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Anchor of and 's chief media correspondent. My book HOAX, the untold story of Trump and Fox News, is out Aug 25. Email: bstelter@gmail.com

New York City
Joined April 2008
Born September 03

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    Oct 19

    Appalling made-up claims about pedophila and child porn. Open flirting with QAnon. Screaming that the opposition is "criminal." Lying as a strategy. How will we ever get back to a normal political culture in this country?

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  3. I nominate this Steve Bannon line as the most memorable quote of the Trump years: "The Democrats don't matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit."

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    Some month-end data from Facebook: in October, the most-engaged link posts from U.S. pages (excluding some UNICEF posts that were boosted by FB) came from: 1. Franklin Graham 2. Donald J. Trump 3. Graham 4. Trump 5. Trump 6. Graham 7. Graham 8. Graham 9. Fox News 10. Graham

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    "We could very well know a winner" on election night if we know the results and there's a clear winner in Florida, North Carolina and Arizona, CNN's Washington Bureau Chief told .

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  6. We're always told that the ISSUES are supposed to matter. "But what if American voters, and 2020 voters in particular, are animated by baser impulses that are far more timeless, such as hatred, tribalism and exclusion?"

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    2 hours ago

    .: “We often talk about foreign meddling, foreign disinformation, and that’s dangerous, full stop. But we have disinformation network in this country. The top cable news channel is at its core a disinformation network."

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  8. I asked , and for a sentence of advice for the press in the coming days. Answers: "Go slow." "Drink coffee." "Keep calm and carry on!"

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    3 hours ago

    Videos purporting to show issues with voting machines go viral every Election Day. Often the videos are just misleading or false. This year though they’ll have a receptive audience in Trump.

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  10. "The October surprise was that there was no surprise. This has been a remarkably stable race" –

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    The past few years have been a disinfo blizzard. Expect things to intensify even more in the remaining days leading up to the election, and the critical days after — which is unfortunately when bad info can be particularly dangerous. Discussed w/ + .

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    6 hours ago

    how the campaigns play out in local press: , with

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    Oct 29
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  14. The coming days are a test for American democracy. Passing the test means staying tethered to the truth...

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    Trump spox absolutely trashes Fox's polling on Fox, calls it "notoriously bad" and says it's a "Democrat polling firm," among other things. Anchor doesn't offer any real defense for her polling colleagues, who are well respected in the industry.

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    5 hours ago

    Senior WH official tells me Doctor Scott Atlas did not have approval from the WH before going on RT. Atlas did it “on his own” without seeking approval from WH. Senior aides have raised concerns that Atlas would appear on the Russian outlet, the official said.

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  17. As I said on air just now, it's just not believable. It's just not credible.

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    Dr. Scott Atlas now apologizing for giving an extensive interview to RT, the Kremlin-controlled state media network.

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    Hello journalists! It is not partisan to say this and we all need to become confortable saying it.

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    “Bad actors aim to break down trust because it makes us insecure,” tells . “When we’re insecure, we’re defensive, and when we’re defensive for a long time, we get tired—and when we’re tired, we’re easy to control.”

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    7 hours ago

    CNN’s Stelter Calls Out New York Times for ‘Misleading’ Readers on Anonymous Miles Taylor Op-Ed

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