Justice Dept releases special counsel’s report on Hunter Biden

The Justice Department released Monday former special counsel David Weiss’ report investigating Hunter Biden.  Attorney General Merrick Garland in August 2023 announced Weiss, then the U.S. attorney overseeing the investigation into Biden, had been appointed special counsel, giving him expanded powers to continue the probe. In submitting his report to Garland, Weiss stated that he had

Fact-Checking Just Like Firefighting, Fact-Checkers Claim

FACT CHECK: Shut up, you insufferable nerds Claim: “Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department.” Who said it: Alan Duke, the former CNN journalist who cofounded Lead Stories, one of the professional fact-checking outlets Meta (formerly Facebook) pays to combat the spread of so-called misinformation on social media. Duke said this