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Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz has the latest developments on Special Report The left-leaning American news media’s stunning reversal on whether the coronavirus could have been created in a Chinese laboratory is the latest example of the dangers of fact checking.    For most of 2020 the supposed arbiters of truthiness insisted that lab leak stories should not be taken seriously and should be suppressed on social media. Just yesterday Facebook finally lifted is baseless ban of the lab leak th...

One debunking pharmacist on TikTok had threats sent to her and her family. Users openly passed around her home address in the comments on her videos.

3 Min Read Claims that the U.S. state of Michigan has authorized a forensic audit of the 2020 Presidential Election are false. The Michigan Secretary of State’s office refuted the claim in an email statement to Reuters. Groups and social media users have been sharing several versions of a false claim that reads “BREAKING: MICHIGAN AUTHORIZES FULL FORENSIC AUDIT OF 2020 ELECTION.” Examples can be seen here and here . Tracy Wimmer, Media Relations Director at the Michigan secretary of state...

When the then Executive Editor of the British Medical Journal, Dr Kamran Abbas published an article last November explaining that “science is being suppressed for political and financial gain” and that the pandemic has revealed how the “medical-political complex can be manipulated”, he was right. During this pandemic the censorship of doctors, scientists, journalists and their […]

Fact check: Sams Club child abduction story is decades-old hoax McKenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY The claim: A child was kidnapped at a Sam’s Club in Omaha, Nebraska A viral hoax about a child abduction at a Walmart-owned Sam’s Club in Omaha, Nebraska, is making the rounds on social media.  The claim originated as an email chain message in the early 2000s and recently resurfaced on social media, where there has been an increase in misinformation surrounding kidnappings and h...

Younge | Wikipedia PHILADELPHIA – An antitrust lawsuit filed against Facebook and other media entities by the members of an online group promoting Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, has been transferred to a federal court in Northern California. Sally Loveland of Los Angeles, Calif., Sharon Cheatle of St. John’s County, Fla. Janine Cortese of Hendersonville, N.C., Tyler Boyle of Philadelphia and Steve McCann of Wallingford collectively first filed su...

Select Page Was the Russia Hoax a Chinese Operation? Were the Chinese Involved in the 2020 Election Fraud? Posted by Curt on 11 January, 2021 at 9:13 am. 7 comments already!   Were the Chinese Involved in the 2020 Election Fraud? Massive election irregularities during the 2020 election have been exposed in sworn depositions from many witnesses in state hearings, technical data analyses performed by statistical experts, many written depositions in se...

The claim: Parents in Vail, Arizona, took over the school board and removed the mask mandate A group of parents protesting mask mandates recently swarmed a Vail Unified School District meeting in Arizona, sparking online claims of a school board takeover by the group.  The protest followed Arizona Gov. Doug Duceys April 19 announcement rescinding the statewide order that directed K-12 schools to require masks. This gave districts the option to implement their own face-covering policies,...

Donald Trump Jr.’s Instagram story was censored by Instagram for a faked LeBron James article that claimed James said, “We’re at the point where a girl can’t even stab her friends anymore.”     He posted the image and then shared it on his story where it was fact-checked. Don Jr posted a fake LeBron quote and this is what his Instagram story now looks like pic.twitter.com/WuAWl7xGSE The “See why” link leads to a fact check from both Politifact and Lead Stories that confirmed...

USA TODAY The claim: There is an active serial killer in Baton Rouge bumping into the back of womens cars Some social media users are warning of an alleged serial killer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who is purportedly bumping into the back of womens vehicles.  The viral warning appears as a screenshot of a text conversation between two people with a message that claims a sheriff found two, potentially three, womens bodies and "one is confirmed in the Baton Rouge area."  "They havent released t...