Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has agreed to sell his assets to help pay the massive debt he owes to families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, whom he has spent years spreading lies about and defaming. Jones’ decision to liquidate his assets this week ends his pursuit of Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of an […]
Jun. 1—To Charlotte Scot, a 77-year-old voter from Old Lyme, the question of misinformation and disinformation is fairly straightforward. “There’s a lot of people in Washington who just lie,” she said during a May 25 voter forum sponsored by The Day at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme. “And no one calls them out.” […]
In mid-April, as Donald Trump’s first criminal trial got underway, The New York Times published a good fact-checking piece, explaining that the former president has relied on “colorful hyperbole, defended his conduct with faulty comparisons and lobbed false attacks and baseless accusations at opponents and adjudicators alike.” Six weeks later, as the Republican’s trial reaches […]
CNN’s Kaitlin Collins squared off with a rude and demeaning Sen. Ted Cruz Wednesday night as the senator repeatedly insisted on parroting debunked lies about widespread election fraud in 2020, and at one point told Collins he was “asking a question” over and over again before he insisted she answer him. “I’m conducting the interview, […]
Rudy Giuliani has agreed to stop spreading lies about two former Georgia election workers who won a nearly $150 million judgment against him after he repeatedly accused them of election fraud. In the court documents filed Tuesday in federal bankruptcy court, Giuliani agreed to be permanently barred from making any statements that suggest that Ruby […]
Former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Dick Pound hit out at the US Anti Doping Agency in a meeting on Friday. (JUSTIN TALLIS) The former president of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), Canadian Dick Pound, launched a fierce attack on the United States anti-doping body USADA on Friday, accusing them of “lies […]
With prosecutors’ hush money case against Donald Trump heading towards its end, defence lawyers pressed former lawyer Michael Cohen on his criminal history and past lies as they worked to convince jurors not to believe the star witness’ pivotal testimony. Mr Cohen was back in the hot seat for a third day of testimony as […]
Rudy Giuliani has paid dearly for spreading lies about the 2020 election. And now they appear to have cost him a main source of income: After defying the station’s repeated warnings to stop questioning election results on his WABC radio talk show, Giuliani was suspended and his talk show axed on Friday. Giuliani had been […]
One of the most extraordinary stories of human migration unfolded around 70,000 years ago, as humans crossed from Southeast Asia into modern-day Australia, traversing a now-submerged, Atlantis-like landscape, and becoming the first people to call that land home. A rich archaeological record provides ample evidence that this happened. But researchers have long been stumped by […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the secretaries of state from Colorado, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, […]
In ancient Greek and Roman legend, the Pillars of Hercules –marking the edge of the known world – were mighty columns that once stood either side of the strait where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic. One was on the Rock of Gibraltar, a pocket of British territory next to mainland Spain, and the other […]
Donald Trump’s criminal trial is well underway in New York City, and inside the Manhattan courtroom, the former president’s lawyers are doing their best against overwhelming evidence. But just outside the courtroom, the defense attorneys are saying very little about the case, while their client seems eager to try parts of the case in public. […]