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Fact Check / PolitiFact
No evidence Speaker Mike Johnson is sending Grindr messages
A TikTok user posted screenshots appearing to show a conversation House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had with someone else on the gay dating app Grindr.”It’s always the MAGA Christians,” read the caption under the March 23 TikTok which included a photo of Johnson and the message, “What time should I pick you up from your…
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Fact Check / PolitiFact
Trump’s Misleading Claim on Canadian Dairy Tariffs
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. To support his plan to increase tariffs, President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the Canadian government charges U.S. farmers a 250% or 270% tariff on dairy products exported to Canada. That’s misleading. There are rates that high on the books, but they would only…
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Fact Check / PolitiFact
Column: The facts on ‘liberation day’ and tariffs
April 2 is a big day.For U.S. President Donald Trump, it’s what he’s described as “liberation day,” the date he planned to roll out “reciprocal” tariffs with countries that have trade imbalances with the U.S. And for fact-checkers, it’s International Fact-Checking Day, the post-April Fools’ holiday started by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. It’s a day…
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How to Combat Misinformation – FactCheck.org
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Misinformation is nothing new. It has, however, become ubiquitous and, in some cases, more difficult and time-consuming than ever to debunk. Photo by stokkete / stock.adobe.com When we first started publishing in 2003 — which predated Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005) and Twitter (2006) — viral…