Bob Oswald
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Heitkamp says unauthorized list of abuse victims' names could be from 'Facebook feed'Oct 20, 2018 1:00 am - North Dakota U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp apologized last week for a newspaper ad that listed names of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence without their permissi...
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Facts Matter: Hurricane Michael brings death, destruction and fake photosOct 13, 2018 1:00 am - Among the extraordinary photos of Hurricane Michael's destruction being shared on social media is an image of airplanes nearly underwater at an airport. But the picture ...
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Facts Matter: No, Michelle Obama is not running for presidentOct 06, 2018 1:00 am - An image making the rounds on social media appears to show Michelle Obama planning a run for office in 2020. The photo shows the former first lady making a heart symbol ...
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Facts Matter: No evidence women got 'a lot of money' to claim Trump misconductSep 29, 2018 1:00 am - Sandwiched between the Tuesday sentencing of actor Bill Cosby for drugging and assaulting women and Christine Blasey Ford's account of a sexual assault by Supreme Court ...
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Facts Matter: Florence didn't kill hogs; Henry Winkler did not die, leave money to TrumpSep 22, 2018 1:00 am - Pictures of pig carcasses floating in water recently appeared on social media sites, captioned, "The victims nobody talks about … (Hurricane Florence in North Carolina)....
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Facts Matter: Thousands did die from Puerto Rican hurricanes; Obama threatened pressSep 15, 2018 1:00 am - President Donald Trump's claim that 3,000 people did not die last year as a result of two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico is false, even by the most conservative estimat...
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Facts Matter: Fake post claims Nike protest landed man in hospitalSep 08, 2018 1:00 am - Nike's decision to make former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick the face of its "Just Do It" campaign prompted protesters to post photos of themselves destroying the com...
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Facts Matter: Sen. McCain didn't make crude attack on presidentSep 01, 2018 1:00 am - A producer of junk news was responsible for the false image, first posted on the Facebook page "America Loves Donald Trump," according to Snopes.com. Some users took the...
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False memes follow plea, conviction of Trump associatesAug 25, 2018 1:00 am - On a whirlwind news day when President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to tax fraud and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted...
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Omarosa exaggerated Chicago's weekend murder tallyAug 18, 2018 1:00 am - During a "Daily Show" stop to promote her new book, former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman claimed there were 600 murders in Chicago during a weekend earlie...