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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March 7, 2018
Robert Ussery and Jodi Mann have been stalking mass shooting victims and survivors for months.
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March 6, 2018
The pair have spent months stalking families of victims and their communities in a failed attemp ...
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March 5, 2018
Yee pleaded guilty to arms trafficking in 2016.
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March 3, 2018
A headline on the conspiracy blog Infowars.com mischaracterizes a tweet by a legitimate news rep ...
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March 1, 2018
The ceremony was held by an offshoot of the notorious Unification Church.
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March 1, 2018
After news reports revealed the purchase amid proposed funding cuts, the HUD secretary said he w ...
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March 1, 2018
A disreputable web site falsely claimed that the "vice president of Pfizer" said a vaccine for h ...
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Feb. 27, 2018
Although we don't know if people using social media to harass massacre survivors are all NRA mem ...
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Feb. 22, 2018
A fabricated quote attributed to Tariq Ramadan has once again gained attention on the internet a ...
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Feb. 20, 2018
A glitch that affects the time stamps on Google searches has led to bogus "false flag" conspirac ...
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Feb. 19, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 20, 2018)
The accuracy of stories blaming bots for duping Democrats into pressuring the former Minnesota s ...
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Feb. 17, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 18, 2018)
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Feb. 16, 2018
The 37-page indictment details a sophisticated effort to leverage social media to manipulate Ame ...
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Feb. 16, 2018
A report by McClatchy revealed that the FBI is looking into whether a Russian banker with Kremli ...
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Feb. 15, 2018
A fake image suggested that Buzzfeed had published a story headlined "Why We Need To Take Away W ...
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Feb. 14, 2018
In the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting on Valentine's Day, social media users began specu ...
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Feb. 14, 2018
Canada's former minister of defense has long espoused conspiracy theories.
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Feb. 13, 2018
Anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller posted an obvious fake and claimed it was an example of "migra ...
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Feb. 12, 2018
A anti-Islam, anti-refugee video widely shared on Facebook was blatant fake news.
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Feb. 11, 2018
The street gang called out by name by President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address a ...
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