On December 30th, The Federalist posted a list of the top ten hoaxes perpetrated by the mainstream media in 2024.
Here is the list:
1. Bloodbath – President Trump’s comments about the auto industry were totally taken out of content
2. War on SCOTUS – Smear attacks from ProPublica and The New York Times
3. Hiding Biden’s Cognitive Decline – When videos showcasing Biden’s senility went viral on social media over the summer, media hacktivists adopted the White House’s baseless claim the clips were “cheap fakes.”
4. Project 2025 – Claims that President Trump would institute Project 2025 if elected were not rooted in facts.
5. What’s a Border Czar? – To hide Harris’ incompetence from voters, left-wing journos pretended Biden never tapped her to oversee the invasion at the U.S.-Mexico border
6. Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Visit – Attacking President Trump for pictures taken when he visited Arlington National Cemetery
7. Show Me the Garbage! – Legacy media propagandists had their hands full in the closing days of the 2024 election after Biden referred to the tens of millions of Americans who support Trump as “garbage.”
8. Trump’s Liz Cheney Comments – In the wake of Biden’s “garbage” smear, the media rushed to distort Trump’s comments to make it appear as if he was calling for Cheney to be executed via firing squad. The disinformation operation represented a clear attempt to smear Trump ahead of the election and boost Harris’ prospects.
9. What Assassination Attempts? – After a longtime Democrat donor allegedly tried to kill the incoming president on his Palm Beach golf course in September, left-wing propagandists at NBC News and The Washington Post downplayed the attempted murder as nothing more than an “incident.”
10. The Atlantic’s Hitler Hysteria – In a last-ditch attempt to salvage Kamala Harris’ flailing presidential bid, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg — who ran the debunked 2020 “suckers” and losers” smear — published an anonymously sourced October hit piece with claims that Trump said he wanted “the kind of generals that Hitler had.” It also contained accusations that Trump expressed anger about paying for the funeral services of a murdered Army soldier.
All that the media accomplished was to educate Americans on how dishonest the American press can be.