No doubt, Angel Reese, as part of the 2024 rookie class, has given the WNBA a significant boost. Whether it’s her double-double streak or leading the league in rebounding, she has done it all. But still, none of this guarantees her enough income to even cover her rent. “Hatin’ pays them bills, baby… I hope […]The post Fact Check: Did Angel Reese Say WNBA Players Should Be Getting Paid Like NBA Stars? appeared first on EssentiallySports.

https://www.essentiallysports.com/wnba-basketball-news-fact-check-did-angel-reese-say-wnba-players-should-be-getting-paid-like-nba-stars/

It has just been about a couple of years since the world learned about the rather private Caitlin Clark’s lovely secret. However, when we look at the moments they have given us, no way has it only been two years for the two hoopers. From helping her through handling the stress of spotlight to celebrating […]The post Fact Check: Is Caitlin Clark Engaged to Connor McCaffery? appeared first on EssentiallySports.

https://www.essentiallysports.com/wnba-basketball-news-fact-check-is-caitlin-clark-engaged-to-connor-mccaffery/

Fact-Check: An edited photo showing hoardings with the number 420 and an encircled question mark is being shared to falsely claim ads were put up along metro pi...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/hyderabad-420-poster-revanth-reddy-congress-poll-promises-fact-check

#thequint

"No – I'm counting on these changes actually making our platforms better," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/09/business/mark-zuckerberg-says-anyone-who-quits-meta-is-virtue-signaling/

#Post

Two weeks before a second Trump term begins, Mark Zuckerberg says "free expression" is the way to go.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meta-ditches-fact-checking-program-wants-you-to-pitch-in-with-community-notes/#ftag=CAD590a51e

#cnet

Meta on Tuesday announced it will end its third-party fact-checking program and shift to a user-generated "Community Notes" format.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/01/07/Meta-Facebook-Mark-Zuckerberg-reduce-censorship/5791736262325/

#upi

If you've been paying attention to the weather in recent days, you may have seen a viral social media post with a dramatic graph showing that North Georgia could see more than a foot of snow next week.

https://www.forsythnews.com/news/weather/a-foot-of-snow-in-north-georgia-weather-experts-fact-check-viral-social-media-posts/

#forsythnews

Fact-Check: A viral social media post has falsely claimed that the Paracetamol-500 tablets contain the Machupo Virus.

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/viral-claim-about-p-500-tablets-containing-machupo-virus-is-fake-fact-check

#thequint #webqoof

1. Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
   original article — hacker news
2. A Guide to Debouncing, Or, How to Debounce a Contact, by Jack Ganssle (2014)
   original article — hacker news
3. Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
   original article — hacker news
4. A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew
   original article — hacker news
5. Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines
   original article — hacker news
6. Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
   original article — hacker news
7. Servo Revival: 2023-2024
   original article — hacker news
8. Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU
   original article — hacker news
9. Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
   original article — hacker news
10. The U.S. Government Tried Replacing Migrant Farmworkers with Teenagers (2018)
    original article — hacker news

#hn #hackernews #ycombinator

Fact-Check | A clipped video is being shared on the internet with a misleading claim that it shows Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accepting pushing BJP MPs outsid...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/rahul-gandhi-accepted-pushing-bjp-mps-outside-parliament-viral-video-fact-check

#thequint #WebQoof

1. Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly
   original article — hacker news
2. Blogs rot. Wikis wait
   original article — hacker news
3. One of my papers got declined today
   original article — hacker news
4. RWKV Language Model
   original article — hacker news
5. DOOM CAPTCHA
   original article — hacker news
6. Kotaemon: An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents
   original article — hacker news
7. The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint [pdf]
   original article — hacker news
8. My 25-year adventure in AI and ML
   original article — hacker news
9. ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
   original article — hacker news
10. Are there more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way? (2016)
    original article — hacker news

#hn #hackernews #ycombinator

Fact-check | Deepfake Video of Pankaj Tripathi Mocking the BJP Shared by AAP. This video has been edited. The original clip shows Tripathi talking about UPI sca...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/pankaj-tripathi-vote-for-bjp-shared-by-aap-edited-video-upi-scam-fact-check

#thequint #Fact-check

Fact-Check | A misleading claim is doing the rounds on social media platforms stating that the Andhra Pradesh government has abolished the state Waqf Board.

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/andhra-pradesh-government-state-waqf-board-abolished-viral-claim-fact-check

#thequint #WebQoof

German Foreign Office takes a swipe at the former president raising a debunked claim that Haitian immigrants were eating pets

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-germany-energy-presidential-debate-b2611812.html

#Independent

Fact-Check | A fake image is doing the rounds on social media platforms claiming that the LIC has recently announced the withdrawal of all its plans.

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/lic-withdrawing-all-its-plan-by-30-september-viral-notice-fact-check

#thequint #WebQoof

Fact-check | Anubhav Sinha did not say ‘Terrorism was started by Hindus'. This claim is going viral with a clipped video from UNCUT - MULK Official Trailer La...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/anubhav-sinha-says-terrorism-started-by-hindus-not-muslim-edit-fact-check

#thequint #Fact-check

Fact-Check | An altered image, which shows former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray bowing down in front of Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, ...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/uddhav-thackeray-bowing-down-in-front-of-rahul-gandhi-edited-image-fact-check

#thequint #WebQoof

IT Amendment Rules, 2021, were challenged by satirist Kunal Kamra, Editors Guild of India, Association of Indian Magazines and News Broadcast and Digital Association

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-defends-fact-check-unit-as-bombay-hc-hears-arguments-on-it-amendment-rules/article68356800.ece

An ABC News/Ipsos poll of about 2,200 adults, released in early May, shows the only major policy issues on which Biden received higher marks than Trump were health care and abortion access.

https://www.lowellsun.com/2024/06/19/fact-check-bidens-on-target-about-what-repealing-aca-would-mean-for-preexisting-condition-protections/

Fact-Check |The audio has been edited to replaced the original one where Yadav plays a compilation of promises made by PM Modi. this video of Rashtriya Janata D...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/rjd-tejashwi-yadav-modi-speech-speaker-audio-edited-changed-fact-check

#thequint #webqoof

Newtownmountkennedy was the site of protests opposing to plans to house asylum seekers at a disused site nearby.

https://www.thejournal.ie/newtownmountkennedy-ai-geenrate-image-protests-asylum-seekers-factcheck-debunk-6368028-Apr2024/

#thejournal

Fact-Check | An old and unrelated video is being shared with a false claim stating that it shows recent visuals of people raising Pakistani flags in Wayanad, Ke...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/pakistani-flags-raised-wayanad-kerala-rahul-gandhi-constituency-viral-video-fact-check

#thequint #WebQoof

Fact-Check: A video of Siddaramaiah is being shared to claim that he said that he wants to be born a Muslim in his next life. However, he was speaking about HD ...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/clipped-video-of-siddaramaiah-saying-he-wants-to-be-muslim-in-next-life-fact-check

#thequint #webqoof

Fact-Check: Old and unrelated videos of Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma and Ronaldo and his partner are being shared to falsely claim that they attended the pre-...

https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/virat-kohli-anushka-sharma-ronaldo-at-radhika-merchant-anant-ambani-event-fact-check

#thequint #webqoof

Check the comments section of many social media and digital news platforms, and you're likely to find a cesspool of insults, threats and even harassment. In fact, a Pew Research Center survey found that 41% of American adults have personally experienced online harassment, and one in five adults say they've been harassed online for their political views. But researchers at BYU and Duke University say derisive online conversations don't have to be the norm. A joint paper between the two universities found that artificial intelligence can be used to improve conversation quality and promote civil dialogue in online interactions.

https://www.miragenews.com/ai-boosts-courtesy-in-online-conversations-1098314/

#miragenews