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Trump signs executive order targeting Twitter after fact-checking row
2020-05-29 01:57:20| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The US president's move follows a decision by Twitter to add a "fact-check" notice to his tweets.
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Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
2020-05-27 01:16:25| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
This is the first time the social media giant has said President Trump's tweet could be misleading.
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Political Fact-Checking Site Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency
2017-10-14 04:06:49| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
PolitiFact briefly hogged the CPU resources of any user who visited the site on Friday.
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Fact-checking Obama's rules on carbon and coal plants
2014-08-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PolitiFact: President Barack Obamas second-term promise to tackle climate change has clashed with election-year politics. Much of the political debate has focused on the Environmental Protection Agencys newly proposed regulations on existing power plants. If enacted, the rules would curb carbon emissions that scientists say cause global warming. Misinformation about these new regulations started even before the EPA released them. In the days leading up to the EPAs June 2 announcement, the U.S. Chamber...
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Fact-Checking the Bill Nye-Marsha Blackburn Climate Change 'Debate'
2014-02-18 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wire: If you are not the sort of person who watches Meet the Press (because you are not an old person), you may have missed Sunday's "debate" between Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Mr. William Nye, Science Guy. Allow me to summarize: There is no actual debate over climate change. Allow me to summarize at greater length: Blackburn was full of misinformation and Nye seemed sleepy. I pulled out the assertions presented by the participants in the discussion and evaluated them for truth. That's the...
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