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☆ Fact Check-Digitally altered image shows Mark Wahlberg wearing anti-liberal T-shirt
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

American actor Mark Wahlberg was not pictured wearing an anti-liberal T-shirt. The image is altered and the original shows Wahlberg wearing a plain black T-shirt. Examples of the altered image can be viewed (here) and (here). The original photograph shows Wahlberg dressed in a plain black T-shirt and was captured by Associated Press photographer Chris Pizzello in June 2012 (here). The original shows Wahlberg wearing a plain black T-shirt.

'Cocaine Bear’ showed up, too. When Elizabeth Banks presented the visual-effects Oscar, she was joined onstage by someone in a bear costume. As the bear—a plug for her new movie—pointed at its nose and then to the audience, the actress and director asked: “Are you trying to score right now? You need to wait until the afterparty like everybody else.”Chris Pizzello/AP

[1/2] Actor Robert Blake speaks to reporters as he walks to Burbank Courthouse in Burbank, California, U.S. August 29, 2005. A wrongful death lawsuit subsequently filed against Blake by her estate led to a civil court judgment that the actor was responsible for her slaying. Blake contended his wife was a victim of her own checkered past, gunned down by an unknown assailant. Blake's acting work was overshadowed four years later by the Bakley murder, which remains unsolved. A paternity test showed that the father was Blake, not Christian Brando, son of actor Marlon Brando, who Bakley had been dating simultaneously.

☆ 'She Said' movie highlights the women who took on Harvey Weinstein
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The movie is based on the 2019 book of the same name about the New York Times investigation into claims of sexual misconduct by Weinstein, then one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood. After the Times story broke, some 100 women came forward with accusations of sexual misconduct by Weinstein. The reporting fueled the #MeToo movement, with women around the world calling out sexual harassment. Weinstein, who has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone, was sentenced in New York in March 2020 to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault involving two women. Weinstein is currently on trial in California on additional charges of sexual misconduct.

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