“Liberal Republicans.” “TOO extreme.” “ESTABLISHMENT PUPPETS.” Leading up to the June 11 South Carolina primaries, potential voters may have been reading phrases like those plastered across campaign mailers, fliers, social media and TV ads. The ads are primarily targeted at Republicans, but represent a larger battle trickling out of the state house and now into […]
Poppi — the prebiotic soda brand that’s been endorsed by celebrity influencers and has shown up everywhere from Shark Tank to the 2024 Super Bowl — has been hit with a new class-action lawsuit, Business Insider reports. The lawsuit, filed last week, accuses the beverage brand of making misleading claims about its benefits to gut […]
A Massachusetts man has been charged in connection with allegedly poisoning and misleading his girlfriend into taking a medication to end her pregnancy, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced. Robert Kawada, 43, of Brookline has been charged with poisoning, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a pregnant person, and assault and battery on […]
Ask Google if cats have been on the moon and it used to spit out a ranked list of websites so you could discover the answer for yourself. Now it comes up with an instant answer generated by artificial intelligence — which may or may not be correct. “Yes, astronauts have met cats on the […]
Multiple experts have rebuffed a misleading online claim shared during extreme heat in the Philippines that the heat index — a measurement of the “real feel” temperature after humidity is taken into account — was being used to “advance climate change propaganda”. They told AFP the index was an important tool to signal the dangers […]
Social media posts claim Walt Disney and four others, including occult practitioners and a former Nazi party member, are the “founders” of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This is misleading; while two of the people on the list were scientists involved in rocket development — one of whom played a prominent role in […]
President Joe Biden spent three days this week campaigning in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. He littered his remarks with false and misleading claims on subjects ranging from his annual earnings to his cap on seniors’ prescription drug spending to the demographics of China to the frequency of his past travel to Iraq and […]
A federal appeals court has ordered a new trial for the family of a man who sued Elk Grove police after he died in officers’ custody in November 2016, citing “false or highly misleading” testimony from a pathologist who performed an autopsy of the man. The opinion from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. […]
Germany’s Foreign Office is disputing as “misleading” an Israeli media report about a heated argument between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock over the situation in the Gaza Strip. “Key points in this account of the hour long meeting between Foreign Minister Baerbock and Prime Minister Netanyahu are wrong and […]
Far-right operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay New York Attorney General Letitia James‘ office up to $1.2 million for a robocall campaign they put together to suppress the Black vote ahead of the 2020 election. “Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt […]
Online posts claim Tyson Foods plans to hire 52,000 migrants after laying off 1,200 American workers at an Iowa factory. This is misleading; the food processing firm expects to make thousands of hires to replace departing workers, with authorized refugees being among new staff in an industry that has high turnover. “Tyson laying off 1,200 […]
An old news report about the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visiting Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 240 million people, has resurfaced in misleading online posts. The video of IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi — which featured a “breaking news” banner — was originally broadcast by a local news outlet in […]