The ongoing scandals over data privacy, in which social media giants were found to be (among other things) flooding selected readers with hypertargeted and corrosive political advertising, is still unfolding — and it will continue to evolve for some
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Lead Stories→ Fake News: Colin Kaepernick NOT Found Dead — Several Fake News Sites Copy Satirical Article
Was Colin Kaepernick found dead after a hit-and-run in San Francisco? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a liberal satire website that produces fake stories designed to get Trump supporters and conservatives to share them without th
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Trump’s False Claims On ‘Medicare For All’
President Trump packed a lot of disinformation into his op-ed column for USA Today attacking a Democratic health care proposal. Here are five points to know.(Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Trump’s False Claims On ‘Medicare For All’
President Trump packed a lot of disinformation into his op-ed column for USA Today attacking a Democratic health care proposal. Here are five points to know.(Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Trump’s False Claims On ‘Medicare-For-All’
President Trump packed a lot of disinformation into his op-ed column for USA Today attacking a Democratic health care proposal. Here are five points to know.(Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Trump’s False Claims On ‘Medicare-For-All’
President Trump packed a lot of disinformation into his op-ed column for USA Today attacking a Democratic health care proposal. Here are five points to know.(Image credit: Win McNamee)
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Taylor Swift NOT Busted On Date With Colin Kaepernick
Was Taylor Swift spotted on a date with Colin Kaepernick? No, that's not true: the latest hoax about Swift was just the product of the imagination of a liberal satire weblog that likes to wind up Trump supporters and conservatives with storie
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Taylor Swift Did NOT Lose $14 Million Contract After Backing Democrats
Did singer Taylor Swift lose a $14 million contract after backing two democrats in the upcoming Tennessee midterm election? No, that's not true: while she did post a message to her Instagram account earlier backing Phil Bredesen for Senate an
Was Brett Kavanaugh’s Home Vandalized?
In early October 2018, the usual purveyors and pushers of disinformation were anxious to take advantage of the controversy surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to ride the ad revenue wave from whatever satire or clickbait they could think up. Most of that centered around various outlandish rumors surrounding his multiple accusers, but at least […]
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Bots, Trolls Propelled Faux ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Controversy
The “Star Wars” franchise was not immune from the sort of controversy that has seeped into every tiny nook and cranny of the American public discourse, thanks to the ubiquity of social media and those who wish to exploit conflicts in order to create chaos. In that vein, the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi was […]
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