Glenn Kessler
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Author. Find me on Substack at
https://glennkessler.substack.com/
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Philip Bump
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âIâm less careful about medical claims than is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.â is quite a flex.
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Trumpâs Autism Claims: A Closer Look
The president cites alarming numbers and teases a treatment breakthrough â but the science tells a more complicated story.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/trumps-autism-claims-a-closer-look?r=leoe8&utm_medium=ios
about 18 hours ago
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NEW --> Trumpâs Autism Claims: A Closer Look.
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Trumpâs Autism Claims: A Closer Look
The president cites alarming numbers and teases a treatment breakthrough â but the science tells a more complicated story.
https://glennkessler.substack.com/p/trumps-autism-claims-a-closer-look
about 23 hours ago
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NEW --> On Trumpâs Bullshit: The Peace Prize Presidency
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On Trumpâs Bullshit: The Peace Prize Presidency
He boasts about solving wars in 24 hours â then shrugs when nothing happens.
https://glennkessler.substack.com/p/on-trumps-bullshit-the-peace-prize
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Museum of Political Corruption
3 days ago
Join us in
#Albany
for a great evening honoring the amazing
@glennkessler.bsky.social
and vital mission of the press!
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Souplady
5 days ago
Kessler reminds us that Trump... "On his first day in office, he even signed an order barring any government official from abridging the free speech of Americans."
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NEW --> Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee
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Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee
The same president who says he banned censorship just greenlit it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/free-speech-for-me-not-for-thee?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Yashar Ali đ
6 days ago
2. This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated:
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Yashar Ali đ
6 days ago
1. Just so weâre clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmelâs show shelved by ABC. If Iâm missing any other clips please let me know.
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The Girls Who Vanished at 2,000 Feet
How a tragic flight inspired the opening of my novel set in the Dutch East Indies
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/the-girls-who-vanished-at-2000-feet?r=leoe8&utm_medium=ios
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Karen Attiah
5 days ago
The last political column I was allowed to write in the
@washingtonpost.com
was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.
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The Girls Who Vanished at 2,000 Feet
How a tragic flight inspired the opening of my novel set in the Dutch East Indies
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/the-girls-who-vanished-at-2000-feet?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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404 Media
7 days ago
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence âcontinues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremismâ in the United States. đ
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirkâs assassination and the Trump administrationâs promise to go after the âradical leftâ a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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Tom Eblen
7 days ago
Journalism's best fact-checker,
@glennkessler.bsky.social
, may have left the
@washingtonpost.com
, but he's still checking facts.
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Did Charlie Kirk Really Say That?
Fact-checking the most viral claims about his remarks.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/did-charlie-kirk-really-say-that?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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NEW --> Did Charlie Kirk Really Say That?
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Did Charlie Kirk Really Say That?
Fact-checking the most viral claims about his remarks.
https://glennkessler.substack.com/p/did-charlie-kirk-really-say-that
7 days ago
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8 days ago
Didnât he say smart people donât like him? How can a so called business man of Wharton not know what a tariff is? Is he just stupid or lies to only stupid people?
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False. I recently checked the ADL data, which has some issues because they include non-ideological murders. But even with those removed, over the past decade right-wing extremists would account for about half of the murders, with about 35% by Islamist extremists, and 8% by left-wing extremists.
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Karen Attiah
8 days ago
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming.
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The Washington Post Fired Me â But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America â and it cost me my job.
https://substack.com/@karenattiah/note/p-173531760?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2bz6j
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NEW --> On Trumpâs Bullshit: The Tariff That Taxes You
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On Trumpâs Bullshit: The Tariff That Taxes You
He claims other countries pay. In reality, Americans do â especially those with the smallest wallets.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/on-trumps-bullshit-the-tariff-that?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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NEW --> Motives, Madness, and Murder
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Motives, Madness, and Murder
A review of political murders and attempted assassinations in the past five years
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/motives-madness-and-murder?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Matthew Budman, book guy
12 days ago
With the president scheduled to attend a 9/11 memorial event this morning, a good reminder that pretty much everything he has ever said about it is a brazen lie.
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NEW--> A definite list of Trump claims about 9/11
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Trumpâs 9/11: Where He Cleared Rubble, Predicted bin Laden, and Lost âHundredsâ of Friends
From exaggerating his role at Ground Zero to inventing cheering crowds, a review of Trumpâs most misleading claims about September 11.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/trumps-911-where-he-cleared-rubble?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
12 days ago
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
13 days ago
Excellent reporting from The Guardian. Plane to purgatory: how Trumpâs deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Plane to purgatory: how Trumpâs deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo
44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/10/trump-globalx-airline-deportation-immigration
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Want to explore the latest whistleblower documents on Meta? Thouands of pages can be found on Sourcebase and easily explored with our AI. -->
sourcebase.ai/topics/106
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Julie Tsirkin
13 days ago
NEW: Former Meta employees say they saw child abuse in VR before company blocked research In an exclusive interview with NBC News, one of the whistleblowers told me social media platforms are so unsafe, parents should keep their kids off of them â period
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Former Meta employees say they saw child abuse in VR before company blocked research
The former employees testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/meta-whistleblower-research-kids-vr-former-employees-stock-rcna230131
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Meta whistleblower Cayce Savage: "I was given a legal counterpart to scrutinize everything that I did, to tell me what research I could and could not conduct, and to make sure my research reports would not create risk to Meta should they be publicly disclosed...."
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Meta whistleblower Jason Sattizahn: "When our research uncovered that underage children using Meta VR in Germany were subject to demands for sex acts, nude photos and other acts no child should ever be exposed to, Meta demanded we erase any evidence of the dangers we saw..."
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This powerful Washington Post story on Meta is based on a trove of documents delivered by whistleblowers â thousands of pages of internal messages, memos and presentations. The analysis was done with the revolutionary technology of
Sourcebase.ai
â an all-in-one investigative and fact-check toolâŠ
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Maarten Schenk
14 days ago
Christopher Blair, A.K.A. Busta Troll, a man who has made a career out of trolling conservatives on Facebook by tricking them into liking and sharing fake content (that often got picked up and repeated by spam networks, influencers, etc.), just posted this. The brakes are completely off at Meta...
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Third in my Substack series, On Trump's Bullshit.
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15 days ago
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NEW --> On Trumpâs Bullshit: From Birther to Spygate
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On Trumpâs Bullshit: From Birther to Spygate
Trumpâs long war on Obama used lies, smears, and a fantasy of surveillance to rewrite political history.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/on-trumps-bullshit-from-birther-to?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers
Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bill-pulte-accused-fed-governor-lisa-cook-fraud-his-relatives-filed-housing-2025-09-05/
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NEW --> I Promised to Protect My Source. Then Prosecutors Called.
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I Promised to Protect My Source. Then Prosecutors Called.
A story of promises made, prosecutors on the march, and the boundaries of journalistic duty.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/what-do-i-owe-a-source-in-trouble?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Peter Sagal
19 days ago
This is a much more detailed breakdown/rebuttal of the study by
@glennkessler.bsky.social
, who recently left his position as Fact Checker of the WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | Digging into the math of a study attacking the safety of the abortion pill
The Ethics and Public Policy Center report on mifepristone has earned headlines on the right, but what does the data show?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/12/abortion-pill-medication-abortion-study-mifepristone/
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New post on On Trump's Bullshit series:
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21 days ago
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NEW --> On Trumpâs Bullshit: A 50-Year Sales Job
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On Trumpâs Bullshit: A 50-Year Sales Job
How inherited wealth, a ghostwritten book, and a fake reality show sold America a president.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/on-trumps-bullshit-a-50-year-sales?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
21 days ago
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NEW --> Why U.S. Reporters Wonât Call Trump an Authoritarian
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Why U.S. Reporters Wonât Call Trump an Authoritarian
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Why U.S. Reporters Wonât Call Trump an Authoritarian
Even as global journalists describe Trump in stark terms, American newsrooms still default to euphemism and restraint.
https://glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-us-reporters-wont-call-trump
26 days ago
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So much for the old saying that a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Two Presidents, One Bolton:
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Tom Eblen
29 days ago
@lblackford.bsky.social
interviews the departing Washington Post fact-checker
@glennkessler.bsky.social
(a former Lexington resident) about the decline of truth in the age of Trump. An important read. FREE LINK
www.kentucky.com/opinion/lind...
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âHard to be upbeat.â Lexingtonâs most famous Fact-Checker on a post-truth world | Opinion
For 14 years, Glenn Kessler challenged political claims of every ilk with his Fact-Checker column in the Washington Post.
https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/linda-blackford/article311808808.html?giftCode=b801d36d16520a16308391e22d0c17ef31c2ca28ec6610fb98ac1f472f9c8802
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NEW --> Two Presidents, One Bolton
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Two Presidents, One Bolton
Bush grumbled in private. Trump may have inspired an FBI raid. What Boltonâs story reveals about power, loyalty, and foreign policy in the Trump era.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/two-presidents-one-bolton?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Bettina Schwarzen
about 1 month ago
@glennkessler.bsky.social
wants to create a record of bullshit coming from Trump, "before itâs lost in a storm of revisionism and propaganda". A bite: "âIf you look at the six deals that I settled this year, they were all at war. I didn't do any ceasefires,â Trump said. That was bullshit." 1/2
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The Daily Beast
about 1 month ago
Russian forces mocked Trumpâs surrender to Putin by attaching American flags to their vehicles while riding into battle in Ukraine.
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Russian Forces Thank Trump by Flying U.S. Flags in Ukraine
Putinâs soldiers were spotted riding into battle in a stolen American APC while flying both the U.S. and Russiaâs flags.
https://trib.al/xPDOOfF
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NEW --> A 1920s Diplomatic Cable Changed the Course of My Novel
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A 1920s Diplomatic Cable Changed the Course of My Novel
It was racist, arrogant, and revealing â and it became the key to unlocking my story.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennkessler/p/a-1920s-diplomatic-cable-changed?r=leoe8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 month ago
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