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Remembering D-Day... Left: looking out for an Allied invasion fleet. Right: looking out for hoaxes, misinformation and bullshit.

Fact Check: Fox News DID Refer To Trump As 'Former President' In Article About Musk Clash -- Probably Typo

Fox News calls Trump "Former President"... web.archive.org/web/20250605...

"Oh, wait, that's a real screenshot, he did post that." -- U.S. fact checkers every five minutes the past few hours.

Lead Stories Goes To Brussels: Statement Made During Public Hearing Of European Parliament 'Democracy Shield' Committee

That was fun...

Goed artikel over onderzoek naar ‘het Sprinter Netwerk’ op X: een complex web van nepaccounts dat geautomatiseerd en gecoördineerd schadelijke politieke verhalen versterkt en daarbij met (grote) regelmaat #desinformatie en #nepnieuws verspreidt. www.debunk.org/the-sprinter...

Today on @indicator.media's free briefing: Community Notes were not showing on tweets for several days. Helpful notes took a nose dive, but a surprising amount of users kept posting through it. Plus: cool tools, research roundup and more news on the deception beat. indicator.media/p/x-communit...

It looks like they are back. Only took them five days :-)

Community Notes on X are entering their fifth day of downtime today. They posted two days ago they were "working to get notes to appear normally" with no updates from the official X Engineering (@XEng) or Community Notes (@CommunityNotes) accounts since. leadstories.com/analysis/202...

Press the "Heart" button if you want to do something about the decline in "Unique Likers" on Bluesky... #ClicktivismThatActuallyWorks ;-) bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Day four of Community Notes being down on X. leadstories.com/analysis/202...

Story has been updated: three days after the outage started the official Community Notes account now says they are working on a fix.

Community Notes are not currently showing up on X (h/t @mschenk.bsky.social). See below for a tweet with notes rated as helpful not showing up on the main feed. Unclear if related to the overall X outage this w/e or some other update being rolled out. The official CN account has been quiet.

Amazed this isn't bigger news...

What if Community Notes broke down and nobody noticed?

Zo komt het wel heel dichtbij... www.hln.be/nieuws/voort...

Iedereen die Vlaams Twitter in 2012 heeft meegemaakt weet hoe compleet normaal dit is 🥰

Are "Community Notes" on X down for anyone else? It seems even notes rated "helpful" aren't being shown on public posts, but they are showing up under the "birdwatch" URL (for notes contributors). Example: x.com/i/birdwatch/... x.com/toobaffled/s...

This meme is going massively viral but I just had an email from Harvard confirming this is an existing program and no courses were created in response to recent events. Also, there is no "dictatorship" course in the catalog...

So now we know where the Beyonce campaign finance claim came from...? #BustaTroll strikes again?

Live... #eurovision #esc

This story has *really* taken off in some online circles. Wait until they find out they've been trolled...

An evening with the late John Cleese... #lastchancetosee #johncleese

Acting on a tip from some Russian trolls and assorted conspiracy crazies on the internet, the ATF was able to bust a major cocaine warehouse this weekend! #satire #ai

Fact checking is poetry!

This fake Pope Leo XIV quote calling on people to "Be Woke" has been going viral all weekend long. Probably because partisans on *both* sides see it as confirming the view their side has of the new Pope. But sure, Community Notes will fix it.

Habemus Papam!

Collega @menicr.bsky.social en ik vertellen in "Het Uur van de Waarheid" hoe @leadstories.com de eerste factcheckorgansatie werd met persaccreditatie bij het Vaticaan.... vrtnws.be/p.1wLJepxa3jl

New Pope, New Conspiracies, But At The Speed Of Social Media

White Smoke: Cardinals Choose New Pope -- What We Know So Far