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Study finds ivermectin, the horse drug Joe Rogan championed as a COVID treatment, does nothing to cure the virus When doctors and scientists scoured for a cure to COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic, initial studies suggested a number of potential cures that turned out to be bogus. Continue Reading . . . https://finance.yahoo.com/news/study-finds-ivermectin-horse-drug-071103424.html

Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election. Continue Reading . . . https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-media-lawsuits-elections-912eea8e168f95d51dec02da78ac2760

Revealed: seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale A Guardian Seascape analysis of 44 recent studies of more than 9,000 seafood samples from restaurants, fishmongers and supermarkets in more than 30 countries found that 36% were mislabelled, exposing seafood fraud on a vast global scale. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/15/revealed-seafood-happening-on-a-vast-global-scale

Subway is SUED after tuna salad is 'revealed to be anything but tuna' and 'isn't even FISH' If you bought a tuna sandwich from a Subway restaurant recently, chances are you may have eaten something that was ‘made from anything but tuna,’ two Bay Area customers allege. Continue Reading . . . https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9197909/Subway-SUED-tuna-salad-revealed-tuna-isnt-FISH.html

So you know all those reports earlier this week about a Nintendo Switch exchange program? Yeah, turns out it was all a bunch of crap. The Verge published an official statement from a Nintendo rep on Saturday debunking the deal. from https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-says-that-rumored-switch-exchange-deal-is-fake-1837354592 https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Tf1JK90n--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/uh5pllhhkstd2d77lza6.jpg

Donald Trump has 55 million followers on Twitter. But his tweets reach less than half of that, according to an analysis by SparkToro. More than 60% of the US president’s Twitter following, or about 33 million accounts, have been deemed fake by the marketing software firm. from https://qz.com/1422395/how-many-of-donald-trumps-twitter-followers-are-fake/ https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/RTX2V9CB-e1539353976672.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=410&h=231