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Investigations conducted in 2017 showed nearly 40 percent of content by far-right Facebook pages and 19 percent of far-left pages were false or misleading. [87] In the 10 months leading up to the 2016 presidential election , 20 fake news articles shared on Facebook dramatically increased from 3 million shares, reactions, and comments to nearly ...
During and after his term as President of the United States, Donald Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. The Washington Post ' s fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidential term, an average of about 21 per day. [ 1][ 5][ 6][ 7] The Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims from January ...
The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
People enjoying an afternoon at Primanti Bros. in Moon, Pennsylvania, were outraged that they were evacuated so Vice President Harris and her entourage could make a campaign stop.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump was elected the next president. Soon after, an apparent quote from a 1998 issue of People Magazine went viral on the Internet: Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump ...
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a new interview that he didn’t make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election ...
PolitiFact's 2017 Lie of the Year was Donald Trump's claim that Russian election interference is a "made-up story." [36] The annual poll found 56.36% of the 5080 respondents agreed that Trump's "Pants on Fire" statement deserved the distinction. [37]
The suffix-gate derives from the Watergate scandal in the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. [2] The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., where the burglary giving rise to the scandal took place; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on ...