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NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” highlights a claim from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints proprietary database of provably false claims and their debunks. The claim that Cadbury removed the word ‘Easter’ from its chocolate eggs in 2026 to avoid offending Muslims is NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” due to its widespread appearance across social media platforms and websites, its high engagement levels, and the high-profile nature of the sources promoting it. Those three factors, as well as both its significant subject matter...
NYC Today Former President Donald Trump has made a series of increasingly bizarre and unsubstantiated claims about Iran, including alleging the country has a 'new regime' that is begging for a cea...