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Nov 3, 2024 | 
tucsonsentinel.com | Craig Silverman |Priyanjana Bengani
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Craig Silverman |Priyanjana Bengani
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Deceptive Political Ads: Eight deceptive advertising networks have placed over 160,000 election and social issues ads across more than 340 Facebook pages in English and Spanish. Harmed Users: Some of the people who clicked on ads were unwittingly signed up for monthly credit card charges or lost health coverage, among other consequences.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Craig Silverman |Priyanjana Bengani
In December, the verified Facebook page of Adam Klotz, a Fox News meteorologist, started running strange video ads.
Some featured the distinctive voice of former President Donald Trump promising “$6,400 with your name on it, no payback required” just for clicking the ad and filling out a form.
In other ads with the same offer, President Joe Biden’s well-known cadence assured viewers that “this isn’t a loan with strings attached.”
There was no free cash. The audio was generated by AI.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Craig Silverman |Priyanjana Bengani
DISINFORMATIONExploiting Meta’s Weaknesses, Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook and Instagram in Run-Up to ElectionPublished 31 October 2024Eight deceptive advertising networks have placed over 160,000 election and social issues ads across more than 340 Facebook pages in English and Spanish. Some of the people who clicked on ads were unwittingly signed up for monthly credit card charges or lost health coverage, among other consequences.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Craig Silverman |Priyanjana Bengani |Lulu Ramadan |Sydney Brownstone
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was reported in collaboration with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. Eight deceptive advertising networks have placed over 160,000 election and social issues ads across more than 340 Facebook pages in English and Spanish.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
insideclimatenews.org | Miranda Green |Jennifer Richards |Priyanjana Bengani
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive their stories in your inbox every week. Word tends to spread fast in rural Knox County, Ohio. But misinformation has spread faster.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
postindustrial.com | Miranda Green |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jennifer Richards |Priyanjana Bengani
Co-published with Floodlight and Tow Center for Digital JournalismProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Intense Debate Over Solar: A large solar farm proposed in Knox County, Ohio, has drawn about 4,000 public comments — more than any other solar project in the state. Newspaper Misinformation: After the local paper was sold to Metric Media, part of a “pink slime” network, the Mount Vernon News published one-sided coverage and dubious claims about solar power.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Miranda Green |Jennifer Richards |Priyanjana Bengani |Sarahbeth Maney
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. This story was co-published with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Miranda Green |Jennifer Richards |Priyanjana Bengani |Sarahbeth Maney
4 hours agoRABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its most drought-stricken regions with more water than many had seen in decades. Southeastern Morocco’s desert is among the most arid places in the …
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
propublica.org | B. Oaster |Miranda Green |Jennifer Smith Richards |Priyanjana Bengani
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with High Country News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. I’m standing at an Indigenous sacred site, looking at something I’m not supposed to see. Signs of ceremony are all around: little animal skulls, ribbons, a stump of freshly burnt sage stems in ashes, tied together with red yarn. It looks like a ceremony happened in the last week.
