This week, Reddit user u/ihatenuts69 posed the question, “What scam is so normalized that people don’t even notice?” CBC The thread quickly went viral with over 23,000 comments! Here are some of the top-voted responses: 1.“‘Service fees’ are just an artificial way to pretend prices are lower than they really […]
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New book exposes the cruelty and conservation lies of trophy hunting
“We are done. There is no way we can rationalize what we do. The game is over.” —A Trophy Hunter “It’s what people did in the 19th century. One would’ve thought people would’ve gotten over that. But apparently there are still people who get a kick out of killing things […]
When ‘patriot warriors’ were fed lies
Editor’s note: PolitiFact has reviewed court filings and other information for hundreds of defendants facing charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in an ongoing effort to document what role misinformation played. This report reflects our initial findings about the way that hundreds of false claims […]
Behind Mark Wright’s celebrity lies a TV personality ready to prove his critics wrong with Crawley Town
When Crawley demolished Leeds United in the third round of the FA Cup, many watching reckoned that insult had been added to injury by the nature of the substitution made by the winning side in the final seconds of the game. On came Mark Wright, stalwart of I’m A Celebrity […]
Lies fitness trainers tell
TRAIN IN VAIN Your personal trainer is going to lie to you. They’re going to tell you the types of lies that make you take that extra step, lift that extra weight, finish that extra rep, or, in the worst-case scenario, not tell you to skip that exercise you haven’t […]
A Murder, a Conspiracy Theory, and the Lies of Fox News
He was almost home. In the early-morning hours of July 10th, 2016, Seth Rich walked alone across northwest Washington, D.C., making calls to his friends and family, thinking about his future. Like so many idealistic twentysomethings, he had moved to the nation’s capital after college to work in politics. It […]
Harmful lies spread easily due to lack of UK law
Masks Misleading and harmful online content about Covid-19 has spread “virulently” because the UK still lacks a law to regulate social media, an influential group of MPs has said. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee urged the government to publish a draft copy of promised legislation by the autumn. […]
Trump RTs tweet saying CDC ‘lies’; NYC reports zero deaths; Florida logs second largest number of cases
As the pandemic reached new highs in Florida and across the world, New York City provided a glimmer of hope: zero deaths for the first time in four months. Total confirmed cases across the nation surpassed 3.3 million – about 1% of all Americans have now tested positive since the […]
Trump RTs tweet saying CDC ‘lies’ about COVID; NYC reports zero deaths for first time since March
As the pandemic reached new highs in Florida and across the world, New York City provided a glimmer of hope: zero deaths for the first time in four months. Total confirmed cases across the nation surpassed 3.3 million – about 1% of all Americans have now tested positive since the […]