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The Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Aug. 7, 2017, in New York. The Walt Disney Co.'s public opposition to a Florida bill banning instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade has led to a range of social media posts attempting to malign the company, falsely claiming it is sympathetic to pedophiles or predatory toward young children. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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FACT FOCUS: Posts maligning Disney lack evidence
By ALI SWENSON - Associated Press
Tue,04/12/22-3:24PM , 307 Reads
Online posts are using flawed logic and false information to malign The Walt Disney Co.
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Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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FACT FOCUS: False claims spread in aftermath of Oscars slap
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Tue,03/29/22-8:52PM , 258 Reads
Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock onstage at Sunday's 94th Academy Awards was a moment that was hard to believe.
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Tennessee National Guard troops board a plane in Smyrna, Tenn., to go to Washington, Thursday, June 4, 2020. Three current and former members of the Tennessee National Guard are “safe” and “accounted for,” despite a Russian newspaper’s false report, Thursday, March, 17, 2022, that the men were killed while fighting in Ukraine. All three individuals named in the report, are alive and well — and no U.S. military personnel are currently on orders in Ukraine, National Guard Bureau spokesman Wayne Hall said in a phone interview Friday, March 18. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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Tennessee guard members safe despite Russian reports
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Fri,03/18/22-11:42AM , 286 Reads
Three current and former members of the Tennessee National Guard are safe and accounted for, despite a Russian newspaper’s false report that the men were killed while fighting in Ukraine.
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FACT FOCUS: Washington state isn't changing quarantine rules
By ALI SWENSON - Associated Press
Wed,01/12/22-3:59PM , 191 Reads
A routine meeting of the Washington State Board of Health on Wednesday became the topic of a nationwide misinformation campaign this week as social media users, political hopefuls and conservative pundits spun bogus claims that the meeting would include a vote to force unvaccinated residents into COVID-19 quarantine camps.
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