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As children aged between five and 11 became eligible for COVID-19 vaccination in Australia, a story emerged online claiming a seven-year-old had died from the vaccine. But the story was a fake.

Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson said she has seen an increased effort to manipulate the public to appreciate censorship.

Historical fiction relies on research to help a story’s authenticity—but it can also lead to developments in the story itself. Here, author Lora Davies discusses how inspiration and research helped shape her new novel, The Widow’s Last Secret.

Recognized as the dean of Black journalists in America, Poston covered major stories on civil rights, politics and Black culture as a staff writer at the New York Post from the mid-1930s until his retirement in 1972.

So — winter. Snow and ice, roads drifted over, schools struggling to open. And now a mind-boggling spike in COVID-19 cases as the latest variant of a mutating virus arrives.

Daily links to great liberal blog posts for Friday.

Hopkinsville native Ted Poston has been selected for the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. 

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The attack on the U.S. Capitol was based on a “Big Lie” about election fraud in 2020, and the hope of supporters of former President Donald Trump that they could stop the certification of electoral vote results. But in the year since, there's been a new misinformation campaign to recast, downplay, and misrepresent the events that unfolded at the capitol. Amna Nawaz reports.

Aspirus Health recently provided tips on how to avoid medical misinformation.