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April 16, 2020
Facebook fact-checkers are quick to jump on when they claim conservative media gets it wrong. But what happens when CNN and NBC get stories wrong?
On April 1, Bloomberg News reported that the U.S. intelligence community believed that China lied…
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April 16, 2020
Copying notes from China? The Iranian regime has been waging a massive disinformation war to accuse the United States for the COVID-19 virus.
A special report has revealed that Iran has attempted to wage a massive disinformation campaign against…
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April 17, 2020
Fact-checkers base judgments on posts and news pieces on the information at hand. However, what happens when the information is outdated? Is the fact-check taken back?
An op-ed published in the New York Post (NY Post) by Population Research…
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April 17, 2020
An Idaho evangelical church might have had its app pulled from the Google Playstore for having references about the coronavirus within the app.
Christ Church, a church in Moscow, Idaho, alleged that its app was suspended on Good Friday, April 10.…
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April 17, 2020
Are the liberal media truly concerned about online radicalization, or just salty because conservatives are better at YouTube?
New York Times reporter and columnist Kevin Roose has turned his wildly overhyped article “The Making of a YouTube Radical…
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April 20, 2020
The World Health Organization has been a dangerous source of misinformation in the COVID-19 pandemic, and Facebook is nudging users to read their info.
Facebook said it is concerned that COVID-19 is not the only plague sweeping across the globe.…
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April 20, 2020
After years of Big Tech scandals, Americans are unsure about giving away their data.
“About half (52%) of U.S. adults said they decided recently not to use a product or service because they were worried about how much personal information…
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April 21, 2020
COVID-19 is a phenomenon that even the most trusted sources have known almost nothing about since it began to spread in Wuhan, China. Outlets like CNN and organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) have published material that later…
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April 22, 2020
Censorship on college campuses can be problematic, especially if those campuses are public institutions.
“Restrictions on speech by public colleges and universities amount to government censorship, in violation of the Constitution,”…
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April 22, 2020
A bipartisan group of politicians is pushing a bill to prevent “online sexual exploitation of children,” but some civil liberty and tech experts have warned that it could jeopardize American privacy.
There is fierce debate over the bill…