Did DHS Warn Law Enforcement of a Rise in Extremist Activity?
The findings of a 2009 report mocked by right-wing media have since been proven to be entirely correct.
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How Ginned-Up Outrage Turned Two Border Patrol Agents Into Right-Wing Heroes
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?
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?
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’
A short-lived blog’s attempt at humor hinged on mocking the Obama administration — and the poor.
‘Clinton Body Count’ Rumors
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’
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?
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.