After shots rang out at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania on 13 July, social media became a hotbed for claims, counter-claims and conspiracy theories.

Images of a bloodied Donald Trump raising his fist would lead news coverage in the days after the attempted assassination attempt, which killed attendee Corey Comperatore. At the time of writing two others are in a serious condition.

The FBI named Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the “subject involved”. He was shot dead at the scene.

World leaders including President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Keir Starmer were quick to condemn the attack on Mr Trump, which left him with a wound but no stitches to his right ear, according to his son Eric.

But online, many people were sharing their own…

07/19/2024, New York // PRODIGY: Feature Story //

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07/19/2024, New York // PRODIGY: Feature Story //

HostColor (HC) is pleased to announce the new availability of Bare Metal Servers in St. Louis, Missouri. The latest bare metal server configuration available is the Intel Xeon E3-1270v6, comprising six cores and 12 threads, operating at 3.70 GHz, with 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of SSD storage, and 100 TB of data transfer on a 1 Gbps bandwidth port. Should your requirements change, you have the option to scale up your memory, storage, and data transfer quotas.

This and other bare metal servers are located in the Globe Building at 710 N Tucker Blvd in St. Louis. HostColor provides customers requiring dedicated servers in St. Louis data centers with IPv6 address space at no additional cost. The network services utilized by HC, through its St….

A screenshot claiming to show an article headlined “Reasonable for protesters to call Sir Keir Starmer ‘Tory scum’, court rules” has been edited.

The image has been shared on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). The caption says: “A court has found that it is plausible to describe Starmer as, “Tory Scum” – I think this was established long before this court ruling to be fair”.

While some saw it as a joke, others appear to believe it was genuine. 

The original headline was published by the Guardian in November 2023 and refers to Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith, not Mr Starmer. The article describes a high court ruling not to overturn an acquittal of two protesters who were previously found not guilty of using threatening, abusive or insulting words…

A video of Reform UK leader and Clacton MP Nigel Farage has been shared on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook, claiming Mr Farage “says he will do nothing for the black community”. But this clip is missing important context. 

In the clip, Mr Farage says: “What was I going to do for the black community? Do you know what I said? ‘Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I couldn’t give a damn’.”

The video being shared online cuts Mr Farage off mid-sentence, whereas, in the full video, he actually says “I couldn’t give a damn whether you’re black or white”.

This clip comes from a video posted on YouTube by Canadian academic Jordan Peterson, who interviewed Mr Farage on 2 July 2024. The full interview lasts for around 50 minutes.

The shortened video was shared…