Tag: Disinformation Service

Nine ways Fox has pushed disinformation about civil unrest to terrify its audience | Media Matters for America

Fox protest coverage

via Nine ways Fox has pushed disinformation about civil unrest to terrify its audience | Media Matters for America

Can Trump’s daily disinformation show be saved? Yes — turn it into a vector for the truth | Salon.com

He’s so predictable

Another advantage is that the briefings have become so predictable, with Trump endlessly repeating the same falsehoods and self-puffery. Indeed, CNN’s wonderful Daniel Dale recently broke them down into their fairly consistent constituent parts, each of which can be anticipated and prepared for:

Inaccurate progress reports
False, dubious or questionable medical claims
False pronouncements that this was all unforeseen
Media-bashing
Vague economic cheerleading
An empathy shortage
Self-promotion, complaints of victimhood
Trump being Trump

via Can Trump’s daily disinformation show be saved? Yes — turn it into a vector for the truth | Salon.com