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On June 1, a jury ruled in favor of actor Johnny Depp in the dueling defamation cases between him and his ex-wife and actor Amber Heard. The trial garnered national media attention, including on social media, where attacks on Heard exploded. Media Matters compiled and analyzed over 13,700 posts about the trial from news and politics Facebook pages for the duration of the trial — April 11 through June 1 — and found that nine pages affiliated with right-wing media outlet The Daily Wire dominat...

On Facebook, right-wing media and Republican candidates have promoted variations of the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory that reportedly inspired the latest mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, helping to mainstream the hateful theory. In our latest study, we found that Facebook has profited from at least 50 ads from right-wing political candidates pushing the racist rhetoric, and there were hundreds of posts with similar rhetoric from right-wing media outlets, includin...

As news started circulating on Monday that Twitter may accept billionaire Elon Musk's bid to buy the social media company, right-leaning Facebook pages praised the deal and Musk’s commitment to so-called “free speech,” earning nearly 11 million interactions while doing so. In a review of Facebook posts from news and politics pages, Media Matters found that right-leaning pages alone earned more interactions  -- fifth-highest in 2022 so far -- on Monday than the combined total earned b...

Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s absence from the campaign trail has made clear how crucial social media will be to deciding who forms the next government.

Through their coverage and on social media, right-wing media have ramped up attacks accusing LGBTQ people and opponents of Florida’s latest anti-LGBTQ legislation of “grooming” children. In a new study, Media Matters analyzed millions of Facebook and Twitter posts that push related anti-LGBTQ language and found this narrative initially spiked in March with anti-LGBTQ Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” at the helm, and the attacks further ramped up in April as right-wing outlets and figur...

As Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill advanced last month, and was signed into law on March 28, right-wing media and politicians ramped up absurd attacks accusing LGBTQ people and the bill’s opponents of “grooming” children to be LGBTQ or to engage in sexual activity. Similar attacks have also appeared on Facebook, where right-leaning pages have dominated discussions of the legislation, particularly after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it. Key findings: Between March 1 and April...

During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearing, right-leaning Facebook pages posted more about the hearing than other news and politics pages did — and notably, these posts increased as they coalesced around bad-faith attacks on Jackson circulated by right-wing media and politicians. In fact, many of the top-performing posts from right-leaning pages — and many Facebook ads run from right-wing groups — promoted narratives designed to manufacture outrage, such as claiming...

The most popular game creators on Facebook Gaming appear to be spam accounts posting visual clickbait and pirated movie clips..

Right-leaning pages have dominated the conversation on Facebook about the trucker convoys in Canada and the U.S. These pages posted more frequently, often expressing support for the protests, and earned more interactions than other news and politics pages. Key findings: Posts from right-leaning pages earned nearly 83% of total interactions. Ideologically nonaligned pages made up roughly 12% of total interactions, and left-leaning pages earned just under 5%.  All of the top 10 posts abo...

Following the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Facebook vowed to reduce election misinformation and prevent further incitement of violence by removing harmful content and suspending former President Donald Trump. But Media Matters’ latest analysis found that in the year since the January 6 attack, Facebook has not only repeatedly failed to moderate “Stop the Steal” content, baseless claims of election fraud, and other election misinformation, but its algorithm an...