Hoaxes

Fascism: Republican candidates are now near-unanimous in backing the Big Lie

Republicanism is now fully a fascist movement. The hoax claims that our current elections have been “rigged” against Republicans—claims that continue to be provably false—continue to be …

Wed Dec 22, 2021

As Fox News stokes death threats against Fauci, Fauci is telling the network's bookers to pound sand

As approximately zero of us have noticed, government pandemic expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has been strikingly absent from Fox News in the last half-year or so. While the Fox News evening lineup continues …

Fri Dec 3, 2021

New Republican poll watchers in Virginia will learn that their leaders lied to them about 'fraud'

As early voting takes place in Virginia’s Nov. 2 elections, The Washington Post reports that Republican “poll watchers” are turning out in droves to, well, watch the polls. …

Sat Oct 30, 2021

The Republican Party is still targeting elections officials with violence-provoking hoaxes

There are two things to know about the Republican Party’s organized attack on non-corrupt secretaries of state and other state election officials. The first is that it is resulting in more chaos …

Wed Oct 27, 2021

Facebook is still a cesspool of pandemic hoaxes, and it's killing people

Earlier in the year, Media Matters reported on the presence of dozens of Facebook groups promoting the newest hoax cure in the COVID-19 pandemic: ivermectin. Primarily used to fight parasites in …

Sun Oct 3, 2021

With each passing month, COVID-19 becomes an increasingly Republican pandemic

The New York Times has an updated look at the status of vaccinations and pandemic deaths in the United States, and with the help of the latest pretty charts and grim statistics we can see that the new …

Mon Sep 27, 2021

Fascism: Republicans' anti-democracy hoax now supported by a majority of Republican voters

A new CNN poll shows the nation remains politically divided, and by “politically divided” that primarily means Republicans continue to lurch farther and farther into hoax-promoting, …

Mon Sep 13, 2021