Columbia Journalism Review / Darryl Holliday
PolitiFact / Angie Drobnic Holan, Bill McCarthy and Amy Sherman
Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance is PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” →“We picked these lies for two reasons. First, the attack was historically important…Second, the events of Jan. 6 were widely broadcast on that day and many days afterward, allowing the public to see for itself exactly what happened. The body of evidence includes direct video documentation and many eyewitness accounts. So efforts to downplay and deny what happened are an attempt to brazenly recast reality itself.”
Houston Chronicle / Paul Takahashi
Politico / Hailey Fuchs and Max Tani
How a 100-year-old newspaper became the go-to way to influence Biden →“A handful of organizations with legislative interests before the government have taken to running print ads in Delaware’s The News Journal in an effort to get their message in front of the world’s most powerful individual, one who is likely the paper’s most famous reader. A review of the paper found that 17 ads have been run by these groups between September and mid-November alone.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Paroma Soni
Online censorship is growing in Modi’s India →“Data from Twitter’s own transparency reports reveal that, in 2020, the Indian government asked Twitter to remove nearly 10,000 tweets, up from about 1,200 the prior year; in 2017, the government only demanded that Twitter delete 248 tweets.”
Pew Research Center / Elisa Shearer and Amy Mitchell
The Washington Post / Jeremy Barr
Substack / Anne Helen Petersen
Poynter / Alex Sujong Laughlin
Twitter / Wirecutter Union
Wirecutter Union reaches a deal for its first-ever contract →“We’re excited to share we’ve reached a deal with management on our first contract! After 2 years of bargaining & a 5 day strike, we’ve secured an agreement that makes meaningful improvements to our working conditions. We came together to demand better & won!”
The New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum and Marc Tracy