On Thursday night, Trump implied via Twitter that he’d had his first victory in the war to keep jobs in America: Ford Motor Company would continue manufacturing cars in Kentucky instead of Mexico. However Trump wants to spin this news, the reality is that Ford was never moving a “plant in Kentucky” to Mexico.
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So how did Trump defend these lies? His campaign told FactCheck.org that his words —specifically “acid wash” — were being misunderstood.
Is Trump a pathological liar? We asked a psychologist
Ted Cruz unleashed a stream of invective at Donald Trump on Tuesday. Among the now-departed candidate’s pronouncements: Trump is a “pathological liar." Could that be true? Mic asked a prominent political psychologist. While Trump does have trouble with the truth, “pathological” is complicated.
Sorry Kanye, but there’s no freaking way TLOP was streamed 250 million times. The math just doesn’t add up.
Once and for all: The 10 myths about feminism that simply aren’t true
We’ve said this before, but it’s worth saying it again: Feminism advocates for and empowers women, and, yes, also men.
5 lies Hollywood taught us about Ebola and disease research
The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa continues to worsen. Nearly 700 people have died from the virus across Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, including Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor.
Fortunately, the closest many of us will ever come to understanding the spread of hemorrhagic fevers is from Hollywood. Unfortunately, most of those dramatizations propagate entertainment at the expense of reality.
Database tracks the 935 lies the Bush administration told about Iraq
935. That’s the number of lies the Bush administration told between 2001 and 2003 about America’s invasion of Iraq.
The falsehoods, which include accusations of weapons of mass destruction and unsubstantiated links between al-Qaida and Iraq, were unveiled on Tuesday in a database put together by the the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a nonprofit investigative journalism organization. It features every false statement officials made about the path to war, culled from speeches, testimonies and interviews.
The 8 biggest lies Men’s Rights Activists spread about women
Unfortunately, despite their activist moniker, MRAs do not generally use their networks to create meaningful change. Instead, they often parrot the same talking points on the bottom of articles about women’s issues to prove that men are, in actuality, the more oppressed gender. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes their rhetoric as “dedicated to savaging feminists in particular and women, very typically American women, in general.”
These are just a handful of the most pernicious myths put forth by MRAs to convince the world that (white, cis, heterosexual) guys are the ones who really have it bad.
8 lies about abortion debunked by ‘Obvious Child’
Coming out of the theater following the widely acclaimed film Juno, I remember being furious. I left feeling betrayed by a so-called progressive film that depicted such backward views about women’s reproductive realities. More than that, I felt sickened by the fact that I had wasted $11 on a movie that inaccurately portrayed abortion as something scary or gross and perpetuated the myth that only women bear responsibility when it comes to babies.
Frustrated, I embarked on a mission to find people who agreed with me — but I couldn’t find any. That is, until Obvious Child, perhaps the first “abortion comedy” ever successfully made. It makes all the other films that “sorta” explore pregnancy, reproductive choices and women’s sexuality look like malarkey.
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5 lies we need to stop telling about Net Neutrality
Net neutrality will kill innovation and jobs. It’s about subsidizing takers. It’s the government takeover of the Internet.
In the brewing storm around the FCC’s proposed open Internet rules (which detractors claim would gut net neutrality), there’s a lot of misinformation. Here are five of the most common myths floating around about net neutrality and how to counter them.
CeCe McDonald shuts down 7 lies about transwomen
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. There’s no distinguishing between a “real” woman and a trans woman. The problem, explains McDonald, is that “trans people are seen as objects or props, and people don’t attach the humanity to us and the things we go through.”