Payton Armstrong | Media Matters for America

Payton Armstrong is a researcher at Media Matters, where she has worked since July 2020. She has a bachelor’s degree in government from Smith College.

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Here are the key right-wing media figures who rewrote the history of January 6

01/06/24 10:12 AM EST
Top Oklahoma education official Ryan Walters cheers conspiracy theorist while appearing on her show

01/02/24 5:10 PM EST
Conservative media falsely attack the Colorado Supreme Court ruling as “undemocratic" and “the ultimate election interference”

12/20/23 4:19 PM EST
Right-wing media attack Minnesota's state flag redesign with “great replacement” theory rhetoric

12/20/23 9:26 AM EST
Conservative commentators and right-wing Christian media deny climate change by claiming God controls the weather

12/11/23 4:06 PM EST
At Christian nationalist gala keynoted by Speaker Mike Johnson, right-wing media figures push anti-LGBTQ bigotry and claim that trans people are “demonic”

12/07/23 6:03 PM EST
Mike Johnson to speak at Christian nationalist conference alongside extreme right-wing media figures, including a TV evangelist who claimed “homosexuality is three times worse than smoking"

12/04/23 1:04 PM EST
Fox News vice president accused of making Islamophobic comments in the newsroom oversaw the network’s anti-Muslim coverage of numerous terror attacks

11/21/23 3:05 PM EST
Christian nationalists and right-wing media figures embrace the war between Israel and Hamas as a supposed sign of the “End Times”

11/07/23 12:20 PM EST
MAGA media melt down over former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis’ guilty plea in election subversion case

10/24/23 2:42 PM EDT
Major US newspapers and broadcast TV news outlets often failed to report on Jim Jordan’s role in undermining the 2020 election – and ignored the risk to certification in 2024 if he becomes speaker

10/20/23 10:49 AM EDT
Gold, guns, and supplements: Right-wing media use Hamas’ attack on Israel to hawk products and promote buying guns

10/11/23 11:04 AM EDT