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LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
10 hours ago

Workplace stress can turn you gay: Malaysian official mocked for bizarre homophobic claim - LGBTQ Nation

A Malaysian minister claimed workplace stress and other factors can contribute to the development of LGBT-related behavior, drawing ridicule and criticism for spreading misinformation.
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
14 hours ago

Ann Rostow: Seeing Was Believing - San Francisco Bay Times

"Did your favorite sports star 'shock fans' or 'shake' the league by 'publicly' or 'flatly' refusing to wear an LGBT Rainbow Armband because it would turn the game 'into a political circus?'"
LGBT
#donald-trump
fromPoynter
17 hours ago

Documentary about Poynter's PolitiFact brings story of fact-checking to Japanese television - Poynter

"With the widespread use of social media, the global spread of 'fake news' has become a serious social issue," Masahiro Yamamoto, the documentary's director, said in an email. " In Japan as well, information of mixed accuracy is circulating widely, and the situation continues to worsen. Against this backdrop, we felt there was much to learn from PolitiFact, which has been conducting fact-checking for nearly two decades."
US politics
US politics
fromSFGATE
1 day ago

Trump pushes obviously fake videos bashing California

Trump reshared AI-generated videos falsely claiming Walmart would close 250 California stores, amplifying misleading, anti-California content despite clear signs of fabrication.
#ice
fromWIRED
1 day ago
Right-wing politics

'Uncanny Valley': Minneapolis Misinformation, TikTok's New Owners, and Moltbot Hype

fromWIRED
1 day ago
Right-wing politics

'Uncanny Valley': Minneapolis Misinformation, TikTok's New Owners, and Moltbot Hype

US politics
fromJezebel
1 day ago

Kristi Noem Blames Stephen Miller, Who Blames DHS, Who Blames Miller, Who Blames...

DHS figures, including Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller, falsely labeled Alex Pretti a terrorist after his death, triggering bipartisan backlash and calls for accountability.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

POLL: Tylenol's Brand Reputation Bounces Back Without Permanent Damage Despite Trump and RFK Jr's Repeated Attacks

Tylenol took a hit in the aftermath of President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promotion of unfounded claims about it being linked to autism, but the brand's reputation is solid and has largely bounced back without any permanent damage, according to tracking polls YouGov has conducted for the past four months.
Medicine
#alex-pretti
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 days ago
US politics

CNN's Daniel Dale Goes After Trump Admin's Torrent of Incendiary Claims' in Brutal Fact Check of Alex Pretti Shooting

fromwww.mediaite.com
4 days ago
US politics

CNN's Daniel Dale Goes After Trump Admin's Torrent of Incendiary Claims' in Brutal Fact Check of Alex Pretti Shooting

fromThe Verge
1 day ago

What is Nick Shirley?

The violent federal occupation of Minneapolis - and the subsequent killings of two residents at the hands of immigration agents - began with a vlog. Nick Shirley, a roving 23-year-old with a smartphone and a taste for outrage, made a YouTube video with unfounded allegations of fraud at daycares operated by the local Somali American community. Like so much partisan media in history, he was trying to rile up the right-wing base. But he was also playing to another audience: the algorithm.
US politics
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 day ago

Government minister mocked for claiming work stress turns people gay

This misinformation reinforces the assumption that LGBT people's sexual orientation and gender identity can be corrected, changed or are not real or as valid as cisgender heterosexual identities. The fact is diversity in sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics is completely natural and normal. This has been proven by medical and other bodies. The minister must retract and correct the misinformation.
LGBT
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

From worst of times to even worse: the Trump administration continues to spiral | Sidney Blumenthal

ICE agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis despite video showing him approaching peacefully; officials and political leaders propagated false claims to justify the killing.
#fact-checking
fromPoynter
2 weeks ago
World news

IFCN awards $750,000 to 25 fact-checkers navigating a funding crisis - Poynter

fromPoynter
2 weeks ago
World news

IFCN awards $750,000 to 25 fact-checkers navigating a funding crisis - Poynter

US politics
fromAdvocate.com
2 days ago

Alex Pretti's killers placed on administrative leave as Kristi Noem's story of the shooting unravels

Two federal agents who fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis were placed on administrative leave amid scrutiny and conflicting official claims about the encounter.
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 days ago

Hakeem Jeffries Blasts Disgusting' Trump Lies' On CNN After Bonkers Ilhan Omar Rant

Well, that's a disgusting comment and the president's lies and misinformation continue to fan the flames of these types of violent incidents. And it's at a moment like this where we actually need leadership from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and it's something that we never get from this president. Ilhan Omar, of course, is a strong, courageous, hardworking public servant. This should have never happened. I'm thankful that she is physically OK. She's mentally strong, as is always the case, and we stand by her.
US politics
#wikipedia
fromWIRED
1 week ago
Podcast

Jimmy Wales Will Never Edit Donald Trump's Wikipedia Page: He 'Makes Me Insane'

fromWIRED
1 week ago
Podcast

Jimmy Wales Will Never Edit Donald Trump's Wikipedia Page: He 'Makes Me Insane'

US politics
fromEmptywheel
2 days ago

Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable

Bill Melugin first reported Alex Pretti had a weapon and promoted claims about Pretti that Star Tribune and Minnesota DOC challenged as false.
US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
3 days ago

Comment about Chinese espionage triggers 'tangible safety concern' at California flight school

A local councilman's social media claims linking IASCO flight students to Chinese espionage put Asian students at risk and fueled misinformation.
Public health
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Why Critical Thinking Is the Most Important Skill in Your Life

Critical thinking protects health, enables breakthroughs by questioning assumptions, combats cognitive biases, and can be trained through source-checking and embracing being wrong.
#ai-generated-imagery
fromFortune
3 days ago
US politics

The White House vows 'the memes will continue,' but misinformation experts say please, make it stop | Fortune

fromFortune
3 days ago
US politics

The White House vows 'the memes will continue,' but misinformation experts say please, make it stop | Fortune

#border-patrol-shooting
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago
US politics

Trump Fan Draws Fire on CNN Claiming Alex Pretti Was Obviously Not Murdered' Was In Scrum' That Ended in Bad Shoot'

fromPoynter
3 days ago
US politics

How bystander video and newsroom analysis undercut the White House narrative on Alex Pretti - Poynter

fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago
US politics

Trump Fan Draws Fire on CNN Claiming Alex Pretti Was Obviously Not Murdered' Was In Scrum' That Ended in Bad Shoot'

fromPoynter
3 days ago
US politics

How bystander video and newsroom analysis undercut the White House narrative on Alex Pretti - Poynter

Podcast
fromThe Verge
3 days ago

Truth and AI in Minneapolis

Widespread video and proliferating AI imagery around Alex Pretti's killing created confusion and rapid competing narratives, raising challenges for verifying heavily documented events.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
3 days ago

Threading the Needle: Can We Respect Local Knowledge While Resisting Misinformation?

Nonspecialists' local knowledge can validly challenge expert claims, and dismissing such perspectives risks epistemic injustice and harms public decision-making.
fromIntelligencer
3 days ago

The Trump Administration Spews Legal Garbage on Minnesota Shootings

The factual bullshit from Trump-administration officials about Minnesota is, at least, easily detected: Hear claim, watch video, reject claim. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem declares that Alex Pretti "brandished" a firearm. ( He did not.) White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller tells us Pretti was "an assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents." (Pretti never drew his weapon, got pepper-sprayed, and wound up at the bottom of an ICE dogpile.)
US politics
#border-patrol
fromPoynter
3 days ago
US politics

What the video shows - and doesn't - about the killing of Alex Pretti - Poynter

fromPoynter
3 days ago
US politics

What the video shows - and doesn't - about the killing of Alex Pretti - Poynter

California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 days ago

Barabak: The Golden State is suffering truth decay. Sacramento should do something about it.

A collapse in local journalism and tech-driven misinformation is creating an information vacuum that degrades California's public knowledge and civic life.
fromThe Local Germany
3 days ago

Clickbait and 'AI slop' distort memory of Holocaust in Germany

Generative AI tools have created a flood of fake, sometimes misleading, content about the Holocaust that experts warn are distorting the realities of the history of Nazi Germany for young audiences. An emaciated and apparently blind man stands in the snow at the Nazi concentration camp of Flossenbuerg: the image seems real at first but is part of a wave of AI-generated content about the Holocaust.
Germany news
fromPesaCheck
4 days ago

HOAX: This poster claiming the Kenya Urban Roads Authority is hiring is fraudulent

First, the use of a Gmail address on the poster raises red flags, as official communication from KURA uses email addresses ending in .go.ke, such as [email protected] . Additionally, the number of advertised positions is exceptionally high, and also the poster omits qualification requirements. It provides no reference to an official source for further details, further undermining its credibility. There is also no evidence of the job advert on KURA's verified X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook page, where such announcements are usually published.
World news
fromThe Drum
4 days ago

Twitter and Google hone misinformation tools ahead of US election

Twitter will label or remove all tweets identified as being misleading such as premature claims of victory, unverified vote-rigging allegations and calls to break the law. The platform has also pledged to act against the suppression of votes in the stricter rules, which are to be "applied equally and judiciously for everyone". The new Twitter policy is international in scope and will take effect from 17 September.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Trump officials continue to push lies after fatal shooting of Alex Pretti

In the moments after federal officers shot Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti dead, Trump administration figures almost immediately made public statements in press conferences, televised interviews and social media posts that were at best indifferent to the evidence available at the time and at worst completely fabricated. A pattern is emerging, in which the Trump administration prioritizes the vilification of the dead victim as to blame for the incident over preserving the neutrality of any investigative process.
US politics
Artificial intelligence
fromMedium
1 week ago

What if AI lies about you?

AI summaries improve convenience but can confidently present misinformation about people; interfaces must signal uncertainty and provide correction mechanisms.
fromThe Drum
4 days ago

Stop Funding Fake News in talks with media agencies to demonetise misinformation sites

Anonymous officials from the activist group told The Drum that for it to achieve its goals of demonetising fake news sources, it has realised it must court the middlemen between brands and publishers. Inspired by Sleeping Giants in the US and Stop Funding Hate in the UK, the group operates anonymously, claiming activists could be at risk if their identities were known.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 days ago

Kentucky Gov Clowns Ted Cruz for Getting Duped By European Pic: Sorry For Missing This Been Busy Leading My State'

Ted Cruz amplified a false claim that Gov. Andy Beshear was in Europe during Kentucky's declared emergency; Beshear said he remained in Kentucky leading response.
#grokipedia
US politics
fromDefector
5 days ago

Federal Agents Kill Again; Gunmen Still At Large | Defector

Federal agents pinned and disarmed Alex Pretti, then a fourth agent fatally shot him at point-blank range as he lay unarmed and pinned.
Environment
fromThedrum
5 days ago

ACT Climate Labs: supercharging climate comms for a new audience

ACT Climate Labs equips organizations with audience insights, advertising tools, and intelligence to persuade 'Persuadables' with positive climate messages against misinformation.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

How the confident authority' of Google AI Overviews is putting public health at risk

Google's AI Overviews place generative AI summaries above search results, rapidly rolling out globally while producing inaccurate or misleading answers that risk undermining search revenues.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

NewsNation Host Claims Five-Year-Old Boy in ICE Detention Center Was Not Detained

A five-year-old boy and his father are detained in a Texas facility despite claims that the child was never detained.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

CNN's Dana Bash Calls BS on Trump Deportation Forces Gaslighting' Amid Massive Public Outrage

Outrage over ICE operations has been building since the killing of Renee Good, and escalated Thursday with the apprehension of a five-year-old boy amid conflicting reports on the incident. The White House also posted an altered photo of an anti-ICE protester's arrest. On Friday's edition of CNN's Inside Politics, Bash ticked through several examples of the White House trying to reshape the narrative amid the outrage.
US politics
#social-media
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

Fact check: Fakes spread online amid Syria's power shift

Mass escape from al-Hol camp? Claim: A video allegedly showing a large escape of ISaffiliated detainees from al-Hol camp is circulating widely on multiple platforms in Arabicand English. The captions commonly claim: "Major prison revolt at al-Hol camp ISIS families are currently trying to escape." DW Fact check: False The video is old and does not show recent events. Al-Hol is a notorious camp where the SDF has held thousands of relatives of suspected IS militants.
World news
National Football League
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

The Sports Conspiracy That's Too Easy to Believe

No credible scientific evidence links proximity to electrical substations with increased soft-tissue injuries in athletes; the 49ers' injuries are not explained by EM exposure.
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Jeff Bezos accuses Polymarket of fabricating quote about 'real world jobs like McDonalds or Palantir'

JUST IN: Jeff Bezos advises aspiring Gen Z entrepreneurs to start at real world jobs like McDonalds or Palantir before starting a business,
Venture
Parenting
fromBuzzFeed
1 week ago

I Lost Thousands Of Brain Cells While Reading These 27 Wiiiiiild Mommy Facebook Group Posts

Online parenting groups frequently share questionable medical advice, herbal remedies, and oversharing that can be alarming and potentially harmful to children.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Google won't stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI

Google Discover uses AI-generated headlines that often replace original headlines with misleading or false, attention-grabbing summaries.
US politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

Fact check: Fans canceling World Cup tickets over ICE fears?

The US promotes a welcoming message for the 2026 World Cup while enacting stricter immigration enforcement and facing unproven social media claims of mass ticket cancellations.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

A White House image of Nekima Levy Armstrong's arrest was digitally altered to make her appear crying and to darken her skin.
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
1 week ago

Two Chinese Men Arrested for 'Gay Pandas' Image

An AI-manipulated panda image led to detention of two Chinese men for allegedly associating queerness with Chengdu amid an intensified crackdown on LGBTQ+ expression.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

Christian conservative leader rages at Presbyterian Church for honoring "obscene" Renee Good - LGBTQ Nation

Bill Donohue publicly smeared Renee Nicole Good, mischaracterizing her actions and queer identity after she was fatally shot by an ICE agent.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Just Pure Fiction': CNN Fact Checker Shreds Trump's Barrage of False Claims' in Davos Speech

President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, and CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale conducted a live evisceration of what he dubbed a barrage of false claims from the president. Last year, Trump appeared by videoconference at the annual gathering, delivering a rambling speech that ping-ponged between topics, insulted his political opponents, as well as included a number of bold claims, exaggerations, and utter falsehoods.
US politics
California
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Commentary: California is suffering truth decay. Sacramento should do something about it

California has lost a third of its newsrooms and 70% of journalists in 25 years, producing an information vacuum filled by partisan propaganda.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Very Low Energy': CNN Anchors Marvel At Trump's Odd Beginning to Lengthy WH Briefing

The president held a nearly two-hour press conference focused on immigration while repeating numerous false or exaggerated claims flagged by fact-checkers.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Reporter Smacks Back at Stephen Miller for Misrepresenting His Report On How Bad Trump Admin Is Doing In Court

Federal judges overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration's new detention interpretation, ruling against its immigration detention policy in over 1,600 cases.
fromFast Company
1 week ago

How to build your deep reading and critical thinking skills to better resist misinformation

The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of daily use, with 57% of people admitting they're "addicted" to their phone. Tech companies, influencers, and other content creators compete for all that attention, which has incentivized the rise of misinformation. Considering this challenging information landscape, strong critical reading skills are as relevant and necessary as they've ever been.
Education
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Trump Wildly Claims Bystander Who Yelled Shame!' After Renee Good Shooting Was a Paid Agitator'

A baseless accusation labeled the bystander who yelled 'Shame!' after Renee Good's killing by an ICE agent as a paid agitator.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

NewsNation Host Repeats Stephen Miller's False Claim That Police Have Been Ordered to Stand Down' in Minnesota

A claim that Minnesota local and state police were ordered to stand down was repeated on air without evidence, and local police have denied it.
US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Commentary: My travel nightmare made me realize that self-service culture is capitalism's greatest con

Restore staffed, well-paid, trained customer service to replace excessive automation and alleviate widespread consumer frustration.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Biden Adviser Deletes X Post After Getting Duped By AI Clip of ICE Chasing a Viking Through the Streets of Minnesota

An AI-generated deepfake video fooled Neera Tanden and others by portraying ICE agents chasing a Viking in a bathtub on skateboard wheels.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Response to 2024 summer riots failed to address root causes and links to racism, report says

The response to the 2024 riots in England and Northern Ireland failed to address its root causes and delinked the violence from racism, a thinktank has claimed. A paper by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) reported that an obfuscation of the causes and consequences of the riots risks legitimising further far-right mobilisation and vigilante violence. It said that what happened has often been reduced to mindless thuggery or violence.
UK politics
Media industry
fromFuturism
1 week ago

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You're Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

Major AI chatbots frequently produce incorrect, incomplete, or fabricated news outputs and provide unreliable or nonfunctional source links when asked for local daily news.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Fact check: Woman burning Khamenei photo not in Iran

The viral clip of a woman lighting a cigarette from a burning photo of Ayatollah Khamenei was filmed in Canada, not Iran, making the claim misleading.
Tech industry
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
2 weeks ago

Google Search To Prioritize Removing Prediction News Content In Search

Google is changing search rankings to remove prediction content from top stories and news sections, prioritizing fixes for misleading sports 'prediction' posts.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Spain's climate scientists subjected to alarming' rise in hate speech, minister warns

Spain's environment minister has written to prosecutors to warn of an alarming increase in hate speech and social media attacks directed against climate science communicators, meteorologists and researchers. In a letter sent to hate crimes prosecutors on Wednesday, Sara Aagesen said a number of recent reports examined by the ministry had detected a significant increase in the hostile language that climate experts are subjected to on digital platforms.
Environment
fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 weeks ago

London hospital issues alert over 'fraudulent' AI-generated videos appearing to show doctors using weight loss patches

We are aware of multiple videos circulating on social media, promoting weight loss patches, that falsely claim a number of our clinicians are using and endorsing these products. We can confirm these videos are fraudulent, and the people named and pictured are not members of our Trust staff. We are working to get these videos taken down, and encourage people to report them to the social media platform they appear on.
Public health
Miscellaneous
fromIrish Independent
2 weeks ago

Average person overestimates level of immigration to Ireland, ESRI report reveals

Many people significantly overestimate immigrant numbers and asylum seekers while underestimating migrants' employment, education levels, and economic contribution in Ireland.
#artificial-intelligence
fromNature
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

What the future holds for AI - from the people shaping it

Artificial intelligence will fundamentally reshape health, national security, geopolitics, research, consumer products, and daily life, driven by people despite misinformation and vested interests.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

How Seed Oils Became the Villain of Social MediaAnd What the Science Really Says

Seed oils are common in many processed foods and are controversial, but claims that they are uniquely toxic are unsupported by evidence.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

How and Why We Use, Downplay, or Ignore Evidence

The scientific method, though imperfect, remains the best tool for critical thinking and for defending democratic justice against misinformation and cognitive biases.
fromJezebel
2 weeks ago

Kristi Noem Declares 'Every Single Situation Is Going to Rely on the Situation' in Mind-Numbing Interview

Noem's version of the story-which has been captured in multiple videos, from multiple angles-is that the mother-of-three "attacked" the ICE officers and "attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle" while they were trying to push their own vehicles out of the snow. The secretary doubled down on those claims on Fox News later on Thursday, saying Good was "an anti-ICE rioter" who "weaponized her vehicle."
US politics
US politics
fromThe Mercury News
2 weeks ago

Opinion: After antisemitic posts, Bay Area mayor must remedy harm or resign

Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez repeatedly spread antisemitic tropes, expressed affinity for Hamas, and minimized harmful posts with a weak apology.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The friendship secret: why socialising could help you live longer

Accurate neuroscience communication online is essential to counter widespread misleading claims about brain-based quick fixes and promote responsible understanding of social connection's benefits.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

A congresswoman wants to impeach Kristi Noem. She's right to do so | Jan-Werner Muller

Democrats should use impeachment to signal consequences, counter a culture of impunity, and focus public attention amid rapidly unfolding scandals.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

What unites Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine? Trump's immoral lies and Europe's chronic weakness | Simon Tisdall

Donald Trump repeatedly lies, undermines democracy, damages international trust, and pursues self-interested policies like seeking Greenland's resources.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Jen Psaki Calls BS On Trump With Renee Good Shooting Video

New multi-angle video undermines claims that the Minneapolis woman's death resulted from her running over an ICE agent, showing evidence inconsistent with that narrative.
US politics
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

People are fighting for the truth in Minneapolis

Minneapolis residents risk personal safety to record and preserve bystander video that exposes ICE agents' lethal actions and challenges official narratives.
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