Analysis: Ten of the most popular fact checks of 2022
, we uncovered a trail of misinformation that started with mysterious Austrian websites with ties to that country’s far-right populist party, the Freedom Party. Those stories were then recycled by right-wing media in the United States and eventually came out of the mouth of a U.S. senator.In late February, Fox News host Tucker Carlson openly questioned the legitimacy of Ukraine’s political system, openly dismissing its status as a democracy.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has channeled many of Putin’s arguments for invading Ukraine, including that Ukraine is not a democracy. “In American terms, you would call Ukraine a tyranny,” Carlson claimed. To some extent, whether Ukraine is a democracy is a matter of opinion,. But Carlson — who has expressed admiration for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his crackdown on civil liberties — is stacking the deck against Ukraine.
what academic research showed about the effectiveness of gun laws in preventing such tragedies. The short answer was that many proposed laws probably would not have much of an effect on curbing the mass killings that dominate the news. But they could lessen their severity, and might also bring down overall gun violence. We further expanded our inquiry into this subject withat 41 gun-related mass killings since 2015.
mass killings might have been prevented by any major proposals. But some ideas — such as not allowing people under age 21 to buy assault rifles and banning ammunition storage and feeding devices known as magazines that hold more than 10 rounds — might have minimized the bloodshed.Many readers discover old fact checks when searching the internet for information. Here’s a list of fact checks that ranked among the top 50 in 2022 — even though they were first published in 2021.
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