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The attack on the conservative internet has reached a new low.
Poynter, the journalism institute responsible for training writers and reporters, decided to promote a left-wing smear of conservative groups online. The result was a hit job written by someone who works for the anti-conservative Southern Poverty Law Center for a journalism organization funded by prominent liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Pierre Omidyar.
Poynter, which has started the International Fact-Checking Network, shared the new report and dataset called “UnNews,” declaring at least 29 right-leaning news outlets and organizations to be “unreliable news websites.”
Report author and SPLC producer Barrett Golding combined five major lists of websites marked “unreliable.” That result, which consisted of 515 names, included many prominent conservative sites Breitbart, CNSNews.com, Daily Signal, Daily Wire, Drudge Report, Free Beacon, Judicial Watch, LifeNews, Life
The bill would require fact checkers to register with the Michigan Secretary of State and post bonds of at least $1 million.
Affected parties could then bring civil actions against the fact checkers, and, if successful, collect damages from the bond amount. Fines could be up to $1,000 a day.
House Democratic Leader Donna Lasinski, D-Scio Township, slammed the legislation as an attack on the First Amendment and an effort to perpetuate the falsehood that the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Maddock’s bill is just another play in his brazen attempt to perpetuate the Big Lie. If trying to override the will of the people wasn’t enough, now Maddock is trying to intimidate and harass journalists and others who work to promote the truth, keep our citizens informed, and hold our elected officials accountable, Lasinski said.
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A third-party fact-checker on Instagram labeled a quote from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on racism in America as “missing context.” The post that was flagged came from Turning Point USA s account.
The fact-checker Science Feedback bizarrely warned users to “encourage the general public to wear face masks to reduce the COVID-19 transmission.” It added how “the same information was reviewed by independent fact-checkers in another post.”
Science Feedback is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network. Its stated goal is: “Science Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in science-based media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust.” It doesn’t claim to be an expert on racism. At least officially.
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A new study on fake news relied on questionable data and biased sources to blame the problem on the right. It also contained critical errors, leaving the accuracy of the results in question.
Research soon to be published in the
American Political Science Review claimed that “Republicans end up sharing more fake news than Democrats do,” according to a statement given to PsyPost by the lead researcher, Mathias Osmundsen. He suggested that this may be “because most mainstream media outlets publish negative news articles about the Republican Party,” while Republicans who wish to share negative information about Democrats “must turn to fake news publishers.”