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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week. Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Georgia officials didn’t “forget” to redact the names of the grand jurors who indicted former President Donald Trump; that’s standard in the state. August 18, 2023.
Nov 6, 2019 · The 10 most-viewed fake-news stories on Facebook in 2019 were just revealed in a new report. Ben Gilbert. Nov 6, 2019, 8:06 AM PST. Facebook is the largest social media service on the planet,...
Apr 3, 2020 · BBC. We've all been there. A coronavirus post that could be true and sounds about right, but how do we know it's accurate? To help, the BBC's disinformation-monitoring team is fact-checking and...
Social media posts falsely claim to show evidence of the affair by sharing a fake, digitally altered photo of Donald and Melania Trump with Daniels. Posts Misrepresent Unfreezing of $16 Billion...
- No, There Were No 'Living Corpses' in Bucha
- No, The 'Ghost of Kyiv' Was Not An Exceptional Ukrainian Fighter Pilot
- No, 'Ukrainian Nazis' Did Not Riot at The World Cup in Qatar
- No, A German Hospice Did Not Offer Putin Tattoos to Dying Patients
- No, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun Did Not Appear on The Cover of 'Vogue' Magazine
- Beware, 'Herbal Abortions' Are Unsafe
- No, Monkey Pox Is Not The Result of Coronavirus Vaccines
- Yes, Qatar 'Bought' World Cup Fans in 2022
Images of dead civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, near Kyiv, horrified the world in early April. Hundreds of dead bodies lay strewn across the streets of the city in late March after Russian forces withdrew. Ukrainian authorities spoke of a "deliberate massacre" carried out by Russian soldiers. Russia countered with its own accusation, claim...
After Ukrainians got over the initial shock of the Russian invasion, they sought comfort in reports of Ukrainian military successes. Among these, stories of the so-called "Ghost of Kyiv"— a mysterious fighter who supposedly destroyed 40 Russian jets singlehandedly — became increasingly popular. Many media users, and even former Ukrainian President ...
In keeping with the supposed "denazification" of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly put forth as justification for his invasion, a number of photos and videos claiming to show "Ukrainian Nazis" — most recently at the World Cup in Qatar— have popped up online. Recently, a video bearing the logo and design of the news outlet...
Tattoos of President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov or other Russian politicians applied to dying patients as a bizarre, voodoo-like way to drag the leaders into death? That is exactly what was supposedly happening at a German hospice facility, according to an English-language video designed to look very similar to a DW report. But ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a Nazi — that is the main narrative of disinformation surrounding Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. After the US magazine Voguefeatured Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska on its cover in late July and published several pictures of her and her husband Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a feature story, a soc...
The US Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights cleared the way for nearly half the states in the countryto ban the medical procedure. Faced with potential bans, claims that abortion can be induced by consuming herbs like parsley or fruit like papaya proliferated. But can such plant-based remedies really induce an abortion? And how safe...
From changing human DNA to making women infertile — in 2022 another fake news conspiracy about the supposed side effects of coronavirusvaccines began making the rounds. That is when people began claiming online that the disease monkey pox could be traced to the AstraZeneca coronavirus vector vaccine, which contains attenuated adenovirus from chimpa...
After Qatar was selected to host the 2022 soccer World Cup, years were spent discussing the number of migrant workers who died building infrastructure for the tournament in the Gulf state. Massive human rights abuses and a lack of press freedom in the emirate were also the topic of discussion in the run-up to the tournament. Then, shortly before th...
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May 21, 2024 · fake news | PBS NewsHour. Economy Apr 08. Brazil Supreme Court justice orders investigation of Elon Musk over fake news and obstruction. By David Biller, Associated Press. Nation Apr 06....
Dec 5, 2016 · Incidents like the #Pizzagate shooting signify one step in a long, dark trail of real world consequences caused by fake news. Experts explain this history and why these stories are so hard to...
