False Claims
FACT FOCUS: Posts maligning Disney lack evidence - Laredo Morning Times
Online posts are using flawed logic and false information to malign The Walt Disney Co. as sympathetic to pedophiles or predatory toward young children after the company publicly opposed a Florid...
Read moreGinni Thomas endorses Yesli Vega in crowded Virginia GOP primary - The Washington Post
Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who is married to Justice Clarence Thomas and who remains under scrutiny for urging a top Trump administration official to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has we...
Read moreFACT FOCUS: Posts maligning Disney lack evidence - Star Tribune
Online posts are using flawed logic and false information to malign The Walt Disney Co. as sympathetic to pedophiles or predatory toward young children after the company publicly opposed a Florid...
Read moreLong-running False Claims Act lawsuit against Peraton subsidiary dismissed following settlement - FedScoop
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a long-running lawsuit against a Peraton subsidiary over the provision of background investigation services to the Office of Personnel Management. It ends an e...
Read moreAnalysis | Now warning about Hunter Biden-laptop disinfo: The guy who leaked it - The Washington Post
When the New York Post first reported in October 2020 that it had obtained the contents of a laptop computer allegedly owned by Joe Biden’s son Hunter, there was an immediate roadblock faced by a...
Read moreFact check: U.S. general refutes rumor that Russian forces captured him in Mariupol - USA TODAY
The claim: Russian forces captured a U.S. general in Mariupol, Ukraine NATO hasn’t deployed forces on the ground in Ukraine, but a rumor circulating online claims Russian forces recently capture...
Read moreSeventh Circuit Court of Appeals Reiterates Validity of Objective Reasonableness Defense to FCA Claims - Foley & Lardner LLP
In a 2-1 opinion issued on April 5, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals again held that an objectively reasonable interpretation of a relevant statute or regulation precludes the required findin...
Read moreBiden heads to Iowa as inflation headaches intensify - The Washington Post
Today, President Biden arrived in Iowa hours after the release of a new inflation report that showed prices rose 8.5 percent in March compared with a year ago — another blow to a chief executive ...
Read moreKohl's and Walmart Fined $5.5 Million for Marketing Law Violations - Lexology
On April 8, 2022, Kohl’s and Walmart were fined for violating federal marketing laws, resulting from a Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) investigation alleging that the businesses had: 1) falsely ...
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NGOs, media amplify unverified claims against Israel - The Jerusalem Post
A front-page article with the byline of veteran New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof is the latest poisonous example of what I call the NGO “halo effect.” Headlined “The Silence That Mee...