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mschenk.bsky.social
Fact checker. Co-founder of leadstories.com.
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This guy is literally the reason why @leadstories.com started fact checking...

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leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

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This is now being spread by several prominent right-wing accounts on X. I wonder what the goal is? It is easy to check and see it is fake... #khabylame #tiktok #freekhaby

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Most screenshots of Trump vs. Elon posts today are fake again... Nature is healing. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

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

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

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

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

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

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

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That was fun...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

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

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

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Amazed this isn't bigger news...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

What if Community Notes broke down and nobody noticed?

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

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...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

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...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Live... #eurovision #esc

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Fact checking is poetry!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments