Tag: Falsehoods
Why Are People Spreading Falsehoods About Bitcoin’s Water Use?
Bitcoin miners in aggregate pay for electricity to process blocks of transactions, and the number of blocks is predictable (one every 10 minutes or so [...]
Trump Lawyer Admits to Falsehoods in 2020 Fraud Claims
Jenna Ellis acknowledged that she knowingly misrepresented the facts about election fraud in a disciplinary procedure by Colorado state bar officials. [...]
What Can the House Do to Address George Santos’s Falsehoods?
The representative-elect’s long list of fabrications has raised questions about whether he will even be allowed to take his seat next week. But House [...]
G.O.P. Leadership Remains Silent Over George Santos’s Falsehoods
The muted response from party leaders suggested that so far they were prepared to mete out little, if any, punishment to the congressman-elect.
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In Announcing 2024 Bid for Presidency, Trump Echoes Old Falsehoods
Donald Trump uttered the first inaccurate claim about two minutes in and a few minutes later, ticked off at least four hyperbolic claims about his own [...]
Fueled by Falsehoods, a Michigan Group Is Ready to Challenge the Vote
In private meetings, activists, lawyers and G.O.P. officials laid out their strategy. “If there is a close election, it’s going to be up to us to fix [...]
With Falsehoods About Pelosi Attack, Republicans Mimic Trump
The former president has showed Republicans that there is no penalty — and possibly a reward — from voters for spreading false claims and insulting po [...]
Biden’s Folksiness Can Veer Into Folklore, or Falsehoods
President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.
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Trump Rally Fact-Check: Covid-19 and Election Falsehoods
WASHINGTON — During a rally in Arizona on Saturday, former President Donald J. Trump repeated his lie that the 2020 election was stolen and made other [...]
Trump’s Covid and Election Falsehoods at Arizona Rally
WASHINGTON — During a rally in Arizona on Saturday, former President Donald J. Trump repeated his lie that the 2020 election was stolen and made other [...]
Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find
Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for how Election Day would unfold: Pre [...]
Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find
Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for how Election Day would unfold: Pre [...]
Study: Fox viewers more likely to believe Covid falsehoods
Kaiser polled people on whether or not they believed seven widely-circulated untruths about the virus, among them that the government is exaggerat [...]
‘The No. 1 issue’: Trump whips up election falsehoods after flawed Arizona report
“This is a huge win for the 3 November movement to get to the bottom of the 2020 election,” said Boris Epshteyn, former special assistant to Trump [...]
Trump’s ultimate speech as president included falsehoods and exaggerations. Right here’s a fact-check.
President Trump used the ultimate speech of his presidency on Wednesday morning to repeat most of the identical falsehoods and exaggerations he inf [...]