Debunking [verb]
Definition of Debunking:
disprove, ridicule
Synonyms of Debunking:
Sentence/Example of Debunking:
The presented evidence, such as it was, ranged from the already debunked to Infowars-level nonsense.
Facebook on Thursday said it slapped warnings on more than 180 million pieces of content that were debunked by fact-checkers during the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.
The video has been debunked — the papers in question were proven to be sample ballots, as they lacked the bar code that official ballots have along the edge — but people continue to share it online as “evidence” of supposed voter fraud.
Some of the pages included links to a Bannon-affiliated website called Populist Press, which included stories that have been debunked by fact-checkers.
The claims that Giuliani and the poll watchers made at the news conference were unsubstantiated and at times conflicting — and many have already been debunked.
On Thursday evening, a spokesperson for Twitter said a tweet from Texas Scorecard’s account with the debunked video violates its policy against using the platform to try to manipulate an election.
Since the election, millions have watched and shared videos featuring debunked or unproven allegations involving mysterious wagons, ripped-up ballots and vote-deleting felt-tip pens.
Easily debunked theories about stolen votes have mushroomed online, then made it into protests, almost instantly.
Protect against that by introducing a weak version of the misinformation before they’re exposed to it in the real world, and debunking it with them.
Maroney seeks to demystify the job of private investigators and debunk myths ingrained from television and pulp fiction.