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There’s a phrase for what’s happening: “misinformation about misinformation.” It was coined by five academics led by Ceren Budak of the University of Michigan, in a paper in Nature in June 2024, to describe the gap between what public figures claim about online falsehood and what the evidence actually shows.…
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A month after a very public and terrifying health crisis, Perez Hilton’s family has stepped forward to offer a careful, compassionate update. In a statement posted to his website on September 14, they explained that the celebrity blogger has entered a residential treatment program, where he is expected to remain for several weeks. “This was an important next step, but there’s still a long road ahead,” the family wrote. They also shared that Hilton does not have access to his phone or laptop and has only limited contact with family and friends, a deliberate boundary designed to help him “focus…
The rain began on a Sunday afternoon, soft at first, the kind of quiet drizzle that might make someone reach for a sweater rather than a sandbag. But by evening, it had turned into something else entirely—a relentless, hissing deluge that seemed to target one street in particular: Lynnbrook Road, where the Rooster River slips through the border between Fairfield and Bridgeport. For Vanessa and Pablo Romero, the sound of water was not just weather. It was a nightmare revisiting them. They had spent two months trying to rebuild their lives after a July flood gutted their home, tearing through…
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