The latest ad from the anti-Trump Lincoln Project promotes the same mistaken argument that Donald Trump himself has made — that the former president has… Read More »Ad Misleads: Trump Not Charged as Spy – FactCheck.org
SciCheck Digest Human coronaviruses first identified in the 1960s cause common colds. But a viral video misrepresents early research on common coronaviruses and cites unrelated… Read More »Video Distorts Early Coronavirus Research To Promote Baseless Bioweapon Conspiracy Theory – FactCheck.org
Even before cyclone Biparjoy (literally, ‘disaster’) made landfall in Gujarat, news anchor Sweta Tripathi had taken Indian television news by storm on Wednesday night. Republic… Read More »Cyclone Biparjoy: Republic anchor’s antics symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with Indian TV media – Alt News
Since it hit the theatres on 1 June, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has been a massive success, amassing nearly $400 million globally in box-office earnings.… Read More »Trans Rights to ‘Copaganda’: The Web Of Controversies ‘Across the Spider-Verse’
The cult classic Border opens with a sequence that could put probably Top Gun to shame if it was also made in the late 1990s.… Read More »26 Years of ‘Border’: Gen-Z Watches (And Cries Through) This Cult Classic
On June 9, the Department of Justice unsealed a 44-page indictment against former President Donald Trump detailing allegations not only of mishandling sensitive classified documents… Read More »Q&A on Trump’s Federal Indictment – FactCheck.org
During the wee hours of June 1, almost a dozen of idols of Hindu deities in four temples in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, were vandalized by… Read More »4 Hindus held for Bulandshahr temple vandalism; videos viral with misleading communal claims – Alt News
In a series of public appearances on June 7, Mike Pence formally jumped into the 2024 presidential race, becoming the first vice president in 83… Read More »FactChecking Pence’s Presidential Announcement – FactCheck.org
Watching Scoop stream on Netflix brought back memories of those exciting days of the launch of Hindustan Times in Mumbai and the events that unfolded.… Read More »Scoop: ‘Never Did Crime Enter The Newsroom As It Did in The Jigna Vora Case’
For decades, an unassuming government vaccine safety surveillance system has done its job, quickly flagging possible side effects and allowing scientists and regulators to investigate… Read More »What VAERS Can and Can’t Do, and How Anti-Vaccination Groups Habitually Misuse Its Data – FactCheck.org
