Tag: misinformation
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Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk’s killing seeks to widen US divisions
Russia moved quickly to exploit conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s shooting death at a Utah college, with groups linked to the Kremlin spreading false and misleading claims that experts say are designed to incite violence
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FACT FOCUS: Assassination of Charlie Kirk prompts flood of false and misleading claims online
A bevy of false and misleading claims proliferated on social media in the two days it took officials to arrest and publicly identify 22-year-old Tyler Robinson as the suspect in Wednesday’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk
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Michael Hiltzik: Scientists always strive to be apolitical, but they can’t keep politics out of their labs
There’s a scene in the movie “Oppenheimer” in which Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron and head of his own lab at UC Berkeley, reacts angrily when he discovers his friend J. Robert Oppenheimer trying to recruit lab assistants to a communist-linked campus labor union. It’s one of the few scenes in this largely…
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Matthew Livelsberger’s widow breaks silence, refutes ‘misinformation about my family’
The widow of Matthew Livelsberger — the Colorado Springs Green Beret who died by suicide in a rented Tesla Cybertruck seconds before the vehicle exploded on New Year’s Day in Las Vegas — has broken her silence to refute what she believes are false and slanderous narratives about her late husband and their family. In an interview…
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Colorado secretary of state announces election misinformation initiative
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold will expand efforts to combat foreign influence in November’s general election with a new misinformation initiative, she announced Tuesday. The initiative encourages voters to access accurate information and fight the spread of false information with digital outreach and a website identifying foreign misinformation. “Foreign adversaries are conducting influence operations…