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July 31, 2025

Harrison Ford Says ‘Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer’ To Criticize Trump Despite Massive Hollywood Earnings

Why Troubling News:

This article spreads a lot of misinformation and leans heavily into personal attacks rather than facts. It criticizes Harrison Ford for commenting on economic inequality, calling him a hypocrite just because he’s wealthy. The article also throws in a wildly exaggerated claim that the top 1% gained $42 trillion in 2021 alone under Biden, which just isn’t true. That number is taken out of context and doesn’t reflect what actually happened. On top of that, it mocks Ford for not giving all his money away or using Venmo to pay down the national debt, which sounds more like sarcasm than serious commentary. In the end, the piece reads more like a political rant than a thoughtful critique, using biased language and misleading facts to push an agenda rather than inform readers.

July 29, 2025

I spent years searching for Atlantis, now I’m certain I’ve found it!

Why Troubling News:

The article is clear quite clickbait for one. Delibrately trying to lure readers in with a sensationalized title. After that it presents one archeologist's opinion, who does not appear to be a highly regarded or credible archeologist at all, as fact. They present this as if proof has been found that the city of Atlantis has been factually located. Not only did Atlantis most likely not exist in reality, but if it did it would not be exposed. Finally, the evidence he uses to reach his conclusion is bonkers and makes massive sweeping claims with little evidence even if everything he said was true at face value (it isn't).

July 29, 2025

Lin-Manuel Miranda to Turn 10th Anniversary of ‘Hamilton’ Play into an Illegal Immigration Fundraiser

Why Troubling News:

Brietbart uses charged and hateful language to undercut immigration organizations that Lin-Manuel Miranda is raising money for with the 10th Hamilton anniversary. The article consistently emphasizes that the organizations aid "illegal" immigrants while neglecting to acknowledge differing stories/opinions based off evidence that many people affected in mass immigration raids were on legal paths to citizenship.

July 29, 2025

False Celebrity Rescue and Donation Claims During Central Texas Floods

Why Troubling News:

Local authorities and fact checkers have debunked these false claims of two girls being rescued from a tree, and also the false claim about George Strait donating $3.5 million and personally helping with rescues. Also, it was falsely depicted that Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez also were on the scene and donated $1 million each. Strait's publicist confirmed the donation stories were made up and the celebrity rescue images and stories came from unreliable sources.

July 28, 2025

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didnt happen this week

Why Troubling News:

Social media postings circulated the claim that Joe Biden had issued an Executive Order 9066 granting $5,000 Visa gift cards, a cell phone, and domestic airfare to migrants entering the U.S illegally. The reality of this is that no such executive order exists, no federal policy provides these benefits to migrants and associated press labeled the claim as completed ''fabricated'' in their weekly ''Not Real News'' fact check. This incorrect information attributes highly implausible and documented benefits to official government action. Also, repeated misinformation of this kind undermines credible journalism and confuses public dialogue around immigration and policy.

July 28, 2025

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didnt happen this week

Why Troubling News:

Social media postings circulated the claim that Joe Biden had issued an Executive Order 9066 granting $5,000 Visa gift cards, a cell phone, and domestic airfare to migrants entering the U.S illegally. The reality of this is that no such executive order exists, no federal policy provides these benefits to migrants and associated press labeled the claim as completed ''fabricated'' in their weekly ''Not Real News'' fact check. This incorrect information attributes highly implausible and documented benefits to official government action. Also, repeated misinformation of this kind undermines credible journalism and confuses public dialogue around immigration and policy.

July 28, 2025

Disgraced ‘Fact Checker’ Glenn Kessler out at Washington Post

Why Troubling News:

While the core event is real (Kessler’s departure), the framing is misleading. Much of Nolte’s article consists of hyperbolic or unsubstantiated claims. There is no documented evidence that Kessler was engaged in serial dishonesty or that his exit reflects moral or professional disgrace, nor was there partisan pressure for his removal. That framing misleads the reader, distorts the nature of his work, and elevates opinions as though they were verified facts.

July 28, 2025

More than HALF of all expecting mothers now QUESTIONING “safety and efficacy” of all vaccines listed on CDC’s recommended death jab schedule

Why Troubling News:

The first two sentences of the article say: "Vaccines surely are NOT what they used to be. Nowadays, kids have to get 70 vaccines by age seven just to attend daycare and school, or society deems them a threat because of infectious disease fear-mongering." The headline and first two sentences alone indicate unrestrained exaggeration in the writing, which are bad signs for the factuality of this article. The rest of the paragraph is written in increasingly strong language, applying unneeded emphasis on negative labels for vaccines and people who accept them. Interestingly, the rest of the article is written in significantly less combative language, switching to a more professional, analytical tone. Notably, the article does not directly link the survey it takes its information from. Instead, it links another similar article from another source, which links to another article, which links to the original survey from JAMA Network. Here is the link to the survey: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2836417 The survey seems to be reputable and the analytical portions of this article draw defendable conclusions from the reported numbers, but the initial headline and first paragraph contribute to misinformation via exaggeration and combative language.

July 28, 2025

Trump: No. 1 Gaza Priority Is Getting People Fed

Why Troubling News:

While the article is factual, it only looks at the present. It fails to take Trump's previous quotes about the Gaza crisis into consideration. Trump has previously made aggressive remarks about Palestine, saying that Israel needs to "finish up" in Palestine. The article portrays Trump as a saving and holistic figure in this situation, but that is not entirely so.

July 27, 2025

Democrats are hammering Republicans on Epstein, but one senator brushed off the issue years ago

Why Troubling News:

This article discusses a Democratic senators statement from 5 years prior about Epstein. The article is framed as though she did not care about Epstein in past, using an out of context quote from her 2020 statement about how revealing Epstein's connections will not help constituents, despite it being about former President Bill Clinton's connection with Epstein, who was not and will not be in office.