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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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Mike Huckabee is the unlikely avenger of deep-faked celebrities
Oprah, Taylor Smith, Tom Hanks, and Jennifer Aniston don't run to court when they're deepfaked. Mik…
Laura Italiano
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Ron DeSantis ended his campaign on an optimistic Churchill quote that's actually fake
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts," reads the …
Tom Porter
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Luxury space-tourism company shows off its capsule designed to float to the edge of space with a massive balloon
Space Perspective's new pressurized Neptune capsule is designed to take passengers on a six-hour tr…
Camilo Fonseca
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Elon Musk's biggest fans on X love Community Notes — until it comes for them
Fans of the new Twitter, now X, say Community Notes is the superior alternative to removing misinfo…
Lloyd Lee
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Space travel is critical because it will drive people to protect the Earth, says the founder of a spaceflight company and ex-advisor to Elon Musk
Jane Poynter told Insider the "profound experience" of space travel will transform human behavior t…
Zahra Tayeb
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Trump's lawyers are hunting for the identities of secret consultants who approved Russiagate Pulitzer Prizes
Donald Trump is still suing the Pulitzers for awarding The New York Times and Washington Post for t…
Jacob Shamsian
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Steve Bannon claims Trump rally will prompt Arizona to decertify Biden's 2020 election victory. The vote cannot be decertified in any way.
"We're going to decertify Biden electors in Arizona, in Wisconsin, in the commonwealth of Pennsylva…
Morgan Keith
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Over 80 fact checkers claim that YouTube is being "weaponised by unscrupulous actors"
Stressing that current measures on behalf of the Google-owned platform are proving insufficient,…
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Russian state news accidentally publishes article saying Russia has defeated Ukraine and restored its 'historical borders'
"Ukraine has returned to Russia," the article, which ran on RIA Novosti and has since been taken do…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Debunking the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory that the Texas school shooting was a false flag operation
Following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Jones made baseless claims that the incid…
Cheryl Teh
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A new spaceship-on-a-balloon startup wants to float you high enough to see Earth's curvature and the darkness of space for roughly $125,000 per ticket
Space Perspective's founders, Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, think the startup may earn $500 mil…
Dave Mosher
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BuzzFeed shares jump over 6% amid news of journalist job cuts
BuzzFeed said it was laying off about 1.7% of its total workforce and offering voluntary buyouts in…
Huileng Tan
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Mark Zuckerberg opposed pushing Spanish-language voting information on WhatsApp because he thought it would look partisan
Zuckerberg's opposition to the WhatsApp proposal was exposed as part of a major leak of internal Fa…
Eliza Relman
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IFCN's WhatsApp chatbot to fight Covid-19 misinformation now available in Hindi
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) The International Fact-Checking Network, a unit of the Poynter Institute,…
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Kayleigh McEnany claims she 'never lied' as Trump's White House press secretary
McEnany was frequently accused of lying and manipulating the truth during her time as the White Hou…
Bill Bostock
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CDC officials are considering a plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable first — including people of color
Experts said they would set aside the limited supply for this group since that have been disproport…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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'Floppy and weak': Iran has joined China and Russia in ridiculing the US on social media over the Capitol riots
Officials from around the world including China, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela took jabs at the pro-T…
Kevin Shalvey
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Trump released a statement baselessly claiming the California recall election was rigged less than an hour after polls closed
There is no evidence of widespread vote-rigging in the recall election. The Trump camp sent the ema…
Cheryl Teh
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International Fact-Checking Network launches WhatsApp bot to fight COVID-19 misinformation
The system is capable of identifying the user's country via the person's mobile country code and th…