In a move that rocked the streaming world Monday, and would give Fox Corp. access to more than 100 million global households, the company is buying streaming service Roku for $22 billion.
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Viral social media posts said a California mayoral election update added about 24,000 votes and none went to candidate Spencer Pratt. A media outlet lag briefly showed candidates’ totals out of sync, but Pratt received votes in every update.
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From leveraging social media to investigate misinformation on WhatsApp to exposing AI-assisted Ponzi schemes, here are the finalists for this year’s Global Fact-Checking Awards.
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President Donald Trump said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that California’s pace of ballot counting is proof of cheating. PolitiFact rated that claim Pants on Fire.
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-President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement again make rigged election claims, The New York Times warns this will be the Trump blueprint in Novemeber
-CBS searches for a business-side Bari Weiss counterpart
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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman didn’t concede the race as of June 7, despite viral claims by social media users. Raman is still in the mayoral race as one of the possible top two contenders for the November runoff.
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In a recent interview with “Meet the Press,” President Donald Trump cut the interview short and stormed off after being challenged by moderator Kristen Welker.
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