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Voters cast their ballots Election Day in 2020 in East Los Angeles. Smartmatic says it's the only county they were operating in for the presidential election, but Fox News mentioned the company 137 times in a month afterward as President Trump and his allies pressed baseless claims of a rigged election.

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  • Media

Fox News countersues a voting machine maker, saying its damage estimate is inflated

Smartmatic says claims aired by the network contributed to losing $2.7 billion in business through 2025. In a new suit, Fox says that figure represents absurdly huge growth for the small business.

March 18, 2022
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  • Christopher Dean Hopkins
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Chris Cuomo seeks $125 million after being fired from CNN

The former CNN anchor was fired last year for violating CNN's journalistic standards when he helped his brother, ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, navigate the sexual harassment allegations against him.

March 17, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Republican candidate for Arizona governor Kari Lake points to the crowd at a rally for former President Donald Trump on Jan. 15 in Florence, Ariz. Lake's introductory campaign ad included baseless claims of a rigged 2020 election.

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  • Politics

The truth in political advertising: 'You're allowed to lie'

A campaign ad for Kari Lake, a Republican candidate for Arizona governor, includes baseless claims of a rigged 2020 election. Can candidates lie in their paid ads? The short answer: yes.

March 17, 2022
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  • Domenico Montanaro
Russian Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova interrupted a live broadcast in Moscow on Monday, holding up a poster reading "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine.

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  • Media

What Ukraine war news looks like from Russia

State TV has long been Russians' top news source. Now it's becoming the only word of record, presenting stories of "surgical" attacks on Ukrainian nationalists and threats of anti-Russian bioweapons.

March 15, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Journalists report from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2. Media coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been massive.

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  • World

Not every war gets the same coverage as Russia's invasion — and that has consequences

Ongoing wars in, say, Yemen or Ethiopia get minimal attention compared with the media focus on the fighting in Ukraine. And there are ramifications on the humanitarian front.

March 04, 2022
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  • Malaka Gharib
GPB News NPR

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  • Technology

Facebook and TikTok block Russian state media in Europe

Kremlin-backed news outlets RT and Sputnik have become flashpoints for social media companies that are under pressure to curb the spread of Russian propaganda and disinformation.

March 02, 2022
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  • Shannon Bond
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

CBS producer Chris Licht is set to be the next head of CNN

Licht would replace Jeff Zucker, who resigned earlier this month after saying he had failed to acknowledge a romantic relationship with a senior executive at the network.

February 26, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
NPR has named Ayesha Rascoe host of <em>Weekend Edition Sunday.</em> She has been covering the White House for the network.<em> </em>

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  • Media

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe named new host of 'Weekend Edition Sunday'

NPR has tapped White House Correspondent Ayesha Rascoe to host the Sunday news magazine show. Rascoe, a Black woman from Durham, N.C., says NPR has encouraged her to "sound like myself."

February 25, 2022
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  • Anthony Tellez and
  • David Folkenflik
Neil Cavuto, a Fox Business Network veteran anchor, said a second bout with COVID-19 landed him in the intensive care unit and told viewers, "Let me be clear. Doctors say had I not been vaccinated at all, I wouldn't be here."

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  • Media

Lauding vaccines, Fox's Neil Cavuto says a 2nd bout of COVID nearly killed him

Returning from a prolonged absence on Monday, Cavuto — who is immunocompromised — said COVID-19 pneumonia had landed him in the intensive care unit and credited the vaccine with saving his life.

February 22, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Some users experienced glitches on former President Donald Trump's new social media app Truth Social as it launched Monday.

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  • Media

Trump's social media site hits the app store a year after he was banned from Twitter

Truth Social bills itself as "free from political discrimination." The app was not free from technical glitches, however, as users complained of a buggy registration process and long waitlists.

February 22, 2022
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  • Nell Clark
Audience members sit separately for social distancing at a cinema in China's eastern Zhejiang province in July 2020.

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  • Asia

Hollywood relies on China to stay afloat. What does that mean for movies?

Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel says that film studios increasingly need Chinese audiences to break even — which can result in self-censorship. His new book is Red Carpet.

February 21, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Allison Gollust, seen in 2013, denounced accusations she violated company policy, saying the WarnerMedia CEO was seeking to "retaliate against me and change the media narrative in the wake of their disastrous handling of the last two weeks."

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  • Media

Another top CNN executive resigns as WarnerMedia CEO cites ethical lapses

Chief marketing officer Allison Gollust quit after the end of a probe of former prime-time star Chris Cuomo. Gollust, Cuomo and former CNN chief Jeff Zucker were all cited for violating standards.

February 16, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks with reporters as she leaves federal court on Feb. 14 in New York City.

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  • Media

Sarah Palin loses defamation case against 'The New York Times'

It was a one-two punch for Sarah Palin: The verdict came a day after the presiding judge said he would dismiss the case because Palin's lawyers failed to meet the legal standard of actual malice.

February 15, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at a rally in 2017.

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  • Media

Judge to dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation suit against 'New York Times'

Palin sued the newspaper over a 2017 editorial that wrongly linked an ad by her political action committee to the shooting of then-Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011.

February 14, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson speaks to reporters following the bipartisan passage of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

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  • Law

Gretchen Carlson praises bill that ends forced arbitration in sexual assault cases

The former Fox news anchor says the bill's passage means that survivors of sexual assault in the workplace will no longer be silenced by a secretive arbitration practice.

February 13, 2022
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