In 2020, FiveThirtyEight published a chart that was weaponized to spread election disinformation. It still haunts me.

In a fight over President Donald Trump’s quest to acquire Greenland, the president made false and misleading statements about the Nobel Peace Prize and his own peace record. “Considering your […] The post Trump’s Greenland…

This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Some days it feels like a decade. Some […] The post One year in, Donald Trump’s war on the press has become…

To defend recent changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Trump administration compared shots for American babies with babies in an unspecified “European Country.” The Jan. 5 White House graphic showed two […] The…

This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Nearly a month ago, new CBS News editor-in-chief […] The post ‘60 Minutes’ finally aired the story that stirred up…

When news spread Wednesday that FBI agents had searched a Washington Post reporter’s home, many journalists were shocked. Coverage of the incident was quick to highlight the extreme nature of […] The post The FBI’s search of a…

Before we get started today, a quick note: we will not publish a newsletter on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Poynter Report will return to […] The post Perilous times call for the participation of all…

With the Trump administration auditing Minnesota’s Medicaid program for fraud, Dr. Mehmet Oz said Medicaid confers voting rights on its enrollees. “By federal law, if you sign someone up for […] The post Dr. Oz is wrong:…