The post drew rebukes from a host of digital personalities and critics, including Cenk Uygur, host of “The Young Turks” and Tim Miller of The Bulwark.
“Ma’am, hate to bother you, but I just wanted to let you know, your mask slipped off,” Uygur posted. Miller called the CBS News post “despicable anti-Muslim woke right garbage.
CBS News declined to make executives available for comment.
The digital outrage bubbles as media critics and even journalists within CBS News scrutinize the decisions of Bari Weiss, installed by Paramount as editor in chief of CBS News in 2025, for bias or the insertion of opinion into the CBS News daily report. Weiss, founder of the online opinion site The Free Press, is known for railing against so-called “woke” extremes and for unwavering support of Israel. In the recent past, CBS News has been watched for the way it covers New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
