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Saranac Hale Spencer

@byshs.bsky.social

Here for the animal videos. Related, I cover dis/misinformation for just-the-facts-ma'am-dot-org... better known as FactCheck.org.

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Superman! Come on, he's an *actual* superhero fighting for truth, justice, and the American way

01.10.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Video Doesn't Show 'Burial Sites' in South Africa - FactCheck.org In a salient moment with the leader of South Africa, President Donald Trump played a video that he said showed "burial sites" for a thousand white farmers -- the victims of what he has called a genoci...

Read more about it here: www.factcheck.org/2025/05/trum...

22.05.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Murdered Normandien couple laid to rest in KwaZulu-Natal: Darell Brown
YouTube video by SABC News Murdered Normandien couple laid to rest in KwaZulu-Natal: Darell Brown

To bring attention to the issue of farm murders in a country that has high rates of violent crime: youtube.com/watch?v=SxZuwJDyNic

22.05.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Normandien
YouTube video by The Bulletin Normandien

It showed a 2020 demonstration: youtube.com/watch?v=2Nrfhzrt3Rg

22.05.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To be clear -- the video President Trump played yesterday in the Oval Office did not show a thousand "burial sites" for white farmers who were part of a genocide in South Africa 🧡

22.05.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills β€œIf anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.

How to protect democracies from falsehoods?

By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...

16.04.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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He was suicidal and needed help. Online predators pushed him to take his life on camera. The death of a Minnesota man offers a case study into how a sadistic online group has used the messaging app Discord to find and torment vulnerable people

Our latest investigation started with a video I found online. It was a Discord chat. Someone appears to self-immolate on cam as others watched. Some in voice chat laugh, another says "shoutout fmlk"

Using OSINT evidence, we tracked down and interviewed "Fmlk"

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

10.12.2024 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 5

Like everyone else, I'm just here checking it out. I'll probably post about dis/misinfo stuff... actually, let's be real, I'll probably re-post other people's insights and jokes about dis/misinfo stuff ; )

03.12.2024 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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