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Fact-checking claims Trump’s pardons wiped out bn in debt owed to US | Donald Trump News
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Fact-checking claims Trump’s pardons wiped out $1bn in debt owed to US | Donald Trump News

Liz Oyer, a lawyer with the United States Department of Justice handling pardons for a long time, was fired by the Trump administration...

Fact-checking Trump’s claims about Medicaid cuts in GOP bill | Health News
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Fact-checking Trump’s claims about Medicaid cuts in GOP bill | Health News

A Medicaid bill pushed by Republicans proposes significant cuts to the health insurance programme for lower-income Americans. But United States President Donald Trump...

Fact-checking Trump’s claim of securing  trillion in investments for US | Donald Trump News
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Fact-checking Trump’s claim of securing $10 trillion in investments for US | Donald Trump News

Since returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump has touted corporate and foreign US investment announcements as proof he is ushering...

Fact-checking Trump’s claims at 100-day rally in Michigan | Donald Trump News
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Fact-checking Trump’s claims at 100-day rally in Michigan | Donald Trump News

Donald Trump’s speech in Warren, Michigan, marking his 100th day in office sounded a lot like something the United States president clearly loves:...

Meta’s fact-checking and diversity rollbacks represent ‘dangerous retreat’ from corporate responsibility
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Meta’s fact-checking and diversity rollbacks represent ‘dangerous retreat’ from corporate responsibility

Credit: Julio Lopez from Pexels Meta, the corporation that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it not only plans to replace...

How Meta’s fact-checking program works
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How Meta’s fact-checking program works

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Internet giant Meta’s fact-checking program aims to counter false information on its social platforms—Facebook, Instagram and Threads—with the help...

Meta policy reversal puts question mark on future of fact-checking
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Meta policy reversal puts question mark on future of fact-checking

Some media outlets have been totally dependent on revenue from Meta’s fact-checking program. Media outlets around the world have been left scratching their...

Zuckerberg’s censorship claim ‘false’: International Fact-Checking Network
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Zuckerberg’s censorship claim ‘false’: International Fact-Checking Network

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that the fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram has veered into censorship...

Meta’s move to end fact-checking reflects turn toward freewheeling internet | Elections
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Meta’s move to end fact-checking reflects turn toward freewheeling internet | Elections

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that the social media giant would scrap third-party fact-checking and ease moderation of sensitive topics,...