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Dec 5, 2024 | 
proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria
The big tech companies treat their climate footprint like shoppers with unlimited budgets. Companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft are using more and more energy while using their massive profits to buy clean energy credits to “cancel” it out. This allows for claims that such companies are carbon neutral, even though the companies themselves know this isn’t how emissions from electricity actually work. In reality, there are tradeoffs between electricity consumption and climate impact.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria
Tech companies like to present themselves as some of the most climate-friendly corporations in the world. And in some ways, this is actually true. Amazon, Meta and Google were three of the top four corporate buyers of clean energy purchase agreements in 2023. They’d like you to think this cancels out their own electricity usage.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
lohud.com | Rafael Olavarria
Show Caption Hide Caption Immigration lawyer talks AZ's status as ground zero for immigrationDelia Salvatierra discusses Donald Trump's plans to deport undocumented migrants and Arizona's status as ground zero for immigration on Nov. 21, 2024.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
lohud.com | Rafael Olavarria
Show Caption Hide Caption What are President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies? On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump pledged to massively deport migrants and revoke certain immigration benefits. Un video publicado en TikTok afirma que el presidente electo, Donald Trump, anunció que daría “permiso a inmigrantes trabajadores para estar legal en EEUU”. Eso es falso.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
rrstar.com | Rafael Olavarria
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
lohud.com | Rafael Olavarria
Show Caption Hide Caption 'We lost this battle,' says Biden following Trump election winBiden says 'the will of the people always prevails' following Donald Trump's election victory. Usuarios en X y en TikTok circulan videos que muestran fuegos artificiales saliendo de la Casa Rosada, sede del gobierno argentino, y afirman que se trataría de una celebración organizada por el presidente libertario, Javier Milei, para celebrar la victoria de Donald Trump. Eso es falso.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
fayobserver.com | Rafael Olavarria
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
proofnews.org | Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria |Julia Angwin
At Proof News, we still believe in producing journalism that strives for objectivity—but to us, objectivity is more about the process than the product. Editor and Publisher covered our recent projects and how we use rigorous reporting and a more scientific process to produce the most unbiased, transparent work we can. Read the article here.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
proofnews.org | Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria |Julia Angwin
In the days leading up to the election, false rumors of truckloads of fake ballots, faulty voting machines, and ineligible voters swirled online. Most of the leading AI chatbots rejected or debunked the rumors – except one: ChatGPT. Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products – Google Search powered by Gemini AI, the free version of ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot through Bing, Meta AI on WhatsApp, and Perplexity.ai.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
lohud.com | Rafael Olavarria
Show Caption Hide Caption The pro-Trump poll watchers primed for Election Day action"We're going to be looking to see that, make sure that people are stating their name and their address." Wisconsin resident Harry Wait, who backs Donald Trump's false claim that his 2020 election defeat was fraudulent, says he'll be observing election workers and voters on Nov. 5.
