As Riley Leonard steps into the role of Notre Dame quarterback, fans have mixed feelings. Coming from Duke, Leonard is known for his agility and running ability, but questions linger about his passing ...

Claim: "Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. The richest 1% evade 3 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction." ...

As was commonly the case with posts on r/todayilearned, the title was a short summary of the claim. It read: TIL [today I learned] of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and ...

On June 7 2023, amid right-wing book-banning attempts sweeping the United States, poet and author Amanda Gorman addressed the banning of her own book The Hill We Climb at a Florida elementary school.

On May 23 2023, several social media posts popped up with the jarring claim that a majority of book removal or book ban requests in American schools were an effort by the same eleven individuals: ...

Derided for years as a comedic (at best) example of a frivolous lawsuit, the story of Stella Liebeck’s legal battle with the McDonald’s fast food chain has been the subject of a critical reappraisal.

Claim: Resilience targeting is a new type of attack linked to disinformation campaigns Description: Rapid changes in the climate and technological advances have led to the emergence of hybrid threats, ...

On October 25 2022, Daily Beast columnist and Russian media watcher Julia Davis tweeted that Russia’s security council “called for … the desatanization” of Ukraine: Davis referenced Russia’s previous ...

On June 8 2022, a popular tweet claimed that the Supreme Court had recently established a zone within a hundred miles of the border in which border agencies agents could execute searches of homes with ...

A June 4 2022 tweet about the latest in a purported string of food processing plant fires (or “food factory” fires) built on other, similar narratives in order to go viral: The tweet addressed others ...

In May 2022, news and discussion about a formula shortage in the United States ticked upward — but the severity of the issue and its implications were rarely clear in broad reporting. Complicating ...

Claim: “when discussing the propriety of protesting outside of supreme court justices’ homes, it’s important to remember that in the 90s the court held that protesting outside of the homes of ...