Appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources" with host Brian Stelter, Daily Beast Russian media expert Julia Davis explained that Fox News personality Tucker Carlsonis becoming a star on Russian TV but there are concerns that he doing too much to back Vladimir Putin's saber-rattling at Ukraine.
As Davis explained, Carlson, whose nightly show is one of Fox's most popular, is seen as an effective propagandist for the Putin regime but they would like him to dial it back lest he lose credibility with some of his audience and some of his admirers in Russia.
Appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources" with host Brian Stelter, Daily Beast Russian media expert Julia Davis explained that Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is becoming a star on Russian TV but there are concerns that he is doing too much to back Vladimir Putin's saber-rattling at Ukraine...
www.rawstory.com
Just auditioning for his new job in case Fox doesn't work out?
Another RawStory post from a 63 yr old who acts 12.
RawStory False claims
In November 2013,
The Raw Story, citing a local news report, claimed that teenagers were playing the "
knockout game" and sharing the videos online. There was almost no evidence to suggest that teenagers were uploading videos of the knockout game.
[39]
In February 2015, during the
Gamergate controversy, a
Wikipedia article incorrectly stated that a Wikipedia
arbitration case resulted in the banning of five
feminist editors. This falsehood was initially reported by
The Guardian and then by
The Raw Story, which never issued a correction.
[40]
In July 2015,
Inquisitr falsely reported that
Costco stopped selling dinosaur cakes after a mother complained that the cake contained the demonic symbol "
666". The hoax was aggregated by
The Raw Story and other news outlets.
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In January 2016,
The Raw Story falsely reported that legislation introduced by Virginia lawmaker
Mark Cole would require schools to "verify children’s [sic] genitals before using the restroom." The proposed legislation would require children to use the bathroom based on their "anatomical sex" but did not include any provisions on "genital checks."
[43]
In February 2016,
The Raw Story reported that
Fox News anchor
Bill O'Reilly had lost custody of his children because he had physically abused their mother; the article was cited by
Occupy Democrats later that May.
Snopes determined that the Gawker article cited by
The Raw Story had reported that O'Reilly had lost custody of his children, but did not suggest that O'Reilly had lost custody due to violent behavior.
[44]
In July 2016,
The Raw Story attributed a tweet to
Donald Trump Jr. in their reporting, even though the tweet originated from a parody account.
The Raw Story later issued a correction.
[45]
In February 2017,
The Raw Story reported that the White House had turned off the recorder for a phone call between then-U.S. President
Donald Trump and Russian President
Vladimir Putin. The claim originated from
Ilan Berman, vice-president of the
American Foreign Policy Council, who later stated his comment was an "aside" and "not intended to be a factual statement."
The Raw Story changed the headline of the article and issued a correction.
[46]
In October 2017, a
fake news story spread that claimed that the
chief deputy for the
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office was a
white supremacist who wanted "to rape and kill a black man or a Jew." The false story was picked up by
The Raw Story under the headline, "Top Florida law enforcement official plotted to abduct, rape and murder 'a black man or a Jew.'" Activist
Tim Wise, who had shared the article by
The Raw Story on Facebook, vowed to never share from
The Raw Story again due to their failure to fact-check.
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In December 2017,
The Raw Story published an article based on a
CNN report which mistakenly stated that on September 4, 2016,
Donald Trump Jr. had received a website and a decryption key to preview the emails from the
2016 Democratic National Committee email leak before they were made public by
WikiLeaks; the date was later corrected by CNN to September 14, 2016, which was after the emails had been reported on publicly.
The Raw Story did not include the correction in its article.
[48]
On February 19, 2018,
The Raw Story published a report claiming that
Russian trolls co-opting the
Me Too movement had forced
Minnesota senator
Al Franken to resign, and that an article by writer
Ijeoma Oluo had been used as part of the campaign.
[49][50] Oluo told Snopes that her article had been published after Franken announced his resignation, adding: "I was hoping that the piece would give people context and help people grow from all of this into a better place."
[49] The Raw Story later retracted its report.
[50]
In April 2018,
The Raw Story falsely reported that Fox News put up a graph showing that they were the least trusted news network compared to CNN and
MSNBC; the three networks were actually being compared with Donald Trump as a trusted source of information. The falsehood was later shared by CNN commentator
Chris Cuomo.
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In November 2018, a college student faked being a Trump supporter and started a
GoFundMe, claiming that her parents had cut her off financially.
The Raw Story falsely reported that the student garnered $150,000 in donations, when the actual amount was only around $200.
[53]
In October 2018,
The Raw Story claimed that
Meghan McCain, a co-host on
The View, drew a comparison between bombs threats targeting Democrats and Republicans getting heckled at restaurants. A video of the episode showed that McCain did not directly compare the two.
[54] McCain previously disputed
The Raw Story's assertion that she "drank through" her father's cancer treatment (McCain is the daughter of the late senator
John McCain).
[55]
During the
2020 United States presidential election,
The Raw Story published an article on November 4, 2020 which claimed that the
United States Postal Service (USPS) had failed to deliver 27% of
mail-in ballots in
South Florida.
PolitiFact determined that the figure was based on a misreading of Postal Service data, and the USPS stated that it had skipped some steps to get ballots to election offices faster.
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The Raw Story spread
misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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