Important Context
Walker Bragman, Olivia Riggio, Billie Jean SweeneyThis newsletter is part of the Accountability Journalism Institute. It was founded by investigative journalist Walker Bragman to expose bad actors, secretive political influence, and the money behind public health mis/disinformation.
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New HHS Report on Gender-Affirming Care Rife With False Information
This piece was produced in partnership with Assigned Media.
Doctors are “wolves,” the Trump administration declares in a 64-page document that portrays the medical professionals who care for young trans people as predators interested only...
Right Wing Celebrates Former Biden COVID Czar’s Embrace of Unproven COVID Origin Story
This piece has been updated from its original email version.
At the end of last month, Dr. Ashish Jha, who served as President Biden’s White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator from April 2022 to June 2023, shared a post on X that declared...
Trump Allies Deflect From Explosive Diarrhea Epidemic
This piece has been updated from its original email version.
In an editorial for The Free Press and his Substack, former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson, known today for his polemical opposition to lifesaving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines...
Plaintiff in Children’s Health Defense Lawsuit Charged With Murder
This piece was updated from its original email version to include additional context on 7/8/26.
An Idaho woman whose claims that vaccines killed her toddler twins were promoted by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s former anti-vaccine group has been arr...
MAGA Attacks Nonprofits. It Took Lessons From Authoritarians.
This piece was produced in partnership with Assigned Media.
The seeds of the federal government’s unprecedented political assault on a major medical group were planted a year ago when the Federal Trade Commission convened what it billed as...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Journalist, JD, occasional cartoonist, co-founder Accountability Journalism Institute.
Olivia is a New York-based media critic, nonprofit development professional and independent journalism advocate. She is the Administrative & Fundraising Director at FAIR.org and board member of the Accountability Journalism Institute.
Billie Jean Sweeney (she/her) contributes to Assigned Media and is a board member of the Accountability Journalism Institute. A former editor for The New York Times and The AP, she was also editorial director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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