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ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions.

The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers.

By @craigsilverman.bsky.social
As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content
Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind…
propub.li
March 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It was alll kabuki theater this should have been Putin not Zelensky in that chair! Tag teaming Zelensky who had the balls to show up of camera was the plan. Trump didn’t have Putin on camera or the world who already knows it would have seen Putins balls bouncing off trumps chin
March 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'
Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.
apnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
www.propublica.org
February 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism.

As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽
February 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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When people focus on Trump's targeting of Liz Cheney, remember that for every high profile affluent target like Cheney, there are hundreds of people like the Haitians in Springfield. And that's even before he boots their immigration status.
December 22, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Gun owners are fiercely protective of their rights. The industry has time and again lobbied for and won privacy rights for gun owners. Then @propublica.org finds the industry secretly harvested that info to target them politically and then they work with Cambridge Analytica to do it on social. 🤦‍♂️
WATCH: At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
📰: Corey G. Johnson
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over customers’ names, addresses and other data...
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December 7, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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The "lung float" test is being used to charge women with murder. Many experts say it's unreliable.

“There’s no way you can determine live birth versus stillbirth with this test," said one doctor, who called the test “an outrageous breach of science.”

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(Pub. Oct. 2023)
A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder
The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get…
propub.li
December 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Told you Bezos had ideas that were as stupid as Soon-Shiong's, just better marketing.
LOL the Washington Post replaced its archive search tool with an AI that tries to summarize the archive ahead of delivering any actual stories, and which only ranks its findings by "relevance," with no option to rank them by date
December 8, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Republicans: We want to eliminate the deficit by putting a drunk with a history of bankrupting medium sized non-profits in charge of the Pentagon.
December 4, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social
EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.
Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to…
propub.li
December 3, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning:
Work faster, or the company might fire her.

She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.”

www.propublica.org/a...
A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.
Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” Day said.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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What no one is explaining is how Gorka got this job, even at the expense of Michael Anton. Who is his constituency? Or is it just Trump's childish insistence of installing everyone that The Deep State excluded last time?
November 25, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Republicans are more worried about people on hormone treatment using bathrooms than the storage of nuclear documents in them.
November 25, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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November 14, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Repeating again: Melania never came to the courthouse to support her spouse.
May 31, 2024 at 10:46 PM