Daily Discussion

To start, the headline is very misleading. It claims Democrats are lying without solid proof. The source used in the article is a conservative media source whose mission is to reform the government. Additionally, the article gives many statistics without any data or source to explain where the numbers came from.

This is troubling news to me because of the way MSNBC has presented it. There is a rather severe left-wing bias within the article, which is in agreement with MSNBC's already standing bias rating. There are several quotes used within the article that come from left-wing politicians, and none from right-wing politicians. This is not necessarily misinformation, but the lack of opposing perspectives may lead the audience to interpret the situation with a skewed perspective. The information is presented with a slant, and the audience is not allowed to have an opinion on their own, and they are instead force-fed what they should think by MSNBC. Again, this does not cross over into overt misinformation, but the omission of opposing points of view gets closer to being misinformant.

This media outlet takes a dissected quote from Jolanda Jones, where she discusses the difficulties of dealing with bullies in politics and uses metaphorical phrases about fighting back. In the CNN interview her words were completely misconstrued and taken to create a false headline. The article itself even states, "A state lawmaker in Texas running for Congress is threatening to cut the throats of her opponents. Literally." This is completely arbitrary, and it is obvious this media source isn't trying to spread truthful information, but feed their agenda against Jolanda Jones. The page itself only shows a screenshot of the CNN interview, and does not provide the full clip where she talks about "cutting the throats of her opponents." News outlets need to be held accountable for spreading false claims, manipulating the truth, and showing direct bias against or for certain politicians.

There has been much false news on social media, such as that undocumented immigrants are losing medical coverage. People who are unaware of the laws and regulations in place can cause a large uproar and fear within those communities. Spreading false narratives not only causes unnecessary anxiety, but also undocumented immigrants have never been eligible for federally funded medical coverage, only for emergency care. The 2025 federal reconciliation law DOES, in fact, affect lawfully present immigrants, who are now facing a large loss of access to federal and subsidized health benefits. However, these changes will not affect DACA recipients, refugees, and those seeking asylum in the US. Slight changes in wording, like that in large headers, can take away from the true story of a situation and take away from the people who are being targeted and affected by this huge issue. All people, whether documented or undocumented, deserve health care, and news outlets should do a better job in capturing the full story with valuable sources, rather than spreading misinformation on such a serious topic.

The headline for this article states a false claim, that the UK, or more specifically Britain, has pledged 40 billion pounds of taxpayer money toward the rebuilding of Gaza. The original number, being €40 billion, was an estimate made to reconstruct the damage the Israeli Defense Forces did to the Gaza Strip. Overall, the true story is that Britain held conversational spaces discussing the rebuilding of Gaza; they did not specifically state that they would fund the rebuilding with taxpayers' money, but rather partnering with private finance companies to bring in private funding. False news like this spreads a false narrative, but it also makes British citizens uncomfortable about where their taxpayer dollars are actually going, whether they support the rebuilding of Gaza or not, especially since Britain is known to be in deep debt that the moment.