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Thursday

Screenshots from Mallory DeMille's Instagram, where she takes on the wellness industry as @this.is.mallory. @this.is.mallory/Screenshots by NPR. hide caption

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Pro-science influencers take on wellness influencers

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Friday

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds up a document as she reads off line items of government spending during a news conference Wednesday in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption

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False claims on X lead to an attack on news media

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Friday

Mario, who is in the U.S. without legal status, shows a social media hoax he saw on his phone warning of immigration checkpoints in Sacramento, Calif. Jude Joffe-Block/NPR hide caption

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Immigrants are being swamped with social media rumors about possible raids

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Thursday

Thursday

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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MUSK GESTURE

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Friday

Firefighters work with water hoses near houses burned down in the Palisades Fire along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif. on Jan. 9, 2025. Right-wing influencers have claimed that the firefighters' response was hampered by workforce diversity goals. David Pashaee/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Conspiracy theories are blaming the scale of L.A. wildfire destruction on DEI efforts

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Monday

A QAnon sign at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Many of the rioters who attacked the Capitol later told investigators they were motivated in part by the online conspiracy theory. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

Kash Patel during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference in Fort Washington, Md. on Feb. 23, 2024. President-elect Trump has nominated Patel to lead the FBI even though the agency's current director, Christopher Wray, has more than two years left on his term. Dominic Gwinn/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

Stephen Ghiglieri and Katrina Vaillancourt at their San Francisco Bay Area home on Sept. 17. Jude Joffe-Block/NPR hide caption

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How this couple managed to stay together when one embraced QAnon conspiracy theories

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Friday

People wait in line to vote outside a polling station on Election Day in Nazareth, Pa., on Nov. 5. Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Noncitizen voters legacy

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Tuesday

Wednesday

SCOTUS VA Decision

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Tuesday

Voters work on their ballots at a polling station in Arlington, Va., on Sept. 20. AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption

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