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How Ginned-Up Outrage Turned Two Border Patrol Agents Into Right-Wing Heroes

Crime / Police, Disinformation, Reporting / By Rich Buhler & Staff / March 17, 2015

The fallout from a February 2005 extrajudicial shooting by two U.S. Border Patrol agents was picked up as a source of outrage by right-wing media personalities two years later. Jose Alonso Compeán and Ignacio Ramos were convicted in 2006 for charges including discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence for shooting …

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Was Facebook Selling Users’ Photos to Advertisers?

Computers, Fact Checks, Social Media, Warnings / By Rich Buhler & Staff / March 17, 2015

Concerns over what the social media platform was doing with user-generated content in 2011 turned out to be prescient in the long run.

List of ‘Facts and Figures’ About Undocumented Immigrants?

Disinformation, Fact Checks, Immigration, Politics, Viral Content / By Rich Buhler & Staff / March 17, 2015

A chain email turned into a meme claims to be a list of “facts” about unauthorized immigration to the United States, but it fails badly on the “facts” front.

‘Obama Signed the SNAP Fairness Act of 2014’

Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics / By Rich Buhler & Staff / March 17, 2015

A short-lived blog’s attempt at humor hinged on mocking the Obama administration — and the poor.

A mockup of a man's body in a suit on the ground with leaves scattered everywhere.

‘Clinton Body Count’ Rumors

Crime / Police, Fact Checks, Politics, Viral Content / By Rich Buhler & Staff / March 17, 2015

This a list of people associated with Bill Clinton…all of whom have died, some of them under mysterious circumstances.

‘How Budweiser Handled Those Who Laughed at 9/11’

9/11 Attack on America, Disinformation, Fact Checks, Terrorism / By Rich Buhler & Staff / March 16, 2015

A xenophobic message that circulated within days of the attacks lingers as online swill.

Did Ted Kennedy Send a Secret Letter to the Soviets in 1983?

Fact Checks, Government, Military, Politics / By Rich Buhler & Staff / March 13, 2015

Ted Kennedy asked leaders of the Soviet Union to help the Democrats defeat President Reagan in the 1984 presidential election in a secret letter that he sent in 1983.

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