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Fighting disinformation: Can You Believe It?

Can You Believe It? is an initiative dedicated to uncovering how disinformation reaches consumers and providing tools to help our audience fight its spread. Are you seeing disinformation in your social media feeds? Share with us by emailing tell@mpr.org.

Fact check: Trump tweets distort truth on National Guard

Fact check: Trump tweets distort truth on National Guard

President Trump omits the fact that he is largely a bystander in National Guard deployments: National Guard units in each state answer to the governor and sometimes state legislatures, not to the president.
by The Associated Press

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Fact check: Trump's and Biden's records on criminal justice

Fact check: Trump's and Biden's records on criminal justice

Republicans charge that Americans would not be safe with a President Joe Biden. But murder rates are up this year under President Donald Trump, and both candidates have a mixed record on criminal justice reform.
by Brian Naylor

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Fact check: Trump, GOP distort on health care, vote fraud

Fact check: Trump, GOP distort on health care, vote fraud

President Donald Trump made a dizzying array of misleading claims about voting fraud and health care as fellow Republicans opened their convention with speeches distorting the agenda of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
by The Associated Press

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How to talk to vaccine skeptics so they might actually hear you

How to talk to vaccine skeptics so they might actually hear you

With the advent of flu season, and COVID-19 cases rising, a public health disaster even worse than what we’re now experiencing could occur this fall and winter. Here are some myths and truths about how to increase rates of vaccinations.
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AP fact check: What the Dems didn't say, and what Trump did

AP fact check: What the Dems didn't say, and what Trump did

Joe Biden and fellow Democrats spun an assortment of facts to their benefit in their national convention, omitting inconvenient truths. Meantime President Donald Trump flooded the zone with falsehoods, some so apparent that anyone with access to the internet could see the folly of them at a glance.
by The Associated Press

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