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Tweet FILE - In this Thursday, April 27, 2017 file photom, George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, waits for the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. (Olivier Hoslet/Pool Photo via AP) If there was a conservative news site that routinely published errors and exaggerations as part of its business model, we all know what would happen. Facebook would hide the stories. Hacks at Factcheck.org would swing into action. Google would disappear the story. For good measure, @Jack @Twitter would spank them and put them on truth probation, or worse, as befell Jam...

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk lied on Thursday about H.R. 1, the comprehensive voting rights and election reform bill passed this week in the House of Representatives, falsely claiming on his radio show that it would allow convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to vote while he is currently serving a life sentence in a federal Supermax prison. The actual text of the bill makes clear that the restoration of voting rights for felons would not apply when a person is still “serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility at the time of the election.” T...

Molly Butler / Media Matters Tucker Carlson’s commentary and affect often provoke the question: Is he one of the stupidest people in American public life, or a shameless liar who treats his audience with the utmost contempt? So it is with his Tuesday night’s widely-mockedclaim that QAnon, the violent mythology whose adherents participated in the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, does not exist.  “We spent all day trying to locate the famous QAnon, which, in the end, we learned is not even a website,” Carlson snarked while arguing tha...

Views: Here's the latest from The Justice Department and FBI are investigating whether high-profile right-wing figures — including Roger Stone and Alex Jones — may have played a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach as part of a broader look into the mind-set of those who committed violence and their apparent paths to radicalization, according to people familiar with the investigation. The investigation into potential ties between key figures in the riot and those who promoted former president Donald Trump’s false assertions that the election was stolen from him does not mean those who ma...

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images The official White House Twitter account on Wednesday evening posted a lengthy video of President Donald Trump denouncing violence and calling for calm ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next Wednesday. But it didn’t take long for the Trump administration and its allies to undermine his message. In the more than five-minute video, Trump says things like, “I want to be very clear: I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw” when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol last week while Congress was in the proces...