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pbs.org | Louis Jacobson |Politi Fact
This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists on for years. Kennedy held an April 16 press conference pegged to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that found the prevalence of autism rising to 1 in 31 among 8-year-olds, the latest in a series of increases in recent decades.
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1 week ago | 
pbs.org | Louis Jacobson |Politi Fact
This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. When a reporter asked President Donald Trump why he paused country-by-country tariffs only a week after unveiling them, Trump said “Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know?
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1 week ago | 
archyde.com | Loreben Tuquero |Politi Fact
By loreben Tuquero | PolitiFact April 14, 2025 A recent preprint study from the Cleveland Clinic examining the flu vaccine has ignited controversy, drawing attention from vaccine skeptics and prompting discussions about vaccine efficacy and interpretation of research findings. An April 7, 2025, post on X (formerly Twitter) stated, “Get the flu shot and you are 27% more likely to get the flu!” pointing to the Cleveland Clinic preprint study released on April 4.
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1 week ago | 
pbs.org | Louis Jacobson |Politi Fact
This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. A social media post, followed by a market-moving tariff announcement, led President Donald Trump’s critics to speculate that he might have profited from inside information. At 9:37 a.m. ET on April 9, after a nearly 20 percent downturn in key market indexes, Trump posted on Truth Social, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT.”Then, at 1:18 p.m., Trump announced a 90-day pause in country-by-country tariffs he had unveiled a week earlier.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Louis Jacobson |Politi Fact
1 day agoTrump Accused Of Insider Trading After New Tariff Policy PauseDemocratic leaders are calling for an investigation into whether US President Donald Trump engaged in insider trading before reversing his tariff policy. Hours before announcing a 90-day pause on most tariffs, excluding China, Trump posted “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY” on Truth Social. The S&P 500 jumped over 9% after the news.
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1 week ago | 
pbs.org | Louis Jacobson |Politi Fact
If you listen to President Donald Trump and his allies discuss his sweeping tariff plans, one word pops up a lot: “Cheating.”During his April 2 announcement of what he called “liberation day,” Trump released a list of new tariffs of up to 50 percent on virtually every country — a plan that took effect at midnight April 9 before he abruptly issued a 90-day pause hours later.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Louis Jacobson |Politi Fact
3 hours agoVideo captured by the White House shows Donald Trump bragging that friend and investor Charles Schwab made two billion dollars from the current stock market chaos. In a video posted to X Wednesday (9 April), the president introduced NASCAR drivers to the founder and chairman of Charles Schwab Corporation, a multinational financial services company. “It’s not just a company, it’s actually an individual,” Trump told the racing drivers.
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3 weeks ago | 
wlrn.org | Loreben Tuquero |Politi Fact
WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. After severe storms swept across the U.S. in mid March, killing more than 40 people, social media posts blamed the Trump administration’s recent firings for weakening emergency communication systems.
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3 weeks ago | 
pbs.org | Claire Cranford |Politi Fact
This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. After the Department of Government Efficiency gained access to student loan databases, some social media posts promoted a federal privacy law as the key to debtholders’ financial freedom. All you have to do, the posts said, is file a complaint with the Education Department requesting your loans be forgiven on the grounds that DOGE violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 by gaining access to personal loan information.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Claire Cranford |Politi Fact
2 days agoCanada: Trump, Musk, DOGE and All Musk Companies About to Face International LawsuitsSurrey, Canada - March 27, 2025 The Trump and Musk power duo in Washington are about to face a legal storm starting from Canada and deals with the unfettered access of DOGE to the private data of international citizens. DOGE access of databases allows the team to gain access to tax and personal information of foreign citizens and corporations. A breach of international treaties and privacy laws.
