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'Noise and Confusion': Fake News in Ecuador

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Megan Alpert
Feb. 7, 2018 Editors at Ecuadoran media outlets told Snopes how fake news and disinformation affected two rec ...
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Did Trump Put 'Make America Great Again' on Presidential Challenge Coins?

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Megan Alpert
Dec. 23, 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?

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Megan Alpert Kim LaCapria
Oct. 20, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 23, 2017) A spate of blog posts attempted to link the rape of a 10-year-old girl in her home to laws allow ...
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Is 'Covfefe' a Word in Arabic? Yiddish? 'Antediluvian'?

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Megan Alpert Kim LaCapria
June 2, 2017 (Updated: June 5, 2017) After President Donald Trump mistyped (then deleted) a tweet, some hurried to ascribe meanings t ...
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Trump Holds Joint Press Conference With Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos

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Megan Alpert
May 18, 2017 Amid an ongoing political crisis, President Trump affirmed the partnership between the United St ...
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We May Not Be Able To Do Math Unconsciously, After All

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Megan Alpert
May 18, 2017 A study that seemed to show people can read and do math with their unconscious minds has been ca ...
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Venezuela's Political Crisis Sparks Major Protests

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Megan Alpert
April 6, 2017 Venezuelans took to the streets to protest moves by the country's Supreme Court to undermine its ...
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Was a Japanese Man Crushed to Death by a Pile of Pornography?

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Megan Alpert
March 6, 2017 Spurious articles reported that a man was crushed by a pile of pornography; he actually died of ...
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