Former President Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against him, to rally his supporters just a month before Election Day. “Exactly 12 weeks ago this evening, on this very ground, a cold-blooded assassin aimed to silence me and to silence the greatest movement, MAGA, in the history of […]
Rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, stemmed from secondhand accounts, unsubstantiated calls to local officials and misrepresented media. In short, the claims lacked hard evidence. That didn’t matter to Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, who still pushed the narrative on X, or former President Donald Trump, who […]
When authorities identify shooters in incidents of national interest, some people scour social media for those shooters’ digital footprints, conjuring theories for their ideologies and motives. That occurred when former President Donald Trump was targeted Sept. 15 in another assassination attempt that followed one in July. The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, allegedly pointed an AK-style […]
An August call to a nonemergency number in Ohio is fanning a false narrative spread by former President Donald Trump that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are harming animals. In an audio recording published by conservative outlet The Federalist, a person is heard talking to the Clark County Communications Center, which covers Springfield. “I see a […]
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has fought in the boxing ring for years, but now she is facing jabs of another kind: those questioning her gender. Some people are wondering whether she should be competing in the Olympics at all. Khelif’s performance at the 2024 Olympics has become a flashpoint in the discourse about allowing transgender […]
El aspirante presidencial independiente Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dijo en una declaración en 2012 que un médico creía que una anomalía en sus escáneres cerebrales en 2010 fue causada por un gusano que entró en su cerebro, “se comió una porción y luego murió”, según publicó The New York Times el 8 de mayo de […]
A presidential candidate said doctors found a worm in his brain. That worm, he said, also consumed some of his brain tissue while it was in there. The New York Times reported May 8 that in a 2012 deposition during divorce proceedings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a doctor believed an abnormality on his brain […]
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 […]
After President Joe Biden said the federal government would pay to replace Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, a project estimated to cost from $400 million to over $1 billion, some social media users questioned why the company that owned the ship isn’t footing the bill. Biden, in March 26 remarks after the accident, said the […]
It took a New Orleans street magician only 20 minutes and $1 to create audio that sounded like President Joe Biden discouraging Democrats from voting in the New Hampshire primary. The robocall was found to be a product of artificial intelligence, and soon after, the Federal Communications Commission banned AI-generated voices in robocalls. But identifying […]
Surprise guests are a feature of the president’s State of the Union address. President Joe Biden’s March 7 speech had a big one, though not one invited by the president: former Rep. George Santos, who was seen mingling with his former Republican colleagues a little more than three months after the House expelled him. This […]
We’ve seen it before: Foreign adversaries, seeking to influence U.S. elections, deploy bots and trolls to infiltrate social media platforms. In 2016 and 2019, the Russian group Internet Research Agency created fake social media accounts to sow discord among U.S. voters in swing states, posting content about divisive topics such as immigration and gun rights. […]