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1 day ago
London politics

Tory Party Goes Full MAGA': Backlash Over Tory Ad Attacking Mayor Sadiq Khan

The Conservative Party faced backlash for an ad targeting London mayor Sadiq Khan, making false claims about crime statistics and enforcement tactics.
Critics and experts pointed out that the video was filled with inaccuracies and amateur propaganda, comparing the tactics to those of former U.S. President Donald Trump.
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6 days ago
Left-wing politics

Alexander Smirnov Shared an Already-Debunked Fox News Hoax with His FBI Handler - emptywheel

Prosecutors did not confirm that Alexander Smirnov's false claims in 2020 came from Russian intelligence.
Smirnov attributed the claims about Hunter Biden to Russian spies.
emptywheel
3 months ago
Left-wing politics

James Comer's War on Christmas: The Burial Ground of a Dick Pic Impeachment - emptywheel

Republicans have released a timeline in support of their impeachment effort that contains unsubstantiated and false claims.
The timeline fails to mention key details about Tony Bobulinski's involvement and contradicts testimonies from individuals present at the meetings.
emptywheel
9 months ago
Left-wing politics

How Jonathan Swan Covered [Up] John Durham's Corruption - emptywheel

Something funny happened yesterday.Full-time Trump-whisperer Maggie Haberman, Trump-whisperer Jonathan Swan, and DOJ reporter Charlie Savage wrote a story responding to Trump's promise to appoint prosecutors to investigate Joe Biden and his family just like Biden's own DOJ has done (which they note).
emptywheel
9 months ago
Left-wing politics

The Flavors of Trump's Obstruction - emptywheel

As I noted here, Trump was charged with 31 counts of stealing highly classified documents.Each of those charges carries a 10 year max sentence, and because they are Top Secret and beyond, they will draw draconian sentences.I'd like to talk about the seven kinds of obstruction with which Jack Smith has charged Trump and Walt Nauta.
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11 months ago
Left-wing politics

Rudy Giuliani Claims He's Shooting Blank Documents - emptywheel

Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss have, as Beryl Howell invited them to do, moved to compel Rudy Giuliani to comply with discovery in their defamation lawsuit.The two 2020 Georgia election workers sued for the damage caused by the lynch mob Rudy summoned by falsely claiming they were attempting to steal votes after he saw a video showing Moss passing her mother a ginger mint.
Truthout
11 months ago
Left-wing politics

Report Reveals More Damning Texts From Tucker Carlson in Dominion Lawsuit

The redacted texts could be used in an upcoming trial with Smartmatic, another voting technology company suing Fox News.Tucker Carlson speaks with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.Gage Skidmore via Flickr Fox's board of directors and executives discovered salacious, redacted private messages from former host Tucker Carlson the day before the trial for Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Fox was set to start, The New York Times reports.
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1 month ago
US politics

Fact-Checking Trump and Haley's War of Words

Nikki Haley challenges Donald Trump for Republican nomination amid escalating attacks
Both sides engage in false and misleading claims during the competition for Republican nomination
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2 months ago
US politics

Trump Blows Off Stunning Question About Violence As He Splits Post-Appeal Press Scrum

Former President Donald Trump appeared in court to listen to the oral arguments on his claim of presidential immunity.
Trump's remarks following the hearing were filled with falsehoods and he ignored a question about violence from his supporters.
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9 months ago
US politics

National Archives refutes claims Trump had two years to go through presidential records in rare public statement

The National Archives is pushing back on claims made by former President Donald Trump, his lawyers and his allies over his retention of classified documents, for which he now faces a federal indictment.On Friday, the Archives took the rare step of releasing a public statement rebuking claims suggesting that Trump was allowed to keep classified materials under the Presidential Records Act.
www.npr.org
9 months ago
Tech industry

YouTube will no longer take down false claims about U.S. elections

YouTube announced on June 2 that it will no longer take down video that make false claims about the legitimacy of U.S. elections.Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images YouTube will no longer remove videos falsely claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy put in place in the contentious weeks following the 2020 vote.
Truthout
10 months ago
Left-wing politics

Eric Trump Threatens Lawsuit Over Truthful Reporting on Speaking Tour

Eric Trump at his father's, former President Donald J. Trump's, address of a crowd for the opening ceremony of the New York City 100th annual Veterans Day Parade in 2019.Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images Eric Trump, son of former President Donald Trump, has threatened to sue MSNBC host Rachel Maddow over her accurate reporting that he will be taking part in a speaking tour alongside white supremacists this weekend.
Washington Post
1 year ago
US Elections

Trump claims violence from his supporters on Jan. 6 was Pence's fault

Former president Donald Trump boards his airplane en route to Iowa at Palm Beach International Airport on Monday in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)Donald Trump on Monday sharply rebuked Mike Pence's assertion that history would hold him accountable for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, telling reporters that his former vice president should shoulder the blame for the violent riot that day by Trump's supporters.
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LGBTQ Nation
1 month ago
LGBT

Right-wingers falsely blame Sunday's megachurch shooting on a trans woman

False claims that a transgender woman conducted the shooting at Joel Osteen's church have been circulating among right-wing circles.
Right-wingers have been blaming public shootings on the 'mentally ill' transgender identities of the shooters.
Investing.com
2 months ago
Environment

YouTube making money off new breed of climate denial, monitoring group says By Reuters

YouTube is making millions of dollars a year from advertising on channels that promote false claims about climate change.
Climate denial content on YouTube has shifted towards attacking climate solutions and portraying global warming as harmless or beneficial.
ABC7 San Francisco
2 months ago
Coffee

Starbucks sued by consumer group that calls its claim of ethical sourcing false and misleading

Consumer advocacy group files lawsuit against Starbucks for false and misleading claims about ethically sourced coffee.
National Consumers League cites media reports of abuses on farms supplying coffee and tea to Starbucks as evidence of misleading claims.
US politics
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3 months ago
US politics

Trump's ex-lawyer Giuliani told to pay $148m for defaming election workers

Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay $148m in damages to two former election workers he defamed with false claims about the 2020 presidential election.
Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Shaye Moss testified that Giuliani's false claims made them the target of racist and sexist threats.
Cbsnews
3 months ago
US politics

Federal defamation case set to begin against former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani found liable for false claims about Georgia election
Claims related to manipulation of ballots in the 2020 election.
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3 months ago
US politics

Prosecutors cite Trump's history of false election claims as evidence of motive

The special counsel team prosecuting Donald Trump wants to use his false claims about election fraud to show his motive and intent to cling to power.
Prosecutors plan to introduce evidence of an unnamed co-conspirator who encouraged rioting and obstruction after the vote count leaned in Joe Biden's direction.
Axios
3 months ago
US politics

Jack Smith using decade-old Trump tweets as "record" of "baseless" fraud claims

Special counsel plans to present evidence of Trump's false claims about electoral fraud since 2012 in the federal 2020 election case.
The evidence is meant to show Trump's motive, intent, and plan to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election results.
time.com
9 months ago
US politics

Pence Is First VP to Run Against His Former Boss in 83 Years

The 2024 presidential campaign field, which already features the first former U.S. President ever to be criminally indicted, is about to get even more unprecedented.On Monday, Mike Pence filed paperwork to run for President, making him the first former Vice President to run against the President under whom he served in over 80 years, and only the third ever to do so.
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10 months ago
US politics

Jim Marchant, a Nevada Election Denier, Announces Senate Run

Jim Marchant, a vocal election denier and Trump ally who lost his bid for Nevada's secretary of state in last year's midterm elections, declared his candidacy on Tuesday for the Senate in a swing state contest that could decide control of the chamber in 2024.Mr. Marchant, a Republican, is seeking to challenge Senator Jacky Rosen, a moderate Democrat who is in her first term.
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9 months ago
World politics

Putin Asserts Ukraine's Counteroffensive Has No Chance' at Economic Forum

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia wrapped up what was for him an extraordinary and sometimes rambling week of upbeat commentary on the Ukraine war by asserting on Friday that Russia was so assured of prevailing against the Ukrainian counteroffensive that he had ruled out using nuclear weapons.Dropping what had been a strict avoidance of discussing the war in any detail, Mr. Putin told an audience of Russia's business elite, gathered for the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, that Ukraine had no chance against Russian forces and indicated that its Western backers would tire of the conflict and stop supplying weapons, ending Kyiv's war effort.
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9 months ago
World politics

New Zealand's public broadcaster investigates pro-Kremlin' changes to some articles.

New Zealand's public radio broadcaster has found that nearly two dozen articles by Reuters and the BBC that it had republished on its website had been edited inappropriately, with some of them given a pro-Russian slant, according to a spokesman for the broadcaster.The broadcaster, Radio New Zealand, said on Friday that it would investigate articles it found that contained problems.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Starmer claims Sunak weak' for failing to block Boris Johnson's honours list

Rishi Sunak has faced claims of being too weak to block Boris Johnson's honours list and allowing those who helped cover up lawbreaking to become lawmakers.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pressed his calls for an immediate general election after also questioning if the Prime Minister will block the honours list of his predecessor Liz Truss or buckle to her as well.
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9 months ago
World politics

Bolsonaro to Face Trial Over Electoral Fraud Claims

The News Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is scheduled to go on trial this month on charges that he abused his power as president to make baseless attacks against Brazil's election systems.If convicted, he would be ineligible to run for office for eight years.A panel of seven judges in Brazil's electoral court will decide the case, which is scheduled to start on June 22.
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9 months ago
World politics

Bolsonaro to Face Trial Over Electoral Fraud Claims

The News Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is scheduled to go on trial this month on charges that he abused his power as president to make baseless attacks against Brazil's election systems.If convicted, he would be ineligible to run for office for eight years.A panel of seven judges in Brazil's electoral court will decide the case, which is scheduled to start on June 22.
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9 months ago
London

Sunak urged to call out Tories dismissing the science' of air pollution

In a letter to Mr Sunak, some 36 air pollution scientists warned there had been mainstream political endorsement of suppression campaigns aimed at denying the medical impacts of poor air quality.Though Mayor Sadiq Khan's plans to expand the Ultra low emission zone (Ulez) to cover the whole of Greater London is not referred to by name, it is understood to be the letter's implicit focus.
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10 months ago
US politics

Fox's Costs From Defamation Suit Lead to a Quarterly Net Loss

Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman of the Fox Corporation, conceded on Tuesday that a Delaware judge's pretrial rulings against the company severely limited our defense at trial and contributed to his decision to settle the landmark defamation case brought by Dominion Voting Systems.Mr. Murdoch, on a call with investors and analysts, called the $787.5 million settlement believed to be the largest in the history of defamation law a decision clearly in the best interest of the company and its shareholders.
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9 months ago
US politics

Newt Gingrich testified before January 6 grand jury

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich testified Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating January 6, 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.Gingrich allegedly communicated with senior advisers to former President Donald Trump about television advertisements that relied on false claims of election fraud, according to documents obtained by the House select committee that investigated January 6.
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10 months ago
Television

Times Asks Judge in Fox-Dominion Case to Rule on Redactions

The New York Times and a consortium of media organizations are asking a judge to rule whether Fox News improperly redacted portions of texts and email exchanges that were introduced as evidence in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against the network.Dominion and Fox settled the case last month for $787.5 million, in what is believed to be the largest out-of-court payout in a defamation case.
Sun Sentinel
1 year ago
Miami Dolphins

Woman drops lawsuit claiming Dolphins' star Xavien Howard gave her STD

A negligence lawsuit against Miami Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard alleging he transmitted genital herpes to a woman has been dismissed.Howard's attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the complaint the day after it was filed in Broward County court in October, writing in the motion that the woman, who used a Jane Doe pseudonym, had "engaged in a campaign of stalking" Howard, had threatened him with "multiple acts of violence" and extorted him for money.
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1 year ago
Media industry

Despite McConnell's rebuke, McCarthy defends Jan. 6 tape release to Fox News

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says he agrees with a letter by the Capitol Police chief as he speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Despite a chorus of widespread attacks on Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his portrayal of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol including from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended his decision to hand over more than 40,000 hours of related security footage.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
France news

FIFA made false claims about 'carbon-neutral' World Cup in Qatar, Swiss regulator says

FIFA made false claims about last year's World Cup in Qatar being carbon neutral, an advertising regulator in Switzerland said Wednesday.FIFA was not able to provide proof that the claims were accurate, the federally recognized Swiss Commission for Fairness said in its judgment into complaints filed from five countries.
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1 year ago
France news

Migration Bill a traffickers' charter that will lock up children' Cooper

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Illegal Migration Bill is effectively a traffickers' charter that will lock up children and remove support from women who have been trafficked, Yvette Cooper has said.
Chicago Tribune
10 months ago
Chicago

Illinois cannabis transporters say competitors operating without licenses

A group of licensed cannabis transporters have filed suit against Illinois regulators, claiming the state is allowing unlicensed operators to transport marijuana.Those targeted in the suit say the dispute is more a matter of transporters having great difficulty getting any business in Illinois because growers can provide their own delivery service.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Labor board officials allege El Milagro in Chicago threatened workers for organizing

Local tortilleria El Milagro told workers they could lose their jobs if they engaged in collective action, labor board officials alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday.Chicago officials with the National Labor Relations Board found merit to allegations that El Milagro threatened employees with the loss of their jobs, vacations or other benefits if they continued to engage in concerted action, or that tortilla production facilities could close.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

FBI seeks additional victims of Hoffman Estates doctor indicted for health care fraud

The FBI is asking for the public's help in finding additional victims of a Hoffman Estates doctor who was recently indicted on 13 counts of health care fraud after allegedly bilking Medicaid and multiple health care programs out of nearly $800,000, officials said.A website and online questionnaire have been created to identify any more victims of Dr. Mona Ghosh, according to a statement from FBI spokesperson Siobhan Johnson.
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10 months ago
US politics

DeSantis Is Set to Enter 2024 Presidential Race Next Week

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to officially enter the presidential race next week, allowing him to raise the vast amounts of cash he will need to challenge former President Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with his intentions.Mr. DeSantis is expected to file paperwork declaring his candidacy with the Federal Election Commission ahead of a major fund-raising meeting with donors in Miami on May 25 that is meant to act as a show of his financial force.
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10 months ago
US politics

Trump Agrees to Return to CNN, Ending a Long Boycott

After a long hiatus, former President Donald J. Trump will return to CNN.Mr. Trump, who has openly feuded with CNN hosts and executives over the years, has not appeared on the network since his 2016 presidential campaign.But next Wednesday, he will appear at a town hall-style forum the network is hosting in New Hampshire.
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10 months ago
Media industry

Poll Finds 9 Out of 10 Americans Concerned About Misinformation, Lack of Trust in Media Fuels Alternative Sources

A new poll infers a link between Americans' lack of faith in the media and the rise of politicized misinformation peddled by unreliable news sources.The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research published a survey on Monday that explores the breakdown of trust causing more Americans to reject mainstream media outlets.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Former US Rep. Adam Kinzinger to release book in October

NEW YORK - Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Illinois Republican who broke with his party two years ago after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, has a book deal.The Open Field, a Penguin Random House imprint overseen by Maria Shriver, announced Tuesday that Kinzinger's "Renegade: My Life in Faith, the Military, and Defending America from Trump's Attack on Democracy" is scheduled for release on Oct. 17.
Los Angeles Times
10 months ago
Los Angeles

Scientology looms large, as jurors to decide Danny Masterson's fate in second rape trial

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Each of the women who have accused Danny Masterson of raping them in the early 2000s said they feared two things: the once-beloved sitcom actor's violent outbursts and the life-altering consequences they might face for opposing the powerful Church of Scientology.
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10 months ago
UK news

Suella Braverman rebuked by watchdog for saying millions' could come to UK

Suella Braverman has been rebuked by the UK's official statistics watchdog for suggesting that 100 million asylum seekers could come to the UK.The home secretary was accused of inflammatory language after she claimed the law-abiding patriotic majority were fed up with waves of illegal migrants breaching our border.
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1 year ago
UK news

May: Immigration reforms make it harder to catch traffickers and slave drivers

Theresa May has warned slave drivers and traffickers will find it easier to escape justice under Rishi Sunak's flagship immigration reforms.The Conservative former prime minister suggested victims would be less likely to come forward to give evidence against traffickers if they believe they were at greater risk of deportation.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Labour attacks false claims' in new asylum plans ahead of Commons debate

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Labour has highlighted the false claims and promises in the Government's plan to stop asylum seekers arriving in small boats as MPs prepare to debate the policy.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Nursery boss says Humza Yousaf's wife has terminated' legal action

Bosses at a nursery which the Scottish Health Secretary and his wife had accused of discrimination have said they are extremely pleased that legal action against them has been terminated.Usha Fowdar, owner of the Little Scholars Day Nursery in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, insisted there never was any discrimination, as she revealed that Nadia El-Nakla had dropped her legal action.
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10 months ago
Media industry

News you consume is a lie': Tucker Carlson relaunches on Twitter

Conservative commentator rails against mainstream media in clip announcing new version of his top-rated show.Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced he will bring a new version of his top-rated show to Twitter.Carlson made the announcement in a clip posted on Twitter in which he railed against the mainstream media in the United States and hailed the social media site as the last remaining major platform that allows free speech.
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11 months ago
US politics

Draft GOP autopsy of 2022 midterms urges candidates to stop rehashing old grievances'

A draft Republican autopsy report on the party's worse-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterm elections urges GOP candidates to move past complaints about how the 2020 and 2022 elections were run a clear criticism of former President Donald Trump, who continues to falsely claim his loss was a result of widespread voter fraud.
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1 year ago
Television

Fox News Fires Producer Who Accused Network of Coercion

Fox News Media has fired a producer who last week accused the network of discrimination and of coercing her into providing misleading testimony in a blockbuster defamation case, according to court documents filed on Monday.Lawyers for the producer, Abby Grossberg, who had worked for the hosts Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson, said in the complaints that she was fired on Friday in retaliation for a pair of lawsuits she had filed against the company several days earlier.
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1 year ago
Tech industry

YouTube Restores Donald Trump's Account Privileges

YouTube suspended former President Donald J. Trump's account on the platform six days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.The video platform said it was concerned that Mr. Trump's lies about the 2020 election could lead to more real-world violence.YouTube, which is owned by Google, reversed that decision on Friday, permitting Mr. Trump to once again upload videos to the popular site.
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1 year ago
US news

YouTube restores Donald Trump's channel

YouTube on Friday said it would restore former President Donald Trump's channel, more than two years after suspending it following the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.The move follows similar actions by Twitter and Facebook-parent Meta in recent months, although Trump has yet to resume posting on those platforms.
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1 year ago
US politics

Fulton County investigators have another recording of a Trump phone call pressuring a Georgia official

Fulton County investigators have an audio recording of a phone call that former President Donald Trump made to the Georgia House speaker to push for a special session to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.The Fulton County special grand jury, which investigated Trump's actions in the state after the 2020 election, heard the recording of Trump's call to David Ralston, according to five of the jurors who spoke anonymously to the AJC.
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10 months ago
Toronto

Cancer survivor hospitalized after acupuncturist promised to regrow thyroid if he stopped taking meds | CBC News

Seventeen years after S.K. lost his thyroid gland to cancer, he was promised a miracle: acupuncture could regrow the vital organ.Kyung Chun Oh, an acupuncturist based in the Toronto area, claimed he'd performed this wonder before, according to a recent decision from the College Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario.
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11 months ago
Law

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is ordered to pay $5M in election fraud challenge

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell talks to reporters at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif., Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.Jae C. Hong/AP ST.PAUL, Minn.An arbitration panel has ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a software engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over data that Lindell claims proves that China interfered in the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden.
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1 year ago
Law

Judge to Fox News: Don't make me 'look like an idiot' over Rupert Murdoch testifying

Attorneys for Fox argued on Tuesday that chairman Rupert Murdoch should not have to travel to Delaware to testify in a $1.6 billion defamation case against the network.The judge noted that Murdoch was planning to travel between four cities with his wife-to-be.Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Delaware judge overseeing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Tuesday did not seem to buy the argument that founder Rupert Murdoch was too infirm to testify at trial next month.
Business Insider
1 year ago
Marketing

How to become an Amazon influencer and how much the program pays

Amazon's influencer program offers a suite of tools that let creators earn money on the platform.Amazon has several influencer programs including Amazon Associates, Storefront, and Amazon Live.Here's a breakdown of how to become an Amazon influencer and how much creators earn from the program.Amazon's influencer program offers a suite of tools and programs used by creators across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram as a way to earn money through promoting products to their followers.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Marketing

Doobie-us: Pot ads come to Twitter amid cannabis industry collapse

Elon Musk's fondness for 420 jokes is well-documented on Twitter, where the CEO loves responding to tweets with comments like "420 haha."So it makes sense that Musk is well aware of opportunities for cannabis advertisers to reach Twitter users who like tweeting about marijuana as much as he does.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

The fight to expose corporations' real impact on the climate

Say you are a maker of computer graphics cards, under pressure from investors questioning your green credentials.You know what to do.You email your various departments, asking them to tally up their carbon emissions and the energy they consume.Simple enough.You write a report pledging a more sustainable future, in which your trucks are electrified and solar panels adorn your offices.
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1 year ago
US news

Woman Who Stormed Pelosi's Office on Jan. 6 Is Sentenced to Three Years

WASHINGTON A Pennsylvania woman who steered a group of rioters toward Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on Jan. 6, 2021, and directed others inside the Capitol to steal a laptop computer was sentenced in Federal District Court in Washington on Thursday to three years in prison.The woman, Riley June Williams, 24, was convicted in November of several charges including felony civil disorder and impeding officers trying to defend the Capitol Rotunda.
Acm
1 year ago
Digital life

Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants

YouTube, like other social media platforms, spent years expanding its efforts to tackle misinformation after the 2016 election.It hired policy experts and content moderators and invested in more technology to limit the reach of false narratives.Not anymore.Last month, the company, owned by Google, quietly reduced its small team of policy experts in charge of handling misinformation, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
Independent
1 year ago
World news

China blasts 'malicious' US over response to balloon incursion

China has accused American legislators of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the US passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon's intrusion into its air space.he statement issued by the National People's Congress's Foreign Affairs Committee repeated Beijing's insistence that the balloon was an unmanned civilian weather research airship, a claim the US has dismissed, citing its flight route and payload of surveillance equipment.
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1 year ago
World news

China threatens US entities over downing of balloon

BEIJING, China China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast.At a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details and did not identify the targets of the measures.China says the balloon was an unmanned weather airship that was accidentally blown off course and accuses the U.S. of overreacting in bringing it down with a missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet.
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Matt Taibbi Declares John Podesta's Risotto Recipe Was "True" - emptywheel

The Democrats on Jim Jordan's insurrection protection committee were really unprepared for Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger yesterday, failing to call out their repeated false claims.One of the most interesting details came when Taibbi described that someone besides Elon Musk invited him to have unfettered access to a company under a consent decree.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Former Watergate Prosecutor: Trump Should Have Been Charged Upon Exiting Office

Trump could potentially face charges in multiple investigations at the state and federal levels.Former President Donald Trump boards his airplane at Palm Beach International Airport on February 22, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida.Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images A former Watergate prosecutor has said that former President Donald Trump - who is currently the subject of numerous state and federal investigations - should have been issued criminal charges the moment he left the White House.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

What to know about the release of parts of a Georgia grand jury report on Trump and the 2020 election

Portions of a highly anticipated report by the Atlanta-area special grand jury that investigated Donald Trump's actions in Georgia after the 2020 election will be released Thursday, giving the public its clearest look yet into the two-year probe into Trump and his associates' efforts to reverse his election defeat.
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1 year ago
US politics

Arizona Court of Appeals rejects Kari Lake's election challenge

The Arizona Court of Appeals has rejected Kari Lake's challenge to the result of the Arizona gubernatorial election after she appealed an earlier ruling from the superior court.Lake had requested a declaration from the court that she and not her opponent, Arizona's Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs who won the election by about 17,000 votes was the actual winner of the election.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston real estate

'More than doubled': Readers are making sacrifices to pay high energy bills

Readers Say 92% of respondents said their energy bills increased in the last year.An increasing number of Americans have had to make hard choices to afford their energy bills.Last year, 11 percent of Americans cut back on basic expenses like food, water, and medication to cover their bills, according to Carlos Martín, the project director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Media organizations ask Congress for access to January 6 footage

CNN, along with a group of other media organizations, has signed on to a letter calling for congressional leaders to grant access to security footage from inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox News' Tucker Carlson access to the material earlier this month.
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Jenna Ellis Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied and Lied - emptywheel

In an attempt to settle the Colorado challenge to her law license, Jenna Ellis stipulated that she was lying in ten public statements she made about the election in 2020.Those lies were:


On November 13, 2020, Respondent claimed that "Hillary Clinton still has not conceded the 2016 election."
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

Why Election Denialism Might Cost Fox News $1.6 Billion

After the 2020 election, wild theories ran rampant on the right of an election stolen from Donald Trump through a coordinated conspiracy.The news channel Fox News became one of the loudest voices amplifying these false claims into millions of U.S. households.Now, a defamation lawsuit by Dominion, a voting machine maker that was cast as a villain in these conspiracy theories, seeks to hold the media company responsible for the false claims made by its hosts and guests, presenting evidence that Fox knew what it was doing was wrong.
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

The 759 Digital Devices Tucker Carlson Didn't Review - emptywheel

To sustain his false claims that the January 6 Committee released a biased selection of videos, Tucker Carlson has insinuated that only he and the J6C have had access to the video of the attack.That's, of course, false.The defense attorneys have had access to most of the same video to which Tucker has claimed exclusive access.
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