All posts tagged "False Claims"

The Media and Democracy Project, which claims to be non-partisan, urged the FCC in July to deny the US broadcast license renewal for a Fox News affiliate in Philadelphia, saying that network spread false claims about the 2020 election, Bloomberg reported.

Regulators invited public comment on the matter, saying the public's input would “serve the public interest.”

The group said the station, WTXF, and Fox News, harmed the public by willfully broadcasting false claims. ...

Kari Lake is knowingly spreading false information about the woman who beat her out for the governorship of Arizona, according to a local news columnist.

Lake, who has repeatedly been called out for spreading fake news about her political opponents, recently claimed Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs "ran a sham election" and that she's now "using her illegitimate office to order her illegitimate AG to INDICT" Donald Trump. This, Lake says, is "a threat to democracy.”

The only problem? Hobbs doesn't have the power to "order" such an indictment, and Lake knows that, according to AZCentral....