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On Sept. 19 on Instagram, former President Donald Trump shared a graphic featuring an image of Vice President Kamala Harris next to a list of policies it described as “Kamala’s Project 2025.” Trump, Harris’ Republican presidential challenger, was one of several social media users who shared this 10-point list that covered topics such as immigration, […]

Sign on to social media these days and you’ll soon find posts warning about the threat of immigrants to your family’s — and your pets’ —  safety. Immigrants are eating the dogs, cats and geese in Springfield, Ohio, some posts have claimed. (They’re wrong.) They’re also taking over apartment complexes in Colorado and Chicago, or […]

This story has been updated to include new information. Republicans in Wisconsin have often repeated the phrase “every state is a border state.” For evidence, they’ve recently turned to Prairie du Chien, a city of about 5,500 people across the Mississippi River from Iowa. U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden and U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde […]

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 […]

Minutes after former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt on July 13, entrepreneur and X owner Elon Musk, endorsed Trump’s presidential campaign in an X post.  On Sept. 15, hours after news broke that Trump had survived yet another apparent attempt on his life, Musk made another attention-grabbing X post.  Responding to another X […]

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, did an interview in Pittsburgh with Stephanie Ruhle starting at 7 p.m. ET on Sept. 25 on MSNBC.  The interview is Harris’ first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. She and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, did a joint interview Aug. 29 on […]

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance unveiled a new catchphrase in his quest to tie Democrats to inflation: Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaking vote for the “Inflation Explosion Act.” Vance said this on at least three recent occasions, including a Sept. 16 rally in Sparta, Michigan. “Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote […]

In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and other people at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous. Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically fueled scaremongering that also weakens efforts to protect against diseases like measles […]

After the Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the former president criticized ABC News’ debate moderators, and his supporters piled on about the network’s supposed bias.  Two days after the debate, an X account called The Black Insurrectionist — whose profile says, “I am #MAGA,” shorthand for Trump’s “Make America […]

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, warned in an ad that Project 2025, a conservative guidebook of presidential policy recommendations, would harm Black Americans, including at the voting booth. “Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda will give him unchecked political power with no guardrails,” said the TV ad that began airing in early September, targeting […]

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 […]

During her interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, for spreading misinformation about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio. “When you have that kind of microphone in front of you, you really ought to understand how much your […]