#fact-check — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fact-check, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: disinformation alert
🔍 Pre-Bunk: The Manufactured Crowd
Before the ATF's anti-trans gun rule closed for comment, a wall of identical "I support this commonsense rule" messages buried the real objections — ~96% looked machine-generated.
The move: manufactured consensus (astroturfing) — fake the crowd so people assume it's settled and go quiet.
The tell: a deadline-eve spike of copy-paste praise. A tell, not a mandate.
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CW: disinformation alert
🔍 Pre-Bunk: the deepfake attack ad coming to your feed
A super PAC is spending $10M on AI-generated attack ads — the first shows a Senate candidate as a surgeon over a child. Texas now; Wisconsin & Georgia next.
The tell: a politician shown *doing* something monstrous, not saying it. Fabricated action is the deepfake giveaway. Don't repost it, even to condemn it — that's what the $10M buys.
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A viral video shared by BJP MP Harbhajan Singh as evidence of Punjab’s drug crisis was from Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, Punjab Police said. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/fact-check-harbajan-singhs-viral-zombie-drug-video-was-from-rajasthan-not-punjab-t7j1iwld?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #FactCheck #DrugAbuse #Punjab
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I mean… I’m all for his choices going sideways, but if this were any other presidency it would be madness.
I’m starting to believe Robert Johnson & crossroad demon deals or something similar.Trump made a deal with a devil. Only explanation why he’s still alive.
Contradicting his public statements, #Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid #Iran threat.
The White House said Trump was aboard #AirForceOne as he left a NATO summit.
He wasn’t.
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I mean… I’m all for his choices going sideways, but if this were any other presidency it would be madness.
I’m starting to believe Robert Johnson & crossroad demon deals or something similar.Trump made a deal with a devil. Only explanation why he’s still alive.
Contradicting his public statements, #Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid #Iran threat.
The White House said Trump was aboard #AirForceOne as he left a NATO summit.
He wasn’t.
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One Fake Post Can Move Markets, Minds, and Millions
https://wp.me/p84YjG-b8c
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CW: trans health data: assault & suicide mentions
Science Explainer: What forcing someone out of the right bathroom does
A separate "third space" sounds kind. The evidence says otherwise: trans youth denied the right facility face up to 2.5x the sexual-assault risk (Pediatrics, 2019). Avoidance drives UTIs, kidney problems and near-double the odds of a suicide attempt.
Exclusion doesn't make anyone safer — it harms the excluded.
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CW: Disinformation alert
🔍 Pre-Bunk: "The third space is a fair compromise"
As UK providers rewrite policy to the single-sex Code, expect a soothing line: give trans people a separate facility, so everyone's fine.
The move is euphemism + false compromise — rebranding exclusion as inclusion. "Third space" sounds like an add-on; it's a removal.
Spot it: "compromise" next to a rule that strips access from one group only.
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CW: CW: disinformation, mental health #Disinformation
🔍 Pre-Bunk Alert: Manufactured absence
Watch for this: a government stops collecting data on a group — this week, trans & nonbinary students dropped from a US school survey — then cites the silence as proof it's "not a problem."
The tell: the number existed last year, the category vanished this. Share the documented one instead: 40% of trans students bullied (CDC 2023).
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Science Explainer: Isn't biology simple — two sexes, and that's that?
Biologists describe sex across at least five layers — chromosomes, gonads, hormones, internal anatomy, genitalia — that usually line up and sometimes don't. Intersex/DSD variation runs from ~1 in 2,000 up to ~1.7%, about as common as red hair.
Even scientists who call sex "binary" agree the slogan is wrong: at conception an embryo isn't sexually differentiated at all.
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Science Explainer: Isn't biology simple — two sexes, and that's that?
Biologists describe sex across at least five layers — chromosomes, gonads, hormones, internal anatomy, genitalia — that usually line up and sometimes don't. Intersex/DSD variation runs from ~1 in 2,000 up to ~1.7%, about as common as red hair.
Even scientists who call sex "binary" agree the slogan is wrong: at conception an embryo isn't sexually differentiated at all.
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#ElonMusk’s #DOGE made big errors in claims of government savings, #GAO finds
The #government #watchdog found that billions of dollars in DOGE’s public tally could not be verified & that some claimed cuts never happened.#FactCheck #TrumpLies #Musk #InfoSec #PublicDisservice #law #regulation #CivilServants #CivilService #PublicService #MassFirings #FederalAgencies #Trump #USpol
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#ElonMusk’s #DOGE made big errors in claims of government savings, #GAO finds
The #government #watchdog found that billions of dollars in DOGE’s public tally could not be verified & that some claimed cuts never happened.#FactCheck #TrumpLies #Musk #InfoSec #PublicDisservice #law #regulation #CivilServants #CivilService #PublicService #MassFirings #FederalAgencies #Trump #USpol
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Fact check: Is Germany really cracking down on free speech and being investigated by the United Nations because of it?
The US-based nonprofit Privacy Guides recently covered in their podcast “This Week in Privacy“ episode 64 an article titled “Inside the dystopian world of Germany’s free speech crackdown” from UK-based publisher The Telegraph. The co-host (Nate) read off the notes while covering the story and said the original article is "definitely worth a read. Lots of good stuff in there.”
Disclaimer: This fact-check has been written on a best-effort basis with the time and resources available to me. I would have liked to dig deeper into the sources I’ve linked, the claims made, and the original article, but my current circumstances don’t allow for such a large-scale investigation. In contrast to Privacy Guides, which is funded by many supporters, Voxel is a single person who tries his best to educate people about data protection and cybersecurity and to fight for a better future with no funding whatsoever. If you find something that is inaccurate, please feel free to kindly correct me in the comments, I will adjust it ASAP.
I’ll cover the claims made in the episode and debunk them chronologically.
The first claim is about Rainer Zitelmann who, according to them, had been accused of violating § 86a StGB, which bans the display of Nazi symbols, slogans, and imagery, and could now face three years in prison if found guilty. He found out the offending social media post was a meme about Adolf Hitler, but it was one in which he compared the Nazi dictator and his invasion of Czechoslovakia to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I found news coverage from other sources that paints a similar picture, but was unable to independently verify R. Zitelmann’s claims.
All following quotes are by Nate from Privacy Guides (source) if not marked otherwise.
So basically, like, I'm saying Hitler is bad. Why is this? Yeah.
Objectively misrepresents the case and makes it seem as if Germany would fight negative speech about Hitler.
(…) is one of thousands of Germans who have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts that fall afoul of the country's political speech laws, which are unusually stringent for an EU member state.
Neither Privacy Guides nor the original article provides a source for this data. I was unable to find information about this.
They went on to cover the “Schwachkopf” (can be roughly translated as “weak head” in the cognitive/intellectual sense) case. They claim that the person who called Robert Habeck “Schwachkopf” got his home “raided.” This is false; the supposed raid was actually a search warrant to seize evidence. The accused voluntarily handed over the tablet used in the crime to officers; consequently, further measures were waived, not least for reasons of proportionality. So no actual home search was conducted.
In the case of the “Lügenfritz” (can be roughly translated to “lying Fritz”) insult, Nate says that the accused was fined two thousand euros. This is theoretically false. The court issued a fine of 30 days’ income. I was unable to find source that provides information on how much the accused earned. The accused didn’t object the ruling.
The number of investigations under Section 86a, the Nazi symbol ban that Dr. Z was investigated for has more than doubled over the past decade according to official police statistics. Investigations into the political insult law also reached a record level in 2025.
Neither Privacy Guides nor the original article provides a source for this data. I was unable to find information about this.
In one recent case, a pensioner was investigated under Section 188 for posting Pinocchio is coming on Facebook after he learned that Frederick Mertz, the chancellor, was visiting his hometown.
This is true, but the investigations were closed, “because this is a form of criticism of power covered by freedom of expression and is therefore permissible“ (automated translation). The original article and Nate fail to mention that.
In 2021, police raided a man's apartment in Hamburg after he told a senator, you're such a d***.
That is partially true; his apartment was searched. I don’t think this is equal to being “raided,” but the original article, as well as Nate, fail to mention that the apartment search was deemed illegal by the court.
The surge in cases is so vast that the U.N. has launched an investigation into free speech violations in Germany, a step typically reserved for dictatorships and banana republics. (…) So and Germany needs to figure out what they're doing if they're getting investigated by the UN. I think that's pretty wild.
This is completely false. This misinformation was taken from the original article, which provides no source whatsoever. What is true, but wasn’t mentioned in the episode, is that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Ms. Irene Khan, undertook an official country visit to Germany to examine, in the spirit of cooperation and dialogue, the situation of the rights to freedom of opinion and expression in the country. But it’s important to highlight that (emphasis added):
Special Rapporteurs/Independent Experts/Working Groups are independent human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Together, these experts are referred to as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. While the UN Human Rights office acts as the secretariat for Special Procedures, the experts serve in their individual capacity and are independent from any government or organization, including OHCHR and the UN. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the UN or OHCHR.
German free speech activists on the left and right, as well as the Trump administration, have also raised the alarm, and there are growing calls from some of the country's stricter laws to be scrapped.
No sources provided, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there are some people who do. I can’t comment on the Trump administration.
The fur bears some similarities to the speech debate in Britain, where citizens have a knock on the door from police over opinions posted online.
I believe this is an extreme exaggeration and misrepresentation of the current situation based on the data provided.
Conclusion: Privacy Guides seemingly did not verify the integrity of the article and the information they took from it and shared in their podcast. They spread lots of misinformation about Germany’s current status, left out important information, and even claimed that the UN would be investigating Germany for free speech violations.
My opinion: In addition to the conclusion above, I would like to point out that the article seems to be highly politically motivated and appears to manipulate readers through disinformation into specific beliefs; that Privacy Guides used the article without seemingly noticing this highly political intention behind it, and did not verify the integrity of the information provided, is very concerning. My appeal to Privacy Guides would be: accuracy over quantity. Covering more articles at the cost of the integrity of the information provided causes a lot of harm and allows misinformation to spread even further than it otherwise would. Privacy Guides also makes it very hard to investigate and check the integrity of the sources yourself, as they’re not provided or linked in the show notes of the podcast, and you have to manually go to their website, search for the blog entry for the podcast, and find the sources there; I believe putting the sources directly in the show notes allows for a healthier information flow and empowers listeners to investigate themselves.
@privacyguides @jonah @nateb #privacyguides #germany #freespeech #factcheck #privacy #Politics
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Fact check: Is Germany really cracking down on free speech and being investigated by the United Nations because of it?
The US-based nonprofit Privacy Guides recently covered in their podcast “This Week in Privacy“ episode 64 an article titled “Inside the dystopian world of Germany’s free speech crackdown” from UK-based publisher The Telegraph. The co-host (Nate) read off the notes while covering the story and said the original article is "definitely worth a read. Lots of good stuff in there.”
Disclaimer: This fact-check has been written on a best-effort basis with the time and resources available to me. I would have liked to dig deeper into the sources I’ve linked, the claims made, and the original article, but my current circumstances don’t allow for such a large-scale investigation. In contrast to Privacy Guides, which is funded by many supporters, Voxel is a single person who tries his best to educate people about data protection and cybersecurity and to fight for a better future with no funding whatsoever. If you find something that is inaccurate, please feel free to kindly correct me in the comments, I will adjust it ASAP.
I’ll cover the claims made in the episode and debunk them chronologically.
The first claim is about Rainer Zitelmann who, according to them, had been accused of violating § 86a StGB, which bans the display of Nazi symbols, slogans, and imagery, and could now face three years in prison if found guilty. He found out the offending social media post was a meme about Adolf Hitler, but it was one in which he compared the Nazi dictator and his invasion of Czechoslovakia to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I found news coverage from other sources that paints a similar picture, but was unable to independently verify R. Zitelmann’s claims.
All following quotes are by Nate from Privacy Guides (source) if not marked otherwise.
So basically, like, I'm saying Hitler is bad. Why is this? Yeah.
Objectively misrepresents the case and makes it seem as if Germany would fight negative speech about Hitler.
(…) is one of thousands of Germans who have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts that fall afoul of the country's political speech laws, which are unusually stringent for an EU member state.
Neither Privacy Guides nor the original article provides a source for this data. I was unable to find information about this.
They went on to cover the “Schwachkopf” (can be roughly translated as “weak head” in the cognitive/intellectual sense) case. They claim that the person who called Robert Habeck “Schwachkopf” got his home “raided.” This is false; the supposed raid was actually a search warrant to seize evidence. The accused voluntarily handed over the tablet used in the crime to officers; consequently, further measures were waived, not least for reasons of proportionality. So no actual home search was conducted.
In the case of the “Lügenfritz” (can be roughly translated to “lying Fritz”) insult, Nate says that the accused was fined two thousand euros. This is theoretically false. The court issued a fine of 30 days’ income. I was unable to find source that provides information on how much the accused earned. The accused didn’t object the ruling.
The number of investigations under Section 86a, the Nazi symbol ban that Dr. Z was investigated for has more than doubled over the past decade according to official police statistics. Investigations into the political insult law also reached a record level in 2025.
Neither Privacy Guides nor the original article provides a source for this data. I was unable to find information about this.
In one recent case, a pensioner was investigated under Section 188 for posting Pinocchio is coming on Facebook after he learned that Frederick Mertz, the chancellor, was visiting his hometown.
This is true, but the investigations were closed, “because this is a form of criticism of power covered by freedom of expression and is therefore permissible“ (automated translation). The original article and Nate fail to mention that.
In 2021, police raided a man's apartment in Hamburg after he told a senator, you're such a d***.
That is partially true; his apartment was searched. I don’t think this is equal to being “raided,” but the original article, as well as Nate, fail to mention that the apartment search was deemed illegal by the court.
The surge in cases is so vast that the U.N. has launched an investigation into free speech violations in Germany, a step typically reserved for dictatorships and banana republics. (…) So and Germany needs to figure out what they're doing if they're getting investigated by the UN. I think that's pretty wild.
This is completely false. This misinformation was taken from the original article, which provides no source whatsoever. What is true, but wasn’t mentioned in the episode, is that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Ms. Irene Khan, undertook an official country visit to Germany to examine, in the spirit of cooperation and dialogue, the situation of the rights to freedom of opinion and expression in the country. But it’s important to highlight that (emphasis added):
Special Rapporteurs/Independent Experts/Working Groups are independent human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Together, these experts are referred to as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. While the UN Human Rights office acts as the secretariat for Special Procedures, the experts serve in their individual capacity and are independent from any government or organization, including OHCHR and the UN. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the UN or OHCHR.
German free speech activists on the left and right, as well as the Trump administration, have also raised the alarm, and there are growing calls from some of the country's stricter laws to be scrapped.
No sources provided, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there are some people who do. I can’t comment on the Trump administration.
The fur bears some similarities to the speech debate in Britain, where citizens have a knock on the door from police over opinions posted online.
I believe this is an extreme exaggeration and misrepresentation of the current situation based on the data provided.
Conclusion: Privacy Guides seemingly did not verify the integrity of the article and the information they took from it and shared in their podcast. They spread lots of misinformation about Germany’s current status, left out important information, and even claimed that the UN would be investigating Germany for free speech violations.
My opinion: In addition to the conclusion above, I would like to point out that the article seems to be highly politically motivated and appears to manipulate readers through disinformation into specific beliefs; that Privacy Guides used the article without seemingly noticing this highly political intention behind it, and did not verify the integrity of the information provided, is very concerning. My appeal to Privacy Guides would be: accuracy over quantity. Covering more articles at the cost of the integrity of the information provided causes a lot of harm and allows misinformation to spread even further than it otherwise would. Privacy Guides also makes it very hard to investigate and check the integrity of the sources yourself, as they’re not provided or linked in the show notes of the podcast, and you have to manually go to their website, search for the blog entry for the podcast, and find the sources there; I believe putting the sources directly in the show notes allows for a healthier information flow and empowers listeners to investigate themselves.
@privacyguides @jonah @nateb #privacyguides #germany #freespeech #factcheck #privacy #Politics
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Microsoft’s Quantum Chief Doesn’t Care That Scientists Don’t Believe His Results
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-quantum-chief-majorana-results/
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Microsoft’s Quantum Chief Doesn’t Care That Scientists Don’t Believe His Results
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-quantum-chief-majorana-results/
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Science Explainer: Can you "catch" a gender identity from friends or social media?
No. The "social contagion"/ROGD idea rests on one corrected parent-survey study — never data from trans youth themselves — plus a retracted follow-up. When researchers checked national data, the pattern wasn't there.
More young people come out today because there's less stigma, not because identity spreads.
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Science Explainer: Can you "catch" a gender identity from friends or social media?
No. The "social contagion"/ROGD idea rests on one corrected parent-survey study — never data from trans youth themselves — plus a retracted follow-up. When researchers checked national data, the pattern wasn't there.
More young people come out today because there's less stigma, not because identity spreads.
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Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader has clarified that reports claiming HIV infection among 7,000 college students are false, stating that college students are not tracked as a separate category in HIV data.The Minister also said the figure of 56,000 HIV-positive cases is a National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) estimate, not an exact count.
https://links.nammaward.in/Yndib
#Karnataka #Health #PublicHealth #HIVAwareness #IEC #Bengaluru #FactCheck
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Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader has clarified that reports claiming HIV infection among 7,000 college students are false, stating that college students are not tracked as a separate category in HIV data.The Minister also said the figure of 56,000 HIV-positive cases is a National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) estimate, not an exact count.
https://links.nammaward.in/Yndib
#Karnataka #Health #PublicHealth #HIVAwareness #IEC #Bengaluru #FactCheck
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@chris or Morocco just uses that #narrative? If there has ever been a campaign, it must still be found in Social Media. Any proofs?
Never believe anything before you have any evidence and sources! Never believe Posts in Social media, if they are not fact-checked!
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@chris or Morocco just uses that #narrative? If there has ever been a campaign, it must still be found in Social Media. Any proofs?
Never believe anything before you have any evidence and sources! Never believe Posts in Social media, if they are not fact-checked!
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Science Explainer: Can anything change who you're attracted to?
No. Sexual orientation forms early through prenatal biology — genetics, epigenetics, the well-documented fraternal birth-order effect. No diet, medication or vaccine can switch it. As fact-checkers confirmed in July 2026, that claim is "scientifically impossible."
The evidence, explained: https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/science/2026-08-03-explainer-can-anything-change-who-youre-attracted-to.md
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Science Explainer: Can anything change who you're attracted to?
No. Sexual orientation forms early through prenatal biology — genetics, epigenetics, the well-documented fraternal birth-order effect. No diet, medication or vaccine can switch it. As fact-checkers confirmed in July 2026, that claim is "scientifically impossible."
The evidence, explained: https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/science/2026-08-03-explainer-can-anything-change-who-youre-attracted-to.md
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CW: disinformation alert
🔍 Pre-Bunk: The First Hour
When something terrible happens near our community, the lies move faster than the facts — and they follow a pattern.
The technique: flood the zone in the first hour, then pivot the manufactured "cause" onto a scapegoat (migrants, queer people, or both).
How to spot it: speed with no named source. Don't share the first clip.
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CW: disinformation alert
🔍 Pre-Bunk: The First Hour
When something terrible happens near our community, the lies move faster than the facts — and they follow a pattern.
The technique: flood the zone in the first hour, then pivot the manufactured "cause" onto a scapegoat (migrants, queer people, or both).
How to spot it: speed with no named source. Don't share the first clip.
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NEW: Trump says Britain is the "prime suspect" for Europe migration crisis. The evidence says otherwise.
And Trump? He spoke at Davos twice. His family attends WEF. His Iran war is creating hundreds of thousands of new refugees as we speak.
The "prime suspect" isn Britain.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/trump-says-britain-is-the-prime-suspect
#Trump #Migration #Europe #UK #Investigation #WEF #Davos #IranWar #PeopleSmuggling #UN #GlobalCompact #ForeignPolicy #Hypocrisy #ThomAster #Journalism #FactCheck #Geopolitics #Asylum #BorderCrisis
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NEW: Trump says Britain is the "prime suspect" for Europe migration crisis. The evidence says otherwise.
And Trump? He spoke at Davos twice. His family attends WEF. His Iran war is creating hundreds of thousands of new refugees as we speak.
The "prime suspect" isn Britain.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/trump-says-britain-is-the-prime-suspect
#Trump #Migration #Europe #UK #Investigation #WEF #Davos #IranWar #PeopleSmuggling #UN #GlobalCompact #ForeignPolicy #Hypocrisy #ThomAster #Journalism #FactCheck #Geopolitics #Asylum #BorderCrisis
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RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·FACT CHECK: Lordan Suan quote criticizing VP Sara’s hospital visit is fake
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Did Congress vote to ‘merge’ the US and Israeli militaries?
Did Congress vote to ‘merge’ the US and Israeli militaries? No, that’s False. Did Congress just approve a…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AOC #breakingnews #Congress #Democrat #FactCheck #Fishback #Foreignpolicy #Iran #Israel #mcnd #merge #Military #PolitiFact #Republican #Us #vote #War
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Science Explainer: Does Social Transition at School Harm Kids?
Social transition — a chosen name, pronouns, a haircut — is non-medical and fully reversible. When researchers looked closely, the harm younger transition seemed to cause vanished once they accounted for one thing: school harassment. The transition isn't the danger. The bullying is.
The evidence, explained: https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/science/2026-07-29-explainer-does-social-transition-at-school-harm-kids.md
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Science Explainer: Does Social Transition at School Harm Kids?
Social transition — a chosen name, pronouns, a haircut — is non-medical and fully reversible. When researchers looked closely, the harm younger transition seemed to cause vanished once they accounted for one thing: school harassment. The transition isn't the danger. The bullying is.
The evidence, explained: https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/science/2026-07-29-explainer-does-social-transition-at-school-harm-kids.md
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CNN Fact-Checks Trump's Claims About Mail-In Ballots
📰 Original title: 'Someone should have told the president!' CNN anchor busts Trump over mail-in ballot claim
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/cnn-fact-checks-trump-s-claims-about-mail-in-ballots.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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The #Trump admin’s deadly military strikes on alleged #DrugTrafficking boats have not reduced the amount of cocaine entering the #US, but they’re prompting #criminal organizations to develop new strategies & tactics & undermining traditional investigative methods, acc/to a previously unreported assessment by the #DEA, a closed-door congressional briefing & interviews with current & former US & foreign officials.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #DueProcess
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The #Trump admin’s deadly military strikes on alleged #DrugTrafficking boats have not reduced the amount of cocaine entering the #US, but they’re prompting #criminal organizations to develop new strategies & tactics & undermining traditional investigative methods, acc/to a previously unreported assessment by the #DEA, a closed-door congressional briefing & interviews with current & former US & foreign officials.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #DueProcess
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#Trump says deadly boat strikes have nearly ended #DrugTrafficking to the #US by sea. The #Pentagon & #DEA analysts concluded otherwise.
67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #DueProcess
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#Trump says deadly boat strikes have nearly ended #DrugTrafficking to the #US by sea. The #Pentagon & #DEA analysts concluded otherwise.
67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #DueProcess
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AI is fast. That doesn't mean it's always right.
When an answer looks important, spend one minute checking it:
• Visit the official website.
• Compare it with another trusted source.
• Check if the numbers are current.
• Ask AI where the information came from and double-check the information in real-time.A quick check is better than sharing something you'll have to correct later.
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AI is fast. That doesn't mean it's always right.
When an answer looks important, spend one minute checking it:
• Visit the official website.
• Compare it with another trusted source.
• Check if the numbers are current.
• Ask AI where the information came from and double-check the information in real-time.A quick check is better than sharing something you'll have to correct later.
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The West Bengal government has set up a 24x7 War Room to monitor social media, counter fake news, coordinate with district authorities and ensure the timely dissemination of verified information. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/war-on-fake-news-bengal-launches-24x7-social-media-monitoring-hub-ldp511px?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #WestBengal #FakeNews #Misinformation #FactCheck #SocialMedia
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How statistics can be twisted to push the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.
Misleading maps manufacture a crisis that the data does not support.
#Factcheck #GreatReplacement #Politics #Ireland #ConspiracyTheory #Migration #Statistics #Disinformation
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Delhi Police have dismissed as "false and misleading" claims that three boys carrying food for Jantar Mantar protesters were detained, saying they were stopped only for routine identity verification https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/delhi-police-deny-detaining-boys-food-jantar-mantar-protest-yllvzywa?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DelhiPolice #JantarMantar #DelhiProtest #StudentProtest #FactCheck
