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Donald Trump, who still hasn’t admitted that he lost to Joe Biden, has continued to tweet misleading claims about what he believes was a “stolen” election. On Saturday morning, Trump tweeted a claim that was once again slapped with a disputed warning from Twitter. “I WON THE ELECTION IN A LANDSLIDE,” he tweeted, “but remember, […]
On Tuesday night, Kanye West, who’s running for president, sent out invalid Kentucky presidential election results on Twitter. The incorrect results, which Kanye shared via a screenshot that was attributed to NBC’s LEX 18, showed Jo Jorgensen, who’s running for president under the Libertarian Party ticket, in first place. West is seen as No. 3 in the screenshot. Following West, […]
On Tuesday night, Kanye West, who’s running for president, sent out invalid Kentucky presidential election results on Twitter. The incorrect results, which Kanye shared via a screenshot that was attributed to NBC’s LEX 18, showed Jo Jorgensen, who’s running for president under the Libertarian Party ticket, in first place. West is seen as No. 3 in the screenshot. Following West, […]
As protests over the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police continue, Facebook executives have openly criticized Mark Zuckerberg’s stance on Donald Trump. As The New York Times reports, a number of high-profile Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout on Monday to protest the company’s decision to take no action over Trump’s more extreme […]
Fox News faced serious backlash after several of its anchors downplayed the severity of coronavirus in the weeks leading up to the outbreak. The Fox Business Network recently announced it had parted ways with talk show host/author Trish Regan, who dismissed the deadly disease as a Democratic “scam” that was nothing more than “another attempt to impeach the president.” […]
As fears over the coronavirus continue to build, fake news has resulted in a riot in Ukraine even though there’s no confirmed cases there. As over 70 people were evacuated from China over the virus outbreak, locals clashed with the authorities after an email claiming there was five confirmed cases in the country was sent to […]
It’s not uncommon for fake news to circulate due to trolls, and a recent story about the Cleveland Browns’ ongoing head coach search is no exception. In an article for 3DownNation, a local Cleveland reporter claimed the team was “talking to” Toronto Argonauts head coach Ryan Dinwiddie. The report claimed a source close to the […]
If you’ve been seeing a growing number of fake posts floating down your Instagram feed, worry not — Facebook wants to put it a stop to it. The social media giant announced Monday that its users will begin to see labels that read “false information” on posts deemed false by fact-checkers. Facebook users and Instagrammers […]
Thanks to dozens of writers being hit with an aggregation assignment from a shaky source last week in the name of clicks, the planet was briefly inundated with variations on the Keanu Reeves Is a Lonely Guy theme. Now, as you may have heard over the weekend, the purported Lonely Guy interview that started all […]
It hasn’t been long since Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin officially tied the knot, but there’s already been a number of reports indicating that they’ve been facing some issues. Not one to let a toxic rumor spread, Baldwin posted on her Instagram Story to let her fans know that the newlyweds are doing just fine. […]
