A viral post recycled an old claim that Fox News Channel is officially registered as an entertainment outlet — not an authentic news organization. To build the case, the post said Fox even sought the ...

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An essay by George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” changed the trajectory of my career. I pivoted from a job as a college literature teacher to become a writing coach for students, ...

If fact-checkers were referees, we might show a yellow card over social media posts that claim to show President Donald Trump confessing to rigging the 2024 election as he talked about the World Cup.

Journalists who treat Reddit like a community instead of a megaphone are finding readers they couldn't reach elsewhere ...

It’s not a shock to learn that most of us get our news from social media. News consumers are developing entirely new patterns ...

For the first time in its 58-year history, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — the organization responsible for distributing federal dollars to NPR, PBS and other public broadcasters — will lose ...

That’s not an easy answer. We really don’t know how big the story is because we don’t know how strong the connection was between Trump and Epstein. Emails released this week appear to indicate that ...

The vast majority of Americans want honesty, intelligence and authenticity from their news providers, a Pew Research Center study released Wednesday found. The study, based on a poll of more than ...

President Donald Trump, who is seeking to send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, said the city is in flames. “Portland is burning to the ground, it’s insurrectionists all over the place,” Trump ...

“They” can control the weather, and the proof is in the patents, said Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. On Oct. 7, Greene posted a viral meme showing a line drawing of an angry ...