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Disinformation, Environment, Fact Checks, Natural Disasters, Politics
Did United States President Donald Trump Threaten to Withhold Disaster Funding from California? Fires raging in the north and the south of the state have left dozens dead, hundreds missing, and thousands without homes, which Trump inaccurately blamed on poor forest management by the state.

Sizable wildfires burning up and down California have killed at least 25 people and destroyed at least one entire Northern California town, Paradise. The exact toll and cost as of November 11, 2018 is still ...

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CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics
Did a CNN Reporter Assault a White House Employee? Rumors appeared about Jim Acosta after a woman tried to take away his microphone during a press conference.

The morning after a hotly-contested midterm election resulted in Republicans resoundingly losing control of the House, United States President Donald Trump held a press conference to discuss the results and take questions from journalists. In ...

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Fact Checks, Politics, Viral Content
Was a Large ‘Make the Gospel Great Again’ Billboard Put Up in Missouri? The billboard featured Donald Trump's face alongside a heavily Biblical message.

On November 3rd, 2018, just days before the United States held hotly-contested midterm elections, rumors appeared of a billboard by the side of a Missouri interstate that featured United States President Donald Trump’s face with ...

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Disinformation, Reporting
Special Counsel’s Office Asks FBI to Investigate Smear Scheme Women were reportedly offered money to discuss "encounters" with Robert Mueller.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has referred a possible scam to the Federal Bureau of Investigation after a number of reporters were contacted by someone apparently shopping a story about him sexually assaulting unidentified women: 13 ...

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Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics
Is the United States the Only Country that Offers Birthright Citizenship? A claim made by United States President Donald Trump about "jus soli" bears no resemblance to reality.

On October 30th, 2018, three days after a Pennsylvania white supremacist stormed a Pittsburgh synagogue with guns and murdered eleven people during a service and four days after a Florida man was arrested for mailing ...

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Suspect in Attempted Bomb Attacks Had History of Crime, Conspiracy Theories Cesar Sayoc, Jr. sent direct and veiled threats to public figures on social media.

An unsettling week of threats and bombs sent to various high-profile political figures and pundits culminated in the arrest of a suspect in south Florida, a reckoning online, and a whole slew of conspiracy theories ...

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Analysis
Makeshift Bombs Sent to Subjects of Major Conspiracy Theories Where mass communication is used to spread lies and disinformation and smear political enemies, stochastic terrorism follows.

In the final weeks of October 2018, following months of increasingly shrill, increasingly baroque conspiracy theories pushed by official after elected official, someone began sending mail bombs out to their favorite subjects. The first person to ...

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Russian president Vladimir Putin,
Fact Checks, Politics
Did Vladimir Putin Say the United States’ Influence in the World Is ‘Waning’? Russia's leader took a swipe at American leadership during an annual address to the nation.

Russian president Vladimir Putin criticized the United States in his annual address to the nation in October 2018, saying that American influence in the world has irrevocably waned. Left-leaning political news site AmericanIndependent.com reported on ...

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Fact Checks, Politics
Did United States President Donald Trump Praise an Elected Official Who Body Slammed Reporter? Trump made the comment at a rally just days after it was revealed that a Washington Post columnist had likely been murdered.

In late October 2018, as the hideous story of journalist and United States resident Jamal Khashoggi‘s disappearance and suspected brutal murder at the behest of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince continued to unfold, the Trump administration and ...

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Disinformation, Reporting
The Truth About the Migrant Caravan Approaching the United States Travelers with the "caravana de migrante" are trying to call attention to untenable violence in their home countries and seek asylum in the U.S.; the highly publicized annual journey has taken place for several years.

On October 18th, 2018, United States President Donald Trump fired off a volley of tweets about a large caravan of people wending their way from Honduras to the southern United States border: These statements were ...

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