Three Things to Remember About That Study of Fox Viewers Who Watched CNN Some news outlets failed to note the status and the limits of the April 2022 report.
DirecTV Drops One America News Network From its Lineup On April 5 2022, posts to social media claimed that OAN had been dropped by cable provider DirecTV.
‘Lockdowns Had Little To No Effect On COVID-19 Mortality But Had Devastating Effects On Society’ A February 2022 DailyWire.com article claimed that new research had cast doubt on the effects of "lockdowns," also known as "shelter-in-place" directives.
How to Fight Disinformation — Part IV: Signaling and Dog Whistling One of the most difficult disinformation techniques to describe is also one of the most straightforward to defeat, which is not to say it is easy.
Sen. Rand Paul: ‘Misinformation Works, So Try to Trick Your Opponents’ Video of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) apparently advocating the use of misinformation as a messaging strategy resurfaced nearly a decade later.
‘There is No Evidence People Ever Saved Bacon Grease’ Facebook ‘Fact Check’ A viral, misleading Facebook post "joked" that Facebook fact-checkers denied evidence that people ever saved bacon grease or aluminum foil.
How to Fight Disinformation — Part III: Distraction It's not just your imagination -- your attention span and energy levels are under attack.
CNN Missing 351K (or 400K) Votes in CA Recall Segment, Explained On September 15 2021, rumors that “351K” or “400K” votes had “disappeared” from California gubernatorial recall totals during a CNN segment were popular on social media: Someone explain to me why the Gavin Newsom recall effort had 351K votes DELETED from the YES total LIVE on CNN. What explanation is there for this?We need to […]
CA Recall Election Disinformation Roundup In the lead up to the California gubernatorial recall election of September 14 2021, the usual disinformation purveyors went into high gear, poisoning the well with wall-to-wall claims of perfidy and election theft. Overall, the California recall and its elements were far-reaching, so we have broken this page up into parts. What’s the Deal with […]
No, a Study Didn’t Find That ‘the Most Highly-Educated Americans Are Also the Most Vaccine-Hesitant’ A mischaracterization of a pre-print study about "vaccine hesitancy" further advanced anti-vaxxer falsehoods.
