Megan Alpert

‘Noise and Confusion’: Fake News in Ecuador
  • 7 February 2018
Editors at Ecuadoran media outlets told Snopes how fake news and disinformation affected two recent...
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Did Trump Put ‘Make America Great Again’ on Presidential Challenge Coins?
  • 23 December 2017
Past designs of the tokens, have been subtler and included the phrase 'E pluribus unum.'
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Was a Transgender Woman Convicted of Sexually Assaulting a Young Girl in a Bathroom?
  • 23 October 2017
A spate of blog posts attempted to link the rape of a 10-year-old girl in...
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Is ‘Covfefe’ a Word in Arabic? Yiddish? ‘Antediluvian’?
  • 5 June 2017
After President Donald Trump mistyped (then deleted) a tweet, some hurried to ascribe meanings to...
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Trump Holds Joint Press Conference With Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos
  • 18 May 2017
Amid an ongoing political crisis, President Trump affirmed the partnership between the United States and...
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Venezuela’s Political Crisis Sparks Major Protests
  • 6 April 2017
Venezuelans took to the streets to protest moves by the country's Supreme Court to undermine...
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Was a Japanese Man Crushed to Death by a Pile of Pornography?
  • 6 March 2017
Spurious articles reported that a man was crushed by a pile of pornography; he actually...
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