Hard to believe how many times @Newsweek has had to put out corrections. A thread.

My latest piece at @mmfa:

Fox News keeps trying to justify GOP efforts to object to the Electoral College vote by pointing to the number of people who think the election was stolen (after spending 2 months telling their audiences that it was

This is Fox, basically:

Another comparison to the role Fox is playing here via one of my favorite Onion articles:

Or maybe a human centipede, but with the front connected back to the end for a loop of shit-eating. Yeah, that's it. That's the role Fox is playing here.

But seriously, check out the *more than 2 months* of Fox-enabled conspiracy theories (a partial list):

For some non-Covid news, and as a bit of recent political history, I’ve been released more than 100 pages of internal press office communications relating to the Home Office’s fried chicken box saga.

You may remember back in heady 2019 that there was an uproar after the government provided takeaway boxes with anti-knife crime messages to chicken shops around the country.

The campaign faced an immediate backlash, with critics questioning why fried chicken shops — stereotypically associated with young black communities — were being targeted by the Home Office for this campaign against knife crime.

The emails I’ve been released show that privately, officials admitted that the outcry risked angering the communities the campaign was trying to reach out to.

A briefing prepared by a Home Office official highlighted that they were “unsure what could be done publicly” to rebuff the criticism, and that the campaign’s focus on chicken boxes had created a perception that the campaign had “publicised racist stereotypes”.

Resignations in the news 12/21/2020 thru 12/25/2020

From Anon

Longtime executive at Maine Public retiring after 40

Rehoboth Beach Patrol Captain Submits

SEC Chief of Staff Sean Memon Announces Plans to Conclude

WVa Governor's Chief of Staff Mike Hall

The political chief at Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy is stepping

Thread day after @MyMDC_T held its Ex congress @DrThoko_Khupe chaired an alleged National council, which arrived at the resolution of firing @DMwonzora recall him from parliament. The resolutions were supposed to be read by #Phugeni then party spokesperson but he refused ...

We share with you the resolutions which were withheld last minute at a Press conference addressed yesterday on advice from @ProfMadhuku - below are the full resolutions.

NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING RESOLUTIONS
28 Dec 2020
 
Upholding and Respecting the Supreme Court Judgment (SC56/2020) which ordered the holding of an EO C in terms of the party constitution to elect a substantive replacement for the late Party President Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai.

Acknowledging that the same Supreme Court judgement recognises the existence of the constitution of the MDC without any qualifications.
Affirming that the Supreme Court judgement doesn’t entail deviating from the clear provisions of our constitution.

Realising that some members of the Party have left the party and joined or formed other political parties, and that by that fact alone, the said members have renounced their membership of the party.
Acknowledging the resolutions of the N Cof 9 May 2020, which meeting resolved to