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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The NY Times and other mainstream outlets normalized Trump's statement that the late Rep. John Dingell went to hell

12/19/19 12:37 PM EST
Right-wing media praise Trump’s deranged anti-impeachment letter to Pelosi

12/18/19 12:35 PM EST
Trump sent Pelosi a six-page rant on impeachment full of lies. National media outlets repeated some of those lies.

12/17/19 4:55 PM EST
John Solomon's new “scoop” about Ukraine and Hunter Biden debunks itself

12/17/19 1:50 PM EST
Fox & Friends promotes Republican fundraiser page for “conservative squad”

12/12/19 10:04 AM EST
NBC’s Meet the Press spread debunked Russian disinformation on Twitter

12/09/19 11:03 AM EST
Mainstream media organizations repeat Trump’s lie justifying new tariffs

12/02/19 12:36 PM EST
The Hill pushed what it called a debunked conspiracy theory at least 9 times

11/25/19 11:32 AM EST
Major news organizations amplify Trump’s lie that he barely knows his hand-picked EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland

11/21/19 11:10 AM EST
As DACA goes before the Supreme Court, CBS and NBC push Trump’s lie about Dreamers

11/12/19 12:11 PM EST
The Hill can’t stop advancing Trump’s lies about the whistleblower

11/05/19 11:04 AM EST
The Hill 10 times pushed a Trump lie from his press conference on ISIS leader's death

10/28/19 11:28 AM EDT