Gideon Taaffe | Media Matters for America

Gideon Taaffe is a researcher at Media Matters. He graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in history.

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Right-wing media and MAHA figures are celebrating Trump’s Tylenol announcement and pushing unproven claims that vaccines cause autism

09/26/25 10:37 AM EDT
How right-wing media sow distrust and confusion around vaccines and science

09/18/25 3:52 PM EDT
Right-wing media quickly found a wide range of people and institutions to blame for Charlie Kirk's death

09/18/25 12:21 PM EDT
Right-wing media rushed to blame killing of Charlie Kirk on trans people

09/12/25 5:42 PM EDT
Right-wing media's campaign for military intervention and regime change in Venezuela

09/05/25 6:34 PM EDT
Right-wing media redouble attacks on the H-1B visa program

09/04/25 2:02 PM EDT
Right-wing media celebrate Trump’s campaign of retribution against political opponents

08/27/25 2:36 PM EDT
MAGA media figures argue some Americans are not really American

08/27/25 2:19 PM EDT
Right-wing media insist DC residents “are very happy” with the National Guard deployment

08/22/25 1:38 PM EDT
Right-wing media cheer for Trump to deploy National Guard to other American cities after DC

08/14/25 10:52 AM EDT
Right-wing media champion migrant detention camps amid reports of horrific conditions

08/13/25 12:55 PM EDT
As experts warn of a famine unfolding in Gaza, here’s how right-wing media are reacting

08/06/25 4:25 PM EDT