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Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
There’s a 92 Percent Chance Trump Is Making It Up - The Atlantic
When riffing, the president exhibits an unusual tell...
Friday, November 28, 2025
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small and tame protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party's X account replied: "We're not reporters, just bad memers."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/oregon-republicans-protest-photo-south-america
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
Friday, May 23, 2025
Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa | Reuters
In meeting with South Africa's president, Trump showed article with picture of body bags…
Trump said bodies were those of white South Africans killed in the country…
Picture was a screenshot of a Reuters video taken in Democratic Republic of Congo in February…
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Conservatives are trumpeting a new abortion-pill study. One problem: it’s bogus
"The study is not peer-reviewed and has not been published in a medical journal, because its authors could not meet the standards that such publication requires: their work is not up to snuff. Dr Stella Dantas, the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, called the paper "seriously flawed" and said that it "manipulates data to drive a myth that medication abortion isn't safe".
The truth is that abortion pills have a lower rate of serious complications than Tylenol…"
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
John Oliver on Facebook: ‘An absolute sewer of hatred and misinformation’ | John Oliver | The Guardian
The Last Week Tonight host looked at content moderation and how Mark Zuckerberg has bent to Trump's will…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/24/john-oliver-facebook-content-moderation
Friday, February 14, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump's inauguration…
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Ilhan Omar Mocks Elon Musk For Embarrassing Mistake | HuffPost Latest News
"Hey Elon," the Democratic lawmaker wrote Tuesday while quoting Musk's viral post. "Every single person in this country deserves to know their rights. That's legal. Maybe you should brush up on our laws given the fact you're breaking them to steal American's sensitive data."…
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Trans pilot Jo Ellis shares 'proof of life' video amid false claims she flew the helicopter involved in D.C. plane crash
Several right-wing social media accounts falsely claimed a transgender pilot in the Virginia National Guard was flying the helicopter that collided with a commercial jet Wednesday...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Scammers Are Creating Fake News Videos to Blackmail Victims | WIRED
"Yahoo Boy" scammers are impersonating CNN and other news organizations to create videos that pressure victims into making blackmail payments...
Friday, October 25, 2024
The Atlantic responds to Elon Musk sharing fake image of magazine
On Tuesday evening, Musk reshared a fake image on X that showed an article from the magazine reading "Trump Is Literally Hitler." The article was never written for or published by The Atlantic, but Musk appeared to take the image as truth, commenting, "They are literally foaming at the mouth 😂."…
Monday, September 16, 2024
More bomb threats hit Springfield after Trump elevates false claims about Haitians
Saturday's threats came even after the woman who started the rumors acknowledged to NBC News that they were unfounded and publicly apologized...
The Most Shameful Interview in the History of American Politics
If I have to make up stories (about Haitians eating pets), I will. (J.D. Vance)
Friday, June 28, 2024
Pro-Kremlin X accounts push fake Fox News articles ahead of debate
Efforts to manipulate social media discussion around the debate underscore warnings from experts regarding the threat that disinformation continues to pose...
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Deluge of ‘pink slime’ websites threaten to drown out truth with fake news in US election
According to a recent report from NewsGuard, a company that aims to counter misinformation by studying and rating news websites, the websites are so prolific that "the odds are now better than 50-50 that if you see a news website purporting to cover local news, it's fake."
NewsGuard estimates that there are a staggering 1,265 such fake local news websites in the US – 4% more than the websites of 1,213 daily newspapers left operating in the country...
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