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Disinformation, Environment, Fact Checks, Natural Disasters, Politics
Did United States President Donald Trump Threaten to Withhold Disaster Funding from California? Fires raging in the north and the south of the state have left dozens dead, hundreds missing, and thousands without homes, which Trump inaccurately blamed on poor forest management by the state.

Sizable wildfires burning up and down California have killed at least 25 people and destroyed at least one entire Northern California town, Paradise. The exact toll and cost as of November 11, 2018 is still ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Mass Shootings
Was the Thousand Oaks Shooter Identified as a Man of Middle Eastern Descent? Hoaxes about the suspect started to pop up almost immediately after a mass shooting at a southern California nightclub.

Mere hours after a gunman entered a nightclub in Thousand Oaks, California, murdering at least twelve people before shooting himself, the social media disinformation machine and its usual array of bots and paid trolls began ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics
Did a CNN Reporter Assault a White House Employee? Rumors appeared about Jim Acosta after a woman tried to take away his microphone during a press conference.

The morning after a hotly-contested midterm election resulted in Republicans resoundingly losing control of the House, United States President Donald Trump held a press conference to discuss the results and take questions from journalists. In ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Immigration, Trump
Are Members of a Refugee Caravan Defiling American Flags on Their Way to the United States? Various photographs purporting to show members of a caravan of asylum-seekers en route to the United States border were stolen and repurposed from unrelated protests.

An annual caravan heading from Central America to the southern United States border to seek asylum has been beset by rumors, misinformation, and dramatic disinformation during the 2018 election cycle. Participants in the annual event are ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics
Were Seven Children Rescued From Smugglers Embedded in a ‘Migrant Caravan’ in Guatemala? A story about smugglers in a group of people making their way to the United States border to seek asylum is light on details.

On October 25th, 2018, as bots and paid trolls pushed talking points on social media about a caravan of people from Honduras on their way to Mexico’s border with the United States to turn themselves ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics
Is the United States the Only Country that Offers Birthright Citizenship? A claim made by United States President Donald Trump about "jus soli" bears no resemblance to reality.

On October 30th, 2018, three days after a Pennsylvania white supremacist stormed a Pittsburgh synagogue with guns and murdered eleven people during a service and four days after a Florida man was arrested for mailing ...

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Crime / Police, Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics
The Florida Mail Bombs Are Not ‘False Flags’ Various attempts to link suspect Cesar Sayoc, Jr. to politically motivated frame-up jobs do not hold water.

In the final days of October 2018, after a series of glass-packed pipe bombs were delivered to high-profile critics of United States President Donald Trump, rumors ran wild about who the suspect was and what ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics
Did a Caravan of Central Americans Beat Up Police in Mexico? An image from 2012 has been appropriated to spread disinformation about a caravan of asylum-seekers traveling through Mexico.

As a group of desperate women, men, and children traveled north from Central America to try to turn themselves in at the United States border in the hopes of receiving asylum, disinformation and smears about ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Viral Content
Will Hurricane Willa Hit a Refugee Caravan in Mexico? Reports that the two are destined to intersect fail to take into consideration the country's true size.

As a caravan of thousands of hopeful asylum-seekers from Central America continued to swell as the annual pilgrimage entered Mexico, so did rumors about them in the United States. One such rumor appeared on October ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics
The ‘All Democrats Voted Against a Social Security Raise’ Meme We've said it before and we'll say it again — don't get your news of the day from unsourced, uncredited statements on social media, no matter how viral they might be.

Weeks before the 2018 United States’ midterm elections, propaganda from across the political spectrum flew thick and fast. Some of it contained grains of truth, while other stories were completely made up, such as a ...

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