Does a real photo show someone dressed as Spider-Man punching Jake Lang at a protest in Minneapolis? No, that's not true: This specific image is AI-generated, although a person dressed as Spider-Man was filmed attacking Lang and later both were arrested. The OpenAI Verify tool found a SynthID watermark in the image indicating it was made with OpenAI tools. The…
Is a video showing Celine Dion confessing to drinking the blood of children real? No, that's not true: The altered clip posted on social media uses footage from a documentary that shows Dion having a seizure and recovering. She does not say that she ate children or drank their blood in the original video. The claim appeared in an Aug.…
Does a viral video actually capture a father punching a person who followed his daughter home? No, that's not true: The clip originated from a channel on YouTube that warned viewers not to take its contents too seriously. Reverse image searches did not show credible media organizations distributing the video of the supposed incident. The claim appeared in a post…
Are viral high-resolution images real photos or screenshots actually showing the person suspected of punching a man in broad daylight in Warsaw, Poland? No, that's not true: Two AI detectors said the images were generated by AI. The real recording of the incident had a much lower quality, and thus, the images could not be authentic screenshots of that video.…
Does zooming in on the newspaper pictured in a July 12, 2026, press release from Sen. Mitch McConnell's office show that the photo was AI-generated? No, that's not true: The fake close-up image of the newspaper text is the result of an AI hallucination. The newspaper in the real photo is not in crisp focus, but it does match the…
Does a real video show Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan punching a child in the face? No, that's not true: The clip was digitally altered. The original footage from Pashinyan's visit to a kindergarten showed him hugging the child, not punching him. The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X by @TheQNewsPatriot on June 3, 2026. The…
Did Justin Bieber say Jim Carrey "died of Kuru" (a rare disease linked to cannibalism), from eating child meat at Hollywood parties? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Bieber ever made the comments about Carrey. The viral article in which the quotes appear cites no sources and provides no recordings or documentation. The website that published the…
Is King Charles "dying of Kuru," (a rare disease linked to cannibalism), after decades of "child meat banquets"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that the king has been diagnosed with Kuru as of the time of publication. He has announced he was diagnosed with cancer. The viral video making this claim does not cite any sources or…
Do the Epstein files reveal that Ellen DeGeneres and hundreds of Hollywood VIPs ate Stanley Kubrick at a satanic ritual? No, that's not true: There are no reports in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice that claim DeGeneres or anyone else ate Hollywood director Kubrick at a satanic ritual. The article does not cite any sources for…
Did a dozen celebrities including Rob Schneider, Jerry Seinfeld, Pete Buttigieg and Pete Hegseth each launch "the first anti-woke morning show" on Fox, as Facebook posts claim? No, that's not true: Fox made no such announcement, nor did the celebrities whose names were pasted into identical fake stories about the claim, written with no apparent understanding of federal employment rules…
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