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Crooks and Liars
U.S. progressive left
Crooks and Liars is an independently owned progressive political blog founded by John Amato in 2004. It focuses on media criticism and political commentary from a left-wing perspective, with particular emphasis on calling out what it frames as right-wing media misinformation. Its coverage of the Trump administration's second term is consistently and sharply critical across domestic policy, media freedom, and democratic norms.
Owned byFounded and owned by John Amato; independently operated with no known parent company
LeaningU.S. progressive left
On the administrationbroadly critical
8average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun