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No — there is no credible evidence that the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada or Australia have recently imposed sanctions on Donald Trump; that claim appears to be a false viral rumor flagge...
Available reporting shows a recent surge in high‑profile settlements that President Trump has obtained from media and tech companies after his 2024 election — examples include Meta ($25m), Paramount/V...
Safari and the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser take different approaches: Apple designs Safari to minimize and keep much user data on-device under Apple's ecosystem model, while DuckDuckGo emphasizes block...
Deleting a chat in the ChatGPT UI removes it from your visible history immediately, and OpenAI schedules deleted chats for permanent removal from its systems within about 30 days under its retention r...
Audacity was accused of becoming "spyware" after Muse Group updated its privacy policy in mid‑2021 to describe telemetry and limited data collection; Muse/Audacity denied it was spyware and said the w...
DuckDuckGo’s search results and its Smarter Encryption feature focus on enforcing HTTPS (the TLS-encrypted HTTP protocol) by maintaining and using a large, continuously generated list of sites that su...
Federal reporting and advocacy documents say the Trump administration targeted hundreds to thousands of federally funded research awards, including cancer grants: reporting cites about $1–2.3 billion ...
Claims on social posts that a blue whale’s anus can “stretch to approximately 3½ feet” are part of a viral meme ecosystem; scientific reporting cited in Ars Technica and related coverage finds far sma...
If a U.S. citizen is asked to prove citizenship during an encounter with ICE or other federal immigration agents, immigrant-rights groups advise carrying primary identity documents such as a U.S. pass...
Available reporting in the provided sources documents many instances of deepfakes involving both Bill/Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and shows how politicians and platforms have reacted; however, t...
You cannot generally refuse CBP’s biometric collection if you are a non‑U.S. citizen seeking entry: DHS’s final rule requires facial images for most non‑citizen travelers at entry and exit effective D...
DuckDuckGo’s desktop products (browser and extensions) focus on blocking web trackers on sites you visit and set privacy defaults for search and browsing, while the DuckDuckGo Android app includes an ...
ICE and related DHS components use a mix of tools and procedures to assess or “verify” citizenship when someone lacks physical ID: mobile biometrics and facial‑recognition apps such as Mobile Fortify;...
The directive widely reported as an “order to keep all Grok data” was issued by the European Commission under the EU’s Digital Services Act and directed at X, instructing the platform to preserve inte...
Several public figures and government officials have been cited in recent reporting for making claims that critics call misleading about COVID-19 vaccines: FDA biologics chief Vinay Prasad claimed in ...
YouTube’s AI age-verification system uses behavioural signals (searches, watch history, account longevity) to estimate whether an account belongs to a teen and, if the AI flags an adult as a minor, it...
YouTube’s AI age‑estimation system rolled out in the U.S. in August 2025 and flags some accounts as under‑18 based on viewing/search history and account signals; flagged adults must verify with a gove...
Available reporting shows activists and public-health advocates say they have seen no public documentation that a required asbestos inspection, notification and abatement occurred before the rapid dem...
Larry Ellison told investors in September 2024 that AI could power continuous surveillance — “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times” and “Citizens will be on their best behavior ...
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met Dec. 4–5, 2025 to consider changes to the hepatitis B infant vaccine recommendation, the childhood immunization schedule and vaccine i...