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Social media users have alleged that the Los Angeles fires were triggered by a ‘directed energy weapon,’ which enables blue-colored objects to survive the ‘laser attack.’ However, evidence shows the claim is purely conspiratorial.

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Wildfire of Conspiracy Theories: Disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about the Los Angeles area wildfires have spread in far right spaces online.

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President-elect Donald Trump blamed California’s devastating wildfires on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s water policy, and social media users revived Trump’s past criticism of the state’s forest management. We took a closer look at the claims. www.politifact.com/article/2025...

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Shortly: no. Longer version: www.reuters.com/fact-check/t...

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"Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories" www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/t...

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Some AI-generated images are difficult to spot. Others ...

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AI is getting better - but it's still visible.

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In the space of 24 hours, Naomi Wolf has claimed that the fires in LA are an actual war or foreign invasion, a plot to kill people to destroy evidence of Covid vaccine adverse effects, weather manipulation, a deliberate bombing campaign, and mass spraying of mood stabilisers.

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No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has been located, and the earliest published source of this phrase found dates to 1982. quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/t...

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Russia's online disinformation campaign took my advice and started deepfaking audio of the people it's quoting. This is deepfake me with the wrong British accent talking about the Kursk offensive.

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While the press has focused on the ending of Meta's fact-checking program, not enough has focused on the removal of restrictions on certain types of speech previously deemed harmful on FB & IG, incl. criticism of vulnerable groups—immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ people. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...

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It’s AI generated 😬

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"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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X's Community Notes is slow, opaque, and relies on consensus rather than a focus on truth. In other words, it has features that Zuckerberg and Musk regularly criticise in the so-called "legacy media" bsky.app/profile/jane...

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Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Is the viral TikTok post claiming Ukrainian President #VolodymyrZelenskyy was captured by Russian forces true? No, the claim is false. Zelenskyy has made multiple public appearances since the post emerged.

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This article has been updated with yet another Rumble "editor pick" video pushing the reptilian conspiracy theory, this one claiming that a "reptilian race controls Earth" and are trying to create a "one-world government."

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In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an Estonian politician and propagandist, Aivo Peterson. He’s best-known for travelling to Donbas and Mariupol to produce pro-Kremlin propaganda, and for trying to create a pro-Russia separatist movement in Estonia. 1/16

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While there was so much focus on Shamsud-Din Jabbar's YouTube channel and LinkedIn profile earlier, his deleted Facebook page seems to have been the one with clear evidence of his radicalisation.

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Old images of security barriers from 2017 have been shared to claim that they were not raised prior to the attack in #NewOrleans. Read our fact-check here.

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An AI image linked to a meme coin spread across platforms last week in posts misidentifying the woman set on fire on New York's subway as "Amelia Carter." Today, police named the true victim: Debrina Kawam. But the disinformation had already spun out of control. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Get ready for 2025. Science is your friend. Anti-science and anti-intellectualism are your enemies. skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

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We wrote about a lot of misinformation in 2024, and, as usual, some fact-checking articles piqued our readers’ interest more than others. In this post, we present the 10 most popular stories published on our website this past year. www.factcheck.org/2024/12/our-...

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❌ This pic of Laura Loomer has gathered 4k likes on Bluesky with a caption saying it shows her demanding her X blue checkmark back at the old Twitter HQ. Except it's an old photo. @willsommer.bsky.social and others posted it back in 2018:

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More Ai slop. And as usual we have lots of real photos of mr. Wadlow. He was tall, very tall, but somehow someone wanted to make him even taller.

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When Bush 41 died, QAnon gurus spread insane conspiracy theories that cabal members got mysterious envelopes at his funeral, that his casket had a wrinkled flag because he was a traitor, and that James Comey leaked his execution. I imagine we'll see similar nonsense for President Carter.

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A Colorado man is facing bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America now”. The reporter told police that he believed he had been attacked because he is Pacific Islander. apnews.com/article/tv-r...

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Perfect AI generated scenery 😱

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PLEASE stop offering this scumbag your condolences and learn how to do a reverse image search. This is a stolen image of a cat named Cheddar. He lives in Korea and he's fine: www.instagram.com/c.c.c__cat/r...

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This image purporting to show a racist object decorating Tim Walz's home is doctored. The Minnesota governor's original photo does not include the item -- it is a ceramic ashtray in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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“People have bought into this false narrative. We’re now seeing a worrying resurgence of conspiracy theories in general, from chemtrails to vaccines. There’s a detachment from facts and rational analysis.”

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The drone/UFO flap just won’t stop although there’s nothing to report. Some accounts are now posting AI generated UAP videos. Source: UnknownFootageIG on Instagram - they have created all clips using AI www.instagram.com/unknownfoota...

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This image, which has gone viral online, is AI-generated and fake. There are far too many inconsistencies pointing to this being AI: The Israeli soldiers and their equipment, the fire, the rubble and the unlikely nature of the image.

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How the the far-right uses TikTok in Europe to spread conspiracy theories vsquare.org/far-right-ti...

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Bluesky collects various data points to provide & improve its services. In addition to your posts & interactions, here are some of the other data points that Bluesky is collecting. The collected data is comparable to, and sometimes less extensive than, what other social media apps gather.

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"Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control" — BBC I would too, Denmark. I would too. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Ok so Hysteria on Peacock may be the best thing I've seen all year. A satanic panic cult murder mystery that is an incisive and accurate dissection of cult dynamics and how panic spreads in a community, starring Bruce Campbell as the town sheriff in a rare straight man role. A perfect season of TV.

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Fact Check: Suspected German Christmas Market Attacker Did NOT Say 'Allahu Akbar' On Arrest Video

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❌ Three fake screenshots mimicking Trump's Truth Social have appeared on Bluesky (and other platforms), posing as posts on a rift between the president-elect and Elon Musk. All three of these posts are fake.

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Radio waves emitted by the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) cannot generate natural disasters. Rumoured links between HAARP and the recent earthquake in Vanuatu are baseless.

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Google search results and its AI overview have been giving misleading information about the UK asylum seeker crime rate - quoting 2017 figures from Germany. There’s no evidence these figures are correct for the UK, though official data’s limited. (1/2)

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This article documents some interesting tactics, including using the voices of prominent professors to create synthetic audio content, overlaid onto images and videos, in ways that suggest the professor and their academic institution have created/endorsed the message.

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NEW VIDEO! youtu.be/2yCjO-wRxyM

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The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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With more than half the world’s population participating in elections in 2024, AI disinformation was expected to have a major impact at the beginning of the year. Logically Facts looks at its role in major elections throughout the year and concerns for the future.

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This image, which purports to show Bashar al-Assad's asylum document in Russia, has been widely shared online. But it's fake. The image of Assad is obviously doctored, and his surname in the document is "foal".

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Drone panic and chemtrail panic are crossing streams, and it's giving us hay fever.

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