Opinion | When does a president deserve prime-time television? As President Trump prepares to speak tonight, TV networks are weighing the public’s need to know against the risk of amplifying falsehoods July 16, 2026 Tom Jones
Opinion | Should networks air Trump’s national address live? President Donald Trump’s planned speech, reportedly about the 2020 election, is forcing broadcasters to revisit a difficult editorial question July 15, 2026 Tom Jones
In 2020, FiveThirtyEight published a chart that was weaponized to spread election disinformation. It still haunts me. How a simple chart was stripped of context and turned into a symbol of fraud that outlived the news site that published it. January 21, 2026 Kaleigh Rogers
Opinion | Five years after Jan. 6, the fight over truth is still unfolding The media is still confronting the meaning of a day that will truly live in infamy January 7, 2026 Tom Jones
Trump didn’t say he became president because the 2024 election was ‘rigged’ Trump was referring to the 2020 election, which he lost to former President Joe Biden, and which he has falsely and relentlessly claimed was rigged March 12, 2025 Jeff Cercone
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election during his Joe Rogan interview In a three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, the former president repeated falsehoods about the outcome of the 2020 election October 28, 2024 Louis Jacobson
Q&A: Are the democracy beat reporters OK? As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Poynter spoke with The Guardian US’s democracy editor about the beat May 28, 2024 Annie Aguiar
Opinion | 2020 election coverage was rife with authoritarian language, study finds Should journalists stoop to the language used by political campaigns? November 27, 2023 Brittany Shaughnessy
Mike Johnson sought to overturn 2020 election. As House speaker, he’ll oversee 2024 certification Johnson’s term runs through at least early January 2025 — meaning he will preside over the House as it votes to accept the 2024 election results October 27, 2023 Amy Sherman
Opinion | After going viral for her 2020 election coverage, this Georgia reporter is closing her one-person news site In her parting editorial, owner/reporter Robin Kemp urged readers to support nonprofit news, noting that news deserts see more public corruption. September 13, 2023 Angela Fu
Dominion-Fox lawsuit: Here’s a look back at false claims about the voting machine company Long before Dominion sued Fox for defamation, PolitiFact fact-checked claims about the company and its supposed influence over the 2020 elections. April 18, 2023 Jeff Cercone
Opinion | The Dominion-Fox News trial hasn’t even started and there’s already news The judge ruled on several pretrial motions, told Fox’s lawyers they have a ‘credibility problem’ and ended the day by scolding the Fox legal team. April 12, 2023 Tom Jones
Opinion | Fox News, Jan. 6 and the 2020 election: the story that won’t go away Every few days, a little more of the curtain is pulled back on how the cable news giant operated during some of the most divisive times in US history. March 9, 2023 Tom Jones
Opinion | What are the chances Fox News loses the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems? One legal expert told the Los Angeles Times, ‘From a defense lawyer’s perspective, it gives me the cold sweats reading this.’ March 2, 2023 Tom Jones
Opinion | Rupert Murdoch admits Fox News personalities — but not the network — endorsed election lies ‘Some of our commentators were endorsing it. I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,’ he said. February 28, 2023 Tom Jones
