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Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman and the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
About this episode: President Trump announced that he and the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19 on Twitter, in the middle of the night last week. Brandy Zadrozny spends her days sorting through the chaos of the internet for NBC News, trying to track conspiracy theories and misinformation …
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The material comes from the project’s newsletter, the Sift, which takes the most recent viral rumors, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and journalistic ethics issues and turns them into timely lessons with discussion prompts and links. The Sift, which is published weekly during the school year, has more …
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Much of the United States woke up to the news that President Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus last Friday. Many turned to social media with theories about how Trump was faking it or had been targeted by an assassination plot. The most popular conspiratorial idea, however, was rooted in …
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Those on the left who bought into all the doomsday fear about the Wuhan coronavirus (covid-19) being an almost certain death sentence for the elderly are now experiencing extreme cognitive dissonance following President Trump’s miraculous three-day recovery. CBS This Morning host Gayle King, one of …
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President Donald Trump questioned on Sept. 23 the need for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put more stringent approval standards in place regarding coronavirus vaccines. According to the president, the FDA’s “political-sounding” move would be subject to White House approval. Unnamed …
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Facebook on Tuesday removed a post from President Donald Trump comparing COVID-19 to the flu for violating its rules on coronavirus misinformation. A spokesperson for Facebook confirmed to CNN that the company removed the president’s post. Trump’s message, which asks if the United States will …
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When the American public has questions like, “Did the president become so incapacitated by COVID that he needed medical intervention to breathe?” the expectation is that we’ll get something approximating a straight answer. But Trump is a fount of conspiracy theories, disinformation, and childish …
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Within minutes of President Trump announcing that he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, the interwebs were awash in speculation and conspiracy theories. Is Trump faking it so that he can pretend to have recovered and thus prove the virus isn’t dangerous? Or maybe he’s …
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ITHACA, N.Y. — A Cornell University study published Last week shows that President Donald Trump was the leading purveyor of misinformation during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The study analyzed 38 million articles published by traditional English-language news media from all over the world …
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Misinformation related to President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis has swarmed social media and the broader web since Friday, with claims that Trump is faking his illness gaining particular traction, according to data provided to Axios by social intelligence firm Zignal Labs. Why it matters: Moments of …
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