America’s most-read newspapers failed to properly contextualize anti-abortion misinformation, climate denial, and extreme immigration policies when reporting on the first GOP presidential debate of the 2024 campaign cycle. With the next debate scheduled for September 27, journalists have another opportunity to fact-check these candidates and ensure they aren't continuing to allow misinformation to go unchecked. From August 23 through August 28, Media Matters found: The top five U.S. newspapers by circulation — The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today — published 90 print and online articles about the GOP presidential debate. Out of the 90 articles, only 16% of articles (14) mentioned the anti-abortion misinformation about procedures after 21 weeks of pregnancy and the popularity of 15-week abortion bans, which was spread by Republican candidates during the GOP debate; just 4 articles fact-checked it. Roughly 26% of articles (23) mentioned entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy’s false claim that “the climate change agenda is a hoax.” Thirteen out of those 23 articles failed to fact-check Ramaswamy. Only 6% of articles (5) covered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ alarming promise to invade Mexico, and just 2 of those articles characterized DeSantis’ promise as aggressive. Just one explicitly called it an act of war.