Latest Stories By Gabrielle Settles

With the growing popularity and constant improvement of artificial intelligence, it’s tough to decipher what’s real or fake online. We’ve seen it — and fact-checked it — for ourselves.  One video claimed to show Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with cocaine on his desk. Another clip said it showed President Joe Biden railing against transgender people. […]

Supposed mug shots of former President Donald Trump have circulated on social media for weeks, beginning after his March 18 Truth Social post announcing his impending arrest. In some pictures, he’s wearing an orange or black jumpsuit; in others, he wears a suit and tie. Some images show him with hair; others show him bald.  […]

For days in late 2022, the group posted itself outside Barclays Center, home to the National Basketball Association’s Brooklyn Nets. They were supporters of then-Nets star Kyrie Irving, who was suspended in November for tweeting a link to an antisemitic documentary. Videos showed the supporters lining up in formation or marching the streets, yelling derogatory […]

Amid the furor over Florida’s rejection of a new high school Advanced Placement course on Black studies, three talking points emerged from both sides of the political aisle. One, from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his education department, which called several lessons deficient in “educational value and historical accuracy.” Two, from Democrats from the West Coast […]

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation into whether Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 booster caused strokes in certain age groups, it caused concern— and misinformation.  The CDC and FDA announced their investigation in a Jan. 13 press release. The agencies said a “preliminary safety signal” […]

Además de votar por los candidatos en las elecciones de medio término, los residentes de California también votarán por siete enmiendas constitucionales. Y las publicaciones en redes sociales están alertando a los votantes sobre una de ellas.  “La Proposición 1 es una medida electoral extrema de California que permitiría abortos tardíos financiados por los contribuyentes […]

It isn’t every day a celebrity goes on social media to spread the kind of antisemitic rhetoric that fueled a world war and left 6 million Jewish people dead. But Ye, the musician and fashion designer once known as Kanye West, has not backed down from attacking Jewish people. After saying on Twitter that he […]

If you’re a male Floridian between the ages of 18 and 39, recent news about the COVID-19 vaccines might have been alarming.  Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and the state’s department of health released new guidance recommending against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for that demographic. They said there was an 84% increase in cardiac-related […]

What do the COVID-19 vaccine, superstar musician Prince and lizards have to do with Queen Elizabeth II?  Nothing. But conspiracy theorists claim otherwise. After the news broke Sept. 8 about the queen’s death, social media erupted with baseless rumors — some wacky enough to make us do a double-take. Here are five we’ve debunked so […]

When President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive student loan debt, he noted its intersection with another issue — Black and Hispanic homeownership.  Biden said on Aug. 24 that many people cannot qualify for a mortgage because of student-loan debt, and the burden of student debt is “especially heavy on Black and Hispanic borrowers.”    He […]

President Joe Biden joined a growing club of Americans who, despite being fully vaccinated and boosted, contracted a breakthrough case of COVID-19. Since his July 21 diagnosis, Biden has been isolating in the White House and appearing virtually in meetings rather than in person. His physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, wrote on July 25 that Biden […]

When Clint Clark joined the staff of Columbus International High School in Ohio as a 24-year-old math teacher and seminar coordinator in 2010, he knew it wasn’t going to be a traditional classroom experience. The high school, which had just opened that year, focused on diversity and international studies. Amid more traditional course offerings like […]