A recent conversation on the Vanguard’s Facebook Page about peer review research led to a conspiracy theory that each transgender child generates $1-2 million in lifetime revenue for pharmaceutical companies, which was not backed by any evidence from actual reporting.
A recent New York Times opinion piece argues that the fentanyl crisis is rooted in the history of domestic drug markets and U.S. policy failures, rather than being caused by foreign traffickers and Democrats weakening the borders.
Civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis accuses elite media institutions of helping to normalize mass incarceration by distorting the intentions behind it, and argues that the New York Times article glorifying a federal prosecutor’s career built on caging low-income people in the Bronx and Vermont is an example of this “Big Deception”.