Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts
Thursday, February 20, 2020

"A dangerous mix of fear and fake news about the coronavirus has sparked violent protests in Ukraine, despite there being no confirmed cases in the country"

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Buzzfeed : Protests and clashes with riot police have broken out in several places after a mass email claiming to be from Ukraine’s health...
Friday, June 9, 2017

"Baltimore's Famous National Chess Champion Isn't A National Chess Champion"

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Ds : The biggest chess story of the year is uplifting—and bogus. On May 31, the Baltimore Sun ran a feature on a seventh-grader whom the...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

"Tale of Brexiter who claimed his son bet £500 on far-right candidate to win French election amused many – but it was not true"

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TG : With a background in PR, the man said he had “duped a lot of reporters in the past” and knew how to make a hoax story such as this sp...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

"Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source"

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" The proposal was made by an editor known as Hillbillyholiday early in January"
Thursday, February 2, 2017

"Don’t believe the story about hackers locking guests in their rooms at a luxury hotel"

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"the hotel’s managing director, confirmed that not only were guests not locked in their rooms, the rooms were not remotely locked at a...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

"Story of Santa Claus with dying child can't be verified"

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"Since publication, the News Sentinel has done additional investigation in an attempt to independently verify Schmitt-Matzen’s account...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Link roundup

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1. "About 20 million years ago a single flea became entombed in amber with tiny bacteria attached to it, providing what researchers b...