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Fact Check / PolitiFact
‘Amuse’ has Elon Musk’s ear. Who is behind that account?
Interview with Zeve Sanderson, executive director of New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics, March 7, 2025 Email interview with Sarah Jackson, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, March 6, 2025 Email interview with Gordon Pennycook, professor of psychology at…
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Trump’s Misleading Promotion of ‘Clean’ Coal
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. While presenting a series of executive orders conceived to increase electricity generation from coal, President Donald Trump misleadingly suggested that environmental regulations were to blame for the industry’s decline, wrongly said that coal plants are being opened “all over Germany,” and misleadingly, and repeatedly, referred…
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Apple isn’t secretly installing Starlink into your iPhone
The warning is out across social media: Update your iPhone and you risk automatically installing Starlink, satellite technology owned by billionaire businessman and Trump administration adviser Elon Musk. But this message needs a fact-check. “Do not update your iPhone to iOS 18.3,” a woman in a March 5 TikTok post warned. “I almost ruined my…
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Musk’s Unsupported Claim to Have Unveiled Massive Illegal Voting by Noncitizens
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency he leads claim to have unearthed evidence to prove a longstanding conspiracy theory about Democrats orchestrating illegal voting by noncitizens on a scale large enough to swing national elections in their favor. But voting experts say the…