Capitol siege shines spotlight on 'information crisis'
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Capitol siege shines spotlight on 'information crisis'
Oliver Darcy says the pro-Trump riot brought “our informational crisis to the forefront.” Darcy says it’s a “national emergency” when corporations and individuals are “profiting off of lies and conspiracies, whether that’s Big Tech or Fox News..
And I don’t really see how things get better, how we move on as a country until this informational environment is cleaned up.”
A State Dept. aide who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign is arrested, as the QAnon Shaman pleads his case in the media and a lawmaker sues Trump for riot.
In an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said that Trump’s stimulus package did more for Americans because President Biden’s slimmed-down Covid-19 relief package has an income cap for stimulus payments.
Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell has sued Donald Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other allies of the former president over the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol when violent Trump supporters tried to stop the certification of Trump's election defeat. This report produced by Zachary Goelman.
The Australian parliament on Thursday passed a new law designed to force Alphabet's Google and Facebook to pay media companies for content used on their platforms in reforms that could be replicated in other countries. Libby Hogan reports.
Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks to make it easier for smaller news organizations to negotiate with Big Tech platforms, said Rep. Ken Buck, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel. Lisa Bernhard produced this report.
Democratic lawmakers and Congressional staff tell Reuters they have begun discussions with the White House on ways to pressure social media companies into cracking down on the spread of misinformation. This report produced by Zachary Goelman.
Facebook critic Roger McNamee discusses Big Tech’s deplatforming of President Trump. Plus, budget hawk and CRFB President Maya MacGuineas on why some deficit spending is necessary. And Nancy Tengler, Chief Investment Officer at Laffer Tengler Investments, on why she sees a correction coming soon.
Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch says that Fox News ratings will come back because they will be the opposition to President Joe Biden. CNN’s Brian Stelter says that the network’s news shows have been replaced by partisan opinion programming.
CNN’s Brianna Keilar rolls the tape on Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s hypocrisy after he derided “esoteric” ivy league conversations at CPAC, despite having multiple ivy league degrees, and how Trump’s talking points mirror what’s on the network.
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