Zachary Pleat | Media Matters for America

Zachary Pleat is a senior researcher at Media Matters, where he has worked since January 2009. He has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of South Florida.

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Right-wing media harangue Black Republicans for their criticism of Florida’s slavery curriculum

07/31/23 5:00 PM EDT
Right-wing media have a satanic panic over a Fox donation-matching program

07/26/23 3:25 PM EDT
In criticizing a $13 million NYPD settlement, Fox host Brian Kilmeade denies George Floyd protesters were beaten

07/21/23 8:58 AM EDT
Fox & Friends pushes dishonest GOP talking points to dismiss Biden's record job creation

07/07/23 3:02 PM EDT
Conservatives respond with racist smears and vitriol following Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s affirmative action dissent

06/30/23 1:49 PM EDT
Right-wing media reacted to the brief Wagner Group rebellion in Russia with conspiracy theories

06/26/23 4:52 PM EDT
In a desperate accusation over a Hunter Biden text, right-wing media falsely claim Joe Biden was vice president in July 2017

06/23/23 1:25 PM EDT
Right-wing media are wrong — Hunter Biden didn’t get a “sweetheart deal”

06/21/23 4:55 PM EDT
Right-wing media are twisting the facts about the Espionage Act and Trump's federal indictment

06/21/23 3:54 PM EDT
WSJ debunks Presidential Records Act talking points pushed by Trump’s other Murdoch media allies

06/15/23 2:39 PM EDT
CNN’s conservative commentators push tired, false defenses of Trump’s alleged federal crimes

06/12/23 3:41 PM EDT
The Trump indictment incinerates the right-wing defenses of him made over the past year

06/09/23 5:42 PM EDT