UPDATE, Jan. 31, 2025, 7 p.m.: President Donald Trump issued a Friday evening proclamation recognizing February 2025 as National Black History Month. “I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities,” he wrote. It was not immediately clear what this […]
Social media posts are making links between the terrorist attack in New Orleans and the vehicle explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day — because the suspects served at Fort Liberty, a large military base in North Carolina formerly known as Fort Bragg. Some posts stated definitively that the […]
TAKOMA PARK, Md. — When Ambroise Agosse volunteered in 2020 with a mayoral candidate’s campaign here, he faced an unusual hurdle: persuading his wife to register to vote for the candidate. “It wasn’t easy, she refused,” Agosse recalled, because she worried it would affect her citizenship application. He immigrated to the United States from Benin, […]
After law enforcement said it was investigating an apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, social media users quickly declared they knew the suspect’s registered voter party affiliation. “Ryan Wesley Routh, the second Trump shooter. He looks like a MAGA republican but is a registered democrat,” stated a Sept. 15 Facebook post. The phrase […]
Democrats’ messaging throughout the four days of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was one of exuberance and determination that culminated with Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepting the presidential nomination. Harris rallied her base on issues including abortion rights, voting rights and the economy. But she also asked all Americans “regardless of party, race, […]
When former President Donald Trump joined TikTok June 1 with a video showing him at an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight, he said it was “an honor.” A few days later, he vowed in a TikTok video to “never ban TikTok.” Those two moments stood in sharp contrast to Trump’s 2020 announcement that he would seek […]
El presidente Joe Biden conmemoró el 80 aniversario de la invasión del Día D en Normandía, Francia, advirtiendo que la democracia mundial está en riesgo. No mucho después de su discurso el 6 de junio, usuarios en redes sociales circularon videos editados de Biden, diciendo que el presidente se sentó en una “silla imaginaria”, que […]
President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, with a warning that democracy worldwide is at risk. Not long after his June 6 speech, social media users circulated edited video clips of Biden, claiming the president sat in an “imaginary chair,” had a bowel movement and left the event […]
Neither two world wars nor a global pandemic have kept the United States presidential election from happening on schedule. However, as this year’s campaign cycle heats up, talk about a postponement or cancellation is gaining momentum online. Keith Rose, a plastic surgeon and conservative commentator, cited this possibility during a recent appearance in an episode […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, several college and university administrators across the country, and some law enforcement members have blamed “outside agitators” for the disruption in now weekslong pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the country. The anti-war student protesters want their universities to disclose ties to Israel and sever all economic and academic ties […]
From spring break parties to Mardi Gras, many people remember the last major “normal” thing they did before the novel coronavirus pandemic dawned, forcing governments worldwide to issue stay-at-home advisories and shutdowns. Even before the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the U.S., fears and uncertainties helped spur misinformation’s rapid spread. In March 2020, […]
Could Michelle Obama be making a comeback to the White House — this time as president? For years, conservative media has peddled the notion that the former first lady has presidential ambitions. As recent concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and fitness for office have grown and the November election nears, the rumor mill is […]