Rupert Murdoch Called Trump's Stolen-Election Fantasy 'Really Crazy Stuff.' Fox News Promoted It Anyway.
Hosts and producers privately called Trump lawyer Sidney Powell's claims "complete bs," "insane," and "unbelievably offensive."
Hosts and producers privately called Trump lawyer Sidney Powell's claims "complete bs," "insane," and "unbelievably offensive."
Reason talks with the transgender historian who used the term to describe a revolutionary gender-affirming treatment for teens.
In an open letter, they condemned the paper's coverage of trans issues. But their note is more about what questions journalists are not allowed to ask.
A government-supported organization's controversial ratings of online news sources illustrate the challenge of deciding what qualifies as disinformation.
Reason is listed among the "ten riskiest online news outlets" by a government-funded disinfo tracker.
The botched pursuit of the Russiagate story illustrates how the media shed credibility.
Deepfakes aren't nearly as dangerous as the tried-and-true technique of saying something misleading with the imprimatur of authority.
Priscilla Villarreal's case will be heard again tomorrow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She has attracted some unlikely supporters.
Content-generating A.I. will probably enhance human labor rather than make it obsolete.
The Population Bomber has never been right, but is never in doubt that the world is coming to its end.
The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.
A law to protect people engaged in journalism from having to reveal sources gets blocked by Sen. Tom Cotton.
RIP to a prolific and colorful Reason contributor and author.
Plus: Sen. Mike Lee wants to remove First Amendment protections for porn, IRS doxxes taxpayers, and more...
Another officer claims to have been laid out just by being close to the drug. That’s not how it works.
Plus: ACLU sides against religious freedom, abortions after Dobbs, and more...
Ain't it grand to have a resilient libertarian journal of opinion?
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The Justice Department’s discretion is the only thing that protects them from a similar fate.
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The mainstream coverage of SBF and FTX is more than a little blasé.
Journalists who sound the alarm about Russian propaganda are unfazed by the lack of evidence that it has a meaningful impact.
Priscilla Villarreal found herself in a jail cell for publishing two routine stories. A federal court still can't decide what to do about that.
The unsubstantiated threat that strangers with cannabis candy allegedly pose to trick-or-treaters is an urban legend that never dies.
Meanwhile more and more Americans say that they are avoiding news coverage.
Influential media critic Margaret Sullivan demonstrates the perils of letting narrative get ahead of verification.
Even though no one's trying to give your kid rainbow fentanyl this Halloween, it hasn't stopped journalists from repeating the myth.
Regular people are not so terminally online.
An emphasis on corruption and enforcement downplays the very real influence of regulation and taxes on California's booming black market.
Their articles do not, in fact, get more accurate.
Plus: The wage premium from having a college degree is falling, study finds black access to firearms reduced lynchings during Jim Crow, and more...
It'll just lend a hand to the outlets the senator prefers.
The Christian satire site's editor on defying Twitter bans, flaying Gen Z's super-thin skin, and being funny while pious.
Kyle Mann, the Christian satire site's editor, also talks Biden vs. Trump, and why he saves his deepest burns for mega-pastors like Joel Osteen.
Plus: The editors examine proposed CDC reorganization and field a question on free trade.
A senator and two congressmen team up to help protect whistleblowers from vindictive prosecution.
"The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC, where they're not welcome."
Despite the abundance of transcripts, FBI reports, and memoirs from those involved, we still know more about the cover-up than we do about the infamous political scandal.
White player suspended for calling black player "Jackie"; many journalists conclude that the player (and Yankees fans!) are racist.
An exhaustive profile of the Sleep and High on Fire frontman focuses almost entirely on his "dangerous" affinity for David Icke's lizard people conspiracy theories.
Nominated stories cover minor league baseball, drug tests, and L.A.’s plan for ending homelessness
It's not clear which guns she is talking about, and even Collins does not seem to know.
Dean Baquet played a leading role in two of modern journalism's turns for the worse.
No moral judgment, just Viking honor, pagan ritual, and inevitable death.
$43 billion takeover bid reveals knowledge-class anxieties over free expression
Substack's Hamish McKenzie on censorship, discourse, and Joe Rogan.
A year and a half after the New York Post broke the story, the Times says it has "authenticated" the messages it previously deemed suspect.