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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 ...
Name Domain Status Notes Sources American News americannews.com Published a false story claiming actor Denzel Washington endorsed Donald Trump for U.S. president.The fictional headline led to thousands of people sharing it on Facebook, a prominent example of fake news spreading on the social network prior to the 2016 presidential election.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Trump's successor as U.S. president, Joe Biden, discontinued many of Trump's COVID-19-related "America First" policies at the beginning of his presidency, but he initially kept the Trump administration's COVID-19 vaccine export ban in place. [56] As of May 2021, the U.S. had started exporting vaccines out of its borders. [57]
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]