HuffPost—originally known as The Huffington Post—emerged in 2005 during the blogging boom as a kind of liberal response to the Drudge Report, but it quickly evolved into one of the most influential online news and opinion platforms on the Left. It was founded by Arianna Huffington, a political chameleon who shifted from center-right conservatism to…
Media Deception Series: The “Clock Boy” and Islamophobia
In September 2015, a high school freshman in Irving, Texas named Ahmed Mohamed brought a strange-looking electronic device to school. He claimed it was a homemade clock. But when school staff saw the item—an electronic circuit board with wires and a digital display packed inside a pencil case resembling a briefcase—they reacted with alarm. Rightly…