8. Peter Hasson, “SPLC Pulls Controversial ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’ List after Legal Threats,” Daily Caller, April 19, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/19/splc-maajid-nawaz-muslim-extremist/.
9. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “Why Is the Southern Poverty Law Center Targeting Liberals?” New York Times, August 24, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/southern-poverty-law-center-liberals-islam.html.
10. Joe Schoffstall, “Southern Poverty Law Center Has More Than $90 Million in Offshore Funds,” Free Beacon, June 20, 2018, https://freebeacon.com/politics/southern-poverty-law-center-90-million-offshore-funds/.
11. Adam Rubenstein, “SPLC Targets Feminist Scholar Christina Hoff Sommers,” Archives, Weekly Standard, February 27, 2018, https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-rubenstein/splc-targets-feminist-scholar-christina-hoff-sommers.
12. Ibid.
13. Chuck Ross, “Southern Poverty Law Center Apologizes to Ben Carson for Putting Him on Its ‘Extremist’ List,” Daily Caller, February 11, 2015, https://dailycaller.com/2015/02/11/southern-poverty-law-center-apologizes-to-ben-carson-for-putting-him-on-its-extremist-list/.
14. “16 Things To Know about… Ben Carson,” Blog, PBS, https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/blog-post/16-things-know-about-ben-carson.
15. Chuck Ross, “Southern Poverty Law Center Apologizes to Ben Carson for Putting Him on Its ‘Extremist’ List,” Daily Caller, February 11, 2015, https://dailycaller.com/2015/02/11/southern-poverty-law-center-apologizes-to-ben-carson-for-putting-him-on-its-extremist-list/.
16. Peter Hasson, “SPLC President Richard Cohen Resigns from Embattled Left-Wing Nonprofit,” Daily Caller, March 22, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/22/splc-richard-cohen-resigns/. Peter Hasson, “ ‘Highly Profitable Scam’: Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Ripping Off Donors,’ Former Staffer Says,” Daily Caller, March 21, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/21/southern-poverty-law-center-scam-morris-dees/.
17. Bob Moser, “The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center,” New Yorker, March 21, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center.
18. Bob Moser, “The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
19. “Our Society Is Strongest When We Stand against Bias and Inequity,” Inclusion, Google, https://www.google.org/our-work/inclusion/.
20. Mark Pulliam, “A Demagogic Bully,” City Journal, July 27, 2017, https://www.city-journal.org/html/demagogic-bully-15370.html.
21. Peter Hasson, “Prominent Christian Legal Group Barred from Amazon Program while Openly Anti-Semitic Groups Remain,” Daily Caller, May 5, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/05/amazon-smile-liberal-splc-anti-semitic-groups/.
22. Ibid.
23. “Center for Immigration Studies Files a Civil RICO Lawsuit against the President of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Litigation, Center for Immigration Studies, January 16, 2019, https://cis.org/Press-Release/CIS-RICO-Lawsuit-SPLC.
24. Peter Hasson, “The Left-Wing SPLC Is Now Policing What Music You Can Listen To on Spotify,” Daily Caller, May 11, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/11/splc-policing-music-on-spotify/.
25. Peter Hasson, “Exclusive: Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Twitter All Work with Left-Wing SPLC,” Daily Caller, June 6, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/06/splc-partner-google-facebook-amazon/.
26. Swathi Shanmugasundaram, “The Persistence of Anti-Muslim Hate on Facebook,” Southern Poverty Law Center, May 5, 2018, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/05/05/persistence-anti-muslim-hate-facebook.
27. David Mikkelson, “UPOs Over Haiti,” Fauxtography, Snopes, August 22, 2007, http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/haitiufos.asp.
28. David Mikkelson, “The Young Family,” Fauxtography, Snopes, May 6, 2005, http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/family.asp
29. Peter Hasson, “Fact-Checking Snopes: Website’s Political ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Just a Failed Liberal Blogger,” Daily Caller, June 17, 2016, https://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websites-political-fact-checker-is-just-a-failed-liberal-blogger/.
30. Peter Hasson, “Snopes Caught Lying about Lack of American Flags at Democratic Convention,” Daily Caller, July 28, 2016, https://dailycaller.com/2016/07/28/snopes-caught-lying-about-lack-of-american-flags-at-democratic-convention/.
31. Peter Hasson, “Snopes Caught Playing Defense for Democrats Who Sat during Navy SEAL Tribute,” Daily Caller, March 2, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/02/snopes-caught-playing-defense-for-democrats-who-sat-during-navy-seal-tribute/.
32. Peter Hasson, “Fact-Check: Snopes Gets Facts Wrong while Defending Planned Parenthood,” Daily Caller, February 17, 2017,” https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/17/fact-check-snopes-gets-facts-wrong-while-defending-planned-parenthood/.
33. Peter Hasson, “Snopes, Fact-Checker for Facebook and Google, Botches Fact Check,” Daily Caller, December 6, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/06/snopes-facebook-google-fact-check/.
34. Alex Pfeiffer and Peter Hasson, “Snopes, Which Will Be Fact-Checking for Facebook, Employs Leftists Almost Exclusively,” Daily Caller, December 16, 2016, https://dailycaller.com/2016/12/16/snopes-facebooks-new-fact-checker-employs-leftists-almost-exclusively/.
35. Anders Hagstrom, “Facebook Used Snopes ‘Fact Check’ To Threateen Christian Satire Site by ‘Mistake,’ ” Daily Caller, March 2, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/03/02/facebook-snopes-fact-checks-demonitize-christian-satire/.
36. Peter Hasson, “Snopes, Fact-Checker for Facebook and Google, Botches Fact Check,” Daily Caller, December 6, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/06/snopes-facebook-google-fact-check/.
37. Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman), “Yeah, It’s Not Really a Question. The Thing Was Nearly 100% Wrong,” Twitter post, December 7, 2018, https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1071055823135215616.
38. Peter Hasson, “Snopes Fact-Checker for Facebook and Google, Botches Nathan Phillips Fact Check,” Daily Caller, January 24, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/24/snopes-nathan-phillips-vietnam/.
39. Alana Goodman, “Native American Activist Nathan Phillips Has Violent Criminal Record and Escaped from Jail as Teenager,” Washington Examiner, January 23, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/native-american-activist-nathan-phillips-has-violent-criminal-record-and-escaped-from-jail-as-teenager.
40. Peter Hasson, “Snopes Butchers Fact Check of Viral Smear of Chick-fil-A,” Daily Caller, October 16, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/chick-fil-a-uganda-fact-check/.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Peter Hasson, “What Ingraham, Sinclair, and Williamson Have in Common,” Daily Caller, April 5, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/05/kevin-williamson-laura-ingraham-sinclair-media-matters-boycott/.
44. Patrick Howley, “Media Matters Executive Wrote Racist, Anti-Semitic, Andi-‘Tranny’ Blog Posts,” Daily Caller, October 6, 2014, https://dailycaller.com/2014/10/06/media-matters-executive-wrote-racist-anti-semitic-anti-tranny-blog-posts/.
45. Angelo Carusone, “Tranny Paradise,” Rants, AngeloCarusone.com, November 14, 2005, http://web.archive.org/web/20060216022915/http://www.angelocarusone.com:80/.
46. Angelo Carusone, “Facebook Caves In to Pressure from Conservatives,” CNN, June 26, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/opinions/facebook-caves-to-conservatives-carusone/index.html.
47. Amber Athey, “CNN Silent on Contributor Fantasizing about Punching Covington Boy,” Daily Caller, January 22, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/22/cnn-bakari-sellers-punching-covington-nicholas-sandmann/.
48. Scot Morefield, “CNN’s Symone Sanders Doubles Down after Being Criticized for Mocking Covington Student’s TV Interview,” Daily Caller, January 22, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/22/cnn-symone-sanders-nick-sandmann-covington/.
49. Joe Schoffstall, “Media Matters: Force Policy Changes at Tech Companies To Fight ‘Fake News,’ ” Free Beacon, April 19, 2018, https://freebeacon.com/issues/m
edia-matters-force-policy-changes-tech-companies-fight-fake-news/.
50. Ibid.
51. Rachel Stoltzfoos, “Media Matters Offers Absurd Justifications for Right-Wing ‘Extremists’ List,” Daily Caller, July 11, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/11/media-matters-right-wing-extremists-list/.
52. Peter Hasson, “It Turns Out Alex Jones Is Just Pretending,” Daily Caller, April 17, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/04/17/it-turns-out-alex-jones-is-just-pretending/.
53. Mollie McHugh, “A Timeline of Vacillation: How Twitter Came To Suspend Alex Jones,” The Ringer, August 16, 2018, https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/8/16/17705492/a-timeline-of-vacillation-how-twitter-came-to-suspend-alex-jones.
54. “Twitter Bans Alex Jones and InfoWars; Cites Abusive Behavior,” Media, NPR, Spetmber 6, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/645352618/twitter-bans-alex-jones-and-infowars-cites-abusive-behavior.
55. Sonny Bunch, “The Untenable Tension between Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association,” Washington Post, August 8, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2018/08/08/the-untenable-tension-between-freedom-of-speech-and-freedom-of-association/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.506fa75ba1f3.
56. Brendan O’Neill, “Alex Jones and the Rise of Corporate Censorship,” Spiked, August 7, 2018, https://www.spiked-online.com/2018/08/07/alex-jones-and-the-rise-of-corporate-censorship/#.W3DoXNhKjq1.
57. Francis Fukuyama, “Social Media and Censorship,” American Interest, August 8, 2018, https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/08/08/social-media-and-censorship/.
58. Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT), “Infowars Is the Tip of a Giant Iceberg of Hate and Lies That Uses Sites Like Facebook and YouTube To Tear Our Nation Apart. These Companies Must Do More,” Twitter post, August 6, 2018, https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1026580187784404994
59. Chris White, “Google Emplyees Are Mad YouTube Didn’t Lower the Boom on Steven Crowder,” Daily Caller, June 7, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/07/youtube-steven-crowder-censor/.
60. David Krayden, “New Yorker Fact Checker Resigns after Falsely Accusing ICE Officer of Having Nazi Tattoo,” Daily Caller, June 25, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/25/new-yorker-fact-checker-resigns-ice-officer-tattoo/.
61. Ben Shapiro, “So, Here’s a Giant List of All the Dumb Stuff I’ve Ever Done (Don’t Worry, I’ll Keep Updating It),” Daily Wire, July 20, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/33362/so-heres-giant-list-all-dumb-stuff-ive-ever-done-ben-shapiro.
62. “Center for American Progress (CAP),” Non-Profit, Influence Watch, https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-american-progress-cap/.
63. “Adopt the Terms,” Petition, Change the Terms, https://www.changetheterms.org/terms.
64. Ryan Mac, Joseph Bernstein, Charlie Warzel, and Mat Honan, “This Document Is Some of the Research Facebook Commissioned on George Soros,” Tech, BuzzFeed.News, December 1, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/soros-facebook-definers-research.
65. “Search Results for ‘Facebook Weekly Standard,’ ” Media Matters for America, https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook-weekly-standard.
66. William Saletan, “The Weekly Standard’s Kavanaugh Fact Check Was Correct,” Politics, Slate, September 12, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/thinkprogress-weekly-standard-facebook-fact-check-kavanaugh.html.
Chapter Eight: The Narrative
1. Shiela Dang, “Google, Facebook Have Tight Grip on Growing U.S. Online Ad Market: Report,” Reuters, June 5, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-facebook-advertising/google-facebook-have-tight-grip-on-growing-u-s-online-ad-market-report-idUSKCN1T61IV.
2. Ibid.
3. Marc Tracy, “Google Made $4.7 Billion from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says,” New York Times, June 9, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/business/media/google-news-industry-antitrust.html.
4. Mathew Ingram, “NYT Promotes Questionable Study on Google and the Media,” June 10, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/nyt-google-media.php.
5. Jack Shafer, “Newspapers’ Embarrssing Lobbying Campaign,” Politico, June 10, 2019, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/10/newspapers-embarrassing-lobbying-campaign-227100.
6. Jefferson Pooley and Michael Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic,” Slate, October 23, 2013, https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-the-infamous-radio-broadcast-did-not-cause-a-nationwide-hysteria.html.
7. Olivia Solon, “Facebook’s Failure: Did Fake News and Polarized Politics Get Trump Elected?” The Guardian, November 10, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-fake-news-election-conspiracy-theories.
8. Max Read, “Donald Trump Won because of Facebook,” New York Magazine, November 9, 2016, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/11/donald-trump-won-because-of-facebook.html.
9. Brendan Nyhan, “Fake News and Bots May Be Worrisome but Their Political Power Is Overblown,” New York Times, February 13, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/upshot/fake-news-and-bots-may-be-worrisome-but-their-political-power-is-overblown.html.
10. Peter Hasson, “Despite Media Freak-Out, Data Shows Fake News Sites Have Tiny Audience,” Daily Caller, December 18, 2016, https://dailycaller.com/2016/12/18/despite-media-freak-out-data-shows-fake-news-sites-have-tiny-audience/.
11. Brendan Nyhan, “Why Fears of Fake News Are Overhyped,” Gen.Medium.com, February 4, 2019, https://medium.com/s/reasonable-doubt/why-fears-of-fake-news-are-overhyped-2ed9ca0a52c9.
12. Peter Hasson, “Poll: Majority of Democrats Believe a Straight-Up Conspiracy Theory,” Daily Caller, July 26, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/26/democrats-russia-trump-election-poll/. Peter Hasson, “Alternate Reality: 58 Percent of Dems Think Russia Rigged Vote Count To Get Trump Elected,” Daily Caller, May 31, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/05/31/alternate-reality-58-percent-of-dems-think-russia-rigged-vote-count-to-get-trump-elected/.
13. Peter Hasson, “ ‘We Don’t Track Bots’: What the Media’s Russian Bot Coverage Is Getting All Wrong,” Daily Caller, April 9, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/hamilton-68-russian-bots-media-coverage/.
14. Ibid.
15. Chuck Ross, “Rump Supporter Says CNN Reporter ‘Ambushed’ Her in Interview about Russian Troll Group,” Daily Caller, February 26, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/26/drew-griffin-cnn-donald-trump-florida-robert-mueller/.
16. Justin Caruso, “Elderly Trump Supporter Woman Exposed to Vicious Harassment Following CNN Report,” Daily Caller, February 21, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/21/elderly-woman-cnn-threatened/.
17. Derek Hunter, “Michael Moore Participated in Russia-Sponsored Anti-Trump Rally,” Daily Caller, February 19, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/19/michael-moore-russian-anti-trump-rally/.
18. Peter Hasson, “Women’s March Promoted Russian Propaganda,” Daily Caller, October 23, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/10/23/womens-march-promoted-russian-propaganda/.
19. Amber Athey, “Antifa Accused of Attacking Marines. CNN’s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo Once Excused Antifa Violence,” Daily Caller, December 17, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/17/antifa-hispanic-marines-cnn-don-lemon-chris-cuomo/.
20. Peter Hasson, “Iran Caught Using Fake Social Media Accounts To Push Anti-Trump, Pro-Bernie Propaganda,” Daily Caller, August 22, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/22/iran-fake-social-media-accounts/.
21. Kaitlyn Schallhorn, “North Dakota Democratic Party Discourages Hunters from Voting, Claims They Could Lose Out-of-State Licenses,” Fox News, November 2, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/north-dakota-democratic-party-discourages-hunts-from-voting-claims-they-could-lose-out-of-state-licenses.
22. Peter Hasson, Joe Simonson, “If You Only Get Your News frm CNN, You Have No Idea This Story Happened,” Daily Caller, December 27, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/27/cnn-democrat-russian-false-flag/.
23. Benjamin Mullin and Deepa Seetharaman, “Publishing Executiv
es Argue facebook Is Overly Deferential to Conservatives,” Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/publishing-executives-argue-facebook-is-overly-deferential-to-conservatives-1531802201.
24. Peter Hasson, “Facebook Plans To ‘Dial Up’ Suppression of Certain News Outlets,” Daily Caller, May 1, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/01/facebook-newsfeed-trusted-sources-dial-up/.
25. Zach Carter, “Hey, Democrats: Pack the Court,” HuffPost, June 29, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hey-democrats-pack-the-court_us_5b33f7a8e4b0b5e692f3f3d4.
26. Ibid.
27. Andrew Kerr, “How BuzzFeed’s ‘Data-Monster’ Leveraged User Data To Fuel Super PACs, Target Voters,” Daily Caller, May 6, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/06/buzzfeeds-data-political-advertisements/.
28. Adam Johnson, “BuzzFeed’s Obama Coverage Is 99 Percent Uncritical—and Borderline Creepy,” Fair.org, June 30, 2016, https://fair.org/home/buzzfeeds-obama-coverage-is-99-percent-uncritical-and-borderline-creepy/.
29. Alex Pfeiffer, “The Washington Post’s Incredibly Botched Story on ‘Russian’ Hacking,” Daily Caller, January 3, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/01/03/the-washington-posts-incredibly-botched-story-on-russian-hacking/.
30. Amber Athey, “CNN Walks Back Jeff Sessions-Russia Bombshell,” Daily Caller, December 11, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/12/11/cnn-walks-back-jeff-sessions-russia-bombshell/.
31. Amber Athey, “BuzzFeed’s Trump Story Latest in Long List of Russia Bombshells That Weren’t,” Daily Caller, January 18, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/18/buzzfeed-cohen-media-russia-bombshells/.
32. Peter Hasson, “Three CNN Employees Resign over Botched Trump-Russia Story,” Daily Caller, June 26, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/06/26/three-cnn-employees-resign-over-botched-trump-russia-story/.
33. Peter Hasson, “Yet Another Anonymously Sourced Trump-Russia Story Falls Apart,” Daily Caller, September 7, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/09/07/yet-another-anonymously-sourced-trump-russia-story-falls-apart/.
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