Sunday, September 20, 2026

Tag: disinformation

Videos contradict DHS claims after fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis

Bystander footage, witness accounts, and statements from Minnesota officials challenge the Trump administration’s assertion that a 37 year old U.S. citizen committed “domestic terrorism” before being fatally shot by a federal immigration agent.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones appeal on Sandy Hook defamation judgments

The Court’s decision leaves in place $1.4 billion in damages for the families of Sandy Hook victims as Jones faces bankruptcy, receivership, and the liquidation of Infowars assets.

Democrat moves to impeach RFK Jr. over HHS turmoil

Michigan congresswoman cites disinformation, research cuts, and advisory shifts at HHS as grounds for impeachment.

RFK Jr.’s health report relies on fake studies and AI-generated fabrications

Trump’s health agenda, led by RFK Jr., is under fire for citing nonexistent sources, using AI hallucinations, and omitting root causes of America’s public health crises.

Progressive International unveils database exposing global right-wing network threatening democracies

This database, which results from a year of meticulous research, exposes the mechanisms through which these forces erode democratic norms and foster geopolitical instability.

What’s driving our epidemic of distrust?

Many failures, in turn, can help explain why the only major institution in American life that Americans trust less than Big Business just happens to be Congress.

Not all ‘self-evident truths’ are created equal. Sleazy propaganda wars on...

The debate isn't whether government should deliver “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” but which self-selected tribe grabs the spoils and which doesn’t.

How the American Legislative Exchange Council turns disinformation into law

State lawmakers introduced nearly 2,900 bills based on ALEC templates from 2010 through 2018. More than 600 of them became law.

The think tank industrial complex: Sowing doubt and disinformation

Without some kind of regulation, unaccountable think tanks will continue to obscure the truth about the issues they present to the public and offer often financially lucrative revolving doors for politicians and policymakers as they leave government service.

How disinformation could sway the 2020 election

In 2016, Russian operatives used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to sow division among American voters and boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. What the...

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The US Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain)

Warren, Ocasio-Cortez introduce bill to ban corporate ownership of physician practices

The bill would let doctors sue corporate owners for treble damages and give the Federal Trade Commission a role in enforcing the ban.
An Allina Health hospital in Minneapolis. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0

Minnesota doctors strike for four days in a first for US hospitals

About 150 physicians at two Allina Health hospitals walked out this week after three years of bargaining over sick days, pay and a role in patient care.
A hospital emergency room entrance in Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants lose Medicaid starting October 1

The federal reconciliation law also narrows Medicare and marketplace coverage, and a separate immigration rule is pushing US citizen children off Medicaid alongside their noncitizen family members.

Minnesota hospital doctors stage what union calls first private-sector physician strike in US history

Doctors at two Minneapolis-area hospitals say they're striking over artificial intelligence in patient care, not just pay.

Health cuts strip coverage from nearly half a million New Yorkers

The first major coverage losses from HR 1 are hitting low-income New Yorkers who now face higher premiums, deductibles, or no insurance at all.