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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22d

If ever in doubt on why Trump is doing something, you'll rarely go wrong by just assuming it's part of the Trump-Fox News Feedback Loop.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 22d

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Sep 9

i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · Aug 28

I would simply not have voted to confirm the guy who hauled a bear carcass down from upstate New York and left it in Central Park.

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Aug 7

Come meet us at Netroots!

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · Aug 2

"The Sweeney uproar wasn’t a meaningful controversy, but it became a major media story because that’s how today’s information ecosystem functions," @passantino.bsky.social writes in his Saturday column for @status.news. www.status.news/p/sydney-swe...

The Sweeney Spectacle

Sydney Sweeney’s cheeky American Eagle ad became the week’s biggest culture-war flashpoint—distracting from far weightier stories.

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Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline.bsky.social · May 21

My latest: I started a Substack and wrote about Dems raising money to build up progressive influencers. If they attach too many strings to the money, they're doomed.

Please subscribe to Number Two Pencil! I'll be writing there for free once a week

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On money for progressive influencers

Welcome to Number Two Pencil

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · May 12

“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident.

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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics

"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently"

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Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social · May 5

Not to be dramatic but I spent months and months working on this video deep diving into the history of attacks on DEI.

It is my baby and I’d love for y’all to check it out! 🙏🏻
youtu.be/nD1nJ7g8j94?...

How billionaires created the DEI panic

YouTube video by Media Matters

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · Apr 23

When we saw @mmfa.bsky.social & @ohhkaygo.bsky.social analysis of the political leanings of the top streams, podcasts, & other online shows, we wondered how many were sharing false info about climate change. Turns out it's most of them!

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/eigh...

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mollyfication.bsky.social @mollyfication.bsky.social · Apr 21

Big thanks to @ohhkaygo.bsky.social for providing the data that informed this journey into the world of MAGA media www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...

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mollyfication.bsky.social @mollyfication.bsky.social · Apr 21

So glad my pop culture knowledge finally came in handy @onthemedia.bsky.social. Never guessed it would be in the context of a explaining a Candace Owens video.

Make sure to listen to last week's episode, it's a bit of a format-breaker and a weird time! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Apr 16

Even as President Trump’s destructive tariffs disrupted the global economy and tanked the stock market, we found that among right-leaning online shows that self-categorize as nonpolitical, a full quarter of discussions still embraced the president’s deeply unpopular economic policy.

Study: Most Pro-Trump podcasters support Trump's tariffs but some fractures emerge

In a new study of top pro-Trump online shows in the days after President Donald Trump launched his formal tariff plan, Media Matters has found some dissension as his economic policy disrupts the globa...

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Kayla Gogarty @ohhkaygo.bsky.social · Apr 14

Trump saying that he’s going to send US citizens to be imprisoned in another country, while the admin says that fed courts can’t mandate an “act of diplomacy or incursion upon” that country’s sovereignty after it illegally sent someone there seems like a 5 alarm fire everyone should pay attention to

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 14

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Apr 14

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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Kayla Gogarty @ohhkaygo.bsky.social · Mar 21

I wrote a piece for MSNBC that underscores the extent to which the right is dominating the online media ecosystem — with right-wing narratives seeping into supposedly nonpolitical shows and right-wing media figures branching into pop culture.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Mar 21

The right is dominating the online political ecosystem thanks to supposedly nonpolitical content and an influx of right-wing figures branching into pop culture ➡️ www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion: How right-wing influencers are exploiting the Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively feud
Members of the right's massive media ecosystem are attracting even bigger audiences by stretching outside their comfort zones.
After actress Blake Lively sued director Justin Baldoni in December, saying he had retaliated against her for reporting sexual harassment on a film set, an unusual group of online talkers dove into this Hollywood dispute.
Right-wing personality Candace Owens - who split from The Daily Wire last year amid conflicts over her antisemitic rhetoric - was not previously known for covering celebrity litigation. But she has become one of Baldoni's loudest defenders online, helping propel the feud and gaining new audiences for herself along the way.
This strategy appears to be successful in multiple ways.

As the right seeps into these traditionally nonpolitical spaces, they've also been pushing mainstream media and social media to the right.
The right's expansive online ecosystem plays into a fundamental aspect of the current online environment:
Outrage and fearmongering garner more attention and engagement than facts. And right-wing media figures have leaned into pop culture to garner more audiences for their content, while comedians, sports commentators and entertainers are pushing right-wing content. The result is that right-wing narratives are seemingly everywhere. And this environment allows Trump and his allies to easily spread propaganda to wide swaths of Americans.

Kayla Gogarty is research director at Media Matters for America, a progressive research center that monitors the U.S. media.

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Kayla Gogarty @ohhkaygo.bsky.social · Mar 19

It was great speaking with @andylevy.net about @mmfa.bsky.social's new study! Listen to hear about our findings on the state of the online media ecosystem

andy™ @andylevy.net · Mar 18

i spoke with @mmfa.bsky.social research director @ohhkaygo.bsky.social about their study showing the overwhelming dominance of the right in the online media ecosystem (separately, yes, schumer needs to resign) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

‘Waste of Space’ Chuck Schumer Needs to Resign

Podcast Episode · The New Abnormal · 03/18/2025 · 1h 4m

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Mar 14

NEW: As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...

www.mediamatters.org

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Kayla Gogarty @ohhkaygo.bsky.social · Mar 14

The study also shows how right-wing content is seeping into comedy, sports, entertainment, and other supposedly nonpolitical shows. We found that 72% of the shows in our analysis that described themselves in these categories actually pushed right-wing content/guests.

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Kayla Gogarty @ohhkaygo.bsky.social · Mar 14

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows, this media ecosystem becomes more influential. A new Media Matters’ study shows how overwhelmingly right-leaning this ecosystem is -- with nearly five times the following of left-leaning online shows. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

Total following of top right-leaning and left-leaning online shows; shows are represented by circles with sizes proportional to total following across platforms. Circles of right-leaning shows are larger and more prevalent, with the largest circles for Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, etc.

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Stuart A. Thompson @stuartathompson.bsky.social · Mar 12

to put it simply: the right has an outrage machine. built over years and years, tinkered to perfection, running on all cylinders. the left has nothing comparable.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 11

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

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john whitehouse @existentialfish.com · Mar 5

the thing about the manosphere is that these people have no idea what they're dealing with www.mediamatters.org/manosphere/y...

screenshot of transcript of a youtube interview with andrew tate:

TATE: No, you can't. But this is actually interesting, so let's analyze this. Free speech. This is a interesting conversation because America believes it has free speech. It doesn't. But every single country in the world has things you cannot talk about. Every single country in the world has off topics -- off-limit topics. In Russia, it's Putin, in the Middle East, it's Islam, in Turkey, it's Erdogan. If you talk against them, you're going to get in a lot trouble. Do you know what the American one is?

FORGEARD: What, speaking out against the Dems?

TATE: Speaking out against the Jews. If you speak out —

FORGEARD: Oh, the Jews.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Feb 26

Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · Feb 5

Fox News, which treated Joe Biden's son selling his paintings as a major White House ethics scandal, just put Donald Trump's daughter-in-law on the payroll.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 25

Congrats. You played yourself.

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Jan 20

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Cecile Richards.

Image of Cecile Richards speaking to a crowd. Text overlay reads: We are deeply saddened by Cecile Richards’ passing. Cecile was an extraordinary and indefatiguable leader whose efforts touched the lives of millions of Americans. Even with her illness, Cecile continued pouring herself into fights for justice, women’s rights and reproductive health. We were so privileged and grateful to have had her as a part of the Media Matters team these past few years. The world is losing a fighter at a time when we need them the most. We will strive to honor her work and memory.

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