoke to dozens of reporters Thursday at the White House and on a conference call to brief them on Trump’s decision earlier that day to cancel his June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Thursday 24 May 2018
James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said and has continued to say the exact opposite.
Tuesday 22 May 2018
Sunday 20 May 2018
The tweets are riddled with misinformation and, in some cases, outright falsehoods.
Friday 18 May 2018
Friday 4 May 2018
“Again, I gave you the best information that I had,” Sanders said over and over again Thursday in response to questions about why the White House failed to disclose that Trump had reimbursed his longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, for the $130,000 payment to keep Stormy Daniels quiet.
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Jordan said "nothing comes to mind" when asked again whether the president has ever said something publicly that is a lie.
Wednesday 11 April 2018
The story broke shortly before 4 p.m.; about an hour later, it led the websites of the Drudge Report, ABC News, CNN, NBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post.
But not Fox News Channel.
Monday 2 April 2018
"By law our competitive package products, including those that we deliver for Amazon, must cover their costs," an August 2017 USPS press release said.
Monday 26 March 2018
"Why should we in this room and, more importantly, the American people, trust anything this administration is telling them?"
Friday 23 March 2018
Yet last week’s Times and Post stories suggest that some of Trump’s claims about “fake news” don’t hold up. In many instances, the news isn’t “fake” — just inconvenient and ill-timed for the White House.
Wednesday 14 March 2018
“So he’s proud. I said, ‘Wrong Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know. ... I had no idea. I just said ‘You’re wrong.’ You know why? Because we’re so stupid. … And I thought they were smart. I said, ‘You’re wrong Justin.’ He said, ‘Nope we have no trade deficit.’ I said, ‘Well in that case I feel differently,’ I said ‘but I don’t believe it.’ I sent one of our guys out, his guy, my guy, they went out, I said ‘check because I can’t believe it.’”
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Steve Goldstein, top spokesman for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, was fired Tuesday for contradicting the official administration account of Tillerson's own firing
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Trump's argument was that he “was right” when he spoke about an imaginary terrorist attack in Sweden because a subsequent riot validated his basic premise that immigrants in Sweden sometimes commit violent acts.
Monday 5 March 2018
Trump incorrectly described a phone call he had with South Korean President Moon Jae-in as being with someone from North Korea, a National Security Council official said Monday.
Sunday 4 March 2018
“Now we're talking. They, by the way, called up a couple of days ago, they said 'we would like to talk,'" Trump said. “And I said, 'so would we, but you have to denuke.'”
Thursday 1 March 2018
“The guy with the bat looked at me, and I said, ‘Look, you’ve gotta stop this. Put down the bat,’” Trump said. “I guess he recognized me because he said, ‘Mr. Trump, I didn’t do anything wrong.’ I said, ‘How could you not do anything wrong when you’re whacking a guy with a bat?’ Then he ran away.”
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Glenn Haab ... has admitted that he altered words in an email sent by a CNN producer, ultimately producing the illusion the news network had demanded his son only ask their pre-written questions at a televised forum on guns last week.
Saturday 24 February 2018
Thursday 22 February 2018
Tenney, who is running for reelection in a hotly contested congressional district in Central New York, did not provide any evidence to back up her claim.
In subsequent tweets, the president doubled down on his support for concealed carry in schools.
Tuesday 20 February 2018
A Florida legislator’s aide was fired Tuesday after claiming two survivors of the Parkland high school shooting were not students, but instead “actors that travel to various crisis when they happen.”
Monday 19 February 2018
...it tied in the failure of the FBI in reacting to warnings about the Florida mass shooter, who killed at least 17 people, and used that to challenge the credibility of the Mueller investigation.
Sunday 18 February 2018
It’s on tape, in tweets, and in transcripts.
Here’s a quick guide to his many misstatements and misleading claims in this Twitter barrage.
Friday 16 February 2018
"Those 35 thousand people aren't going to change their minds," wrote one member, mocking those who would read the press coverage he and his friends concocted. "They're lemmings. ... They will go to the grave convinced that the shooter was a white nationalist."
The indictment, in fact, says nothing about whether there was collusion, nor did Rosenstein rule it out during a news conference.
Rosenstein said that there was “no allegation in the indictment of any effect on the outcome of the election,” but he did not say there was definitively no impact.
Thursday 15 February 2018
We rarely have such strong evidence a politician’s claim is false. Contrary to what Pence said, U.S. intelligence agencies did not evaluate whether Russian interference affected the outcome of the 2016 election. It remains an open question whether that interference had an impact on the race.
Sunday 11 February 2018
Resembling a local, conservative news site, “The California Republican” is classified on Facebook as a “media/news company” and claims to deliver “the best of US, California, and Central Valley news, sports, and analysis.” But the website is paid for by Nunes’ campaign committee, according to small print at the bottom of the site.
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.
Thursday 1 February 2018
Trump says the ratings for his first State of the Union address this week are "the highest number in history," but that is not true.
Friday 26 January 2018
As the network escalates its attacks on the FBI, mainstream conservatives say it is endangering U.S. institutions.
Thursday 11 January 2018
Wednesday 27 December 2017
Spoiler alert: He hasn’t.
Monday 18 December 2017
In a speech outlining his first national security strategy, President Trump sought to distinguish himself as a commander in chief who is breaking records and setting precedents.
Friday 8 December 2017
A since-deleted tweet on the official Fox News twitter account had read, “BREAKING NEWS: Roy Moore accuser admits she forged part of yearbook inscription attributed to Alabama senate candidate.”
Authoritarian rulers across the globe are adopting President Donald Trump’s favorite phrase to limit free speech, with prominent leaders or state media in at least 15 countries using his “fake news” line to denounce their critics
Saturday 2 December 2017
Brian Ross ... has been suspended for four weeks without pay after incorrectly reporting that Michael T. Flynn ... would testify that President Trump had directed him to make contact with Russian officials while Mr. Trump was still a candidate
Wednesday 29 November 2017
"Whether it's a real video, the threat is real," Sanders told reporters Wednesday
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Monday 27 November 2017
In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15.
Phillips also repeatedly asked the reporter to guarantee her that Moore would lose the election if she came forward.
Friday 24 November 2017
Friday 17 November 2017
Angry viewers called for the anchor to move to CNN for discrediting the conspiracy theory which President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted
Tuesday 14 November 2017
“Hi, this is Lenny Bernstein, I’m a reporter for the Washington Post calling to find out if anyone at this address is a female between the ages of 54 to 57 years old willing to make damaging remarks about candidate Roy Moore for a reward of between 5,000 and 7,000 dollars. We will not be fully investigating these claims however we will make a written report.”
Sunday 5 November 2017
Reports that the perpetrator carried an Antifa flag and told churchgoers “this is a communist revolution” are fake news.
Friday 3 November 2017
By some accounts spreading online, the civil war begins on Saturday, when far-left radicals will gather in America’s streets. The only problem: That’s simply not true.
Saturday 28 October 2017
"Give me a break, the speculation is so insane right now," former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said on Fox News Saturday morning. "What we should be focusing on are the continued lies of the Clinton administration, are the continued fallacies that they perpetuate."
Friday 20 October 2017
On Thursday, 11 days later, the network retracted the story after being told the Trump supporter never served in the SEALs or in Vietnam, much less earned commendations for his service. ... By then it had amassed 1.5 million views.
Monday 16 October 2017
Thursday 12 October 2017
At this point, Trump has publicly made this claim at least 20 times. And it's still not true.
Saturday 7 October 2017
“TheResistANNce account is gone,” he said. “There’s no sign of the tweet except one screenshot. The only person who responded to the tweet deleted their account.”
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Iranian reports that the nation tested a new ballistic missile so far does not appear to be true, the official said, adding: "As far as we can see, it did not happen."
Sunday 24 September 2017
Zuckerberg acknowledged the problem posed by fake news. But he told Obama that those messages weren’t widespread on Facebook and that there was no easy remedy
Thursday 21 September 2017
But asked [...] if he had ever lied from the podium, Spicer said: “I don’t think so.”
Monday 18 September 2017
“We are not aware of any long queues at the gas stations,” one foreign resident of Pyongyang said. “At least, I haven’t noticed anything. I asked a few Koreans, and they haven’t seen anything either.”
Thursday 14 September 2017
He went on to claim that Sputnik’s influence on right-wing, pro-Trump, new websites is pervasive: “Many of the most popular articles about things like WikiLeaks and pizzagate and other conspiracy theories were prominently featured on the Sputnik website”
Spicer claims it was his job to say whatever President Trump told him to say.
Thursday 7 September 2017
“When it’s coming out of the mouths of people in power,” she says, “it’s no longer marginal.”
Wednesday 6 September 2017
To state the obvious, these are potentially dangerous comments from Limbaugh, who is based in Palm Beach, Fla. He is encouraging listeners who might be in Irma's path not to take seriously the official guidance disseminated through the media.
Jones's contention is that the government — or, more precisely, the “deep state,” now that Trump is president — uses its “weather weapon” to stoke fear of climate change and promote a liberal agenda.
Monday 21 August 2017
I witnessed a terrorist attack in Charlottesville. Then the conspiracy theories began.
They wrote that I was a CIA operative, funded by (choose your own adventure) George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, the IMF/World Bank, and/or a global Jewish mafia to orchestrate the Charlottesville attack in order to turn the general public against the alt-right.
“What would you do if we asked you to write something that wasn’t true?”
Friday 18 August 2017
It requires a big leap in logic to presume an ad in North Carolina has anything to do with protesters clashing in Virginia. We rate this statement False.
Thursday 17 August 2017
The idea that pig’s blood could serve as a weapon against Muslims has been around in popular culture for decades.
Wednesday 16 August 2017
A case study in how a cluster of websites managed to pose as legitimate sources and, despite being exposed, got away with it
The doctored photograph ... turned out to be a Getty Image shot in 2009 during clashes between police officers and protesters in Athens, Greece.
Sunday 13 August 2017
For the extreme right, ... the entire Unite the Right rally was potentially a false flag perpetrated by the Democrats and their enablers in the Deep State
Tuesday 8 August 2017
Monday 7 August 2017
"Thank you for joining us as we provide the news of the week from Trump Tower here in New York."
In a series of tweets from Bedminster, N.J., where Trump is on what aides describe as a 17-day “working vacation,” he ticked off a number of factors that he said have “driven the Trump base even closer together.”
Wednesday 2 August 2017
When the story was deleted in May, a statement was left in its place that said the network would "continue to investigate" the situation and "provide updates as warranted." More than two months have gone by, but no updates have been made available.
"I wouldn't say it was a lie," Sanders told reporters
Tuesday 1 August 2017
“The Chief Scout Executive’s message to the Scouting community speaks for itself,” the organization said, referring to a July 27 statement from Michael Surbaugh, ... who apologized to anyone in the scouting community who could have been offended or alarmed by the political rhetoric in the speech.
“And I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful.”
The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide
Thursday 27 July 2017
Trump said his decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military ... came “after consultation with my generals and military experts.” It’s becoming clearer and clearer that he was lying.
Wednesday 26 July 2017
Overall, a majority of voters, 59 percent, believe Clinton won more votes than Trump, but 28 percent believe Trump won more votes.
Sunday 23 July 2017
...after the network appeared to falsely blame the newspaper for leaking intelligence information that it said led to a top ISIS leader's escape
“The scandals are about the president’s lies,” replied Stelter. “About voter fraud; about wire-tapping; his repeated lies about those issues. That’s the scandal.”
“[Donald Trump] doesn’t think he’s lying about those issues, and you know it,” she said.
Monday 17 July 2017
“We’ve signed more bills — and I’m talking about through the legislature — than any president, ever,” Mr. Trump said at a “Made in America” event at the White House. “For a while, Harry Truman had us. And now, I think, we have everybody.”
Tuesday 11 July 2017
Fox said the program had been mistaken in suggesting that memos written by Comey and provided to congressional investigators contained “top secret” information. Instead, the material had a lower-level security classification.
Monday 10 July 2017
It is not true, though, that each memo contained classified information — or, at least, it’s not true that each memo was marked as being classified.
Comey made clear that the memo he gave to his friend to leak, documenting a meeting on Feb. 14 of this year, was not one that included classified material.
Friday 7 July 2017
“Somebody for some reason appears to be shopping a fairly convincing fake NSA document that purports to directly implicate somebody from the Trump campaign in working with the Russians on their attack on the election. It is a forgery.”
Friday 30 June 2017
A report on Alex Jones’ InfoWars claiming child sex slaves have been kidnapped and shipped to Mars is untrue, NASA told The Daily Beast on Thursday.
You might know Alex Jones as the guy who peddles conspiracy theories about politics and pizza.
"...there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20 year ride. So that once they get to Mars they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony."
Monday 26 June 2017
Critics will long cite this episode as evidence that CNN is precisely what Trump has called it — “fake news.” Yet the departure of three journalists immediately following a mangled story provides a counterpoint to this particular slander. Purveyors of fake news, after all, don’t take drastic personnel moves following a bogus story. They rejoice in it.
Friday 23 June 2017
The now-deleted story ... was published Thursday and cited a single, unnamed source who claimed that the Senate Intelligence Committee was looking into a "$10-billion Russian investment fund whose chief executive met with a member of President Donald Trump's transition team four days before Trump's inauguration."
Saturday 10 June 2017
It mattered little that Mr. Comey had said no such thing. The tweet quickly ricocheted through the ecosystem of fake news and disinformation on the far right
Thursday 8 June 2017
“No, I can definitively say the president is not a liar,” Sanders told reporters at the White House during an off-camera briefing Thursday. “It’s frankly insulting that that question would be asked.”
Wednesday 7 June 2017
...researchers at the Atlantic Council, a think tank, excavated the root of one such fake story, involving an incident in the Black Sea in which a Russian warplane repeatedly buzzed a United States Navy destroyer, the Donald Cook.
Thursday 1 June 2017
Trump frequently relied on dubious facts and unbalanced claims to make his case that the agreement would hurt the U.S. economy
There were times when on-air stupidity of this sort was ignorable, back when presidents could identify propaganda.
Tuesday 30 May 2017
...as Trump and his aides tell it, this was the most successful, most historic, most well-received foreign trip ever embarked on by a U.S. president.
Friday 26 May 2017
Roger knew it was easy to manipulate fear and loathing in an elderly audience raised on 3 broadcasting channels (CBS, NBC & ABC plus PBS). They grew up trusting the news and Walter Cronkite.
Thursday 25 May 2017
Researchers have discovered an extensive, international hacking campaign that steals documents from its targets, carefully modifies them and repackages them as disinformation aimed at undermining civil society and democratic institutions
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Tuesday 23 May 2017
(9) What this means is, it's UNBELIEVABLY EARLY in the federal criminal investigation into the Trump campaign's Russian ties. *SUPER* EARLY.
(10) This is why the White House, GOP Congressmen, and far-right trolls like Louise Mensch want you to think it's LATE in the investigation.
(13) To this end, right-wing trolls undermine the anti-Trump movement with stories they know are BS about how indictments are "coming soon."
Monday 22 May 2017
...members of the Trump administration already have tried to dupe the New York Times on several occasions — presumably with tips that seem plausible and are not easily dismissed as “crazy.”
Saturday 20 May 2017
The reemergence of the conspiracy theory this week, which did not lack for real news, revealed plenty about the fake news ecosystem ... in the Trump era.
Friday 19 May 2017
The mirror image of Breitbart and InfoWars on the right, it focuses nearly exclusively on real and imagined connections between Trump and Russia.
Thursday 18 May 2017
Right-wing media is creating coherent alternate storylines with different characters and different context
Tuesday 16 May 2017
1) Magnify doubts about the story
2) Argue that this isn’t a big deal anyway
3) Obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate
Conservative media and pro-Trump zealots have begun flooding the internet with a conspiracy theory tied to the July 2016 murder of a Democratic National Committee staffer
Monday 15 May 2017
The president rarely surfs the web on his own, but his staff have made a habit of slipping news stories on to his desk—including the occasional internet hoax.
Friday 12 May 2017
Thursday 11 May 2017
“Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just … I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do”
Saturday 6 May 2017
His response immediately drew boos
Monday 1 May 2017
"People don’t ask that question, but why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?"
Sunday 23 April 2017
“I’ve always said he’s just creating a negotiating position by calling the press the enemy of the people. I don’t think he believes that deep down.”
Friday 21 April 2017
Wednesday 19 April 2017
“It’s a clear fact acknowledged by the international community that, for thousands of years in history, Korea has never been part of China”
Monday 17 April 2017
Monday 10 April 2017
Trump is by far the most hostile to the press—and to the truth—she’s ever seen, with a White House staff using the briefing room as a daily disinformation machine
Wednesday 5 April 2017
“our growing intolerance of an unedited reality”
Monday 3 April 2017
ProPublica ... did not appreciate Spicer calling it a “left-wing blog” during the Monday press briefing
Wednesday 29 March 2017
Spicer angrily dismissed inquiries about the matter Tuesday, declaring that "every single person who's been briefed on this, as I've said ad nauseam from this podium ... have been very clear that there is no connection between the president or the staff here and anyone doing anything with Russia."
Monday 27 March 2017
"It's not just about making deals, it's about knowing when to walk away from deals and knowing when there's a bad deal that's the only solution."
Sunday 26 March 2017
You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.
Tuesday 21 March 2017
"Wrong and Misleading: he spoke broadly and never mentioned any person," Spicer tweeted
Monday 20 March 2017
But the current president of the United States lies. He lies in ways that no American politician ever has before.
Saturday 18 March 2017
“Two plus two is four. Three plus one is four. Partly cloudy, partly sunny. Glass half full, glass half empty. Those are alternative facts,” she said, further defining the infamous phrase as “additional facts and alternative information.”
Friday 17 March 2017
“Germany has done very well in its trade deals with the U.S., and I give them credit for it”
In fact, the U.S. has no direct, bilateral trade deals with Germany. As Merkel quickly pointed out, Germany's trade with the U.S. is governed by rules negotiated by the European Union on behalf of member states.
Tuesday 21 February 2017
“I was curious if the president regrets or wants to clarify his characterization … of the media as an enemy of the American people.”
There hasn't been a single day of Trump's presidency in which he has said nothing false or misleading.
Sunday 19 February 2017
Mr. Jones, in case you aren’t aware, is the conspiracy-theorizing, flame-throwing nationalistic radio and internet star who’s best known for suggesting that Sept. 11 was an inside job, that the Sandy Hook school shooting was “completely fake”
“We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?”
Friday 17 February 2017
“The rollout was perfect,” Trump said.
Thursday 16 February 2017
Trump has released a version of his Media Accountability survey before [...]. This new version has been updated to reflect Trump’s contemporary, more presidential tantrums, though the overall thrust remains the same.
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Just hours before Flynn resigned on Monday, Conway said Trump had “full confidence” in his national security adviser.
Sunday 12 February 2017
The New Hampshire voting fraud claims are a variant on a frequently repeated Trump claim of nationwide voter fraud — which is also unfounded.
Thursday 9 February 2017
A Gorsuch spokesman confirmed the comments were made.
Wednesday 8 February 2017
There has never been an Islamist terror attack in Atlanta.
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Murder rate near 45-year low
Monday 6 February 2017
How do we know? Because she cited the same nonexistent attack in separate interviews with two other outlets — Cosmopolitan magazine and TMZ.
The irony here is that there’s one person we know for sure has paid people to show up and voice a prefabricated political message: Donald Trump. In the summer of 2015, Trump arranged for actors to show up at Trump Tower and cheer and wave signs as he announced his candidacy for president, offering them $50 for their services.
Saturday 4 February 2017
The real danger is that, inundated with “alternative facts,” many voters will simply shrug, asking, “What is truth?” — and not wait for an answer.
It's only the second week of the Trump administration, but there has been a continued tension with facts.
Friday 3 February 2017
Conway claims that “most people don't know that because it didn't get covered.” Most people don’t know about it because it didn’t happen.
Thursday 2 February 2017
“Iran has violated the Joint Resolution, that Iran’s additional hostile actions that it took against our Navy vessel are ones that we are very clear are not going to sit by and take”
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Like other banned abusive subreddits (r/fatpeoplehate and r/pizzagate to name a few), r/alright have made a new home for themselves on Reddit knockoff Voat.
Tuesday 31 January 2017
“But it can't be ... a ban if you're letting a million people in, if 325,000 people from another country can't come in,” Spicer said. “That, by nature, is not a ban.”
Monday 30 January 2017
Conway represents the man who sent his press secretary out on his second day in office to complain about portrayal of his inaugural crowd size.
Saturday 28 January 2017
@SeanSpicer's role in the Trump administration will be to provide the American public with robust and clearly articulated misinformation.
Friday 27 January 2017
When we are in an environment headed by someone who lies, so often, something frightening happens: We stop reacting to the liar as a liar.
“Better to get your news directly from the president,” Smith said. “In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth.”
Thursday 26 January 2017
Much of what it presents is misinformation wrapped in right-wing opinion.
...voters who did not look as if they should be allowed to vote
Tuesday 24 January 2017
...a zero-calorie 6-slice pizza loaded with all your favorites: bacon, pepperoni, ham, sausage, house made sauce and 100% whole-milk mozzarella.
There is no evidence to support the claim, which has been discredited repeatedly by numerous fact-checkers.
Spicer did not provide hard data to back up the claim
Monday 23 January 2017
One of the most striking features of the early Trump administration has been its political uses of lying.
...falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority...
Sunday 22 January 2017
Lookups for 'fact' spiked after Kellyanne Conway described false statements as 'alternative facts'
Choose Your Alternative Facts
Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, used his first White House briefing to shout at journalists
Alternative facts? Four of the five facts he uttered were just not true. Look, alternative facts are not facts; they’re falsehoods.
Saturday 21 January 2017
He also called journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth,” and he said that up to 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, a claim that photographs disproved.
THE FACTS: Trump is wrong.