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U.S. intelligence officials believe that Russia is using a variety of measures to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of the November election.
Falwell said the picture was intended to be a joke.
Jerry Falwell Jr. agreed to take an indefinite leave of absence as the leader of Liberty University, one of the nation’s top evangelical Christian colleges, days after apologizing for a social media post that caused an uproar.
An unreliable website with a penchant for publishing clickbait and repackaged satire appeared to have tricked readers in the summer of 2020.
Do not attribute to the divine that which can be explained by condiments.
The list of dozens of names posted to Facebook was offered up in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking case.
The question was in response to a journalist's query about Biden's cognitive fitness for office.
A similar picture circulated years earlier.
A viral Facebook post recounted several supposed gestures of generosity by the U.S. president.
As various countries race to produce a successful coronavirus vaccine, disinformation experts are bracing for a steady drum of misleading claims and propaganda aimed at undermining competing countries’ efforts to develop an antidote.
Overall, even a lengthy lockdown will have a surprisingly small impact on the global climate.
While package deliveries to homebound Americans were up more than 50%, that was offset by continued declines in first-class and business mail, even as costs increased significantly to pay for personal protective equipment.
A special evacuation flight bringing people home to India who had been trapped abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off a runway and split in two while landing in heavy rain in the southern state of Kerala, killing at least 16 passengers and injuring 123 more.
The SARS-COV-2 coronavirus is novel, and we don’t yet have all the facts about it. As a result, we may have to change our approach as new scientific data comes in.
If you were a Google Plus user between 2015 and early 2019, you could receive compensation from this class action lawsuit.
According to the internet, "The Simpsons" writers are the world's best prognosticators.
Carmen Blandin Tarleton became the first American and only the second person globally to undergo the procedure after her first transplant began to fail six years after the operation.
July's job gain was much lower than June's 4.8 million and May's 2.7 million jobs.
President Donald Trump ordered a sweeping but unspecified ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of consumer apps TikTok and WeChat, although it remains unclear if he has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S.
The ACLU has filed nearly 400 lawsuits and other legal actions against the Trump administration, some meeting with setbacks but many resulting in important victories.
Facebook hasn't limited your feed to only a certain number of people, and sharing a post saying otherwise won't make any difference.
The planet Mars will not be making a once-in-our-lifetimes, remarkably close approach to Earth on August 27.
Businesses are not well served when their products are associated with illegal activities.
A spoof omnibus conspiracy theory linked a company developing a potential COVID-19 vaccine to several prominent figures.
Hasbro announced it was pulling a Troll doll from store shelves after social media users complained about the placement of a button on the doll's bottom.
Hasbro announced it was pulling a Troll doll from store shelves after social media users complained about the placement of a button on the doll's bottom.
An emotional obituary for David W. Nagy condemned all who have failed to heed the advice of medical professionals during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
A spoof omnibus conspiracy theory linked a company developing a potential COVID-19 vaccine to several prominent figures.
Thousands of readers inquired about people featured in a viral video pulled by social media companies for pushing COVID-19 misinformation in July 2020.
Facebook hasn't limited your feed to only a certain number of people, and sharing a post saying otherwise won't make any difference.
