I was wondering why there suddenly was traffic on this old fact check again... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... Now I know: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... The President of the United States fell for satire from a left-wing troll...

Confirmed. The Onion did fact check that. @bencollins.bsky.social

Belgische militaire MQ-9 Reaper drone draait rondjes in de buurt van Malmedy. #drones #dronesightings #Belgium

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

When the 'six seven' meme collides with election disinformation... #sixseven #NYElection

Yet another example of @Grok making up a fake fact check.

Gisteren heb ik het boek 'The fake news files' van @mschenk.bsky.social uitgelezen. Ik vind het een superinteressant boek en een aanrader voor iedereen die gebruikmaakt van sociale media en/of interesse heeft in feiten. Het nut van factcheckers wordt volgens mij zwaar onderschat. Zoveel respect!🙏

Die "This is not a murder mystery"... Duidelijk veel werk in research en decors gestoken. Jammer dat de dialogen precies af en toe door ChatGPT zijn geschreven. Veel mini-speeches met expositie, vol met Wikipedia-achtige feitjes en weetjes.

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Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam' #prebunkingatscale leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Viral videos of "migrants" stealing stuff from graves in the UK actually show an Easter tradition in Ukraine... (I've seen similar videos claiming it happened in France)

Don't be fooled by this widely shared fake Sudan image... (Plenty of real atrocity videos going around, no need to share fake ones...)

Ding, dong, #chatcontrol is dead... (At least for now...) www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Crazy to have the Let-them-eat-cake moment of the 21st century (the "Ballroom priority" quote) fact checked in real time. (Yes, she said it *but* there is context...) The original Marie-Antoinette quote had to wait for historians: www.britannica.com/story/did-ma... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Today on @indicator.media: A first-of-its-kind audit of AI labels on major social platforms.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Straf dat we Ingrid Seynhaeve nog eens terugzien in de context van Amerikaanse desinformatie :-) leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Has the Community Notes button always been behind the expanded settings click? I feel like it used to be on the main menu

BREKEND: Beheer Belgische F-35 vloot van de luchtmacht overgedragen aan de NMBS...

Don't worry about the stolen diamonds from the #Louvre. France has their top man on it...

Bluesky users responding to the shit-dumping video....

Update: the White House account on Bluesky @whitehouse-47.bsky.social now has 6.8K followers vs. 550K+ accounts that have blocked it directly or via a blocklist according to ClearSky.

Block @whitehouse-47.bsky.social anr prepare for @unclouder.com, a fact-checker powered Bluesky labeler to help you clear dark clouds of misinformation from your blue sky☀️ and of course please don’t use x, meta, instagram and other broligarchs trap 🪤

The White House Bluesky account @whitehouse-47.bsky.social is currrently followed by fewer than 5000 accounts. Over 65.000 accounts have blocked it. Source: ClearSky: clearsky.app/whitehouse-4...

Today might be a good day to announce @unclouder.com will soon launch a fact-checker powered Bluesky labeler to help you clear dark clouds of misinformation from your blue sky. Over forty fact checking organizations already registered interest to participate. Give us a follow to see the labels!

Direktorica Ukoma Petra Bezjak Cirman je drugi dan konference @disinfo.eu #disinfo2025 s strokovnjakoma @mschenk.bsky.social in @marcfaddoul.com govorila o "de-šitifikaciji" spletne izkušnje oz. o tem, kako splet vrniti uporabnikom. Več ➡️ www.gov.si/novice/2025-... 📸 Bor Slana/STA

Thanks to the organizers of #Disinfo2025 for the chance to talk about the enshittification of social media platform fact checking labels and how we are trying to build a better labeler on Bluesky with @unclouder.com (give it a follow if you want to see it in action, it goes live soon...)

Quite dystopian to listen to a panel about AI-driven "slopaganda" at #Disinfo2025 while at the same time getting a news alert about a Belgian supermarket chain announcing they are replacing in-store music with AI-generated music to save costs... www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

If you are a fact checker at #Disinfo2025, do stop by for my panel at 13.50 on Thursday (titled "Alt-Insert: how to provoke deshitification of our online experience") where I will present the @unclouder.com project, a labeling system for Bluesky powered by fact checkers that will launch soon...

Cool line about foreign disinformation in one of the opening speeches at #Disinfo2025: "Today's spies don't just come to take information, they also come to bring information..."

First impressions from #disinfo2025 in Ljubljana...

Weet er iemand welke Belgische nationale damesploeg vandaag naar Ljubljana vliegt? Ik ook niet maar ze zitten op hetzelfde vliegtuig :-)

YouTube censoring @leadstories.com ? No, just sensible precautions using automated filters against personal information leaks and an efficient and quick appeals process that (probably) used humans to restore a legitimate news story. Here's the video in question: youtube.com/shorts/GGqPV...

Yikes! Talk about an unfortunate cutoff...

Google's AI overview denies there is a sequel to "This is Spinal Tap"... right below thumbnails for the official trailer. The stupidity of AI goes all the way up to eleven! #spinaltap

Sure, replace fact checkers with AI...

Wow, Grok (on the other site) blatantly claiming one of our fact checks says the exact opposite thing compared to what it actually says... x.com/grok/status/... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Google Search is vandalising the internet. 👀 Our new investigation reveals how some of our fact checks are being shown in misleading ways:

This is why at @leadstories.com we try th put the conclusion of our fact checks within the first eight words of the headline if we can. Harder for Google to muck up :-)

Reposting this oldie.... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Eerste (en enige) job ook waar ik via IRC chat voor gesolliciteerd heb :-) Ze deden een oproep in kanaal #vlaanderen als ik me goed herinner...

Don't repost this fact check or you might get flagged and tagged too! ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

BREAKING: The Rapture has been postponed by Executive Order... more soon.

Proudly announcing governmental oversight actions resulted in speech from fact checkers being withheld from the public...

... has repeatedly insisted that fact checking is, by itself, "censorship" and here we have Jim Jordan repeating the directly. When, what it really shows is how Jim Jordan's threats and pressure are actually *suppressing* fact checking speech.

Fact checking IS NOT AND CANNOT BE "censorship." It is literally the "more speech" that pretend free speech supporters always claim they want. It's more speech weighing in on the accuracy of other speech. It's literally a part of the "marketplace of ideas." Yet, over the last decade, the GOP...

There are plenty of misrepresentations going around regarding Google's pathetically sucking up letter to Jim Jordan, which deliberately misrepresents reality in a manner designed to make Jordan look good, but the one part that really gets me is this one:

People on X speculate about increased Grindr usage during the Charlie Kirk memorial --> Downdetector picks it up --> Shows a spike --> "Online Reports!" --> People on X talk about the "online reports" --> Downdetector picks up the talk --> Bigger spike! (repeat) Grindr: "nope."

Reposting some oldies today...

Reposting some oldies today...