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Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 28, 2018
Vague social media posts and news items led to confusion over a broad Indiana law addressing "ab ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 27, 2018
The Parkland school shooting survivor opposes a requirement for clear backpacks, but he has also ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 19, 2018
A suspicious advertisement used doctored photographs and exaggerated claims to promote a new "su ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 18, 2018
The reasons behind a high school student's suspension were misconstrued in a debate over a natio ...
Written by: David Emery
March 17, 2018
A Justice Department decision made under Obama and implemented under Trump has garnered bipartis ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 15, 2018
New Prague High School in Minnesota says a pro-gun rights placard was removed from a protest bec ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 14, 2018
After a violent Native American uprising in 1862, President Lincoln signed off on 39 executions ...
Written by: David Emery
March 14, 2018
The founder of a so-called "Church of Lucifer" launched in QuindÃo, Colombia in 2016 also claims ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 9, 2018
A searchable database of inspection reports was temporarily removed from the United States Depar ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 9, 2018
A pro-gun rights economist used questionable statistical methods to create a misleading impression.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 8, 2018
In February 2018, Amazon Alexa owners began claiming that the devices were randomly broadcasting ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 27, 2018
Several web sites mischaracterized an October 2017 California law preventing school personnel fr ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 21, 2018
A very small minority of Twitter users expressed a critical view of Andrew Pollack, but none app ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 19, 2018
A set of images showing President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump in the aftermath of di ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 15, 2018
A meme intended to undermine President Trump's call for a military parade quotes general-turned- ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 14, 2018
A newspaper editorial gets some facts right, and some wrong, in weighing up the consequences of ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 12, 2018
A pair of articles about the legality of rape in police custody confused social media readers.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 8, 2018
A Facebook meme purporting to prove that the Dow suffers under Republican presidencies ignores k ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria Alex Kasprak
Feb. 7, 2018
Rumors that ranitidine causes false positives for meth in drug screening have circulated for yea ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 5, 2018
An incident that generated outrage on social media does not reflect company policy, according to ...
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