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Aug 26 2020
Fact Check
Did Pepsi Donate $100M to Black Lives Matter?
In the summer of 2020, readers sent Snopes multiple inquiries about widely shared social media posts claiming that PepsiCo, the company that makes Pepsi, had donated $100 million to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
In May 2020, a Black man named George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, prompting a renewed wave of nationwide and international protests against
Snopes
Aug 11 2020
News
Facebook Removes 7M Posts for Sharing False Information on Coronavirus
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it removed 7 million posts in the second quarter for sharing false information about the novel coronavirus, including content that promoted fake preventative measures and exaggerated cures.
Facebook released the data as part of its sixth Community Standards Enforcement Report, which it introduced in 2018 along with more stringent decorum rules in response to
Newsmax (News)
Mar 02 2015
News
Bill O'Reilly lied, says Fox News: Why that won't hurt him at Fox
Fox News admits that Bill O'Reilly didn't actually see 'guys gun down nuns in El Salvador' or witness any bombings in Northern Ireland. Why Fox News is unlikely to suspend Bill O'Reilly for his exaggerations.
Christian Science Monitor
Oct 08 2021
News
Documents show Trump lost millions operating D.C. hotel
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., a hangout for Republican allies of former President Donald Trump during his term at the White House, was a big money loser for Trump's company, according to a cache of documents released by congressional Democrats on Friday.
How big? The company incurred $70 million in net losses, according to the House Oversight Committee.
The
NPR (Online News)
Apr 05 2021
Analysis
Claims about HR 1 keep pouring in. Here are all of our fact-checks in one place
Confused by what people are saying about H.R. 1, the hotly contested voting and elections bill?
We can’t blame you. The 791-page Democratic-backed bill — which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote and awaits action in the Senate — is complex and wide-ranging. It combines proposals for voter registration, absentee voting, in-person voting, campaign finance
PolitiFact
Jul 08 2021
Opinion
It’s Time for a New Crime Bill
It’s time for Democrats to propose a new crime bill.
No, not one like the original 1994 crime bill, famously spearheaded by President Joe Biden when he was a senator. While the role that piece of legislation played in fueling mass incarceration has often been exaggerated, its emphasis on building new prisons and nudging states to adopt harsher criminal penalties effectively doubled down
Jordan Weissmann
Jun 11 2019
News
Why Joe Biden's 2020 message is so radical
Washington (CNN)Speaking to a group of donors and lobbyists in Washington on Monday night, Joe Biden said this of the Republican Party post-Donald Trump:
"With Trump gone you're going to begin to see things change. Because these folks know better. They know this isn't what they're supposed to be doing." That is, without any exaggeration, a radical view from the man who polling suggests
CNN (Opinion)
Jun 18 2017
Opinion
If You Think Campus Free Speech Is No Big Deal, Watch This Shocking Vice News Report From Evergreen State College
Are you one of those people who suspects that all the brouhaha over campus free speech outrages, no matter how individually insane the stories, might be exaggerated in the aggregate when it comes to prevalence and effect? It's OK—I am one of those people, despite writing about the subject on occasion and reading all the fine work done at Reason by Robby Soave and other colleagues.
Matt Welch
Sep 18 2013
Opinion
And what's right with President Obama
The British have a saying about the twin rules of journalism first simplify then exaggerate. Perhaps Barack Obama can comfort himself with the reality that his current travails are both more complicated in their causes and less dire in their consequences than they are being portrayed in the Washington echo chamber.
Politico
Dec 18 2020
Analysis
New York Times Admits Its Caliphate Podcast Fell for ISIS Hoaxer’s Bullshit
The New York Times on Friday released the findings of its internal investigation into star reporter Rukmini Callimachi’s reporting on ISIS and extremism in the Middle East. The newspaper acknowledged that its Caliphate podcast gave “too much credence to the false or exaggerated accounts” of one of its main subjects, Shehroze Chaudhry, who has since been charged in Canada with concocting a
Daily Beast