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Grant Wahl's widow is battling COVID disinformation after his death 01/12/2023 10:00am • ▶ Watch Video: Dr. Celine Gounder on protecting husband Grant Wahl's legacy, fighting disinformation A month after the sudden death of her husband, renowned soccer journalist Grant Wahl, Dr. Celine Gounder is battling COVID disinformation about how he died. Gounder, an infectious d Prominent fact-checker Snopes apologizes for plagiarism 08/14/2021 12:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The co-founder and CEO of the fact-checking site Snopes.com has acknowledged plagiarizing from dozens of articles done by mainstream news outlets over several years, calling the appropriations “serious lapses in judgment.” From 2015 to 2019 — and possibly even earlier — Dav Coping with the winter blahs 01/15/2017 01:09pm • WASHINGTON — Some contend that the third Monday in January is “Blue Monday,” the most-depressing day of the year. While Snopes.com has written it off as an idea “mainly advanced by marketers and public relations firms,” there’s no doubt that the short days and low temperatures make th Column: Is it illegal to share Netflix passwords? 08/25/2016 04:36am • Q: Is it true that sharing my Netflix password is now against the law? A recent decision issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is just the latest story to take on a life of its own because of the incessant need to create "click-bait" across the internet these days. Headlines claiming that The history behind 75 years of Rudolph and his red nose 12/05/2014 10:04am • WASHINGTON -- The very shiny nose of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" nearly kept him from going down in history. The tiny reindeer who safely guided Santa's sleigh through fog has a history filled with little known facts. When Rudolph was created for a department store promotion in 1939, Mo