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RantCrush Top 5: January 24, 2017

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It’s Trump’s first week, but the protests haven’t stopped quite yet. For example, actor Shia LaBeouf has launched a four-year-long livestream art project called “He Will Not Divide Us.” It involves a camera outside of New York’s Museum of the Moving Image and its first featured guest was Jaden Smith. Check it out here.

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Merriam-Webster Trolls Kellyanne Conway With the Definition of “Fact”

Dictionary company Merriam-Webster noticed a spike in searches for the word “fact” after Kellyanne Conway’s weekend comment that Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer used “alternative facts.” So, staff at the company felt the need to inform people about exactly what a fact is.

“In contemporary use, fact is generally understood to refer to something with actual existence, or presented as having objective reality,” a statement on the website said. Then it sent out a tweet linking to that statement. Maybe Conway will take note?

Emma Von Zeipel
Emma Von Zeipel
Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.

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