Latest Stories By Samantha Putterman

Lots of people still have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. What’s in them? Who developed them? Do they have legal liability? Are they effective? These are some of the questions we came across in a recent Instagram post that lists things “critical thinkers” are asking about the vaccines. It also disparages the reasons why other people […]

Donald Trump is still not allowed on Facebook, for now. Facebook’s Oversight Board decided to uphold the platform’s indefinite suspension of the former president after he shared supportive messages of his supporters’ siege of the U.S. Capitol. But there’s a catch. The board gave Facebook six months to revisit the decision, criticizing its open-ended nature. […]

Editor’s note: Have you ever wondered if the movie you just saw — that claimed to be based on a real story or historical events — was really accurate? So have we. With this year’s Oscars featuring historically based movies up for Best Picture honors, we wanted to help you sort out the facts from […]

In the wake of the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on April 11, conflicting narratives about what happened have emerged on social media.  The day after the shooting, activist Shaun King, among others, said in […]

An HBO documentary series about QAnon ended with a big revelation: the unmasking of “Q,” the anonymous internet poster who fueled the baseless conspiracy theory that gained a national following. The finale episode of “Q Into the Storm” by filmmaker Cullen Hoback features an interview with Ron Watkins, the former  administrator of the fringe message […]

Donald Trump’s multiple phone calls to election officials in Georgia are still grabbing headlines, weeks after he’s left office.  The Washington Post recently had to issue a high-profile correction to January reporting about one of two known calls in which Trump urged state officials  to find evidence to overturn Georgia’s presidential election results A newly […]

Tens of millions of Americans who have received their COVID-19 vaccines can now entertain the prospect of boldly going places, seeing people and doing things again, even if a return to normal life remains a ways off. The first set of public health recommendations for vaccinated people, released March 8 by the U.S. Centers for […]

As eligibility for the coronavirus vaccines widens across the United States, more pregnant women are faced with the decision of whether to get vaccinated. Alarming social media posts warn that pregnant women who were vaccinated have experienced miscarriages or could face infertility — anecdotal stories that can heighten anxiety for expectant parents in a climate […]

As officials scramble to successfully carry out a worldwide vaccination campaign against COVID-19, scientists are facing a new foe: Variants of the virus.  It’s not uncommon for a virus to change and evolve, and with uncontrolled spread in the United States and around the world, the coronavirus is getting plenty of chances. But it’s still […]

With barely a week under his belt as president, Joe Biden has apparently already caused a lot of problems for the country, at home and abroad, according to a viral Facebook post.  The post claims that, so far under Biden:  “ISIS has miraculously appeared again, we are back to sending military convoys to the middle […]

Videos circulating on Facebook and other social media purport to show women shaking violently after receiving the coronavirus vaccine. The videos highlight the cases of two people who say they received two different COVID-19 vaccines. The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read […]

Social media users are spreading a variety of claims that President Donald Trump will either impose martial law or invoke the Insurrection Act to prevent Joe Biden from being inaugurated on Jan. 20. The Insurrection Act is a federal law that empowers the president to deploy the military to suppress certain situations including civil disorder, […]