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  • Fact Check: Cape Coral Residents NOT Painting Roofs BLUE For Laser Protection -- Blue Tarps Covered Roofs After Hurricane Ian

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    Did residents of Cape Coral, Florida, take to painting their roofs blue following numerous sightings of planes utilizing "Green Laser Technology," as claimed in a post circulating on social media? No, that's not true: The satellite imagery of Cape Coral, Florida, in the post dates back to a period after September 29, 2022, when Hurricane Ian impacted the area. Through…

    • Mar 6, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Cape Coral Residents NOT Painting Roofs BLUE For Laser Protection -- Blue Tarps Covered Roofs After Hurricane Ian  Storm Damaged
  • Fact Check: 'Right Roof' On Unburned Texas Homes Was NOT Biden's Reference To 'Blue Roof' Conspiracy But To Fire-Resistant Roofing

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    Did Joe Biden let slip that there is a "right roof" with a certain color that will protect a home from being destroyed by lasers or directed energy weapons during wildfires as some conspiracists suggest? No, that's not true: In a video clip of Joe Biden speaking in Brownsville, Texas, he does say how in the aftermath of a wildfire…

    • Mar 4, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: 'Right Roof' On Unburned Texas Homes Was NOT Biden's Reference To 'Blue Roof' Conspiracy But To Fire-Resistant Roofing Fire-Resistant
  • Fact Check: US Navy JAG Was NOT Holding '345 FEMA Employees At Marine Corps Base Hawaii' In February 2024

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    Was the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate Corps holding 345 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees at a U.S. Marine Corps Base in Hawaii as of February 2024? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories that this claim is false. The claim appeared in an article on a website that regularly publishes fabricated content. The claim appeared in…

    • Feb 16, 2024
    • by: Kaiyah Clarke
    Fact Check: US Navy JAG Was NOT Holding '345 FEMA Employees At Marine Corps Base Hawaii' In February 2024 Pentagon: Nope
  • Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show FEMA 'Concentration Camp' In Hawaii -- It Shows Housing Development For Homeless Veterans

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    Does a social-media video show a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "concentration camp" in Hawaii? No, this is not true: This video, according to a FEMA spokesperson, shows a project with which FEMA is not affiliated at all. The project built tiny homes for homeless and at-risk U.S. veterans. The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook published…

    • Sep 22, 2023
    • by: Kaiyah Clarke
    Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show FEMA 'Concentration Camp' In Hawaii -- It Shows Housing Development For Homeless Veterans U.S. Vet Homes
  • Fact Check: NO Evidence FEMA Emergency Test Will Cause DNA Damage By Activating 'Nanoparticles Including Graphene Oxide'

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    Is there evidence that the next FEMA emergency test will not really be a test but a cover for the government to send high-frequency signals activating "nanoparticles including graphene oxide" into phones, TVs and radios, possibly causing DNA damage in people? No, that's not true: On August 3, 2023, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced there would be a…

    • Sep 20, 2023
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: NO Evidence FEMA Emergency Test Will Cause DNA Damage By Activating 'Nanoparticles Including Graphene Oxide' Just A Signal
  • Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Reveal Plan To 'Increase The Number and Intensity of Extreme Weather Events'

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    Did President Joe Biden announce in September 2023 that his administration intends to "increase the number and intensity of the extreme weather events"? No, that's not true: A social media video used incomplete footage of a speech to imply that Biden intends to use weather wizardry to bolster fears about climate change. In remarks on September 2, 2023, Biden discussed…

    • Sep 8, 2023
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Reveal Plan To 'Increase The Number and Intensity of Extreme Weather Events' Climate Change
  • Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Appoint FEMA Director Before Maui Fires, Did NOT Confirm He Knew They Would Occur

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    Did the timing of President Joe Biden appointing a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director before the Maui fires and subsequently saying that director was already in Hawaii when the fires broke out confirm Biden knew the wildfires would occur? No, that's not true: Biden appointed Robert J. Fenton Jr., a regional administrator for FEMA, as chief federal response coordinator…

    • Sep 7, 2023
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Appoint FEMA Director Before Maui Fires, Did NOT Confirm He Knew They Would Occur No Time Issue
  • Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Visiting Maui After Wildfires -- It's Alabama In 2019

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    Does a video show former President Donald Trump visiting the Hawaiian island of Maui in August 2023 to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires there? No, that's not true: The footage of Trump is from 2019, when Trump visited Alabama following a tornado. As of August 19, 2023, he had not visited Maui after its wildfires. The claim appeared in…

    • Aug 18, 2023
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Visiting Maui After Wildfires -- It's Alabama In 2019 Alabama 2019
  • Fake News: Hillary Clinton Did NOT Claim Russians 'Grooming' Tulsi Gabbard As Third-Party Candidate

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    Did Hillary Clinton claim Russians are "grooming" Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as a third-party presidential candidate in 2020? No, that's not true: Clinton suggested in a podcast that the Trump campaign -- not Russians -- was "grooming" a woman who was competing for the Democratic nomination to run an independent presidential campaign in 2020. Clinton said the potential third-party candidate being…

    • Oct 18, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Hillary Clinton Did NOT Claim Russians 'Grooming' Tulsi Gabbard As Third-Party Candidate
  • Fake News: Clete Torris NOT Former Attorney General Of Hawaii, Did NOT Say Anything About Obama's Birth Certificate

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    Did former Attorney General Clete Torris of Hawaii say Barack Obama's birth certificate was registered to Barry Soetero of California? No, that's total nonsense made up by a liberal Facebook page set up to troll conservatives and Trump supporters into sharing over the top fake news so people will mock them. It is not true in the slightest. The story…

    • Aug 10, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Clete Torris NOT Former Attorney General Of Hawaii, Did NOT Say Anything About Obama's Birth Certificate
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