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Harris is getting the Al Gore treatment from Alex Thompson and the rest of the sadly influential Axios crew.
He’s almost single-handedly invented the narrative that “she's presenting a different ideology than four years ago” with a constant drumbeat of cheap, misleading gotcha pieces. It’s just the most pathetic hackery.
#media #HarrisWalz2024 #Election2024
🔥Tenet Media is no more.
The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being 💥funded by Russian state-controlled media, accordingto Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.
⚠️The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of ❌“a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.
The company’s founders, Canadian #Lauren #Chen and her husband, #Liam #Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal.
The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, #Blaze #Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website.
Blaze Media CEO #Tyler #Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”
🆘The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
“I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime,” Pool postedon X on Thursday. “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”
⭐️YouTube also wiped Tenet Media’s content from its platform “after careful review” following the indictment, telling NBC Newsthat its decision to erase the channel and its affiliates was part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”
Tenet is just the latest flavor of #Russian-#backed #misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics,
but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.
https://newrepublic.com/post/185686/donald-trump-tenet-media-russia-scheme
"The #media completely blowing the election coverage is allowing #Harris to run as the 1st post-media president
Instead of meeting a threat to democracy, careerist clickbaiters have both-sidesed, fact-checked trivia, and asked pointless questions
2024's massive media fail"
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 🧵1/...
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We’re baaaaaack! After a hiatus due to vacation, we’re resuming our regular #NewstodonFriday thread. In case you’ve forgotten, its purpose is to highlight the work of newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please boost the posts you like, follow the profiles you discover, donate money, comment, and let us know about other newsrooms and journos that we should feature.
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Latest comic: Prairie Progressives
#uspol #USPolitics #cartoon #comic #TimWalz #media #journalism #rural
John Stoehr turns a cold eye on media malfeasance in letting Trump off the hook again and again and sanewashing his nonsense babble, since
"If he’s unfit to communicate, he’s unfit to serve."
And the media have an obligation to tell us this, not to function as "Trump’s assisted living program" and impose coherence, order, and meaning on meaningless spates of words.
John Stoehr
https://www.editorialboard.com/the-press-corps-is-trumps-assisted-living-program/
👀 Per Mary Trump of unfortunate birth.
Apparently, he was trying to connect his #lies about high bacon prices with his lies about wind energy. He keeps telling these easily debunked lies because, as Daniel Dale, chronicler of #Donalds mendacity, pointed out, “By virtue of shameless perseverance, [Donald] often manages to outlast most of the media’s willingness to correct any particular #falsehood.” In other words, while Donald never gets tired of lying, the #media gets tired of doing its job.
Pundits and journos want policy details from Harris because they’re looking for flaws in an otherwise flawless campaign rollout so they can have more drama.
So they say the lack of detail is a big problem and then find swing state voters who heard that and echo it back to them for new stories.
This is how a lot of sausage gets made.
#HarrisWalz2024 #Election2024 #trump #media
An excellent takedown of the ongoing media coverage of Trump, Vance, fascism, and blood libel, by @jeffjarvis
"You hide behind your impotent fact-checking, never seeing — though frequently warned — that in the ways you debunk their lies, you spread them, and by pedantically nitpicking the other side in your misguided search for balance you create false equivalence. This is how they exploit you."
After all the #MarkRobinson, #Rufo, #Nuzzi and #RFKJr news broke, a late-night filing revealed that 3 witnesses gave sworn testimony that “#MattGaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal.”
Thursday was quite a news day.
#media
https://www.notus.org/florida/new-court-filings-matt-gaetz-dorworth-sex-party
📣 It's been a while since we've federated a batch of publishers — so to make up for it, here are 250, and they're big ones.
Today, we're bringing names like @abc, @RollingStone, @forbes, @BleacherReport, @NationalGeographic and @newyorktimes to the fediverse. They join the 174 profiles we've already federated, which include everyone from @19thnews to @Vox
Here's a blogpost with more details on this latest batch of publications that cover news, business, cooking, home design, politics, sports, science and more. Follow their Magazine feeds if you're only interested in one topic, or their whole profiles if you want the lot. The spreadsheet below lists out all federated accounts.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU
#Flipboard #Federation #SpreadMastodon #ActivityPub #Media #Publishers #Journalism #News #Politics #Sports #Entertainment #Food #Lifestyle #Science
Excited to learn that our side project "News source bias and sentiment on social media" has been accepted for publication in #PLoS_One !
Here's a link to a preprint version -- key points follow in the next post ( #affectivescience , #psychology , #media , #news 1/3) :
⛔️⚠️AFU military command refute ongoing Western and Ukrainian media pro-Russian disinformation campaign: No battles are occurring anywhere in Dnipropetrovsk region (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4011863-ukrainian-military-no-battles-in-dnipropetrovsk-region.html #Ukraine #Mastodon #NYT #KyivIndependent #WashingtonPost #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
⛔️🇺🇸Russian asset Hegseth and Republicans intentionally paused defensive aide to Ukraine to protect civilians despite Pentagon finding aid wouldn't hurt US readiness, NBC reports (more) https://kyivindependent.com/hegseth-paused-ukraine-weapons-despite-pentagon-findings-aid-wouldnt-hurt-us-readiness-nbc-reports-06-2025/ #Ukraine #Mastodon #Brussels #SHAPE #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
Top Execs Exit #Trump Media Amid Allegations of CEO’s Mismanagement and Retaliation
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Several people involved with the former president’s company, operator of #TruthSocial, believe the departures were retaliation following internal complaints about CEO Devin Nunes to the company board.
#News #DonaldTrump #DevinNunes #TrumpMedia #Business #SocialMedia #Tech #Media
"Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down with Fox News' Bret Baier Wednesday as she steps out of the comfort of what has so far been a relatively friendly series of interviews since she became the Democratic nominee this summer."
From @abc: "With three weeks until Election Day, Harris' interview with Baier will mark her first sit-down with Fox News -- and her first interview with a conservative news outlet since she became the Democratic nominee."
For ongoing coverage, follow @2024-white-house-ElectionCentral
#Harris #FoxNews #USPolitics #Politics #Election #Media #KamalaHarris
This #GivingTuesday, make a difference by supporting local and independent journalism. Subscribe and donate to these publications, all of which have an active presence on Mastodon, to help them keep publishing the stories that keep America's communities informed and democracy strong. 🧵 1/2
@404mediaco
@bolts
@damemagazine
@gbhnews
@KnowableMag
@ProPublica
@restofworld
@SFPublicPress
@TexasObserver
@thecontinent
@TheConversationUS
@themarkup
@thetransmitter
@thetyee
@thexylom
@timkmak
@TucsonSentinel
#Newstodon #GivingTuesday #News #Media #Journalism #LocalNews #IndependentMedia #IndependentNews
I’ve seen dozens of stories pointing out that Trump’s tariffs would raise the price of imported goods but few that mention how countervailing duties would also make our exports uncompetitive.
Some companies might move their factories here but industries that export would be fucked. Is this too hard to explain?
#Election2024 #trump #media #tariffs #evonomy
#FossilFuel Interests Are Working to Kill #Solar in One #Ohio County. The Hometown #Newspaper Is Helping.
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A retired #gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial #media company are spreading #misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
#News #Journalism #CleanEnergy #Agriculture #Oil #Koch #Climate #Energy #Politics #Government
Forward-thinking journalists are not letting the “media apocalypse” happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that arguably has been most critical all along: building direct connections with their readers. @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben join fediverse futurist @mike for a conversation about the discovery and sustainability of quality journalism.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
Watch and listen at PeerTube here: https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #ProPublica #404Media
I think we all knew this was happening—why else overpay by $25b?—but I guess confirmation is good.
Imagine being the kind of chump who clings to Zombie Twitter because “that’s where the conversation is” only to have your work throttled while everyone is guaranteed to see Catturd’s latest insights.
https://wapo.st/4fmNIvF
#elonmusk #trump #Election2024 #media #fascism
"The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs: The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice. " #media
Support publications and media outlets doing good work on U.S. news. What or who else should be included? Check comments for more!
@404mediaco
@bolts
@coloradosun @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
@igd_news
@indybay
@MotherJones2021
@ProPublica
@RollingStone
@TeenVogue
@TexasObserver
@TheAtlantic
@TucsonSentinel
@UnicornRiot
@vanityfair
your local paper
your local NPR station
#news #media #newspapers #magazines #USpol
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bear with me for a second:
a million reasons, but a big reason the #democrats lost is because the center of gravity for #media has moved to #socialmedia
where the #trolls and #disinfo play. enough dum dums bought the lies
the democrats didn't play that game. because what game can they play in that shit?
it's literally owned by #plutocrats and #fascists
so... how do we fight?
we need our own
and what do we have
#mastodon and the #fediverse
we need to grow like a fucking weed
am i wrong?
