Hey, I'm Brian Salter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources.

This is our weekly look at the story behind the story where we figure out what is reliable.

This hour, the latest from Texas, including the role of Twitter detectives in the crowdsourced

to Ted Cruz story, plus is fact checking, changing in the Biden years?

Daniel Dale will join me with the answer you need to hear.

And these headlines about Facebook blocking news from Australia, spreading around the

world.

But do you know about Rupert Murdoch's role in all of this chaos?

We have brand-new reporting about that, coming up.

But first, it is a literal political storm in the South.

This week showed that the problem of parallel news universes, the problem with alternative

realities of information, does not just apply to politics.

It even applies to the weather.

It even affects the way that natural and man-made disasters are perceived.

Texans were, as the San Antonio Express News says this morning, left in the dark, and

the aftermath is just starting.

The full death toll is not yet known, and will not be known for some time.

Thankfully, the power is mostly back on, the weather is warming up in Texas this weekend,

but the water crisis is massive.

Disruptions in water systems are affecting 14 million Texans right now.

And don't forget about Louisiana or Oklahoma, both of those states also hard-hit as well.

So let's truth sandwich what happened in the past week.

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