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Detailed Report Questionable Reasoning: Conspiracy Theories, Propaganda, Failed Fact Checks Bias Rating: RIGHT (7.8) Factual Reporting: MIXED (6.4) Country: USA MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
History The Federalist is an English-language online magazine that covers politics, policy, culture, and religion. The Federalist has been described as influential in conservative and libertarian circles. The site was co-founded by Ben Domenech and Sean Davis and launched in September 2013. The current editors are David Harsanyi and Mollie Hemingway On March 26th, 2020, Twitter locked the site’s account for violating its rules against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. Read our profile on the United States government and media.
Funded by / Ownership According to the website, The Federalist is a wholly independent division of FDRLST Media. The website is funded through online advertising and paid subscriptions to newsletters. Analysis The Federalist is a news and opinion website that reports with a right-wing bias that typically favors the right and denigrates the left. There is the frequent use of loaded emotional language: The New York Times Hit Piece On Mike Pence Is Anti-Christian Bigotry, Plain And Simple. In general, The Federalist sources all of their information from credible mainstream outlets; however, they sometimes use sources that we have rated mixed for factual reporting, such as the Daily Caller.
According to an article from the left-leaning Daily Beast, The Federalist was openly critical of Donald Trump before he won the election but has become a strong supporter of his Presidency and agenda. Further, In November 2017, The Federalist came under criticism from both conservatives and liberals for publishing an opinion piece by Ouachita Baptist University philosopher Tully Borland defending Roy Moore’s dating of teenagers while he was in his 30s and arguing that such behavior was “not without some merit if one wants to raise a large family.”
Bias Regarding reporting on scientific issues, The Federalist often does not align with experts’ consensus in the field. For example, in this article, the author claims that “I am a skeptic when it comes to climate change. To be clear, I don’t doubt that the climate changes — obviously it does. I don’t doubt that human activity affects this change. What that effect is, and to what extent it influences the entire system, I don’t know. As a scientific concept, I have no opinion on climate change.” The author does seem to have an opinion on Climate change when he states, “So, simply put, I am a climate change skeptic because the people advocating it do not act as if it were a verified scientific conclusion.” Although the author freely admits he is not an expert and cannot generate an opinion on the scientific concept, he does not need to think because there is a strong scientific consensus on the impact of human-influenced climate change. The Federalist has also promoted pseudoscience claiming that there is a link between Abortions and Breast Cancer. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, there is “no causal relationship between induced abortion and a subsequent increase in breast cancer risk.” Finally, as seen in the failed fact checks section they often false and misleading information regarding Covid-19. In general, The Federalist is not a credible source of information. Failed Fact Checks Obama twice described Americans as “lazy” during a town hall meeting in Laos. – MOSTLY FALSE “Longstanding whistleblower rules (changed) just before submittal fake whistleblower report.” – FALSE “As we have learned, the Intel Inspector General (IG) changed the rule after the complaint was known to allow hearsay complaints, but the IG dishonestly backdated the rule change so that damage could be done to President Trump.” – PANTS on FIRE (cites false Federalist report that was never corrected) More people who wear masks become sick with COVID-19 compared to non-mask wearers; therefore, masks don’t work or are making us ill – False “Mask mandates do nothing to stop [the spread of] COVID[-19]”; There is “overwhelming scientific evidence” that masks do not work – Inaccurate Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, tapped as Biden COVID-19 adviser, said those over 75 years old should receive the vaccine last – False “There’s no science behind masks on kids”. – Inaccurate Overall, we rate The Federalist as Questionable and far-Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that always favor the right and promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, and numerous failed fact checks. (8/8/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 12/13/2024)
Conservatives went from "we need to stop trans kids from playing high school/college sports" to "we need to make sex change operations illegal and designate all trans people as mentally ill terrorists" in quite a hurry. It's almost like this was their intention all along.
Conservatives went from "we need to stop trans kids from playing high school/college sports" to "we need to make sex change operations illegal and designate all trans people as mentally ill terrorists" in quite a hurry. It's almost like this was their intention all along.
“‘Conservatives’ do/say/believe [some of the more terrible things I can identify]”
is as useless as
“‘Liberal’ do/say/believe [some of the more terrible things I can identify]
when there’s a range of views among those on the left, and among those on the right, since the population is diverse, and their are relatively few tents under which people assemble politically.
But hey: “the other guys are all like that” is one of the more effective viewpoints in doing work toward making sure more extreme and worse positions get adopted by both parties, because you’ll find more and more people willing to circle the wagons and becoming unwilling to criticize idiocy on their own side.
You had lots of people who thought it was either improper or at least highly questionable for trans girls/women to compete with girls/women in sports. And because there are people who are hateful and have hateful motives, a number of those people were unwilling to stand up for one cause because they would rather not feel s though they’re aligning with the hate-filled ones.
And only a few disguised it. You had plenty of people here who didn’t restrict themselves to talking about matters of fairness and protection of women. They needed to call people names and spew venom.
Did they restrict themselves to going after adults? Nope. Their view of the moral position was to call minors “mentally ill freaks.”
And then they’d act as though the only reason other people didn’t come on board is that they were too stupid to see physical differences between, say, Thomas and other swimmers.
Fortunately, most of the people sinking so low represent only a small percentage of their side on that issue.
But it’s nevertheless an instance in which hate spurs more hate and works against better aims.
And its tendency is to become like an “arms race” of hate, with something approaching mutually assured destruction. You don’t need to look at too much history of conflict to see this recurring over time. Every step of hating the “other side” more is totally justified. I mean, just look at how hate-filled they are.
You had lots of people who thought it was either improper or at least highly questionable for trans girls/women to compete with girls/women in sports. And because there are people who are hateful and have hateful motives, a number of those people were unwilling to stand up for one cause because they would rather not feel s though they’re aligning with the hate-filled ones.
And only a few disguised it. You had plenty of people here who didn’t restrict themselves to talking about matters of fairness and protection of women. They needed to call people names and spew venom.
Did they restrict themselves to going after adults? Nope. Their view of the moral position was to call minors “mentally ill freaks.”
And then they’d act as though the only reason other people didn’t come on board is that they were too stupid to see physical differences between, say, Thomas and other swimmers.
Fortunately, most of the people sinking so low represent only a small percentage of their side on that issue.
But it’s nevertheless an instance in which hate spurs more hate and works against better aims.
And its tendency is to become like an “arms race” of hate, with something approaching mutually assured destruction. You don’t need to look at too much history of conflict to see this recurring over time. Every step of hating the “other side” more is totally justified. I mean, just look at how hate-filled they are.
My very liberal sister voted 3rd party because she didn’t want to vote for Trump, but she also didn’t want to support men in women’s sports- it’s just so unfair
“‘Conservatives’ do/say/believe [some of the more terrible things I can identify]”
is as useless as
“‘Liberal’ do/say/believe [some of the more terrible things I can identify]
when there’s a range of views among those on the left, and among those on the right, since the population is diverse, and their are relatively few tents under which people assemble politically.
But hey: “the other guys are all like that” is one of the more effective viewpoints in doing work toward making sure more extreme and worse positions get adopted by both parties, because you’ll find more and more people willing to circle the wagons and becoming unwilling to criticize idiocy on their own side.
Yes, you can find people who believe horrible things on both sides. But I'm not talking about random people on Twitter. I'm talking about elected officials, presidential appointees, and high-profile pundits; in other words, people who actually have the power to inflict their terrible beliefs on the rest of us. I presume you can understand the difference.
If you don't want to be lumped in with the crazies, don't elect them and don't sit idly by when they say terrible things you don't agree with.
My very liberal sister voted 3rd party because she didn’t want to vote for Trump, but she also didn’t want to support men in women’s sports- it’s just so unfair
Wow. Most guys here make up girlfriends rather than liberal sisters, but OK.
But I’ll play along and assume she’s real.
Single-issue voter?
If she’s “very liberal,” I’m assuming she is strongly opposed to at least 75% of Trump’s policies, and that she’s like many Americans in her concerns about his character (with the character of many, many politicians being poor, but with him being the bottom of the barrel, especially in the eyes of most “very liberal” people).
So even though we have a history of sports participation not being the purview of the president, she arrived at a solid way of exercising her citizenship: Instead of voting for the presidential outcome that would best serve her values on most of the issues and then directly petitioning local athletic organizations, school boards, state HS athletics boards, and the NCAA, she’d just … vote for a guy who opposes most of her values.
It’s her right to vote, so she gets to exercise that right however she sees fit, though.
My very liberal sister voted 3rd party because she didn’t want to vote for Trump, but she also didn’t want to support men in women’s sports- it’s just so unfair
Wow. Most guys here make up girlfriends rather than liberal sisters, but OK.
But I’ll play along and assume she’s real.
Single-issue voter?
If she’s “very liberal,” I’m assuming she is strongly opposed to at least 75% of Trump’s policies, and that she’s like many Americans in her concerns about his character (with the character of many, many politicians being poor, but with him being the bottom of the barrel, especially in the eyes of most “very liberal” people).
So even though we have a history of sports participation not being the purview of the president, she arrived at a solid way of exercising her citizenship: Instead of voting for the presidential outcome that would best serve her values on most of the issues and then directly petitioning local athletic organizations, school boards, state HS athletics boards, and the NCAA, she’d just … vote for a guy who opposes most of her values.
It’s her right to vote, so she gets to exercise that right however she sees fit, though.
Here is the thing, though. Most people are not going to go petition orgs and boards when confronted with something they see as ridiculous. They are just going to follow the path of least resistance and vote against it on election day. This goes for both liberals and conservatives. I am not saying this hypothetical lady exists, but he said she voted third party, not for Trump.