On conditions for detained kids: “You’re really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn’t a question of safe and sanitary conditions?'” U.S. Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon asked the Justice Department’s Sarah Fabian Tuesday.
“The situation is so bad on X right now that even seasoned OSINT researchers are being duped by fake accounts, including one that shared a false claim about Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu being hospitalized over the weekend.”
News consumers (and fellow journalists!): Here's a resource for separating fact from fiction when learning about the conflict in Ukraine. (w/
@JaneLytv
)
Elon Musk took over Twitter as a free speech absolutist. But under his tenure as CEO, Twitter employees have been fired for criticizing the boss, says
@ZoeSchiffer
.
Columbia University's student radio station
@WKCRFM
has a "wildly unprecedented" online listenership right now as its field reporters offer updates on the campus protest. Listen to the coverage:
We’re all in the early stages of this breaking news. As always, resist the urge to retweet reflexively about the strike on US troops in Iraq and be skeptical of unconfirmed reports. There will be a lot of misleading information and rumors and things that are outright false.
Bleach in a Shake Shack milkshake. Meth in a Subway soda cup. Profanity on a McDonalds coffee cup. Cops keep making up stories. Journalists keep printing them. (w/
@EricBoehlert
):
The math? Confusing. The headlines? Frightening. And the science? Well, complicated. So we decided it was time for a Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook: Vaccine Edition. w/
@kakape
and
@MoNscience
Columbia University's student radio station
@WKCRFM
has a "wildly unprecedented" online listenership right now as its field reporters offer updates on the campus protest. Listen to the coverage:
“After over half a decade of debunking this hoax every time there was a flood or hurricane, I can’t believe I’m looking at an honest-to-god street shark,” wrote Jane Lytvynenko, a freelance reporter. “Good to finally meet you, pal.”
As you may have heard: Bob is no longer co-host of On the Media, for a pattern of behavior violating NYPR’s policy on bullying. We support the decision. Thanks to everyone who's reached out.
The OTM team
Dreading the thought of that usual election night TV coverage? Turn it off!
Watch On the Media's November 3rd livestream instead. Bob and Brooke will deliver the results with help from journalists and comedians. RSVP here:
A newly released tape of a Nixon–Reagan phone call highlights the comfortable place that white supremacist thought has often had in the Oval Office. w/
@AdamSerwer
You asked, we delivered. Presenting a new Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook: Israel and Gaza Edition. Ft.
@uwcip
’s Michael Caulfield,
@AricToler
, &
@Shayan86
Many listeners have asked to hear the full-length recordings featured in our piece about Zello, the walkie-talkie app used by Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins on January 6th. The audio is now available here:
We won a Peabody for The Divided Dial! Congrats to OTM Executive Producer Katya Rogers, Sound Designer
@jaredjaredpaul
, Technical Director
@munsonmuth
, Producer Max Balton, and host Katie Thornton who reported and pitched the series.
"The entire ordeal is a near perfect example of a scenario disinformation experts have predicted and warned of, where the very threat of video manipulation can lead to a blurring of reality."
OTM reporter
@MicahLoewinger
FOIA'ed the US Navy for records related to its controversial
@Twitch
channel. Here are some slides from a pdf titled "eSports Training 7.29 Final":
Bobi Wine, a Ugandan opposition politician, is the subject of a documentary nominated for this year’s Oscars. Brooke speaks with
@HEBobiwine
and
@bwayomoses
about the immense trials they faced making this film:
NEW: Excited to announce that following 8 great years as a producer, reporter, and guest host on
@onthemedia
,
@MicahLoewinger
has been named co-host of the show alongside
@OTMBrooke
.
“If the headline does not convey the fact that Trump's claim is in question or open to doubt, based on the known facts, then it is insufficiently informative.” Memo to the media: Stop giving Trump the headlines he wants
This week, we take a look at RFK Jr.’s history of spreading misinformation, and how he and other conspiracy-minded candidates should be covered. Check out our guide below (w/ recs from disinformation reporters Anna Merlan and
@BrandyZadrozny
):
The Britney Spears saga is just one of the many stories of women in the '90s that the first draft of history got wrong. And
@RottenInDenmark
and
@Remember_Sarah
are helping set the record straight.
Is Twitter a warzone, or a town square? Elon Musk doesn’t seem to see the difference.
@MicahLoewinger
speaks with
@contrapoints
about the billionaire’s likely purchase of the social media giant.
Big news! As seen in
@Variety
, NYPR’s annual gala this fall will be hosted by comedian and writer
@iamsambee
, and honor our own
@OTMBrooke
! The night will also feature a performance by Grammy-winning
@kronosquartet
.
“Arguing about whether last night’s speech was political would have been silly and pedantic at the best of times. At this fraught moment, it’s akin to watching your house catch fire and shouting, “Wait a minute! Is this a house?”
In August of 2020, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned on a flight from Siberia to Moscow.
@christogrozev
, of Bellingcat, uncovered the identities of his would-be killers in the documentary “Navalny.”
@AlanaLlama
"the whole hysteria is reminiscent of the "smartphone pinky" scare that bubbled up a few years ago, which proclaimed that people's fingers were being "deformed" by the way they hold their electronic gadgets and smartphones"
Watch Fox News host Tucker Carlson call one of his guests a 'tiny brain...moron' during an interview. NowThis has obtained the full segment with historian Rutger Bregman that Fox News is refusing to air.