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Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Say Her Girl Scout Troop Recreated the Challenger Launch?

On March 10 2019, right-wing YouTube personality and conspiracy theorist Mark Dice shared the following meme to Twitter and Facebook about a purported quote by U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: First, Dice tweeted the image above with no context, in which a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez was the following text: WHEN I WAS IN GIRL SCOUTS, WE REENACTED THE …

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‘NASA Warns of 15 Days of Darkness in November 2017’

For years, fringe blogs have attempted to game their way to attention online by regurgitating the same ominous warning about “15 days of darkness,” falsely claiming that NASA had confirmed a “one-in-a-million” event, while moving the dates along for their own purposes. This particular hoax has been regurgitated enough times that we have addressed them …

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