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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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Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch admitted some Fox commentators ‘endorsed’ election lies — Rupert Murdoch, chair of Fox News's parent company, acknowledged in a deposition that “some of our commentators were endorsing” the baseless narrative that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
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Insider, Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Fortune, Financial Times and Raw Story
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 …
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Insider
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.
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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 — New York CNN — Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, acknowledged in a deposition taken by Dominion Voting Systems that some Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
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Insider, CBS News, Mediaite, The Wrap, Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo, Wall Street Journal, Media Matters for America, Deadline, PoliticusUSA, HuffPost, NewsNation, Variety, The Hill and The Daily Beast
Politico:
Murdoch and other Fox execs agreed 2020 election was fair but feared losing viewers, court filing shows
Murdoch and other Fox execs agreed 2020 election was fair but feared losing viewers, court filing shows
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Forbes, Newsbusters, RADAR, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, NBC News, Sputnik News and Breitbart
Insider:
Rupert Murdoch gave Jared Kushner ‘confidential information’ about Biden's 2020 ads before they were public, Dominion alleges
Rupert Murdoch gave Jared Kushner ‘confidential information’ about Biden's 2020 ads before they were public, Dominion alleges
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Media Matters for America, Talking Points Memo, emptywheel and HuffPost, more at Mediagazer »
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
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood
Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood
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The Intercept and Mediaite
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
ACLU urges US lawmakers not to ban TikTok, citing free speech
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Associated Press, Bloomberg and ABC News
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.
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Tampa Bay Times, The Daily Caller and Popular Information
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.
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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.
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Washington Post:
Daniel Snyder's demands anger NFL owners, renew talk of voting him out — Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder and his attorneys have demanded that fellow NFL franchise owners and the league indemnify him against future legal liability and costs if he sells the team …
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Front Office Sports, Fox News, Page Six, New Jersey Online, New York Post and The Western Journal
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 …
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The Atlantic
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 …
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emptywheel
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox's new Jan. 6 documentary implies 9/11 was a false flag
Fox's new Jan. 6 documentary implies 9/11 was a false flag
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The Hill, Breitbart, Chicago Sun-Times and The American Spectator
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 …
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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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis's scorn-filled book sets tone for potential campaign
Ron DeSantis's scorn-filled book sets tone for potential campaign
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The Triad, CNN, Washington Times, Fox News and Vanity Fair
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 …
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The Corsair and The Honest Broker
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 …
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CBS News, Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit and New Republic
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 …
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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 …
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One America News Network and Financial Times, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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Reuters, The Times of Israel, CNN, middleeastmonitor.com, UPI, Sputnik News, Melanie Phillips, New York Times and Washington Post
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.
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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.”
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn have stepped down — but not aside — House Democrats' longtime top three leaders may have ceded power, but not the presence they bring to the caucus. — Reps. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Steny Hoyer, D-Md., watch the State of the Union address Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
PACs poised to supercharge California Senate campaign — A wide-open field of Democrats could unleash millions in outside spending. — Democrats are rushing in to replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein — and so are the Super PACs. — The once-in-a-generation contest for a California Senate seat …
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.”
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Alternet.org and Mediaite
Tristan Ahtone / Grist:
Indigenous youth occupy Norwegian energy office to protest illegal wind farm — “We cannot be sacrificed in the name of the green transition.” — Indigenous Sámi youth and dozens of environmental activists in Oslo, Norway shut down the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on Monday, with many chaining themselves to the building.
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Reuters, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, Euractiv, Fox News, RedState, Financial Times, The Daily Caller and Politico
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.
Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Prince Harry to unpack struggles with ‘trauma expert’ in livestreamed talk — Prince Harry is set to unpack his experiences with a controversial trauma expert on Saturday, during a virtual event in which attendees can submit questions for the former royal to answer.
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Fox News, The Western Journal, Vanity Fair and Twitchy
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Hamstrung by ‘golden handcuffs’: Diversity roles disappear 3 years after George Floyd's murder inspired them — Diversity, equity and inclusion leaders, who were hired in waves to help companies achieve an ethnically balanced workforce after George Floyd's murder in 2020, are being phased out …
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HotAir