bobby allyn

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A look at Achiya Schatz, who runs the fact-checking org FakeReporter from his in-law’s house outside Tel Aviv, where he and two other families fled the violence of the war. He’s assembled 3k volunteers to combat war disinfo, as platforms lag www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1...

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I know some people say that questioning details about horrific stories is a way of downplaying or denying the horror, but it’s really not: wartime propaganda is corrosive and insidious and a tool for manipulation, and truth is worth caring about even in the face of utter tragedy.

So yesterday, a lot of ppl shared a claim that 40 Israeli babies were decapitated at Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near Gaza. Here’s a bit of insight about how we approach a claim like that as reporters: 1) Figure out where the claim was coming from. In this case, it was a single Israeli TV reporter.

hey you guys still here

New from me: I spent some time digging into how an LA man lost his life savings to a crypto scam https://www.npr.org/2023/06/25/1180256165/crypto-scam-senior-victims-spirebit

We’ve seen this movie before…

Facebook, Instagram to block news stories in California if bill passeswww.npr.org From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers' efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California.

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