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Listen 7 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article For months, activists have urged tech companies to fight the spread of falsehoods purporting that the 2020 presidential election was stolen — warning that such disinformation could delegitimize the 2022 midterms, in which all seats in the …
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was founded by the BBC in July 2019. While TNI claims to promote democracy and freedom, its purpose for being is global information control Partners in the initiative include global media outlets such as The Washington Post, Reuters, The …
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Quick Take Wastewater surveillance is a public health tool that can track the spread of pathogens. The virus that causes polio was detected in New York City sewage as part of such monitoring efforts. Social media posts, however, have incorrectly claimed the virus was found in tap water. Similar …
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A man sets his tactical gear bag next to the assault rifle on his bed, above which hangs an American flag. “Don’t mind me,” he says, “I’m just getting ready for my IRS audit.” This, pulled from a viral Twitter thread, was just one of the many TikTok videos that, explicitly or implicitly, threatened …
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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I am Terry Gross. My guest, Congressman Adam Schiff, has been very busy the past few years investigating Donald Trump. Schiff is the chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Schiff was the lead manager of the first impeachment and Senate impeachment trial of …
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How did former president Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in Georgia during the 2020 general election impact the state’s subsequent Senate runoff election? Might it actually have tipped the scale in favor of Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock? It’s a question that …
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As the global pandemic has reminded us with tragic ferocity in recent years, viruses can, despite our best efforts, be enormously destructive and hard to contain – especially as our world has grown ever-more-crowded and interconnected. And sadly, that goes not just for physical viruses like …
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Placeholder while article actions load Rudy Giuliani’s decision to wander into dicey legal arenas in recent years appears to have brought him closer than ever to being prosecuted, with news that he has been informed he is a target of the criminal probe being run by Fulton County, Ga., District …
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Washington — Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who, as personal lawyer to former U.S. President Donald Trump, tried to help him upend his 2020 reelection loss, was told Monday he was a target in the criminal election fraud investigation in the southern state of Georgia. Lawyer Robert Costello told …
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Placeholder while article actions load It was just over a year ago that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell convened supporters and data experts in South Dakota for a multiday summit at which he pledged to show his evidence that foreign actors had interfered in the 2020 election. As presented, the idea was …
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