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Fox News host Sean Hannity interviews President Trump in Las Vegas in 2018. Hannity, like Trump, has cast doubt on the 2020 election results without providing evidence. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

With Trump’s loss, Murdoch’s Fox News faces wrath and tough choices

There may be no media figure more important in preparing Republicans and President Trump himself for a post-Trump period than magnate Rupert Murdoch.

5 years ago

Congress spending you cash and wasting your money.
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Dark money in the 2020 election; the Walter Wallace shooting

We discuss mental health and policing around the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia. Then, the dark money influencing the 2020 election.

Air Date: October 29, 2020 10:00 am

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Photo credit: Andy Thrasher / Flickr
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Nonvoters, reluctant voters, and voters who hate politics

We discuss the 80% of Americans who do not consider themselves to be politically engaged and their voting behavior, then examine those who opt out of voting.

Air Date: October 28, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:31
The stage for the final presidential debate
NPR
Politics & Policy

5 questions ahead of the last Trump-Biden presidential debate

This is the last chance for both candidates to make their arguments to a broad audience of the public for why they should be president — and there's a lot on the line.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate
NPR
Politics & Policy

Debate commission to mute candidates’ mics at start of each segment

This decision comes after a chaotic first debate that was widely criticized for its largely unstructured nature.

5 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a NBC Town Hall at Pérez Art Museum, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Politics & Policy

NBC holds fast to dueling town halls despite celebrity anger

NBC News isn't backing down from its decision to schedule President Trump for a town hall in the same time slot that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, is speaking on ABC.

5 years ago

Earl Harvey, publisher of the Black Professionals' News
Community

Earl Harvey, pioneering Black media entrepreneur, dies at 65

The publisher of The Black Professionals News and The Atlantic City Times is remembered as a major booster of Black business people in the Philly area.

5 years ago

A Facebook logo is pictured in a file photo.
Community

Facebook bans Holocaust denial, distortion posts

The decision comes amid a push by Holocaust survivors around the world over the summer who lent their voices to a campaign targeting Zuckerberg, urging him to take action.

5 years ago

Twitter screen
NPR
Politics & Policy

Twitter expands warning labels to slow spread of election misinformation

The social media company wants users to pause and think before they share tweets, in an effort to reduce the amplification of false claims.

5 years ago

With more people voting by mail this year, Facebook and other social media companies are preparing for a potential delay in election results. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Facebook vows to crack down on voter intimidation in election

Facebook announced new measures to prevent misinformation, threats and confusion surrounding the election, but let Trump Jr's call for an 'army of poll watchers' stand.

5 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati. (AP file Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Judge dismisses suit by top Pa. senator’s campaign against Spotlight PA journalist, others

The lawsuit, which Scarnati’s campaign could attempt to refile, could pose a chilling effect on journalists’ and the public’s access to public records.

5 years ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (from left), Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have been in the spotlight over the market power that their giant companies have.
(Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

How are Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google monopolies? House report counts the ways

The lawmakers say Congress should overhaul the laws that have let the companies grow so powerful.

5 years ago

Twitter said it will make changes to how preview images are cropped amid concerns about possible bias. Some Twitter users posted images the site's algorithm selected white faces over Black ones in preview images. (Richard Drew/AP)
NPR
Community

Twitter announces changes to image cropping amid bias concern

Twitter is making changes to how preview photos are cropped after users raised concerns that the site's algorithm was showing preferences for white faces over Black ones.

5 years ago

Fox News host Tucker Carlson
NPR
Politics & Policy

You literally can’t believe the facts Tucker Carlson tells you. So say Fox’s lawyers.

Carlson has been repeatedly accused of anti-immigrant and racist comments, which has cost his show many of its major advertisers. Yet he endures in his prime-time slot.

5 years ago

(Thibault Camus/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Civil rights groups say if Facebook won’t act on election misinformation, they will

Facebook critics are banding together to monitor misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression on the social network because, they argue, it has fallen short.

5 years ago

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