TruthRevolt
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Politics, conservative news and opinion |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | David Horowitz Freedom Center |
| Created by | Ben Shapiro and David Horowitz |
| Editor | Mark Tapson |
| Website | truthrevolt |
| Launched | October 7, 2013 |
| Current status | Active |
TruthRevolt is a conservative U.S. news and activism website. Founded in 2013 by Ben Shapiro and David Horowitz as a counterpoint to the politically progressive Media Matters for America, it is a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The site's stated mission is "to expose the leftist news media and to hold them accountable for their hypocrisy and bias."
The site was launched on October 7, 2013. The site's launch was covered by Breitbart and The Daily Beast.
USA Today and conservative news outlet The Daily Caller criticized both TruthRevolt and Media Matters for sponsoring boycotts, arguing that such tactics silence free speech. In an article titled "Mutually Assured Destruction",TruthRevolt responded to critics stating their tactics are "distasteful", but also "effective", and "the surest way to stop these distasteful tactics is to make sure that both sides pay equally for their use. The little-told truth of Mutually Assured Destruction is that it works, and that it has kept the peace between major powers for sixty years."
In April 2015, TruthRevolt co-founder Ben Shapiro resigned as the site's editor-in-chief. On 1 May 2015, Mark Tapson became editor-in-chief, and in an announcement denied, "[c]ontrary to some media speculation", that TruthRevolt was "in turmoil".
The homepage primarily features articles set on exposing alleged liberal bias in the media from sources such as CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and print publications like The New York Times.
In November 2013, when reports suggested mainstream media outlets were ignoring stories of the alleged violent "knockout game" in Crown Heights, New York, in which African-American youths were supposedly racially targeting Jews and Caucasians as part of a hate crime,TruthRevolt wrote a piece highlighting that CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC all had made virtually no mention of the 'knockout game' with exception to CNN's New Day who ran a brief two-minute segment about the attacks, but did not mention the suspects' race, referring to them as "kids", "juveniles", and "teens." They also did not mention the allegedly anti-semitic motives behind the attacks and NYPD's labeling them a potential hate-crime. BigJournalism.com duplicated the article, which was shortly referenced by Andrea Tantaros on Fox News' The Five.
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