Daily Discussion

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.

The myth that millions of deceased people are receiving social security benefits was initially discussed by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. While there have been some data recovered that display some improper payments, the number is not reflective of millions. Such misinformation is very misleading and can skew the public's idea of the SSA and its purpose. This news has since been debunked; the truth is that SSA's record-keeping system may be outdated, providing unreliable or incomplete death data within its system. Despite there not being data for the deceased, the SSA is not paying benefits to millions of those people. Overall, the article tries to deem these mishaps in payments as fraudulent, when in truth they make up the smallest percentage of payments as a whole. Such boisterous claims without any foundation or proof can be extremely harmful and spread across the nation. Many people will continue believing that the SSA is paying millions of deceased people, and may not come across an article telling the truth of the matter.

I found this article troubling because it used sources that misconstrued the events of the No Kings protest, and extrapolated extreme left fringe thought (political violence) to being something that all leftists believed in.