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Uncorroborated Did The Washington Post report that Bill Gates was “being held under armed watch at Guantanamo Bay” after having been “charged with war crimes against humanity”? No, that’s not true: A search through the newspaper’s digital database returned no such results, and no credible news …
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Claim: A real photograph shows Tom Hanks with a black eye, standing between Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King, showing he is part of a “Black Eye Club.” Context The photograph is authentic and was taken by Oprah Winfrey when she and Gayle King went to see Tom Hanks perform in a play. However, it is not …
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Somehow, market manipulation feels good in a place like this. So might Nicole Kidman say in her iconic advertisement for AMC Theatres — if it had been scripted by the cinema chain’s hardcore investors, that is. Ever since an internet mob rescued the company from the brink of bankruptcy in 2021 by …
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Conspiracy theories involving viewer suppression of the film Sound of Freedom continue even as the film was top-three in last weekend’s box office gross sales.The film was produced by indie company Angel Studios and stars Jim Caviezel as Tim Ballard, a producer on the project who in reality left …
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Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, he has given hours of interviews to podcasts, magazines and TV networks. He paints a dark, conspiratorial picture of the world, bristling with debunked theories, misleading …
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YouTube removed a video of an Australian MP delivering a maiden speech to Parliament criticizing the unscientific and authoritarian COVID measures, claiming it contained “medical misinformation.” Liberal Democrat John Ruddick had railed against a litany of terrible pandemic policies on June 28 …
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What’s wrong with protecting disinformation by blocking a bunch of Biden administration agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies about it?The answer to that question is found right in the 155-page memo issued last week by federal judge Terry A. Doughty, along with his …
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The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign has a public Slack channel—and they don’t seem to care who joins it. They probably should. The link is being shared on Twitter. It doesn’t have any barriers to entry. And they texted an invite—accidentally, it seems—to a Daily Beast reporter. And yet, what’s even …
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Reuters By Shayan Sardarizadeh BBC Verify False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia’s invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days. Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a crank. His views are a mishmash of right-wing fantasies mixed with remnants of the progressive he once was: Bitcoin boosterism, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, assertions that Prozac causes mass shootings, opposition to U.S. support for Ukraine, but also favorable …
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