Parker Molloy

During yesterday’s impeachment hearing, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) asked professor Pamela Karlan what comparisons could be made between the authoritarian style of kings, which the Constitution’s framers feared, and President Donald Trump’s…

Earlier this week, NBC News reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and board member Peter Thiel had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House last month. The dinner happened while Zuckerberg was in Washington for a congressional…

A HuffPost article is playing the role of a proverbial shot heard round the dinner table in the “War on Thanksgiving” -- at least that’s the narrative right-wing media is trying to will into existence. The article, written by Alexandra Emanuelli, was…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced a major update to the social media company’s advertising guidelines last week: Effective November 22, Twitter will no longer allow political ads on its platform. While some were fast to cheer the decision as good for…

The saga that led to this week’s resignation by Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) put on full display the vicious, unethical tactics right-wing media figures are willing to utilize to undermine their enemies. It was a test balloon for a new set of media norms,…

Buried in the 12th paragraph of a New York Times story published five days into the Trump administration came the revelation that even as president, Donald Trump was still using “his old, unsecured Android phone, to the protests of some of his…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered a 37-minute speech on Thursday at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., outlining his views on free speech, censorship, bias, and social change. Uttering the words “free expression” 25 times throughout the…

On Monday, Politico’s Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippman reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been meeting in secret with right-wing politicians and media figures over the past several months. The report notes that this is “part of…

There’s nothing wrong with New York Times reporter Andrew Kramer’s October 4 report about a new development in the scandal surrounding President Donald Trump’s attempts to coerce Ukraine into carrying out a politically motivated investigation. But…

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump baselessly accused Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) of helping a whistleblower author the complaint that’s sent his presidency into an impeachment tailspin. The claim came during a joint press conference between Trump and…

As Donald Trump finds himself at the center of an impeachment inquiry, his backers in right-wing media have been working overtime to play defense for the embattled president. From Fox & Friends in the morning to Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight in…

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her intention to open an impeachment inquiry in response to evidence that President Donald Trump tried to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter,…

As President Donald Trump faces down a scandal that threatens to rip the foundation out from under his presidency, it’s no surprise that he is once again resorting to the kind of deflection that has served him well so far. In response to mounting…

Despite the name, Prager University is not, to quote from the disclaimer pasted on the bottom of its homepage, “an accredited academic institution” -- nor does it “offer certifications or diplomas.” Despite its claim that its videos are being…

Gregory T. Angelo, the former president of gay GOP organization the Log Cabin Republicans, recently tweeted “proof” debunking the idea that Vice President Mike Pence is anti-gay. That proof? Pence was going to willingly be in the presence of not one…

On Tuesday, Facebook published an interim report outlining the results of a yearlong audit of the social networking site in response to allegations of anti-conservative bias on the platform. The report’s author, former Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, wrote,…

Try to imagine if prominent liberals spent day after day demanding the cancellation of a seemingly pro-Trump movie they hadn’t seen based on a script they had not read, going so far as to repeatedly suggest that its impending release could inspire…

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs recently appeared on panel alongside fellow network hosts to discuss news that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell planned to cut interest rates by 0.25%. “If you want to blame the Federal Reserve and a too-aggressive…

Just two weeks ago, right-wing media outlets worked themselves into a frothy rage over a 2018 interview between journalist Mehdi Hasan and then-Democratic congressional candidate Ilhan Omar on Al Jazeera’s UpFront. Hasan asked Omar about…

On February 7, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the Green New Deal resolution in the House and Senate, respectively, and conservative media lost their collective mind. If passed, the 14-page proposal would…