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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.”

Facebook posts – Video shows professor talking about water equity, not adding COVID-19 vaccines to water supply

Speaker at World Economic Forum conference proposed adding COVID-19 vaccines to water supply.

MovieFact: ‘Oppenheimer’ sticks close to historic record, with some liberties

The movie “Oppenheimer” hews close to the historic record, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t take a few liberties for the sake of the dramatic touch.

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