ALI SWENSON

March 13, 2021 at 6:51 am

Nurses fight conspiracy theories along with coronavirus VIEW

Los Angeles emergency room nurse Sandra Younan spent the last year juggling long hours as she watched many patients struggle with the coronavirus and some...

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February 26, 2021 at 11:49 am

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they...

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February 16, 2021 at 6:32 pm

Texas blackouts fuel false claims about renewable energy

With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to...

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December 24, 2020 at 10:53 am

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Here’s a look at false and misleading claims circulating online as news about COVID-19 vaccines and uncertainty around coronavirus relief in the U.S. dominate headlines....

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December 18, 2020 at 10:45 am

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Here's a look at false and misleading claims circulating as the United States rolled out the newly authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to some health care...

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December 4, 2020 at 3:12 pm

Surveillance tape breeds false fraud claims in Georgia

Surveillance footage of ballot processing on election night in Atlanta is fueling a false social media narrative of “suitcases filled with ballots” hidden under a...

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December 2, 2020 at 4:53 pm

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s claims of vote rigging are all wrong

President Donald Trump repeated a litany of baseless assertions of political corruption, machine tampering and mysterious votes appearing out of nowhere that allowed Joe Biden...

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November 25, 2020 at 2:58 pm

Paper shredding drives false election claims in Georgia

Government and election officials frequently call on shredding companies to dispose of personal and sensitive documents that are no longer needed. But in a suburban...

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• Nation

November 21, 2020 at 5:15 am

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s flailing effort resting on mendacity

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's flailing attempt to cling to office after voters decisively chose to oust him has taken the country into a...

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November 19, 2020 at 9:59 pm

AP FACT CHECK: Trump legal team’s batch of false vote claims

Despite a lack of evidence of widespread irregularities or fraud, President Donald Trump’s legal team used a Thursday press conference to go through a laundry...

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