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2:45 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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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.
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: Fox News
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.
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.
Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch testified that Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ stolen election narrative  —  Network owner also admitted in $1.6bn defamation lawsuit deposition that Trump's claims were ‘damaging to everybody’  —  Newly released court documents reveal that Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of Fox News …
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 …
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
Politico:   Murdoch and other Fox execs agreed 2020 election was fair but feared losing viewers, court filing shows
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Rupert Murdoch admits he knew Fox News hosts endorsed false election fraud claims, deposition shows
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Rupert Murdoch used the Fox network to lobby for the GOP tax bill: court documents
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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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 …
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Despite latest reports, there's still not a speck of evidence that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab
Reuters:
China must be ‘more honest’ on COVID origins, envoy says
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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CNN:   Ransomware attack on US Marshals Service affects ‘law enforcement sensitive information’
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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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work  —  Scott Adams, creator of the once-funny comic strip “Dilbert,” had the right to advise White people to “get the hell away from Black people” — just as the media companies that published Adams's work had the right to get the hell away from him.
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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
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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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
The latest DeSantis attack on education is part of a broader attack on professional competence
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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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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 …
Sandee LaMotte / CNN:
Zero calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds  —  A sugar replacement called erythritol — used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monk-fruit, and keto reduced-sugar products — has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study.
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.”
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: 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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: HotAir
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
WATCH: Florida Sheriff Goes Nuclear on Neo-Nazi ‘Motherf*ckers’  —  Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood fumed that it was an “honor” to be included on the “hit list” of an organization behind a string of disturbing antisemitic incidents.  —  A week after a neo-Nazi hate group circulated throughout …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Cary Clack / San Antonio Express-News:
Rep. Joaquin Castro diagnosed with cancer, undergoes surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center  —  U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro underwent surgery in Houston on Monday morning for cancer found in his small intestine.  —  The type of cancer he has is serious but treatable, his staff said.
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles didn't want you to see his college transcript!  We got it anyway  —  Transcript shows self-proclaimed economist took only one community college Economics course, which he barely passed — and did not major in International Relations, as claimed
Deepa Parent / The Guardian:
Iranian officials to investigate ‘revenge’ poisoning of schoolgirls  —  The attacks on female students - called an act of ‘biological terrorism’ - are thought to be retaliation for protests against hijabs in the country  —  Iranian authorities have confirmed they are investigating reports …
New York Times:
Biden's Semiconductor Plan Flexes the Power of the Federal Government  —  In return for vast subsidies, the Biden administration is asking the chip industry to make promises about its workers and finances.  —  WASHINGTON — Semiconductor manufacturers seeking a slice of nearly $40 billion …
Ian Duncan / Washington Post:
Transportation Department watchdog to audit Buttigieg's use of government jets  —  The transportation secretary's office says he has followed the rules for use of Federal Aviation Administration planes, often saving taxpayer money  —  An internal watchdog will audit Transportation Secretary …
 
 
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