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Written by: Jordan Liles
July 27, 2022
If a potential buyer asks a car seller to visit a specific and unfamiliar website in order to ob ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
July 27, 2022
Just because we want something to be true doesn’t make it so.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
July 25, 2022
Bots are used for a variety of reasons online, from boosting follower counts to interfering in p ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
July 21, 2022
There is a lot of scrambled information out there.
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 19, 2022
Also called "native advertising," it can be as innocent as a restaurant ad on your newsfeed, or ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
June 14, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
June 10, 2022
There's much more to historical research than old, dusty books.
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 10, 2022
This logical fallacy is sometimes referred to as the fallacy of distraction.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
May 31, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 18, 2022
This is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that posits "global elites" are causing an "invasi ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 6, 2022
An online ad featured a particularly eerie looking photo of a hotel in an apocalyptic setting. W ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
April 29, 2022
The video was posted by an urban explorer known as Triangle of Mass.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 15, 2022
Bird poop? Shaking hands with thin air? Captions can falsely frame shared content in politically ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
April 11, 2022
The day of recognition started quite humbly more than a half century ago.
Written by: David Emery
April 4, 2022
"Gamergate" is considered by many to have been a watershed event in the ascendancy of extremist ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
March 28, 2022
For International Fact-Checking Day, we look at common techniques used to identify dubious stori ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
March 23, 2022
Neither does this slightly smaller text known as a "subhead."
Written by: Dan Evon
March 22, 2022
Knowing how to perform a reverse image search is vital for social media users.
Written by: Jordan Liles
March 21, 2022
We looked into the origins of several mailers that appeared to indicate a parcel was on hold at ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
March 7, 2022
We contacted several of the largest car insurance providers in the U.S. to ask about automatic h ...
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