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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Oct. 31, 2017
Police shot and wounded the driver, who is in custody.
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Oct. 30, 2017
A false story labeled "satire" posted on the web site FreedumJunkshun.com reported Sgt. La David ...
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Oct. 27, 2017
A defendant will be taken into custody as early as Monday, according to media reports.
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Oct. 26, 2017
A "satire" site posted a fake story appearing to report that Sgt. La David Johnson, who was kill ...
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Oct. 25, 2017
A viral Facebook post containing an image of sex education homework was almost immediately picke ...
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Oct. 21, 2017
A widespread story claiming the Federal Bureau of Investigation had erased Las Vegas witnesses' ...
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Oct. 20, 2017
Witnesses told police that one of the three men shouted "Heil Hitler" before opening fire.
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Oct. 19, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 24, 2019)
A story about gun crimes that uses statistics from the FBI's annual national crime report is flawed.
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Oct. 19, 2017
A satirical web site published fake news reporting that Jesus Campos worked in the non-profit's ...
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Oct. 16, 2017
Police told us that despite widespread rumors and speculation, Jesus Campos is not missing.
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Oct. 12, 2017
Confusion in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting and the churning out of false informatio ...
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Oct. 7, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 12, 2017)
Dubious and fake news web sites reported, without a shred of evidence, that the security guard h ...
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Oct. 6, 2017
There is no proof that a vague post the day before the anniversary of 9/11 "predicted" the mass ...
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Oct. 4, 2017
Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner said during a press conference that Christopher Steele has ...
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Oct. 3, 2017
Conspiracy theorists spread false information that a second person targeted a country music conc ...
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Oct. 2, 2017
A meme circulated in an effort to discredit professional athletes protesting racism contained fa ...
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Oct. 2, 2017
The comments, which have since been deleted, express a lack of sympathy for shooting victims in ...
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Sept. 25, 2017
For safety reasons, solar panels generally go offline after a crisis downs the power grid — unle ...
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Sept. 23, 2017
Facebook took action against "thousands of fake accounts" and partnered with German authorities ...
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Sept. 21, 2017
The newly-formed Committee to Investigate Russia quickly came under the exact type of propaganda ...
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