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No more 9 to 5: Employees are coming to work late and leaving early, new data shows
The traditional 9-to-5 workday is shifting to a more flexible 10-to-4 routine, according to a recen…
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Press Information Bureau sets up COVID-19 fact check unit
The PIB will also release a daily bulletin at 8 pm everyday to inform regarding Centre's decisions …
PTI
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A network of teen fact-checkers is tackling online misinformation ahead of the election — here's what they want you to know about spotting falsified facts
The MediaWise Teen Fact-Checking Network is training Gen Z middle- and high-schoolers to spot and d…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Trump said people of color 'just set a record for new jobs.' Data show the unemployment rate for Black Americans has barely changed in the last month.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate for Black Americans "showed litt…
Inyoung Choi
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Twitter fact-checked a Chinese government spokesman after he suggested the US brought COVID-19 to Wuhan
Twitter applied the label to the tweets after being questioned by the New York Post over a potentia…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Here are the false and misleading claims Trump made in his CPAC speech
In his first major speech since leaving the White House in January, Trump again falsely said he won…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Fact-checking the vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris
Wednesday's debate was a referendum on the Trump administration's handling of COVID-19 as the presi…
Sonam Sheth,John Haltiwanger
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Twitter is adding fact-checking labels on tweets that link 5G with the coronavirus
Twitter's fact-check label reads: "Get the facts on COVID-19."
Shona Ghosh
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Woodward claims he sat on Trump coronavirus remarks for 6 months in order to do more fact checking
Bob Woodward, who interviewed Trump in February, is defending his decision not to reveal the presid…
Charles Davis
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Fact-checking the final Trump-Biden debate
This debate was Trump and Biden's last chance to appeal to a broad base of viewers days before the …
Sonam Sheth
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Journalists are getting locked out of Twitter after fact-checking videos of Trump that push false information on COVID-19
Twitter has been cracking down on misinformation in recent months, provoking the president's ire in…
John Haltiwanger
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Most voters want a big stimulus - and they want it fast
In a new poll, 69% of respondents agreed that the country is in an emergency, and more relief shoul…
Juliana Kaplan
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One of the internet's oldest fact-checking organizations is overwhelmed by coronavirus misinformation - and it could have deadly consequences
Since the coronavirus outbreak has become more critical, Facebook and WhatsApp have donated $2 mill…
Paige Leskin
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WhatsApp launches coronavirus info hub, donates USD 1 mn to International Fact-Checking Network
As coronavirus cases continue to rise globally -- infecting over 1,98,000 people and claiming more…
PTI
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The best argument for $2,000 checks for (almost) everyone is that (almost) everyone has had a terrible year
Even people who have kept their jobs have had a miserable 2020, so giving them a one-time check isn…
Josh Barro
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Stop lying about the relief bill
No, the bill doesn't just include $600 for everyday Americans. It has a lot more aid in it than tha…
Josh Barro
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If there's a recession, don't count on the government to come to the rescue with stimulus checks and boosted unemployment benefits
The government unleashed stimulus in each of the last three recessions. With inflation at four-deca…
Ben Winck,Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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USA Today walks back Navarro's controversial op-ed attacking Fauci, saying it 'did not meet fact-checking standards'
USA Today said it published Navarro's op-ed with the intent to display it as an "opposing view" to …
Lauren Frias
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The latest Republican coronavirus aid plan proves the GOP is living in a fantasyland
Republicans would offer so little help to states and people in a coronavirus aid bill that it's unc…
Linette Lopez
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The IRS wants prison and jail inmates to return their coronavirus stimulus checks
The IRS is asking state officials to help get stimulus checks back from people who are incarcerated…