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In the 24 hours since President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive some or all student loan debt for about 43 million Americans, Republican politicians have stormed conservative media outlets calling it “completely unfair” (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Newsmax) and “reckless” (Rep. Vern Buchanan on Fox Business)…

One America News Network broadcast a very quick segment Monday in which it reported flatly that “Georgia officials concluded that there was no widespread voter fraud by election workers who counted ballots at the State Farm Arena in November 2020.” Watch it below. False claims of fraud against Georgia election workers…

DirecTV plans to drop One America News Network, the right-wing channel known for its pro-Donald Trump coverage and commentary. The satellite provider, one of the largest distribution outlets, also plans to drop another channel, AWE, from OANN parent Herring Networks "We informed Herring Networks that, following a…

Smartmatic, the election systems company, filed defamation lawsuits on Wednesday against two other news outlets, Newsmax and One America News Network, over false claims about the 2020 presidential election. Smartmatic is alleging that Newsmax and OAN “victimized Smartmatic by spreading false information about the…

One America News, the upstart far-right media outlet best known for doggedly backing Donald Trump before, during and after his presidency, got about 90% of its financial backing from AT&T. That eye-opening news, which met with pushback from the telecom giant, was reported in an investigative piece by Reuters. The news…

Rachel Maddow is still talking with MSNBC about a new contract, but the primetime host and her current cable news home just scored what might be a bonding TKO against One America News Network. Reaffirming the decision by a San Diego-based U.S. District Court last year to toss out the conservative outlet’s $10 million…

Dominion Voting Systems has filed defamation lawsuits against Newsmax, One America News Network and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne over the advancement of conspiracy theories that company had a role in rigging the results of the 2020 presidential election. Each lawsuit seeks more than $1.6 billion in damages. The…

Two prominent House Democrats have fired off a letter to AT&T, Comcast and Amazon and other channel distributors, asking them whether they plan to continue carrying Fox News, One America News Network and Newsmax. In the letter, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) single out the networks as…

One America News Network has been banned for YouTube for one week after posting a bogus video about a cure for COVID-19. The far-right network, which has been an outspoken backer of President Donald Trump, will not be allowed to post original videos or participate in the platform’s revenue-producing partner program…

UPDATED, with comment from plaintiffs: A federal judge in San Diego dismissed One America News Network’s defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC and Comcast, concluding that Maddow was stating her opinion when she said that the right-leaning channel "really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.” “Considering…

UPDATE: One American News Network’s Chanel Rion said that she will again attend the White House coronavirus briefing, even though the White House Correspondents’ Association removed the network from its pool to cover the press conference, citing her violation of social distancing guidelines. Rion said on the network…

President Donald Trump’s press briefing had a flurry of newsworthy statements, updates and some startling moments. Days after saying that a lot of the media “actually has been really fair” in its coverage of the coronavirus crisis, on Thursday he was back to calling a number of news outlets “dishonest.” Near the end…