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Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. Pfizer’s announcement this week that it had a 90% effective vaccine against COVID-19 provided a glimpse of the …
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Topline President Donald Trump falsely tweeted Thursday that millions of votes intended for him were deleted nationwide due to systematic voting machine errors, a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory that was spawned in a murky corner of the pro-Trump internet, picked up by a well-known fake news …
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Twitter took more than an hour to flag a highly misleading video shared by Donald Trump, which baselessly pushed claims of ballot fraud and was retweeted more than 70,000 times before the platform took action. The president, who lost the US election to Joe Biden last week, shared a video of …
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A member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from Green Country spread debunked conspiracy theory content and tagged a hate group in posts on the social media app Parler, according to reporting in the Norman Transcript. Rep. Kevin McDugle (R-Broken Arrow) “shared multiple posts on Parler …
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They call him Marshal Tweeto. Janez Jansa, the right-wing prime minister of Slovenia, used Twitter to declare Donald J. Trump the winner of the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 4, saying, “It’s pretty clear that American people have elected @realDonaldTrump @Mike_Pence for #4moreyears.” Alas, …
Read MoreQAnon, the baseless far-right conspiracy theory, has jumped from anonymous message boards into the mainstream — even finding its way into the world of yoga. Yogis’ interest in the conspiracy-theory movement, which is focused on the notion that a “deep state” cabal of child traffickers runs the …
Read MoreQAnon, the baseless far-right conspiracy theory, has jumped from anonymous message boards into the mainstream — it’s even found its way into the world of yoga. Yogis’ interest in the conspiracy-theory movement, which is focused on the notion that a “deep state” cabal of child traffickers runs the …
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As with many others in Britain, lockdown hit Rachel and her husband, Philip, hard. Almost overnight, the couple, both in their early 50s, found themselves cut off from friends, family and colleagues. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, they had both been working every day; now Philip found himself …
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False or misleading claims of electoral fraud are going viral on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, even as the platforms continue to implement special measures aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation around the US presidential election. Major social media platforms are nominally cracking down …
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By Laurence Arnold | Bloomberg, Supporters of the U.S. conspiracy theory known as QAnon have been a feature on the fringes of American politics since late 2017. The internet-fueled movement has crept closer to the mainstream, with some believers winning election to Congress. The coming end of …
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