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Dec 22, 2020 · America’s growing fake news problem, in one chart. Americans consumed twice as much dubious news in 2020 as they did in 2019. by Emily Stewart. Dec 22, 2020, 11:20 AM PST. Emily Stewart...
- False Claims Target Bible Used For Biden's Presidential Inauguration
- No, Biden Did Not Instruct Ice to Release All Detained Immigrants
- Who Did Not Say Covid-19 Test Led to Case Numbers Being Overstated
- The National Guard Received No Offer to Stay at Trump Hotel in Washington
- Bill Gates Did Not Say '3 Billion People Need to Die'
- Biden Cancellation of Keystone XL Pipeline Was Not A Favor to Warren Buffet
CLAIM: President Joe Biden swore on a "Masonic/Illuminati" Bible during his inauguration last week. THE FACTS: Following Biden's inauguration, false social media posts spread about the Bible he used to take his oath of office. Some social media users falsely suggested that the several-inches thick Bible, a Biden family heirloom, was "Masonic" or as...
CLAIM: A new order from the Biden administration directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to release all detained immigrants immediately. THE FACTS: The Biden administration did not order all immigrants to be released from ICE custody. The false claim is based on an email issued by a local ICE officer in Houston to agents that was leaked...
CLAIM: The World Health Organization admits that PCR tests to diagnose COVID-19 gave massive false positives, overinflating COVID-19 case numbers. THE FACTS: A WHO press release is being misrepresented online to say it shows that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 caused large scale false positives. Since the outset of the pandemic,...
CLAIM: Donald Trump invited National Guard members to stay at the Trump Hotel in Washington so they didn't have to sleep in a cold parking garage. THE FACTS: A spokesperson with the National Guard Bureau told The Associated Press they received no offers to stay at Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., the former president's hotel. After Natio...
CLAIM: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to eliminate at least 3 billion people in the world, starting in Africa, in a plot involving vaccines. THE FACTS: A 2019 video falsely claiming Gates wants to depopulate the globe is circulating online anew this month as COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available in the United States and elsewhere. I...
CLAIM: Billionaire Warren Buffett donated $58 million to President Joe Biden's campaign, so Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline as a favor to Buffett. THE FACTS: Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, did not donate to Biden's presidential campaign, nor did he endorse him. Buffett previously has voiced public support for the Keystone ...
Dec 31, 2020 · Debunked in 2020: Conspiracies and fake news surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. With Covid-19 dominating the news in 2020, numerous examples of fake and misleading images have emerged...
Apr 3, 2020 · 3 April 2020. By Jack Goodman, BBC Monitoring & Trending,BBC Reality Check. BBC. We've all been there. A coronavirus post that could be true and sounds about right, but how do we know it's...
Jan 23, 2020 · By January 23, 2020. A couple of days before Christmas, a fabricated story about a Donald Trump rally went viral on Facebook. Published by AJUAnews.com, the article claimed a Trump rally in...
The other way fake news can have an adverse effect is that you could end up being arrested and facing charges for your actions based on a false or inflated story, especially if a protest you attend involves illegal activity. In Michigan, being convicted of rioting and inciting to riot are felony offenses. The offenses are punishable by not more ...
Nov 18, 2022 · Introduction. In the last months of 1919, a year in which a pandemic had killed hundreds of thousands and the nation’s cities had been marred by racial pogroms and mob violence, Walter Lippmann reflected on the state of the American public sphere. “ [A] nation,” he complained, “easily acts like a crowd. Under the influence of headlines ...
