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Followers of Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni have grown by 26% since the start of the COVID 19 period, a survey conducted by Burson Cohn and Wolfe a multinational public relations and communications firm, headquartered in New York City indicates.

According to a new Media Matters study, right-leaning Facebook pages led the conversation about former President Donald Trump’s indictment in the 24 hours after he arrived at the New York courthouse for his arraignment, earning the most total interactions on related posts compared to other news and politics pages, despite ideologically nonaligned pages posting the most. Other key findings include: Right-leaning pages accounted for 64 of the top 100 posts about the arraignment that were posted ...

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  During Hurricane Ian, which hit Florida and South Carolina last week, popular right-leaning Facebook pages directed users to content that downplayed or completely refuted the connection between the climate crisis and the changing nature of extreme storms. Media Matters found that between September 24 and October 2, 2022, right-leaning Facebook pages published a higher volume of posts on the topic, and their posts received more interactions than posts from ideologically nonaligned or left-lean...

Right-leaning Facebook pages — including pages from Fox News and Fox Business — are amplifying and praising the cruel political ploys of Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX), who reportedly misled and relocated migrants and asylum-seekers to Democratic-led cities without informing local authorities.  Media Matters compiled and analyzed over 7,200 Facebook posts about DeSantis’ and Abbott’s  immigration stunts from news and politics pages from September 14 through September...

  On June 30, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority issued an unsurprisingly devastating ruling on West Virginia v. EPA that severely limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to make power plants cut the toxic pollution that is driving the climate crisis. Climate advocates and scientists have been watching this case anxiously since 2021, knowing that failing to cut fossil fuel emissions would lead to increasingly destructive climate events such as wildfires, and would hit the ...

During Pride Month, Facebook enabled right-wing media to amplify bigoted and dangerous lies about the LGBTQ community and Pride events — at a time when LGBTQ rights have come under assault and violent attacks on LGBTQ people are on the rise. Media Matters found that in June, right-leaning pages and users in right-wing groups circulated thousands of posts fearmongering about topics related to Pride Month, with right-leaning pages posting about the topic nearly 3,500 times and earning just under...

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade along ideological lines, right-leaning Facebook pages immediately started celebrating the decision. In a new study, Media Matters found that these pages earned nearly 7.7 million interactions on roughly 2,400 posts on June 24, the day the decision was announced, earning more interactions than left-leaning and ideologically nonaligned pages combined.  We found similar celebrations among users in right-wing groups, who also called for more restr...