Fact Check

The fifth season of “The Crown” managed to stir up drama before it even dropped on Netflix. Now that the highly-anticipated season is here, we did a deep dive to separate fact from fiction.

False posts were spreading on social media that said Elon Musk fired the Board at Twitter. Those posts were easily debunked, though — here’s how MediaWise campus correspondent Loren Miranda did it.

Ever since the release of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, you may have seen misinformation on social media that tries to appeal to users’ fears. MediaWise Campus Correspondent Kyle Davidson explains what you need to watch out for.

An artist edited Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler onto a Time magazine cover, and many people falsely assumed the image was real – then shared it widely around social media. Reporter Maya Broadwater from Mediawise, a digital media literacy and factchecking group, explains.

More than 80 fact checking organizations are calling on YouTube to address what they say is rampant misinformation on the platform