misinformation

This Matters with Bill Britt

Confidence without knowledge is reshaping how we think

Everyone has an opinion. That’s nothing new. What’s new is how certain everyone sounds.

April 16, 2026

Opinion

As lies replace reality, political self-preservation corrodes conscience, history, and democracy itself—and too many enable it knowingly.

January 12, 2026

Opinion

Politicians lie because it works—voters believe them, and media too often repeats the lies instead of calling them out.

November 6, 2025

Opinion

Social media is absolutely destroying everything it touches. That includes pretty much all of America.

August 25, 2025

Opinion

Pushing outright lies has become acceptable in politics today. It doesn't work, though, if you don't buy the BS.

January 14, 2025

Tuberville is now chiming in with his own batch of misinformation to smear groups of legal migrants.

September 13, 2024

The library board said the "community" did not take issue with the library's pride month display, and said librarians aren't indoctrinating children.

September 18, 2023

Opinion

We’re in the cusp of either taming the plague or giving it a fifth life.

November 14, 2021

Opinion

One of the latest and most harmful pieces of misinformation is that “breakthrough infections” prove the vaccines don’t work.

October 4, 2021

Misinformation on COVID-19 is resulting in a public health crisis and filling Alabama’s hospital beds with the unvaccinated.

October 1, 2021