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In December 2018, amid massive civil unrest in France, a photograph of a serrated knife hidden in a baguette appeared on social media with a quip that it showed “bladed weapons confiscated from rioters” by ...
The ongoing scandals over data privacy, in which social media giants were found to be (among other things) flooding selected readers with hypertargeted and corrosive political advertising, is still unfolding — and it will continue ...
Imagine, if you will: A presidential election in which even the most basic facts are riddled with confusing disinformation, a far-right candidate appealing to authoritarians and repulsing many women with misogynistic comments, and connections to ...
A Russian mining company sold asbestos with President Trump's face stamped on it as a seal of approval after the EPA allowed new uses of asbestos in the United States in a policy reversal.
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.
False reports that drivers can be ticketed $250 under a Florida cell phone law have gone viral on Facebook.
A Houston woman named Lennie Reisch wrote about her experience coming to the U.S. from Cuba as an unaccompanied minor in a viral Facebook post.
A warning about girl who was supposedly badly burned while wearing an Under Armour sweatshirt near a camp fire can't be authenticated. But these types of blended material have proven more flammable in the past. ...
False claims that Tyler Perry is giving away $750,000 spread on social media in June 2018.
In mid-November 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell report about Facebook that convulsed both traditional and social media. The beleaguered site has been at the center of scandal after fake news scandal from ...