Alan Duke, Fact Checker
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Alan Duke, Fact Checker
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CoFounder of LeadStories.com, US Army & CNN veteran.
My home was burglarized this year and it was not investigated until @Mayor.lacity.gov Karen Bass put a fire under the LAPD. Tonight Mayor Bass called to give me the heads up on a big announcement. They’ve busted a gang believed responsible for 90 burglaries in Brentwood, Encino, and Sherman Oaks!
August 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
My message at #VivaTech2025 in Paris: Don't demonize fact checkers. Give us a chance to save lives.
June 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Truth is stranger than fiction: Mike Lindell texted me (a fact checker) suggesting I fly to Denver to testify FOR him at his defamation trial.
June 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Oh, this is special. The first “community note” spotted in the wild on Instagram (a week after Meta ended fact checking) cites a Lead Stories debunk. I thought we were too biased. www.instagram.com/reel/DH08t99...
April 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Kitty Dukakis would’ve made a great First Lady. This was January 2017, just days before the start of Donald Trump’s first term.
March 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Screenshots from a bizarre AI-made Gaza video posted on President Trump’s TruthSocial. Bearded belly dancers, a huge golden Trump. Was it hacked?
February 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
My mom Nellie Duke passed this week. You didn’t know her, but if you read what I wrote for the local paper you will realize you know something about Newt Gingrich because of her. I buried the historical revelation near the middle.
February 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just got this loud alert saying ignore the last loud alert.
January 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
LA emergency officials have caused full scale panic by accidentally sending EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE an alert telling us to evacuate. Stay calm, LA.
January 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Up next: Renaming Panama City, Fla. Suggestions? And then Mexico Beach, Fla.? Thoughts?
January 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Getting my labradoodle fitted with reading glasses.
January 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
New Orleans attack suspect Shamsud Din Jabbar posted this video on YouTube 4 years ago. Born & raised in Texas. US Army vet. Real estate agent. Not an illegal immigrant.
January 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This NYDN frontpage shows a 19yo me walking down Time Sq. with Jimmy Carter during 76 DNC. I've many great memories of covering him for decades. He made me proud to be a Georgian!
December 30, 2024 at 8:38 PM
New York Sanitation Dept is ready for President-elect Trump’s visit to Trump
Tower today. Garbage trucks seem to be a way to quickly create a barrier to protect buildings.
December 12, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Ordered this last month. Finally arrived. Can't wait to wear it.
November 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM
My rocker years.
November 25, 2024 at 4:11 AM
A dive into my 8.2k X followers, all the way back to 2008, was a sad but useful journey. Many have been silent for years, long gone from the platform. That's 1 reason (not the main one) few will see this post on X. Yet, my new 2.2k followers on Bsky will.
November 24, 2024 at 11:03 PM
She does appear to be depressed.
November 24, 2024 at 4:09 PM
New evidence: After 3 hours of this post on both platforms. With 5 times more X followers, there are NO X interactions. But 18 on Bluesky. (1 comment, 3 reports, 15 likes.)
November 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
After some A/B testing, I determined the value of a BlueSky follower compared to X is comparable to the US Dollar to a Russian Ruble.
November 20, 2024 at 4:34 PM
I asked MidJourney to create images of how this week feels: Moving into BlueSky University after graduating from X High School.
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
The BlueSky migration reminds me of April 2009 when Ashton Kutcher raced against Larry King to be the first Twitter millionaire.
November 16, 2024 at 5:19 PM
A group of geese is a gaggle. What is a group of fact checkers? I asked Claude.ai :
A "verification" of fact-checkers.
Alternative: A "scrutiny" of fact-checkers - emphasizing their detailed examination of claims.
Midjourney created an image:
November 15, 2024 at 6:48 PM