HoaxEye
@hoaxeye.bsky.social
Hoax fighter and fact finder. Main tools: reverse image search and coffee. Operated by Janne Ahlberg
Website: https://hoaxeye.wordpress.com
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Wildfire of Conspiracy Theories: Disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about the Los Angeles area wildfires have spread in far right spaces online.
Wildfire of Conspiracy Theories
Disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about the Los Angeles area wildfires have spread in far right spaces online.
www.radicalreports.org
January 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Wildfire of Conspiracy Theories: Disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about the Los Angeles area wildfires have spread in far right spaces online.
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President-elect Donald Trump blamed California’s devastating wildfires on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s water policy, and social media users revived Trump’s past criticism of the state’s forest management. We took a closer look at the claims. www.politifact.com/article/2025...
Trump fueled falsehoods while LA burned
President-elect Donald Trump and some social media users and pundits blamed Los Angeles’ deadly fires on California Gov.
www.politifact.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
President-elect Donald Trump blamed California’s devastating wildfires on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s water policy, and social media users revived Trump’s past criticism of the state’s forest management. We took a closer look at the claims. www.politifact.com/article/2025...
Shortly: no. Longer version: www.reuters.com/fact-check/t...
January 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Shortly: no. Longer version: www.reuters.com/fact-check/t...
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"Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories" www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/t...
Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories | CNN Business
Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder.
www.cnn.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories" www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/t...
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Some AI-generated images are difficult to spot. Others ...
January 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Some AI-generated images are difficult to spot. Others ...
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AI is getting better - but it's still visible.
January 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
AI is getting better - but it's still visible.
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In the space of 24 hours, Naomi Wolf has claimed that the fires in LA are an actual war or foreign invasion, a plot to kill people to destroy evidence of Covid vaccine adverse effects, weather manipulation, a deliberate bombing campaign, and mass spraying of mood stabilisers.
January 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In the space of 24 hours, Naomi Wolf has claimed that the fires in LA are an actual war or foreign invasion, a plot to kill people to destroy evidence of Covid vaccine adverse effects, weather manipulation, a deliberate bombing campaign, and mass spraying of mood stabilisers.
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No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has been located, and the earliest published source of this phrase found dates to 1982.
quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/t...
quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/t...
January 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has been located, and the earliest published source of this phrase found dates to 1982.
quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/t...
quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/t...
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Russia's online disinformation campaign took my advice and started deepfaking audio of the people it's quoting. This is deepfake me with the wrong British accent talking about the Kursk offensive.
January 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Russia's online disinformation campaign took my advice and started deepfaking audio of the people it's quoting. This is deepfake me with the wrong British accent talking about the Kursk offensive.
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While the press has focused on the ending of Meta's fact-checking program, not enough has focused on the removal of restrictions on certain types of speech previously deemed harmful on FB & IG, incl. criticism of vulnerable groups—immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ people. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...
More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta
We're ending our third party fact checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.
about.fb.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
While the press has focused on the ending of Meta's fact-checking program, not enough has focused on the removal of restrictions on certain types of speech previously deemed harmful on FB & IG, incl. criticism of vulnerable groups—immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ people. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...
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"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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X's Community Notes is slow, opaque, and relies on consensus rather than a focus on truth.
In other words, it has features that Zuckerberg and Musk regularly criticise in the so-called "legacy media"
bsky.app/profile/jane...
In other words, it has features that Zuckerberg and Musk regularly criticise in the so-called "legacy media"
bsky.app/profile/jane...
Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
January 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
X's Community Notes is slow, opaque, and relies on consensus rather than a focus on truth.
In other words, it has features that Zuckerberg and Musk regularly criticise in the so-called "legacy media"
bsky.app/profile/jane...
In other words, it has features that Zuckerberg and Musk regularly criticise in the so-called "legacy media"
bsky.app/profile/jane...
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."
www.nbcnews.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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This article has been updated with yet another Rumble "editor pick" video pushing the reptilian conspiracy theory, this one claiming that a "reptilian race controls Earth" and are trying to create a "one-world government."
![January 6, 2025: Rumble selected as one of its “editor picks” a video claiming that a “reptilian race controls Earth” and are trying to create a “one-world government” — a conspiracy theory reportedly tied to violence and antisemitism. The video from the show The Why Files, titled “The Seventh Experiment: Lacerta Reveals the Truth of our Creation,” claims that a lizard figure named Lacerta (which is also the name of a type of lizard) admitted that reptilians roam the world and use telepathy to “command” people to see them “as normal humans,” despite their “reptilian look.” The Why Files’ episode thumbnail includes an apparent image of Lacerta.
The show’s host claims that “another reptilian race controls Earth” and are “disguised as leaders in finance, media, and politics” in order to “manipulate global events, steering us toward a one-world government.” He also mentions David Icke, who originally popularized the reptilian conspiracy theory, saying that Lacerta “confirms a lot of” Icke’s claims. Business Insider in 2021 covered the likely antisemitic background of the concept, noting that Icke’s written commentary about the conspiracy theory is “clearly evocative of the centuries-old blood-libel conspiracy theory, which alleged that a cabal of Jews were controlling the world and drinking the blood of Christian children.” [The Why Files, 1/4/25; Rumble, 1/4/25; The Guardian, 4/17/16, 2/20/19; BBC, 4/7/20; Business Insider, 1/7/21]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreigb64blcmfvnzybjnhetfzfz6itsvkn24op743zeysokfi7mshkdu@jpeg)
January 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This article has been updated with yet another Rumble "editor pick" video pushing the reptilian conspiracy theory, this one claiming that a "reptilian race controls Earth" and are trying to create a "one-world government."
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In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an Estonian politician and propagandist, Aivo Peterson. He’s best-known for travelling to Donbas and Mariupol to produce pro-Kremlin propaganda, and for trying to create a pro-Russia separatist movement in Estonia.
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January 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an Estonian politician and propagandist, Aivo Peterson. He’s best-known for travelling to Donbas and Mariupol to produce pro-Kremlin propaganda, and for trying to create a pro-Russia separatist movement in Estonia.
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While there was so much focus on Shamsud-Din Jabbar's YouTube channel and LinkedIn profile earlier, his deleted Facebook page seems to have been the one with clear evidence of his radicalisation.
January 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
While there was so much focus on Shamsud-Din Jabbar's YouTube channel and LinkedIn profile earlier, his deleted Facebook page seems to have been the one with clear evidence of his radicalisation.
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An AI image linked to a meme coin spread across platforms last week in posts misidentifying the woman set on fire on New York's subway as "Amelia Carter."
Today, police named the true victim: Debrina Kawam.
But the disinformation had already spun out of control.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Today, police named the true victim: Debrina Kawam.
But the disinformation had already spun out of control.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
December 31, 2024 at 8:57 PM
An AI image linked to a meme coin spread across platforms last week in posts misidentifying the woman set on fire on New York's subway as "Amelia Carter."
Today, police named the true victim: Debrina Kawam.
But the disinformation had already spun out of control.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Today, police named the true victim: Debrina Kawam.
But the disinformation had already spun out of control.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Get ready for 2025. Science is your friend. Anti-science and anti-intellectualism are your enemies.
skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer
Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...
skepticalinquirer.org
January 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Get ready for 2025. Science is your friend. Anti-science and anti-intellectualism are your enemies.
skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
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We wrote about a lot of misinformation in 2024, and, as usual, some fact-checking articles piqued our readers’ interest more than others. In this post, we present the 10 most popular stories published on our website this past year.
www.factcheck.org/2024/12/our-...
www.factcheck.org/2024/12/our-...
Our Most Popular Articles in 2024 - FactCheck.org
We wrote about a lot of misinformation in 2024, and, as usual, some fact-checking articles piqued our readers' interest more than others. In this post, we present the 10 most popular stories published...
www.factcheck.org
December 30, 2024 at 1:37 PM
We wrote about a lot of misinformation in 2024, and, as usual, some fact-checking articles piqued our readers’ interest more than others. In this post, we present the 10 most popular stories published on our website this past year.
www.factcheck.org/2024/12/our-...
www.factcheck.org/2024/12/our-...
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❌ This pic of Laura Loomer has gathered 4k likes on Bluesky with a caption saying it shows her demanding her X blue checkmark back at the old Twitter HQ.
Except it's an old photo. @willsommer.bsky.social and others posted it back in 2018:
Except it's an old photo. @willsommer.bsky.social and others posted it back in 2018:
December 30, 2024 at 1:16 PM
❌ This pic of Laura Loomer has gathered 4k likes on Bluesky with a caption saying it shows her demanding her X blue checkmark back at the old Twitter HQ.
Except it's an old photo. @willsommer.bsky.social and others posted it back in 2018:
Except it's an old photo. @willsommer.bsky.social and others posted it back in 2018:
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More Ai slop.
And as usual we have lots of real photos of mr. Wadlow.
He was tall, very tall, but somehow someone wanted to make him even taller.
And as usual we have lots of real photos of mr. Wadlow.
He was tall, very tall, but somehow someone wanted to make him even taller.
December 30, 2024 at 2:54 AM
More Ai slop.
And as usual we have lots of real photos of mr. Wadlow.
He was tall, very tall, but somehow someone wanted to make him even taller.
And as usual we have lots of real photos of mr. Wadlow.
He was tall, very tall, but somehow someone wanted to make him even taller.