While civilians by the hundreds of thousands fled to makeshift camps, troop convoys rumbled into battle, hauling reinforcements as young as 14. Zizola says one thing has particularly struck him about the conflict: its stupidity. Even without the war, the two countries would be a disaster area. A three-year drought is threatening as many as 8 million of Ethiopia’s 60 million inhabitants–and 1 million of Eritrea’s 4 million people–with famine....
Hot flashes and facial flushing are relatively common symptoms that can range from being a simple annoyance to a more debilitating and distressing condition. While there are many causes for these conditions, menopause is one of the most common. Most women will not be surprised to hear that hot flashes occur in about 75% of menopausal women, most often in association with a rising flush from the chest to face....
The target is the health business. When dark horse Harris Wofford won election to the Senate in 1991 promising top-to-bottom reform of health care, other politicians took notice. By 1992 nearly all candidates for office, including Bill Clinton and George Bush, were advocating action regarding what many now call the health-industrial complex. Everybody wants something done. How strongly can the health system resist change? Very strongly, if dollars are any measure....
Cannon, a Trump-appointee confirmed by the Senate in 2020, has given Trump’s team and the Department of Justice (DOJ) until Friday to submit lists of proposed candidates to serve as special master. Several social media users jokingly suggested that former President Barack Obama could fill the role because he may have the necessary security clearance to review classified documents. The Claim Following Judge Cannon’s ruling on Monday, some social media users suggested that former President Obama could serve as special master....
The Claim The host of the Tucker Carlson Tonight show made the claim on Wednesday night and also asserted that “Democratic partisans” used the death and the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol to overturn the “old order.” In the clip, which has been viewed more than 3 million times on Twitter, Carlson said the Black Lives Matter movement had changed the country “more in 5 months than in the past 50 years....
But as the dust settles and both sides play the blame game over who was responsible for the delay, a new favorite claim has emerged from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his top aides that pandemic relief would have reached millions of struggling Americans months ago—if only Democrats could have accepted an offer that’s been on the table all along. “Democrats blocked COVID relief for months, holding out for a bloated left-wing wish list, yet ended up embracing a bill ’exactly within the ballpark’ of the Senate Republican proposal from July,” McConnell’s office has said....
The Claim In an interview conducted on August 18, ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos raised incidents from Kabul airport to Biden. The president replied by saying they happened “four days ago, five days ago.” “We’ve all seen the pictures. We’ve seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17. We’ve seen Afghans falling…” Stephanopoulos said. At that point Biden interjected and said: “That was four days ago, five days ago.”...
The so-called culture wars remain a cornerstone of the Republican campaign, as does its traditional views on law and order, so the opportunity to discredit Vice President Kamala Harris on both points seemed tailormade for the GOP. The Claim Multiple tweets, sent on October 23, 2022, claim that Kamala Harris advocated a legal fund that has been used to help “murderers and rapists” get out of jail. One tweet read: “Kamala Harris says it’s “misinformation” that she promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a far-left organization that has bailed violent criminals—including accused murderers and rapists — out of jail....
Deepfakes have become an effective tool for misinformation, as Newsweek Fact Check has previously reported, but did a “fake-off” really occur between agents of the Russian and Ukrainian counterintelligence communities? The Claim On October 9, 2022, The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said on its official Telegram channel that Russian “pranksters” or “special services” had used deepfake technology to impersonate the Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, during a video call....
An editorial in Chinese state-affiliated media claimed last month that China would use “all measures necessary” to ensure control over Taiwan. In spite of these tensions, and the looming threat of war, one viral tweet alleged that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) had never, in fact, initiated any conflict. The Claim A tweet sent by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom on November 2, 2022, reposted a fact sheet that claimed that China “initiated 0 conflict for “70+ years since the founding of the PRC, not even a proxy war....
The Claim It has been suggested that Biden’s rating has gone “underwater”—meaning his disapproval exceeds his approval. America Rising PAC, which describes its sole purpose as being “exposing the truth about Democrats through video tracking, research, and strategic communications,” tweeted: “After a ‘month from hell’ of mismanaged crises, Joe Biden’s approval rating is underwater.” Kambree Kawahine Koa, who has more than 370,000 Twitter followers and whose bio describes her as an ambassador for the America First Policy Institute, tweeted: “Joe Biden has been exposed as completely incompetent; he’s underwater on his approval rating; and even some Democrats are whispering about the 25th to get rid of him....
Scientists told Newsweek on February 24 that serious side-effects from the vaccine were rare at a time when 65 million doses had been given. Some examples of common reported side-effects include pain at the site of injection and tiredness. There also have been reports of people dying after receiving a vaccine, based on data from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reporting database. VAERS is a U.S.-based early warning system for vaccine side-effects....
As Biden called for unity during his inaugural address at the Capitol, viewers were reminded of the insurrection that took place at the historic building on January 6, when Trump-supporting rioters breached the Capitol, resulting in five deaths. NPR reported that “people allegedly affiliated with organizations such as The Three Percenters, The Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Texas Freedom Force, and other self-described Nazis and white supremacists were among the mob that stormed the U....
The former president’s accusations have included that the bureau planted evidence, that the raid was a search for Hillary Clinton emails, as well as making calls for a “new election” that could reinstate him. Despite the real possibility of prosecution, Trump has also said that the raid, far from damaging his reputation, has actually propped up his popularity. The Claim A tweet posted on September 1, 2022, included a video in which Donald Trump said his poll numbers had “gone through the roof” because of the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago....
From the theater of the conflict to the local gas station, video is often the most convincing to other media and, sometimes, the hardest to debunk. So, when footage of what looked like a staggering explosion at a Florida high school went viral this week, there were some who weren’t immediately convinced. The Claim A tweet, posted on October 7, 2022, with the question “Is this real?” included video of someone lighting what looked like a bonfire, followed by a massive explosion....
Private technology companies like Facebook hold a lot of power, which was demonstrated in their recent decision to join other platforms such as Twitter in banning former President Donald Trump. After that decision, differing online opinions have emerged regarding censorship alongside fears that religious content is being banned on Facebook. The Claim British YouTuber and writer Paul Joseph Watson posted a video titled Facebook bans Bible passages to YouTube on Monday that has been viewed almost 50,000 times....
Republicans point the finger squarely at the the Biden administration for failing to address the price rises; the president, in turn, has blamed it on the war in Ukraine, calling it “Putin’s price hike.” But, given that prices began rising many months before Russia began making aggressive advances, is it a fair call? The Claim In a press conference in San Pedro, California, on June 10, 2022, President Biden claimed that Putin’s price hike was to blame for 8....
CPAC tweeted on Monday: “We have just learned that someone we invited to CPAC has expressed reprehensible views that have no home with our conference or our organization. The individual will not be participating at our conference.” It later emerged that the speaker was Young Pharaoh, a hip-hop artist and online commentator, who originally was scheduled to appear at a session titled “Please Check the Number and Dial Again: Doubt, Dysfunction, and the Price of Missed Opportunities....
The extent to which police or state authorities will be able to regulate cross-state abortions is under discussion, although President Joe Biden recently commented it is a case of when, not if. The heat of the conversation and the strength of feeling around these issues can be a lightning rod for confusion and misinformation. The Claim A tweet sent on July 1, 2022, from comedian Chip Franklin claimed that Mississippi lawmakers have discussed using dogs at airports to detect pregnant women....
The Kremlin propaganda machine has a track record of using misleading or fabricated content to discredit Ukraine’s resistance and foster support at home—though there are signs of cracks in public opinion and that appetite for continuing the war is waning. In one recent example, the Russian embassy in the U.K. shared a dubious video, attributed to Al Jazeera, claiming Ukrainian men had been arrested in Qatar for “spreading Nazi symbols....
