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Did 60 Minutes edit one of Kamala Harris' interview answers?
This 9GAG post alleges that Kamala Harris gave an incoherent "word salad" answer during a recent 60 Minutes interview, and that 60 Minutes edited the answer into something more coherent. ...
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Did some White House staffers organize themselves to call for ceasefire in Gaza?
This TikTok post claims some WH staffers organized themselves to protest the US administration's handling of the Gaza war and published a statement to that effect. The alleged statement mentions Aaron ...
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Did the opposition candidate for PM in Hungary's 2022 election only get 5 minutes on state TV?
Why the Polish Elections Cannot Be Repeated in Orbán's Hungary:
In the 2022 campaign, the opposition candidate for prime minister got a total of only five minutes (!) of airtime on state television.
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Did "Joe the Plumber" perform plumbing work for money between when he left the Air Force and October 2008?
"Joe the Plumber" aka Joe Wurzelbacher gained attention in the 2008 US presidential campaign between Obama and McCain and passed away recently.
In the original discussion with Obama that ...
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Was post-DNC polling concealed?
The Twitter account of Republican pollster Rasmussen Reports just tweeted this:
Last night @donlemon called for the rioting to end, "because it's showing up in the polling."
What polling? ...
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Did Matt Drudge sell the Drudge Report?
After President Trump today tweeted "he gave up on Drudge", quite a lot of his responses claimed that Matt Drudge sold the Drudge Report and is under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Here is a sample tweet....
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Is participating in a campaign advert a fireable offence for US journalists?
Quoting the left-wing news outlet Vox:
In 2016, Hannity appeared in a bananas pro-Trump campaign ad.
Sean Hannity: ...and of course he's gonna build that wall. He says he's going to have Mexico pay ...
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Did the Biden campaign ever send out a "decree" to keep Rudy Giuliani off television?
In an 11/2019 interview with Fox News, Rudy Giuliani said in reference to former Vice President Joe Biden:
Sounds like a poor imitation of the Godfather. I mean, this is the guy who sent out a decree ...
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Is a Gazan woman running for Office in Belgium?
I am currently researching some information about Gazans who manage to emigrate in order to improve this answer. During this process I have found what it seems to be an interesting article about Gazan ...
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Did fake news on Facebook influence US elections in 2016?
I've encountered repeated references to fake news on Facebook influencing various elections. Example from a often quoted Facebook critique in Time Magazine:
As a result, when confronted with ...
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Is there evidence that women who said they were sexually assaulted by Trump lied for money?
According to Wikipedia, there are at least 19 women who have accused Trump of sexual assault or harassment. Trump has recently claimed:
I was accused by, I believe it was four women," Trump said. "...
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Did GOP senators say these things about Kavanaugh allegations?
I saw the following screenshot on Twitter:
The picture shows an MSNBC screen with the header "GOP SENATORS ON KAVANAUGH ALLEGATIONS" with pictures and the following quotes:
"I'll listen to the lady, ...
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Do we live in a post-truth era? [closed]
Apparently Oxford Dictionary's "word of the year" in 2016 was post-truth:
... relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are
less influential in shaping public opinion than ...
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Did a large number of celebrities threaten to go on strike until Trump resigns?
According to some web sites, several celebrities - including Rosie O'Donnell, Debra Messing, and Ed Asner - have threatened to go on strike until Donald Trump resigns the Presidency. The following is ...
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Does the Wall Street Journal change headlines based on location?
I found saw a recent image going around on Facebook:
https://m.facebook.com/thebenfergusonshow/photos/a.10150670938916638.382006.95356211637/10154308573296638/?type=3&source=48
The picture shows ...
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Does the New York Times refuse to publish material that offends religious sensibilities?
Recently, some news organisations (Le Monde linking to this blog in the Washington Post) mention that New York Times, AP, CNN, MSNBC, The Telegraph (and apparently other news groups) have "shunned" ...
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Are Fox News viewers more likely to believe misinformation than viewers of other news outlets?
Huffington Post writes:
Fox News viewers are much more likely than others to believe false information about American politics, a new study concludes.
The study, conducted by the University of ...
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