UPDATE: Senate GOP’s fake news website falsely links Democrat to murder
On August 6, Popular Information exposed a network of fake news websites surreptitiously controlled by Senate Republicans.
PopInfo Weekly: Measles, Mamdani, and MAGA Inc.
Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate in North Carolina, released an ad stating that he has “driven thousands of miles across North Carolina trying to fix our country…
No, Mamdani did not 'doxx' wealthy New Yorkers
“PIED-A-TERROR,” the New York Post cover blared on July 28.
Anti-billionaire tax ad falsely claims every Californian will have to “report all their assets”
In November, California voters will consider a one-time 5% tax on the assets of a few hundred of the state’s billionaires.
GOP Senate candidate, campaigning as truck-driving everyman, travels by private jet
North Carolina Senate nominee Michael Whatley’s committees have spent over $100,000 for use of a private jet linked to a convicted felon
UPDATE: After the Mamdani 9/11 smear, a cover-up
Media outlets pushed a false narrative about the number of family members of 9/11 victims who signed a petition targeting Mamdani — and then covered their tracks.
UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani
Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance…
The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade
Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing…
Senate Republicans launch network of fake news sites
One Nation, the Senate GOP's primary dark money group, is producing propaganda masquerading as journalism.
The “truth machine” is lying to you
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says his company is a “global truth machine.” Coplan has argued that Polymarket is “the most accurate thing we have as mankind right now“ and creates…
Meta will train its AI on far-right media outlet
This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal…
The first eight years and the next eight years of Popular Information
“To write the truth as I see it; to defend the weak against the strong; to fight for justice; and to seek, as best I can, to bring healing perspectives to bear on the terrible…
PopInfo Weekly: Fakes, falsehoods, and favors
Last week, Popular Information reported that a New York Post headline falsely claimed that “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary.” But a…
How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich
Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks…
PopInfo Weekly: Medicaid, Mamdani, and misinformation
A Popular Information analysis found that American taxpayers are spending billions each year on Medicaid benefits for hundreds of thousands of Amazon and Walmart employees.
Is this the most dishonest ad of 2026?
An opaque nonprofit affiliated with Senate Republicans, One Nation, has blanketed Georgia over the last five days with a new ad attacking Senator Jon Ossoff (D).
McConnell, out sick for two months, voted against medical leave 23 times since 1985
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was hospitalized on June 14 after suffering a fall that left him unconscious.
These corporations are supporting an alleged domestic abuser for Congress
Congressman Max Miller (R-OH) is facing serious allegations of domestic abuse.
PopInfo Weekly: Max Miller, Mitch McConnell, and medical misinformation
Congressman Max Miller (R-OH) is facing serious allegations of domestic abuse.
The disastrous diplomacy of Jared Kushner
From Gaza to Iran to Ukraine, things are not going well.