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Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert News

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Courage (sort of) and cowardice (definitely)

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Instagram posts – No, President Joe Biden didn’t say the Maui, Hawaii, wildfires were ‘planned’

Video shows President Joe Biden confirmed “the Lahaina fires were planned.”

From farming to doomsday prepping: How one YouTube channel changed to fuel misinformation

A YouTube channel with a rapidly growing audience regularly publishes misleading videos that stoke people’s fear of disaster. Experts say this content goes viral because it elicits an emotional response from viewers.

Joe Biden – Is Joe Biden right that a new Medicare drug law will save $160 billion over 10 years?

“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”

Instagram posts – Image of Fox News chyron calling UNC shooting suspect a ‘mostly white Asian’ is fabricated

Fox News chyron called University of North Carolina shooting suspect “mostly white Asian.”

TikTok posts – Claim that FEMA is burying Maui wildfire victims in a ‘mass gravesite’ started as satire

“Marines caught FEMA operatives piling corpses into a mass gravesite at the Maui Forest Reserve.”

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Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert News

(REMINDER: these listings are curated and definitely not intended...

Courage (sort of) and cowardice (definitely)

Note: This column typically includes the What I’m Reading...