Hold #GOP #Officials #Accountable for #Illegal #VoterIntimidation and #VoterSupression
The #loudest and most #bizarre #conspiracytheories come from #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump, who invokes #nonexistent #fraud to explain why he lost the #2020election. His #billionaire #backer #Techbro and wannabe #fascist #ElonMusk has added #fuel to the #fire by #amplifying his #Disinformation.
Networks are still letting a deranged criminal traitor tell outrageous falsehoods on live television with no pushback.
Right-wing disinformation has flummoxed mainstream journalists
– and those journalists have
failed to learn from their mistakes, adjust their tactics, or play to their own strengths.
Donald Trump shouldn’t have taken the media by surprise in the 2016 campaign.
Just eight years earlier Trump went all in on the birther hoax against Barack Obama.
And before that, the Swiftboating of John Kerry.
In both cases, the media had been #dupes for right-wing hoaxes.
And they were dupes again in 2016.
Major media had their audiences and their ratings formulas
and 
they weren’t inclined to 
risk their profit margins to confront the right’s increasingly brazen assaults on the truth.
It was the triumph of the earning curve over the learning curve.
But with Trump’s successful campaign of lies eight years ago 
should have come an aggressive reassessment by the media.
Only in limited cases has that happened.
They’re #amplifying #disinformation and pretending that amounts to “#fairness.”
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/mainstream-media-on-a-path-to-irrelevance
He blamed #SocialMedia for #amplifying the #divisions & reducing a thorny #international dispute to what he viewed as #sloganeering.
Yet he urged his fmr aides to “take in the #WholeTruth,” seemingly attempting to strike a balance between the killings on both sides.
“What #Hamas did was horrific, & there’s no justification for it,” #Obama said. “& what is also true is that the #occupation & what’s happening to #Palestinians is unbearable.”
