In his controversial and conspiratorial documentary series attempting to rewrite the events of Jan. 6, Fox News host Tucker Carlson described the attack on the U.S. Capitol as a false-flag operation contrived to frame, trap and “purge” Trump voters in a “new war on terror.” The series started airing Nov. 1 on Fox Nation, Fox […]
As President Joe Biden was representing the United States at the international climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, a conservative scholar warned that the American public would not put up with U.S. expenditures to help other countries combat climate change. “The Biden administration’s main goal for the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow is to reestablish […]
President Joe Biden faced an awkward moment during the international climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, when he was asked at a press conference about inflation back home, including gasoline prices. “If you take a look at gas prices and you take a look at oil prices, that is a consequence of, thus far, the […]
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“Vaccine” shows up in social media posts as “vachscene” or “wax seen.” “COVID-19” is spelled with zeros instead of O’s, or trimmed to “C-19.” The CDC and the FDA on Instagram become the “Seedy Sea” and the “Eff Dee Aye.” Are people on social media really such awful spellers? Not in these cases. They’re using […]
Did a member of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration committee that voted in favor of giving a COVID-19 vaccine to kids say: “We’re never gonna learn how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it”? The answer is: Yes-but. There was a quote to that effect, as an Instagram post stated. But the […]
A landmark law enacted decades ago to protect Native American people from cultural genocide is under scrutiny as legal watchers prepare for the possibility that the Supreme Court could overturn it. Claims about the Indian Child Welfare Act lit up social media after the states of Texas, Indiana and Louisiana joined several non-Native couples in […]
The politicization of COVID vaccines — and, well, just about everything else having to do with the pandemic — has led to confusion, if not utter fatigue. And some posts circulating on social media — this slickly edited piece on YouTube, for example — seem to build on these feelings, attempting to cast doubt on […]
According to the official certified results, Joe Biden won Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election by 80,555 votes, flipping the state from a Donald Trump victory in 2016. According to Trump, there’s no way that happened legitimately. “The election was rigged,” Trump wrote in an Oct. 27 letter to the Wall Street Journal editorial page. […]
PolitiFact VA: As election closes, McAuliffe and Youngkin continue debunked claims In the closing week of Virginia’s gubernatorial campaign, both major-party candidates are repeating debunked claims about the other’s tax policies. Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are using the same campaign trick: citing partisan reports that misrepresent the other’s fiscal policies. McAuliffe is […]
Just in time for Halloween, claims about what’s lurking in the COVID-19 vaccines are getting wilder and spookier. There’s the “transhumanism nanotechnology” ingredient that will apparently turn all of us into copies of the Terminator. There’s also “graphene oxide,” a material that some claimed will straight up kill you. Why didn’t Michael Myers think of […]
If you’ve seen media reports or social media postings about beagle puppies and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, you might be wondering what’s going on. Recent blog posts from a conservative watchdog group interested in animal research spending have prompted a wave of criticism aimed at the nation’s top infectious diseases […]