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AllSides→ Three times Mark Zuckerberg misled Congress about extremism and misinformation on Facebook
https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/three-times-mark-zuckerberg-misled-congress-about-extremism-and-misinformation-facebook
Truth or Fiction?→ Rep. Matt Gaetz’s 2017 ‘Pace HS’ Tweet Resurfaces Amid Scandal
A popular March 31 2021 Imgur post featured a purported screenshot of a 2017 tweet by Rep. Matt Gaetz (including a photograph of Gaetz and teenaged girls), along with a title indicating the content “aged poorly”: I’d say this tweet a
Snopes→ Is the Biden Administration Creating or Mandating ‘COVID-19 Passports’?
The administration has said it is seeking a regulatory role in the development of digital vaccine certificates.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence President Donald Trump Indicted Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett On His Last Day In Office
Did President Donald Trump indict Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on his last day in office? No, that's not true. The claim was made without proof and the U.S. Constitution reserves indictment power to grand juries, not presidents
Snopes→ Hunter Biden Details Lifelong Addiction Struggle in Memoir
He credits his second wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, with helping him sober up, along with the love from his father and late brother.
Snopes→ Biden Announces Huge Infrastructure Plan to ‘Win the Future’
The U.S. president drew comparisons between his hard-hatted proposed transformation of the U.S. economy and the space race.
Snopes→ Transgender Ex-Neo-Nazi Receives No Prison Time in Threat Case
A federal judge declined to impose prison time on a former member of a neo-Nazi ring that threatened journalists.
Snopes→ Did ‘Mario Execution Day’ Spell the End of Nintendo’s Mario?
Fans around the world mourned the "loss" of the charismatic Italian plumber.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Take Down Donald Trump’s Border Wall
Has President Joe Biden taken down the southern border wall that former President Donald Trump built? No, that's not true: On Biden's first day in office, January 20, 2021, he ordered a "pause in construction and obligation of funds" rela
The Dispatch→ Is the Border ‘Wide Open’ While the Country Is ‘Locked Down’?
A viral Facebook post claims the U.S. has a “border that is wide open,” even though the country is “locked down.” The full text of the post reads as follows: a.image2.image-link.image2-562-485 { padding-bot
The Dispatch→ Is the Border ‘Wide Open’ While the Country Is ‘Locked Down’?
A viral Facebook post claims the U.S. has a “border that is wide open,” even though the country is “locked down.” The full text of the post reads as follows: a.image2.image-link.image2-562-485 { padding-bot
Snopes→ Detectives Find Cause of Tiger Woods Crash But Won’t Reveal
The Los Angeles County sheriff would not release details, citing unspecified privacy concerns for the golf star.
The Dispatch→ A Different Kind of Capital
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FactCheck.org→ Viral Posts Misuse VAERS Data to Make False Claims About COVID-19 Vaccines
SciCheck Digest Social media posts repeatedly misuse unverified data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System to falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, and even lethal. But the government database is not designed to determine if vac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia Voting Law Does NOT Include A Non-Water Loophole Allowing People To Give Tea, Soda Pop, Milk To Voters Standing In Line
Does Georgia's new voting law allow people to hand out drinks to voters waiting in line, so long as the drink isn't water? No, that's not true: The text of the law says "food and drink," which would include beverages like iced tea, chocol
Snopes→ COVID-19 Pushed Total US Deaths Beyond 3.3 Million Last Year
The coronavirus caused approximately 375,000 deaths and was the third leading cause of death in 2020, after heart disease and cancer.
The Dispatch→ The Walls Are Strong, but the Cannon Fire Is Real
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The Dispatch→ Infrastructure Push and Bumpy Roads
President Biden introduced a massive $2 trillion infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh, and the gang is wondering what type of fight the GOP is going to put up against the bill. Steve asks, “You’d think this might be something Republicans would
Snopes→ Italy Orders 2 Russian Embassy Officials Expelled for Spying
Police arrested an Italian Navy captain on spying charges after they caught the officer allegedly giving classified documents to one of the Russians in exchange for money.
Snopes→ No, England’s University of Oxford Isn’t Banning Sheet Music
Internet outrage is sometimes based on false assumptions.
The Dispatch→ Is Nike Producing ‘Satan Shoes’ With Lil Nas X?
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The Dispatch→ Is Nike Producing ‘Satan Shoes’ With Lil Nas X?
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Snopes→ Archbishop: Harry, Meghan Didn’t Wed Before Windsor Service
The archbishop of Canterbury has confirmed that he legally married Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle in May 2018.
Snopes→ Did Michael Strahan ‘Say Goodbye’ to His Gap?
We're not calling the "Good Morning America" host a liar, but a prankster .... maybe.
Snopes→ France Announces 3-Week School Closure, Domestic Travel Ban
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban in an effort to fight the rapid spread of the virus.
Logically→ Amazon delivery workers in the US have to urinate in bottles.
There is widespread evidence to prove that Amazon delivery workers in the US have no resort but to pee in bottles.
Snopes→ ‘Cool but Weird.’ Macy’s Store Transformed into School
Students who once shopped at a downtown mall in Burlington, Vermont, are now attending high school in the former Macy’s department store
The Dispatch→ The Suez Canal Debacle Reveals Less—and More—About ‘Globalization’ Than You Think
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AFP Fact Check→ Mass Covid-19 vaccination will not lead to ‘out of control’ variants
A scientist’s open letter to the World Health Organization claims that the large-scale Covid-19 vaccination drives currently underway around the world should cease before they produce the catastrophic appearance of more deadly variants of the coronav
Snopes→ Reversing Trump, Pentagon to Release New Transgender Policy
The Pentagon will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military.
Truth or Fiction?→ Harvard’s ‘Anti-Asian Racism Resources’: ‘You May Wish That You Weren’t Asian’
Just before midnight on March 30 2021, Harvard student and journalist Matteo Wong published a tweet thread about a Harvard University “anti-Asian racism resources” page — primarily, a purported section offering that readers “m
Snopes→ Ruh Roh! Biden Pooch Drops Doggie Doo in White House Hallway
It was unclear which pooch — Major or Champ — dropped the poo.
Full Fact→ Lateral flow tests are not unsafe
In England, secondary school and college students and staff, and their households, are being asked to regularly take a lateral flow test to check for Covid-19. We’ve seen a large number of posts on social media warning people not to use Covid-19
Snopes→ Did Breastfeeding Baby Die After Mother Received COVID-19 Vaccine Dose?
Health experts do recommend the vaccine be given to breastfeeding parents.
Snopes→ Some Capitol Riot Suspects Apologize as Consequences Sink In
Dozens of rioters have apologized and expressed regret as the consequences of their actions have started to sink in.
Snopes→ A Cryptocurrency Expert Explains NFTs
Nonfungible tokens prove ownership of a digital item – image, sound file or text – in the same way that people own crypto coins.
Snopes→ New York State Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
New York could become the largest legal marijuana market on the East Coast — generating a potential $2.3 billion in annual sales by its fourth year.
Snopes→ Did Matt Gaetz Retweet ‘There’s No Age That You Can’t Be Sexy’?
Some of the congressman's old tweets resurfaced amid a March 2021 sex trafficking scandal.
Full Fact→ Government communications should serve the public
Today's news agenda is being driven by government led discussion of a carefully selected preview of a 258 page report and then 24 unknown recommendations. By the time the actual report was released, media lines had been taken, and much of what the publ