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Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 16, 2016
An 'unpresidented' spelling error in a tweet sent by President-elect Donald Trump on 17 December ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 15, 2016
Julia Ioffe exited Politico for The Atlantic more quickly than expected after tweeting a controv ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 7, 2016
A parody Twitter account attributed to Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier contained a number ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 21, 2016
After Mike Pence was drawn into a controversy related to the musical 'Hamilton,' social media us ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 2, 2016
Several web sites falsely claimed President Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and other Democratic politi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 1, 2016
A disreputable web site falsely accused First Lady Michelle Obama of "scrubbing" her Twitter acc ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 27, 2016
The popular service, characterized by its brief, looping videos, launched in 2013.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 4, 2016
A tweet purporting to be from a CBS reporter claiming that Hillary Clinton was dropping out of t ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Aug. 30, 2016
The Republican presidential nominee tweeted in 2012 that China invented the concept of global wa ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Aug. 29, 2016
A rant on Twitter attributed to the astrophysicist actually came from a parody account.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2016
A spurious rumor holds that the Twitter social media platform will be shutting down in 2017 due ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 6, 2016
A fake news article claimed that Ted Cruz blamed God for his failed presidential campaign, and h ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
March 25, 2016
A Microsoft experiment with AI to research "conversational understanding" on social media quickl ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 19, 2016
A screenshot purportedly showing anti-Trump tweets from Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz is ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 22, 2016
Donald Trump did call for a boycott of Apple products, but the tweet didn't come from his iPhone.
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