Bethania Palma
Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who started her career as a daily newspaper reporter and has covered everything from crime to local government to national politics. She has written for a variety of publications as a staffer and freelancer, including the Los Angeles News Group, the LAist, LA School Report, the OC Weekly and Raw Story. She earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Irvine and an M.A. in history from California State University at Northridge. When researching bizarre phenomena, she's holding out for the day when the conclusion will be, "Aliens did it."
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Jan. 28, 2021
The squid didn't appear to have been long for this world.
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Jan. 27, 2021
A meme comparing crowd sizes left out a key piece of context: a deadly pandemic.
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Jan. 27, 2021
A creative prankster took a novel approach to spreading misinformation by sending it in the mail ...
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Jan. 26, 2021
It wasn't the first time the nominee for U.S. assistant health secretary was targeted online.
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Jan. 25, 2021
Reports conflicted about whether the Trumps or the Bidens fired the head White House usher after ...
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Jan. 25, 2021
A meme shared on Facebook was mocked up to look like a screenshot of a news article.
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Jan. 22, 2021
Anonymous Twitter accounts accused Amazon of playing politics with its offer to help the Biden a ...
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Jan. 21, 2021
It turned out a joke Fox News chyron wasn't that far from reality.
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Jan. 21, 2021
The idea that the TV show has predicted major world events is a common internet trope.
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Jan. 20, 2021
Social media users had some interesting ideas of what U.S. President Donald Trump might have sai ...
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Jan. 20, 2021 (Updated: Feb. 16, 2021)
After Parler went offline following a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, rumors surfaced that th ...
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Jan. 19, 2021
Despite vague assertions in a piece of Facebook copypasta about the incoming vice president's as ...
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Jan. 18, 2021
The IRS will open filing season later than in 2020 due to changes in tax law resulting from COVI ...
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Jan. 15, 2021
A viral story tossed around social media built on debunked mass voter fraud conspiracy theories.
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Jan. 14, 2021
Claims that Trump viewed "evidence" on the laptop quickly went viral.
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Jan. 13, 2021
Readers may remember Gold from the notorious "White Coat Summit" of 2020.
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Jan. 13, 2021
The so-called "Squad" in the U.S. Congress is the frequent target of disinformation.
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Jan. 12, 2021
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the frequent target of internet rumors and disinformation.
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Jan. 12, 2021 (Updated: June 24, 2021)
As public anger grew over the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, some point ...
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Jan. 11, 2021
The Berlin-based bakery at first worried the cakes would be "too macabre."
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