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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April 20, 2018
According to the White House, the President did not attend the former First Lady's funeral to av ...
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April 17, 2018
For years, Jones and his conspiracy-mongering network InfoWars have trolled grieving parents, ac ...
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April 16, 2018
Shortly after revelations that the popular Fox News host was a client of President Trump's embat ...
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April 12, 2018
Unfortunately, some hate groups do currently enjoy tax-exempt status.
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April 12, 2018
Kremlin propaganda led to questions and charges that an attack in the city of Douma that killed ...
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April 10, 2018
Legal troubles continue to mount for the embattled psychographics firm as Facebook's chief execu ...
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April 9, 2018 (Updated: April 10, 2018)
A persistent claim about widespread voter fraud is based on problematic tallies of registered an ...
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April 6, 2018
A meme circulating on social media is based on a years-old dispute over a retirement community's ...
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April 6, 2018
The motive in a brutal upstate New York murder is not yet known, but police said they found no i ...
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April 5, 2018
An apparent April Fool's prank had some readers worried.
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April 4, 2018
The social media giant suspended Christopher Wylie's account after he went public with accusatio ...
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April 3, 2018
An April Fool's Day joke was the source of a rumor about a new Disney location.
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April 3, 2018
A viral story based entirely on a misunderstanding falsely insinuates that the Marjory Stoneman ...
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March 30, 2018
Kenneth Glasgow has been accused of driving the car when his passenger shot and killed a woman.
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March 28, 2018
A British defense contractor linked to embattled psychographics firm Cambridge Analytica was hir ...
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March 26, 2018
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor turned gun-control activist has been ...
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March 22, 2018
Attempts at "whataboutism" with a scandal involving social media and psychographics fail to ackn ...
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March 20, 2018
SCL Group has been contracted by the State Department's Global Engagement Center to research ter ...
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March 19, 2018
An Internet hoax links missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 with — what else? — aliens.
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March 8, 2018
The fast food chain is celebrating International Women's Day by turning its iconic golden arches ...
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