According to a recent Washington Post article, the Trump campaign actively courted the online conspiracy community QAnon in the lead-up to the 2020 election, which makes an alarming combination. Twitter has banned 7,000 accounts related to the QAnon conspiracy theory, all of whom have violated the site’s policy on harassment. Twitter will also limit the …

Bill Montgomery, cofounder of the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA, has died of COVID. Montgomery’s death prompted the group to remove a tweet in which they mocked masks. The group’s opponents were referencing Montgomery’s death in the tweet’s threads. It’s unfortunate that masks have become a political issue, because those who stand firmly against …

Behold the man (to quote Ian McGuire): Trump lamenting Fauci's popularity, saying it's "sort of curious a man works for us with us very closely, Dr. Fauci, and Dr. Birx also highly thought of, and yet they're highly thought of but nobody likes me." pic.twitter.com/8lIT2dVbfL — Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 28, 2020 Amazingly, Donald Trump …

Jason Rapert, a Republican senator from Arkansas who has been vocally anti-mask and believes the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, has been hospitalized with COVID. As more and more large retail chains and states require people to wear masks, a small but annoyingly vocal segment of the population is spreading misinformation about mask use. One …

The city of Portland, Oregon has been protesting for 60 straight days after the death of George Floyd. While other cities’ protests have slowed down, Portland’s has gained steam, not only because their demands to defund the police have not yet been met, but also because the protestors fear that their First Amendment rights are …

A coalition of more than 180 human rights groups says that is “virtually certain” one in five cotton products are the result of forced Uighur labor, and that almost entire fashion industry is complicit in the forced labor. France has called for outside observers in Chinese Uighur areas as evidence of genocide mounts. A group of …

The state of Arkansas, CVS, and Target are the latest entities to mandate masks as COVID cases rise. The increase in cases comes largely as young people refuse to wear masks, either for political reasons or because they simply don’t care. Dr. Anthony Fauci issued a plea to young people to wear masks. In the …

It’s almost unbelievable that a face mask, a small piece of fabric, can be the cause of so much strife in America. It’s almost unbelievable, but this is the fourth year of the most controversial presidential administration in living memory and the sixth month of a global pandemic during the most contentious period of racial tension since …

A real leader bravely faces hardship, without complaint and without shirking responsibility. Unfortunately, Trump does not do anything of the sort. Instead, according to a new report, aides have to brace themselves for a “woe is me” monologue whenever more bad news related to COVID happens. And now he’s gone a step further: he’s trying to …

The Trump campaign is, in the words of a recent Hill piece, flailing. That’s because things have been going horribly for him. New polls show that Donald Trump’s approval rating is plummeting. Some 67% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s COVID response. Interestingly, Trump’s support among Republicans is dropping––78% of Republicans approve of his COVID handling, down …

Liberal senator Jim Molan, the deputy chair of the Foreign Interference through Social Media inquiry, has told the Guardian that TikTok may be “a data collection service disguised as social media.” Nationals MP George Christensen has also said that TikTok “should be banned in Australia as should other online communication networks used and abused by …

Despite the tremendous pressure from inside and outside the company, Facebook has so far refused to change its policy on (not) fact-checking political ads. Earlier this week, a series of advertisers have added their weight to the pressure campaign: Patagonia, North Face, REI, and Ben & Jerry. Now, Verizon is pulling their money out. The …