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4d ago
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week, many of them related to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by a container ship ..read more
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4d ago
Transgender Day of Visibility has been celebrated on March 31 since 2009, when the holiday was created ..read more
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4d ago
Soon after the bill was signed into law, social media users falsely claimed that it will allow people to tattletale on members of their community for financial gain ..read more
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4d ago
With three months remaining in the presidential primary season, social media users are misrepresenting government data to suggest that the country is seeing a surge in voter registrations by migrants who came to the U.S. illegally ..read more
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4d ago
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Social Security Administration data does not show that a skyrocketing number of voters are registering without a photo ID, evidence that migrants who entered the country illegally are registering to vote in Arizona, Tex ..read more
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4d ago
Social media users are misrepresenting years old comments Northam made about abortion in Virginia on WTOP, a news radio station serving the Washington Metropolitan area ..read more
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4d ago
Following his family’s announcement, social media users falsely claimed that Simpson had made a deathbed confession on X that he killed Brown and Goldman — crimes he was acquitted of in 1995 ..read more
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2w ago
Social media users are circulating false claims about Aldi’s store brand bacon, confusing it with a cellular agriculture company that has a similar name ..read more
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2w ago
After a container ship lost power and rammed into the Key Bridge causing it to collapse early Tuesday, social media users shared the old video, falsely representing it as footage from the bridge before it fell into the Patapsco River ..read more
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2w ago
Following the crash that caused Key Bridge to collapse early Tuesday, social media users shared a screenshot of a webpage they said identified Dali’s captain ..read more