“CBS News’s decision to hire former Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney as a paid on-air contributor is drawing backlash within the company because of his history of bashing the press and promoting the former president’s fact-free claims,” the Washington Post reports.

“But a top network executive seemed to lay the groundwork for the decision in a staff meeting earlier this month, when he said the network needed to hire more Republicans to prepare for a ‘likely’ Democratic midterm wipeout.”

Former CBS News correspondent and current Fox Nation host Lara Logan said that “the theory of evolution is the result of a wealthy Jewish family paying Charles Darwin to devise an explanation for what gave rise to humanity,” Rolling Stone reports.

Conservative video site, Rumble, now draws 44 million monthly visitors, “giving it a larger reach than other top destinations for conservative content, including Breitbart, Newsmax and The Daily Wire,” the New York Times reports.

“The story of Rumble’s success is instructive for both sides of the tense debate over balancing the right to free speech with the growing threat that disinformation poses to the stability of governments around the globe. For those who argue that Google and Facebook algorithms are blunt, deeply flawed instruments for policing discourse, Rumble offers a welcome alternative, albeit an imperfect one. And for those who fear that lawmakers and technology companies aren’t doing enough to tame false and fabricated information ahead of the next presidential election, Rumble has opened up a potentially dangerous loophole.”

“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion. But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

— Chris Wallace, quoted by the New York Times, on why he left Fox News.

Jason Zengerle: “It makes sense that Masters and Vance would subscribe to national conservatism. Their former boss and patron, Thiel — who has donated millions to super PACs supporting each candidacy — is a NatCon, giving the keynote address at last year’s conference. And they come by the ideology honestly. They are products of elite institutions — Vance graduated from Yale Law School, Masters from Stanford Law — and claim to have been radicalized by the experience. Their populism is a form of contrarianism and rebellion.”

“The challenge is turning that choice into votes. Trump created a constituency on instinct, but thus far there has been no way for politicians to signal affinity with it apart from pledging personal allegiance to Trump. Now that NatCons are trying to solidify that constituency ideologically, it seems freshly possible to align instead with Carlson, whose lead Masters and Vance have followed on everything from opposing vaccine mandates to sympathizing with Vladimir Putin’s geopolitical worldview.”

Netflix has made Volodymyr Zelensky’s “Servant of the People” comedy available to American viewers again.

Chris Cuomo is seeking a $125 million arbitration award alleging that CNN wrongly terminated him, NBC News reports.

Right-wing cable network One America News is suing AT&T and DirecTV, alleging the companies breached their contract which will cost OAN $1 billion, the Dallas Morning News reports.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said that Tucker Carlson invited him on his Fox News show last night, “but that’s not going to happen… ever.”

John Ellis puts forward a convincing case that CNN might soon be put up for sale.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo wondered aloud whether President Biden actually wanted to see Ukraine “taken down” and was looking to “sell out” the country.

Said Bartiromo: “Some people have told me over the weekend that they feel that, at the end of the day, this administration does not see Putin as the enemy, they see him as a partner!”

Brent Renaud, an award-winning American filmmaker and journalist, was killed in Ukraine on Sunday while reporting in a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, the New York Times reports.

Rolling Stone has a must-read story on how former CNN chief Jeff Zucker manipulated what you watch.

YouTube has removed a podcast episode featuring Donald Trump because it contained content that “advances claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the U.S. 2020 presidential election,” The Wrap reports.

Trump ripped the decision in a statement: “In the 24 hours that it was up it set every record for them, by many times. Interestingly on the show I told them this would happen because Big Tech and the Fake News Media fear the truth, they fear criticism about Biden, and above all, they don’t want to talk about the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election, all topics discussed.”

“Upon his departure from CNN, former president Jeff Zucker reached an exit deal with the network’s parent entitling him to a payment of over $5 million, compensation he was owed from his 2021 bonus,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The New York Times said that it was temporarily removing its journalists from Russia in the wake of harsh new legislation that effectively outlaws independent reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” the New York Times reports.