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Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 21, 2019
The phrase “dating back thousands of years” caused many commentators to misunderstand President ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 21, 2019
A CNN interview video was miscaptioned to suggest the Obama administration's involvement in a Tr ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 18, 2019
The 25th Amendment is pretty clear on this front.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 17, 2019
Critics of the president seized on two supposed gaffes in October 2019. But what did Trump actua ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 16, 2019
More to the point, does the “Ministry of High Technologies” even exist in Japan?
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 15, 2019
The claim rests on the existence of an invention allegedly capable of providing cheap energy to ...
Written by: Bond Huberman
Oct. 14, 2019
An old, false claim was resurrected in a new blog post with the same basic, factual errors.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 10, 2019
Two prominent U.S. political families sniped at each other over alleged abuses of influence.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 9, 2019
President Trump's decision to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria has drawn criticism from a wide ra ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 7, 2019
Humor can be hard to recognize if it aligns too closely with public perception.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 7, 2019
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö was the focus of many memes and jokes after holding a joint pre ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 4, 2019
A crude joke spread quickly online in the wake of an impeachment inquiry into the U.S. president.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 3, 2019
That adjustments are made to records of climate is neither a scoop, nor a secret, nor a controve ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 1, 2019
Presidential pardon power is famously broad.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 1, 2019
On the flip side, if a president is impeached (but not convicted), is that person prevented from ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 1, 2019
A conspiracy theory about the "deep state" got shared widely by the president and his supporters.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 30, 2019
You never can tell what unintended elements might end up in your pictures.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 27, 2019
Three Democratic senators reached out to Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor general of Ukraine, in M ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 26, 2019
A purported flag-burning incident in Switzerland is wanting of real facts.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 26, 2019
Commenting on something in the past is not the same as predicting something in the future.
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