Samantha Bee’s show singled out ‘Nazi hair’ at CPAC. One of the joke’s targets has brain cancer.; From old photo to right-wing meme to Trump’s twitter: The journey of one Schumer/Putin pic; This beauty queen was the face of a fake news website. She says she had no idea.; How researchers tried to understand one of Twitter’s oldest trolling groups;
 
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Samantha Bee’s show singled out ‘Nazi hair’ at CPAC. One of the joke’s targets has brain cancer.
"Full Frontal" has since apologized, edited the clip out of the segment, and donated to a GoFundMe campaign for his cancer treatment.
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Why Google once claimed that Obama was staging a coup
Google is trying to answer your questions. What happens when they're wrong?
 
From old photo to right-wing meme to Trump’s twitter: The journey of one Schumer/Putin pic
An important analysis of a tweet from the president of the United States.
 
This beauty queen was the face of a fake news website. She says she had no idea.
The activist blogger with a beauty queen's face and nearly a million Facebook followers was the product of a stolen picture and a lot of deceit, a lawsuit says.
 
How researchers tried to understand one of Twitter’s oldest trolling groups
A tight-knit group of Twitter trolls are convinced they know who is responsible for the disappearance of Madeline McCann.
 
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