Topic: Media — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-14 08:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump on Monday rolled out a "blockade" of access to Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf to great fanfare, announcing his intentions on social media and then proclaiming it in motion at his appointed deadline.
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[2026-04-14 07:39 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Despite its popularity among Australian kids, Roblox is not currently included in the government's under-16s social media ban. Source: AAP / Dean Lewins
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[2026-04-14 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: There's currently some consensus among international reports that the weekend US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan fundamentally broke down over the nuclear issue. The question of Iran's enriched uranium has at times over the course of the war taken a front seat and at other times a back seat when it comes to Washington's evolving justifications and war aims in launching Operation Epic Fury.
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[2026-04-14 06:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Monday deleted a social media image apparently depicting him as Jesus after an outcry from religious leaders that he was being blasphemous.
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[2026-04-14 06:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Brazilian media have reported that the country’s former intelligence chief, Alexandre Ramagem, has been detained by immigration authorities in the United States, where he had fled after being convicted in connection with a coup plot on behalf of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.
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[2026-04-14 05:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US President Donald Trump is facing growing backlash after posting an AI-generated image of himself as a Jesus-like figure and launching a series of social media attacks on Pope Leo XIV, drawing criticism from across the Christian political spectrum.
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[2026-04-14 05:45 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: Donald Trump deleted a social media post that depicted himself as Jesus Christ healing the sick – following a backlash from believers – and claimed that the image portrayed him as a doctor, not a messianic figure.
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[2026-04-14 05:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Se podría argumentar que el sistema automatizado de bolas y strikes (ABS, por sus siglas en inglés) ha sido el Jugador Más Valioso de las Grandes Ligas durante las primeras dos semanas y media de la temporada, al crear un juego dentro del juego que está produciendo ganadores, perdedores y algunos momentos dramáticos.
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[2026-04-14 05:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The New York Times quietly swapped the headline on a contentious op-ed about Hasan Piker — the far-left Twitch streamer notorious for declaring “America deserved 9/11” — following backlash over a column that cast the pro-Palestinian firebrand as “not the enemy.”
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[2026-04-14 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Wafiq Safa, miembro senior del consejo político de Hezbolá, durante una entrevista con The Associated Press en Beirut, el lunes 13 de abril de 2026. (Foto AP/Hussein Malla)
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[2026-04-14 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Syd)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In food media, there is much ado about “hidden gems”. You know, those restaurants and cafes people love but seldom talk about, the ones that quietly offer something special to diners in-the-know.
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[2026-04-14 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Trump launched the lawsuit after the newspaper published a letter it claimed Trump wrote to Epstein in 2003. Trump says the letter is fake
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[2026-04-14 04:35 UTC+10:00] [Monday] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Trump launched the lawsuit after the newspaper published a letter it claimed Trump wrote to Epstein in 2003. Trump says the letter is fake
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[2026-04-14 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Wafiq Safa, senior Hezbollah political council member, gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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[2026-04-14 03:47 UTC+10:00] [Catholic] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media tirade against Leo XIV, even as the president continued his war of words with the first American pope.
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[2026-04-14 02:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A retired journalist says he lost his life savings — nearly $300,000 in 10 weeks — after a scammer posing as a young woman lured him into a so-called “pig-butchering” scheme.
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[2026-04-14 02:43 UTC+10:00] [Georgia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Rick Jackson is flooding Georgia’s media markets with ads attacking immigrants, transgender people and DEI
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[2026-04-14 02:43 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: TMTG drops defamation claim over report that prosecutors were investigating payments received as possible money laundering
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[2026-04-14 02:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: German defense giant Rheinmetall is reportedly falling behind smaller competitors in the race to develop a new kamikaze drone, which in its current state is “not dangerous even to inflatable tanks,” according to the Berliner Zeitung.
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[2026-04-14 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar said that Israel and Hungary share a "special relationship" at a press conference after his center-right party, Tisza, won the election on Sunday.
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[2026-04-14 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: “IN an open-secret relationship.” This is no social media status, but rather what Angel Aquino has actually found herself romantically enmeshed in.
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[2026-04-14 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is losing the information war against Iran, as social media platforms allow the “raw, unfiltered truth” about the conflict to instantly reach millions, undermining Washington’s narrative, an Iranian-American Lego cartoonist has told RT.
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[2026-04-14 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is losing the information war against Iran, as social media platforms allow the “raw, unfiltered truth” about the conflict to instantly reach millions, undermining Washington’s narrative, an Iranian-American Lego cartoonist has told RT.
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[2026-04-14 01:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Donald Trump sued Rupert Murdoch and his Wall Street Journal newspaper, accusing it of publishing a "false, malicious and defamatory" story. (Reuters: Carlo Allegri)
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[2026-04-14 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 44-year-old is scheduled to appear in court in May for her driving-under-the-influence arrest, according to the Los Angeles Times
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[2026-04-14 01:11 UTC+10:00] [Deadline] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 44-year-old is scheduled to appear in court in May for her driving-under-the-influence arrest, according to the Los Angeles Times
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[2026-04-14 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El primer ministro de Canadá, Mark Carney, pronuncia un discurso en la convención nacional del Partido Liberal en Montreal, el 11 de abril de 2026. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press vía AP, archivo)
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[2026-04-13 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Iran's military has warned that no ports in the Persian Gulf or Gulf of Oman will be safe if its own ports are threatened. According to Iranian state media, the army said, ‘security in the Persian Gulf and the sea of Oman is either for everyone or for no one’.
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[2026-04-13 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Voices in Palestinian media have been divided in recent weeks over Fatah’s decision to include convicted Palestinian prisoners in its upcoming Eighth Movement Conference, with some viewing the move as an attempt to mask the organization’s ineffective governance, while others see it as a legitimate embrace of the Palestinian “struggle,” according to op-eds published on Palestinian platforms reviewed by The Jerusalem Post.
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[2026-04-13 23:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A federal judge in Florida on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against media baron Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal, which had alleged the newspaper defamed Trump in a story saying the president had sent a birthday letter to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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[2026-04-13 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: At least six people have been killed in a new wave of Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, state media reports, as the Israeli military claims to have surrounded a main town there.
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[2026-04-13 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-04-13 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Australian immigration and asylum] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In hardline rhetoric, leader Angus Taylor also says ‘many’ prospective migrants would be a ‘net drain’ on the country
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[2026-04-13 22:15 UTC+10:00] [Social media ban] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Gaming company says it looks for signs a user may be younger than they appear in the age check process introduced in December
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[2026-04-13 21:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Liberal national convention in Montreal, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-04-13 21:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The husband of missing American mom Lynette Hooker is in an “extremely fragile state” while holed up in Bahamian custody, according to his lawyer, as cops must decide by Monday night whether to press charges.
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[2026-04-13 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. do jumping jacks as he arrives at the New Executive Building in Malacañang for a press briefing
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[2026-04-13 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday tagged as liars those who have been spreading unverified reports about his health. Marcos made the assertion in a hastily called press briefing with the Malacañang Press Corps. Talks that the chief executive has fallen seriously ill resurfaced last week as critics claimed that photos and videos published following the Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) commemoration last April 9 were either ‘throwbacks’ or AI-generated.
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[2026-04-13 21:13 UTC+10:00] [Social media] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: I met the mother of my children on Twitter – and made lasting friendships. But now social media isn’t so social
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[2026-04-13 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The effects of spider bites are putting more people in hospital in England than 10 years ago, according to a freedom of information request by the Press Association.
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[2026-04-13 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Euphoria is back after 4 years – and so is Chloe Cherry, who was discovered by Sam Levinson on social media and has since starred in Charli XCX’s MV for ‘360’
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[2026-04-13 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Euphoria is back after 4 years – and so is Chloe Cherry, who was discovered by Sam Levinson on social media and has since starred in Charli XCX’s MV for ‘360’
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[2026-04-13 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: CBS News’ viewership is at an all-time low as editor in chief Bari Weiss’ and the network’s president Tom Cibrowski have displayed jarringly different visions for how to revamp the struggling outlet — leading some staffers to tag the mismatched duo “the odd couple,” The Post has learned.
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[2026-04-13 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Violence against women and girls] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has reached the White House
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[2026-04-13 16:56 UTC+10:00] [Melbourne] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Teen who allegedly targeted Jewish community members thrived on notoriety and was invested in social media reaction to her alleged offending, police say
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[2026-04-13 16:11 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian Air Force strike targeting jihadi rebels hit a local market in northeastern Nigeria , killing over 100 civilians including children and injuring many others, a rights group and local media reported on Sunday. Officials confirmed a misfire without providing details.
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[2026-04-13 15:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A black presenter and journalist says it is frustrating that her ability to speak Welsh is doubted because of the colour of her skin.
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[2026-04-13 14:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Utah Mammoth’s Mikhail Sergachev, left, is checked by Calgary Flames’ Blake Coleman during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Calgary on Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-04-13 13:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In an emotional press conference, international participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla said they understand the shortcomings of any civilian attempt to provide Gaza with the humanitarian support required.
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[2026-04-13 13:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: After a stretch of roller-coaster temperature swings across the Mid-Atlantic in March and early April, the midpoint of the month is now shaping up to be unusually warm, with highs that could exceed the region's average for June. That kind of temperature anomaly could prompt left-wing corporate media outlets to kick off their seasonal global-warming doom news cycle as summer approaches.
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