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."
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 7, 2018
California Democrat Adam Schiff is the latest target of the disinformation campaign.
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Feb. 5, 2018
It's remarkably easy to create fake tweets.
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Feb. 5, 2018
The quote attributed to the famed actor was fabricated by a disreputable web site.
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Feb. 2, 2018
The long-awaited memo compiled by Republican congressman Devin Nunes failed to live up to the hype.
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Feb. 2, 2018
Video footage shows an anti-immigration protester aggressively questioning Arizona state Rep. Er ...
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Jan. 31, 2018
No evidence validates claims of foul play in a train crash involving Republican members of Congress.
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Jan. 30, 2018 (Updated: March 22, 2018)
Gregory Salcido, who is also a City Council member in Pico Rivera, was caught on video making a ...
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Jan. 26, 2018
The viral tale of Father Jose Garcia Ataulfo, already questionable to begin with, has been embel ...
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Jan. 25, 2018
Claims that FBI agents had formed a "secret society" to oppose President Donald Trump are unfoun ...
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Jan. 24, 2018
There's no credible evidence linking a January 2018 indictment with a persistent Clinton conspir ...
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Jan. 23, 2018
California joined nine other states in enacting a "ban-the-box" law intended to reduce recidivism.
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Jan. 19, 2018
One of two women who drew sympathy after she was seen handcuffed with her pants around her ankle ...
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Jan. 18, 2018
A disreputable web site with a penchant for inventing celebrity quotes said the singer had calle ...
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Jan. 17, 2018
A disreputable web site used an unsourced and fabricated quote to link deaths from the flu epide ...
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Jan. 16, 2018
Showing how you arrived at an answer may demonstrate your answer to be the wrong one.
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Jan. 15, 2018 (Updated: Jan. 19, 2018)
The rumor that the charitable foundation paid for Chelsea Clinton's 2010 wedding at Haiti's expe ...
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Jan. 15, 2018
A number of far-right web sites have posted misleading stories casting doubt on whether Dr. Band ...
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Jan. 10, 2018
A story in an "alternative health site" falsely states mobile phones are causing people to go in ...
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Jan. 10, 2018
Critics said that the show romanticized the pre-Civil War South; supporters, in turn decried the ...
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Jan. 9, 2018
Founder Glenn Simpson told congressional investigators that releasing the identities of Fusion's ...
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