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Fact-Checking – Poynter→ What’s in Georgia’s new voting law that lost it the All-Star Game
Georgia’s new voting law has ignited a fight over whether the law expands or shrinks access to the ballot. Republican lawmakers changed voting rules after Democrats won 2020 and 2021 statewide races thanks to strong turnout among Black voters. A few
Snopes→ MLB Moving All-Star Game to Denver’s Coors Field
Major League Baseball plans to relocate the All-Star Game to Coors Field in Denver after pulling this year's Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to sweeping changes to Georgia's voting laws.
Snopes→ Georgia Governor Vows a Fight After MLB Yanks All-Star Game
“Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola and Delta may be scared of Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden and the left, but I am not,” Gov. Brian Kemp said.
Snopes→ Photo Shows Sealed Super Mario Bros. Game Sold for $660,000
Its selling price far exceeded the $114,000 that another unopened copy that was produced in 1987 fetched in a Heritage auction last summer.
Snopes→ MLB Moving All-Star Game in Response to Voting Restrictions
Major League Baseball moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta's Truist Park, a response to Georgia's enacting a new law last month restricting voting rights.
The Dispatch→ Hong Kong Isn’t an Endgame for China. It’s a Starting Point.
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Snopes→ Is ‘Shredder’s Revenge’ a New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Video Game?
The "heroes in a half shell" are coming back ... again.
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Fact-checking the Texas energy-failure blame game
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/19/politics/texas-energy-outage-wind-turbine-blame-green-energy-fact-check/index.html
Liste→ Fake headlines claim white supremacists bought GameStop shares to ‘bankrupt Jewish hedge fund’
Multiple Facebook posts purport to show real headlines from CNN and VICE News articles apparently reporting on white supremacist links to the GameStop trading frenzy. However, the headlines are not from genuine news reports; representatives from both m
Snopes→ GameStop’s Saga May Be Over; Its Effect on Wall Street Isn’t
The frenzy around GameStop’s stock may have quieted down, but the outsized influence small investors had in the saga is likely to stick around.
Snopes→ Pigs Can Play Video Games, Scientists Discover
Pigs might not be able to fly, but they can play video games.
Snopes→ Mavs Owner Cuban Stops Playing National Anthem at Home Games
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he decided before this season began not to play the national anthem before the team's home games.
Snopes→ Mavs Owner Cuban Stops Playing National Anthem at Home Games
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he decided before this season began not to play the national anthem before the team's home games.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Reddit/GameStop Trading Likely DID Cause Nearly $4 Trillion in Global Market Capitalization Losses
Did the massive and sudden increase in the value of GameStop stock set off by the buying frenzy from the Reddit r/WallStreetBets community the week of January 25, 2021 cause nearly $4 trillion in losses for global market capitalization? Y
Snopes→ GameStop Soars Again; Wall Street Bends Under the Pressure
Another bout of selling gripped the U.S. stock market, as anxiety mounts over whether the frenzy behind a swift, meteoric rise in GameStop and a handful of other stocks will damage Wall Street overall.
Liste→ This video is from an India-Pakistan cricket game in Dubai in September 2018
A video has been viewed thousands of times after an Indian politician posted it on Facebook claiming it shows a crowd singing after the Indian national cricket team's historic test match win against Australia on January 19, 2021. The claim is false; t
Snopes→ EXPLAINER: Why GameStop’s Stock Surge Is Shaking Wall Street
It's not just you. What's going on with GameStop's stock doesn't make sense to a lot of people.
Snopes→ Robinhood Restricts Stock Trading in GameStop, Other Cos.
Other brands associated with "WallStreetBets" on Reddit, such as AMC Entertainment and Nokia, were also affected by the new restrictions
TruthOrFiction→ Did Elon Musk Tweet ‘If $GME Reach $1000 I Will Put the GameStop Logo on My Next Rocket’?
As retail traders drove GameStop ($GME) to stratospheric heights on January 26 and 27 2021, chatter on ticker-centric sites spiked in volume; several social stock platforms displayed a purported tweet attributed to entrepreneur Elon Musk referencing $
Snopes→ In Battle Over GameStop Shares, Two Big Players Flinch
A David and Goliath saga is unfolding in financial markets over the stock price of struggling retail chain GameStop.
Liste→ False statement attributed to Paul Kagame on his Ugandan counterpart
A Facebook post claiming to quote Rwandan President Paul Kagame expressing support for his Ugandan counterpart has been shared multiple times on social media. The post emerged ahead of Uganda’s presidential election on January 14, 2021, which returne
Snopes→ Did Amazon Announce a ‘Major Game Changer’ for Holiday Shopping?
We've seen a lot of misleading headlines in our time, but this one is definitely up there.
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates on Facebook that Philippines lifted coronavirus restrictions for basketball games in November 2020
Multiple posts shared repeatedly on Facebook claim the Philippine government lifted coronavirus restrictions on village basketball games in November 2020. The claim is misleading; the graphic shared in the posts was issued by a city government in centr
Snopes→ Did Leonardo DiCaprio Appear on a Disney Channel Game Show?
DiCaprio fans may be aware of his early work on the TV show "Growing Pains," but what about before that?
Liste→ This video shows a military games event held in Brazil in 2013, not the Pakistani army
A video has been viewed more than a million times in multiple posts on Facebook which claim it shows Pakistani army officers winning a military competition against US army officers. The claim is false; this footage actually shows an event in the 60th W
Liste→ This clip actually shows computer-generated imagery from a video game
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim it shows an Azerbaijani fighter jet downed by an Armenia attack during continued clashes over Azerbaijan's separatist region of Na
Snopes→ Micosoft Will Buy Video Game Maker ZeniMax for $7.5 Billion
Microsoft is buying the company behind popular video games The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout.
Top Fact Checks→ PUBG has decided to no longer authorize the PUBG MOBILE franchise to Tencent Games in India.
PUBG Corporation has withdrawn its franchise authorization from Tencent Games in India by taking over all the publishing responsibilities to its own.
Top Fact Checks→ Indian firm likely to buy the PUBG video game app.
No media, print or broadcast, has reported that Indian firms are interested in acquiring PUBG and this game has been banned by the Indian government.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Larry Bird Did NOT Tell NBA Players To ‘Shut Up And Play The Damn Game’
Did Larry Bird say NBA players should "just shut up and play the damn game"? No, that's not true. The famed Boston Celtic basketball player did not give a quote calling players "radical fundamentalists who dishonor the flag and cross and
Snopes→ Did Larry Bird Tell NBA Players ‘Shut Up and Play the Damn Game’?
A supposed quote from the Celtic great criticized NBA players for their pro-racial justice protests.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kenosha Protesters Attacking Armed Man NOT Playing ‘A Stupid Game’ As Shootings Occurred
Were Kenosha protesters playing "a stupid game" with an armed man seconds before the man shot two of the protesters? No, that does not appear to be true: As more video and still pictures emerge, it seems most likely the people who chased
Snopes→ Bucks Players Don’t Take the Court for NBA Playoff Game
NBA players made their strongest statement yet against racial injustice when the Milwaukee Bucks didn’t take the floor for their playoff game against the Orlando Magic.
Snopes→ Bucks Players Don’t Take the Court for NBA Playoff Game
NBA players made their strongest statement yet against racial injustice when the Milwaukee Bucks didn’t take the floor for their playoff game against the Orlando Magic.
Liste→ This video is computer-generated imagery from a video game
A video has been viewed millions of times and shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook alongside a claim it shows a Pakistan Air Force pilot flying a JF-17 fighter plane under a bridge. The claim is false; the video is computer-generated imagery
TruthOrFiction→ ‘New Zealand Rugby Game Today as We Have No COVID Cases’
On July 26 2020, a post to Reddit’s r/Damnthatsinteresting purportedly showed images from a rugby game in New Zealand on the same day, in a stadium full of fans — because the country has successfully suppressed COVID-19: New Zea
Snopes→ 2 MLB Games Postponed as Marlins Deal with Virus Outbreak
The cancellation of both games was announced about 7 hours before the scheduled first pitch.
Snopes→ Did Fauci Lower His Mask at Baseball Game?
The White House Coronavirus Task Force leader has been highly scrutinized throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Snopes→ Blame Game? Cuomo Takes Heat Over NY Nursing Home Study
Scientists, health care professionals, and elected officials assailed the report for flawed methodology and selective stats that sidestepped the actual impact of the March 25 order.