This Group Refuses to Stop Tracking Disinformation
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This Group Refuses to Stop Tracking Disinformation

Though a larger coalition of fact checkers has disbanded, a team of students and researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle is still working to document how lies online threaten to undermine this year’s presidential race.
Dejected Social Media Users Call ‘Garbage Time’ Over China’s Ailing Economy
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Dejected Social Media Users Call ‘Garbage Time’ Over China’s Ailing Economy

The sports term refers to a time during a game when defeat becomes inevitable. Officialdom is warning against using it to take veiled jabs at the country’s political and economic system.