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9:25 AM ET, February 28, 2023

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New York Times:
Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods  —  The conservative media mogul made the remarks under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.  —  Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Sean Hannity ‘had been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks’: court docs  —  Behind the scenes at Fox News after the 2020 election, it was becoming clear that conservative prime-time hosts were saying one thing to viewers and another thing privately.  —  According to court filings …
Discussion: Insider
Politico:
Murdoch and other Fox execs agreed 2020 election was fair but feared losing viewers, court filing shows  —  Fox News executive chair Rupert Murdoch admitted in a deposition that some Fox News hosts endorsed President Donald Trump's baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox chief Rupert Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money: court documents  —  New court documents from the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News were released on Monday, revealing even more details about the head of the network allegedly prioritizing money over truth.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent  —  The lawsuit between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News came to a head in a pair of contrasting court filings on Monday that revealed several details previously unknown about the defamation lawsuit …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that Fox News hosts endorsed false stolen election claims
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Rupert Murdoch used the Fox network to lobby for the GOP tax bill: court documents
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
White House: No more TikTok on gov't devices within 30 days  —  The White House is giving all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices, as the Chinese-owned social media app comes under increasing scrutiny in Washington over security concerns.
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
ACLU urges US lawmakers not to ban TikTok, citing free speech
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
DeSantis's ‘Apocalyptic’ Attack on Higher Education  —  In 2017, the government of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban passed a law intended to drive Central European University, a prestigious school founded by a Hungarian refugee, George Soros, out of the country.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Is it “OK to be white”?  —  In the span of a few days, Dilbert — a cartoon lampooning workplace culture by Scott Adams — was dropped by hundreds of newspapers.  The backlash was in response to a racist rant that Adams posted on YouTube in which he described Black Americans as “a hate group” …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
CNN:
Top Republicans question McCarthy over release of January 6 footage as speaker vows deliberate approach  —  Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced questions from his leadership team Monday night over his plans to publicly release security footage from January 6, 2021, multiple sources told CNN …
Discussion: emptywheel
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Was ‘Attacked’ by ‘Insane’ Person in a Restaurant  —  ‘TURNED INTO DEMONS’  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Monday night that she was attacked by an “insane” woman and “screamed at by her adult son” while dining at a restaurant.
Discussion: TMZ.com and Raw Story
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Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
MTG Couldn't Care Less About Those Who Died in Turkey's Earthquake
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Mediaite
Don Van Natta Jr / ESPN:
How a disputed $55M loan plays into feds' probe of Commanders  —  DANIEL SNYDER'S FINAL breakup from his longtime minority partners in Washington's NFL franchise began with a footnote in an April 2020 financial report.  —  The note revealed a $55 million credit line the team had taken …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Jeffrey Sachs's Great-Power Politics  —  The economist discusses what the U.S. gets wrong about Putin and the war in Ukraine.  —  Last week, Jeffrey Sachs, the economist and professor at Columbia known for his work in the fields of poverty alleviation and foreign aid, delivered remarks …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Washington Post:
Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins  —  Small shift in favor of ‘lab leak’ theory was prompted by new data and group of weapons-lab scientists  —  The theory that covid-19 started with a lab accident in central China received a modest boost …
Nathan Heller / New Yorker:
The End of the English Major  —  Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country.  What happened?  —  The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first.  From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors …
Discussion: The Corsair and The Honest Broker
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
DeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing company  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district, punishing the company over its opposition to the so-called “Don't Say Gay” law.
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
A bipartisan group of Senators is talking about raising the retirement age on Social Security  —  A bipartisan group led by Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bill Cassidy, R-La. is considering gradually raising the retirement age to about 70 as part of their legislation to overhaul Social Security …
Jon Victor / The Information:
Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival  —  Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the high-profile chatbot made by the startup OpenAI, according to two people …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign  —  It started with a FOIA looking for answers about Trump's recount efforts.  It revealed that the FEC is looking into these questions itself. … When the Federal Elections Commission rejected a recent Freedom …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Calling the Police: Lightfoot Needs A Lifeline  —  CHICAGO - In grave danger of becoming the first Chicago mayor defeated in 40 years, Lori Lightfoot stood before an audience of mostly her fellow Black women at a union hall here Saturday and issued a warning about the left-wing challenger who's threatening …
NBC News:
U.S. Marshals Service suffers ‘major’ security breach that compromises sensitive information, senior law enforcement officials say  —  The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that resulted in the compromise of sensitive information, multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday.
Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
Tennessee governor appears to have dressed in drag, an art form he wants to restrict  —  By the time Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed Monday that he would sign a recently passed bill criminalizing drag performances in public and in front of children, a photo that appears to show him dressed …
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's new deficit hawk persona has some progressives feeling some bad deja vu  —  Joe Biden spent the last two years pursuing and enacting massive domestic programs meant to remake the U.S. economy.  But as he prepares a run for reelection, Biden is trying out a new economic persona: deficit hawk.
Discussion: Axios, The Guardian and New Republic
Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review:
Where did Facebook's funding for journalism really go?  —  b  —  “People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta (then Facebook) announced its three-year, $300 million commitment to global “news programs, partnerships, and content.”
Allie Morris / Dallas Morning News:
Texan young adults can now get licensed to carry handguns at college campuses, businesses  —  The change in handgun policy comes after a federal judge toppled the state's age restrictions.  —  AUSTIN — A new kind of student is showing up in handgun instructor Michael Cargill's classroom: teenagers.
Discussion: Fox News
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee  —  Home Polls National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee  —  Trump Maintains Lead While DeSantis Makes Inroads In the Midwest & with Hispanics in GOP Primary
Discussion: The Hill
Bethan McKernan / The Guardian:
‘Never like this before’: settler violence in West Bank escalates  —  Retaliatory rampage in Palestinian village likened to ‘Kristallnacht in Huwara’ with one dead and 350 injured  —  here is a large rolling gate at the entrance to the small Palestinian village of Za'atara …
Media Matters for America:
Daily Wire host: “You have to ban transgenderism entirely”  —  Michael Knowles: “I love this bill [in Kansas] because it is so much more aggressive than the other bills we've seen.”
Discussion: PinkNews, Alternet.org and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Regulatory Deluge  —  Gridlock in D.C.?  Nope, the administrative state is at full throttle.  —  Created with sketchtool.  —  Listen to article 00:00 / 05:22  —  1x  —  If you thought the GOP takeover of the House means gridlock in Washington prevails, think again.
Cora Lewis / Associated Press:
Student loan forgiveness gets its day in court: What to know  —  The Supreme Court is meeting Tuesday to hear two cases challenging President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.  At stake: forgiveness of up to $20,000 in debt for more than 40 million Americans.
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn have stepped down — but not aside  —  Nancy Pelosi's office still sends emails from “Speaker Pelosi.”  Lawmakers fretted about Steny Hoyer potentially bigfooting certain committee leaders.  And Jim Clyburn took a new position in leadership rather than leave it entirely.
 
 
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Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
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Tom Kludt / Vanity Fair:
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