De partituur van het #extrema outdoor festival hier een kilometer verderop in Houthalen: 🎼🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨

Looks like the EU forced X to explain blue checkmark over there don't mean an account is actually verified anymore... Great that they also say they support free speech, but I'm not sure what that has to do with being forced to communicate transparently about a product feature.

Forget the Dollar Store. In Paris...

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

President Trump is sharing a hoax that was mass-posted by the "Viet Spam" network we've been tracking for months: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Google getting you down by showing you an AI summary of the hoax you are searching a debunk for instead of a link to a fact-check written by humans? Try setting up @leadstories.com as a preferred source! www.google.com/preferences/...

At @leadstories.com we have something called the "WTF?" test for deciding if we are going to publish a fact check about a true story because there are already plenty of false stories we can write about. A true story meets the bar if it makes us go "WTF, that's *real*?"

Grote BBQ in Beverlo? We zagen de rook al van in Halen... www.hbvl.be/regio/limbur...

Vietnam-based boomer slop spam network floods Facebook with fake posts saying Cole Tomas Allen worked for dozens of celebs... If only they had fact checkers. Surely Community Notes will fix it :-) leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

The best indication so far the WHCD Trump shooting wasn't staged? No evidence yet of huge insider bets just before it happened on Polymarket or Kalshi :-)

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Think you have what it takes to separate #fact from fiction? Put your knowledge to the test with the Lead Stories Fact Check Quiz, where you can challenge what you know about what did or did not happen in the world of #fact-checking. Take the test here: tinyurl.com/4f2es6px #factsmatter

Wat Als... ...je nog zo weinig bezoekers aantrekt met links op X te posten dat niemand iets merkt wanneer het weken aan een stuk niet meer werkt.

Here's how we're taking over InfoWars.

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

Just realized I hadn't posted about #ijf26 yet... The annual journalism pilgrimage to Perugia in Italy is in full swing...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Here's the paper: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Grok can't believe Trump's real post is actually real... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

This fact checking day, @leadstories.com agrees with... Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Well, kind of... read on!

Best April Fool's joke so far... (...what do you mean, tomorrow?)

Uh oh... Death has Chuck Norris'ed www.reuters.com/world/action...

Uh oh, @archive.org is down. Fact checkers hardest hit...

Wait, what? Thanks @bsky.app !

No shit #xdown #twitterdown #failwhale

I hope that if there's one thing that this Iran conflict and the explosion of online misinformation about it has laid bare for most people is the significance of content verification and fact-checking in the digital age. AI cannot replace human verification, at least not just yet.

Iran? Spreading disinformation and war propaganda? No!! AI content...manipulating the discourse..on X??!!! FAKE NEWS MEDIA amplifying it on social media? Surely a Community Note will fix that... (in 14 hours) If only we had, idk, agencies & partnerships & verification tools for such things.

Sinds de ganzen fact checkers hebben is het veel moeilijker geworden om ze nog iets wijs te maken...

Google's AI summary takes a satirical story about Adjoa Andoh blasting LotR for "blackface" and takes it at face value:

Je zal maar een hardwerkende cybercrimineel zijn, om dan mensen zoals Inti tegen te komen die het allemaal verpesten. inti.io/p/how-i-infi...

Nog iemand een meteoor, meteoriet, vuurbal of vlammend ding in de lucht gezien? #meteor #meteorite

WTF? X to start demonetizing unlabeled AI war videos... Labeling false content? What a novel idea!

The source for the "President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth" quote from a U.S. "commander" is a single organization that didn't provide documentary or identifying info. Did you witness it? --> [email protected]

Did the Department of War add "periscope crosshairs" to this torpedo footage to make it look cooler? Looks like it was filmed from some fast-moving flying platform, a helicopter or a drone or something...

Zeg, @gazetvanantwerpen.bsky.social, waar zijn we mee bezig? Moet daar niet "advertorial" of "publiciteit" bij staan? En ook wel "quatch" en "onbewezen"?

The reports of "hospital boats for Greenland" are greatly exaggerated. Both US hospital SHIPS, USNS Mercy and Comfort, are in an Alabama Shipyard. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Lead Stories ❤️ Internet Archive www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

Lap! Een brief van de fanfare...

Heeft Bill White al met JD Vance overlegd over deze kwestie?

YouTube is so down it crashed downdetector! downdetector.com/status/youtu... #youtubedown

Wacht, wat?! #sneeuw #houthalen

Hey @searchliaison.bsky.social, why is Google showing an AI article with false information for the query "christopher todd erick fact check" when a perfectly good fact check written by humans is available? leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Psst... Google @searchliaison.bsky.social there's a fact check available about this AI generated image you know... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

All the old people on Facebook and X are upset over this image...

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Hard to keep up... Yes, a Kid Rock show got canceled. No, not that one.

The Armenian version of "Sir, this is a Wendy's"?

Uh, oh, Elmo!

When Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong suddenly like fact-checking apparently...

More Epstein fun... a simple OCR scanning error has sent the conspiracy theory set into a frenzy...