NEW YORK AP — As he prepares to launch a new media company that will give him his own social media platform, former President Donald Trump has ramped up his efforts to rewrite history, spreading more lies about the election in November and the deadly storming of the Capitol in January. He also made a dubious suggestion that wrongdoing is behind higher gasoline prices — something that his administration will seek to fix.
NEW YORK AP — Walmart denied any partnership with the digital currency Litecoin after a fake news release led to a brief flurry of inaccurate reports from national news outlets and social media users on Monday. Yes, but studies indicate they're less likely than adults to be affected by symptoms that persist, recur or begin a month or more after infection.
The Taliban have seized both political power and significant U. A news conference held by doctors in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, to urge the public to get vaccinated amid a statewide surge of COVID was undermined online as false reports claimed the physicians had walked off the job. But in a world where "fake news" dominates, where disinformation is a part of the political sphere and misinformation touches every single corner of the internet, what is it about this online encyclopaedia which has made it become the go-to bible for many fact-checkers?
And how is it evolving to deal with the current landscape? The Snopes website and social feeds have become a reservoir of bizarre facts, political nuggets, investigative journalism into hard-hitting subjects - as well as the most weird stories you can imagine. From questions around President Donald Trump's tweeted policy suggestions to queries around Disney's Goofy and whether he is actually a cow, there seems to be very little that the fact-checkers haven't had to cast a sceptical eye over.
News events keep the trending list of top 50 rumours current with a question over the veracity of images emerging as a result of Hurricane Dorian popping up. But often older debunks turn up again and again such as ones focusing on a story about 'dangerous cosmic rays passing close by the earth' and viral 'deathbed warnings' by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
David Mikkelson, the co-founder of Snopes, says: "People come to look up things they've encountered on the internet and find out whether they are true or not. We're like a number of other sites that fact-check mostly political items. But we still look at the sort of odd things people post on Facebook and elsewhere and examine the sorts of urban legends we started out with years ago.
Of course there are regular debunks his team come across again and again. Mr Mikkelson says: "There are certain stories that never go away. I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
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Kauffman as the author of the piece, that gentleman denied authorship of it. COP26 climate change conference, contrary to claims made in social media posts, a spokesperson for the conference told Reuters. This is not true. Some social media users are falsely claiming that the death of at least eight people at Astroworld, a U.
The fabricated tweet originated as satire.
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