Fake news

Both in Israel and in America, the impact of the Trump era on the news landscape runs deep.

The front-page headline—altered, it turns out—was a "reminder that the media doesn't select the president," wrote Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh in a since-deleted tweet.

The main reason I will vote for President Trump on Tuesday is to express my principled opposition to the preferred policies of the far-left Democratic Party.

"We wake up in the morning, we get punched in the face mainly by these people back here, by the media," Eric Trump said.

The company has also rejected 2.2 million ads that failed to complete the political ads authorization process.

Facebook has issued a rebuttal to The Social Dilemma, which was one of the most watched films on Netflix in September.

The pages contain content that praises the president and promotes far-right, anti-government militias.

The lengthy investigative article also said that the president paid no income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years.

"I know there is some risk to my style of humor, but who wants Army leaders who are risk averse?" Lieutenant General Theodore D. Martin, deputy commander of the Army Training and Doctrine and Command, told Newsweek.

Attorney Ven Johnson told Newsweek the 'racist' toddler video posted by Trump and his campaign, "was absolutely done to advocate for what I believe to be a racist, despicable message against two little babies."

"I would say about 20 percent isn't—we don't have the enemy of the people all over, fortunately," the president said.

Facebook has launched an information hub containing facts, data and advice about climate change.

"Did @realDonaldTrump have a stroke which he is hiding from the American public?" CNN analyst Joe Lockhart asked on Twitter.

There is an epidemic of fake news about the COVID-19 epidemic.

The House resolution praises Tennesseans "for clearly seeing that the mainstream media has sensationalized the reporting on COVID-19 in the service of political agendas."

Doctored footage posted by the president showing a CNN-like chyron reading "terrified todler runs from racist baby" was labeled as "manipulated media" on Twitter. On Facebook, it remains untouched.

NewsGuard's Misinformation Monitor tracks misinformation with exclusive data from five countries. Here's the June 2020 edition.

NewsGuard's Misinformation Monitor tracks misinformation with exclusive data from five countries. Here's the May 2020 edition.

"The maliciously false attacks on our campaign based on old social media posts being attributed to me are Fake News," California congressional candidate Ted Howze said.

Vladimir Gromov realized the USSR's unquenchable hunger for documentation left the system with very little capacity to actually check the validity of the reams of paper they were accumulating.

NewsGuard's Misinformation Monitor tracks misinformation with exclusive data from five countries. Here's the April 2020 edition.

"We've seen a significant increase in the amount of forwarding which users have told us can feel overwhelming and can contribute to the spread of misinformation," WhatsApp said.

The open letter, signed by 74 professors and journalists, argued that the network has "contributed" to the spread of the pandemic.

In both cases there is a curve that must be flattened in order to avoid the worst outcomes, and in both cases disinformation is readily ramped up and must be countered.

She reacted to a few rare words of praise from the president on Friday, pointing out several ways he's personally leading "the worst national response of any industrialized nation in the world."

NewsGuard's Misinformation Monitor tracks misinformation with exclusive data from five countries. Here's the latest edition.

This is just the latest bit of misinformation related to coronavirus that's making the rounds online.

Are the stories you're seeing on COVID-19 fact or fiction?

A new study links the spread of fake news and misinformaiton to the spread of infectious disease. Scientists say it could encourage dangerous behaviors.

"Our constitutional republic, literally, and the institutions in it, literally, are being challenged every single day by this would-be dictator," Joe Scarborough said.