Misleading Online Posts Distort Biden’s Joke at Meeting with Indian Prime Minister
In a meeting with the Indian prime minister and CEOs of technology companies, President Joe Biden joked about Republican investigations into him and his family. "I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things," he joked, and added, "Now, all kidding aside." But a viral video has been misleadingly edited to omit Biden saying that he was joking.
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TikTok Video Mangles American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Estimates
Breast cancer in younger women has been increasing gradually in recent decades. But a social media post misrepresents case number projections for 2022 and 2023 to falsely claim they show a dramatic rise in early-onset breast cancer — and then baselessly ties its faulty comparisons to COVID-19 vaccines.
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Q&A on Trump’s Federal Indictment
On June 9, the Department of Justice unsealed a 44-page indictment against former President Donald Trump detailing allegations not only of mishandling sensitive classified documents after he left office, but of obstructing federal officials who tried to get them back. Here, we answer some questions about the indictment.
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