Testing for a new cellular phone alert system (the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, also known as IPAWS) began on October 3rd, 2018, with a tone and a message sent across mobile networks. The grumbling began almost immediately, as startled or irritated Americans reacted to the unsolicited (but anticipated) test, but the griping turned …
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In order to boost circulation and rake in more advertising money, hoax and satire sites will sometimes re-run some of their older work hoping to catch clicks while the topics of their stories are once again relevant. This is a common practice with many media sites, but satirical or fake stories can wind up getting …
Much of the United States’ economic policy agenda in 2018 has revolved around instituting higher tariffs, protectionism, and mitigating perceived or real trade deficits. This has extended to the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA for short, which U.S. president Donald Trump has called “the worst trade deal ever.” We are in the NAFTA (worst …
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Frozen vegetable recalls have been issued in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom after a listeria outbreak killed nine. But the recall does not apply to frozen vegetables sold in America.
FBI Special Agent David Raynor was not murdered with his own gun days before he was scheduled to testify against Hillary Clinton. Raynor died in a murder-suicide with his estranged wife.
Claims that an Iran nuclear deal isn’t legally binding and that the country never signed the agreement are misleading.
There’s no sign at the U.S.-Mexico border promising “lots of free stuff ahead.” Photo editing software was used to create the fake sign.
A “shallowfake” April Fool’s video still spread online years later, foreshadowing the danger of deeper distortions.
Rumors that Sen. Kamala Harris had an affair with a married man and used it launch her political career have been circulating since the early 1990s, but they’re mostly fiction.
President Trump retweeted ant-Muslim videos in November 2017. One of the videos does not show a Muslim migrant attacking a Dutch boy, as it claims.
