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  • Fact Check: Video Is NOT Accurate In Calling Will Smith Slap At Oscars A Re-enactment

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    Does a video accurately describe the conflict between two renowned actors at the 2022 Academy Awards as a fake, a re-enactment of an old movie scene? No, that's not true: The video in this post was published online two months after Will Smith hit Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards. The video appeared in an Instagram post on October…

    • Oct 28, 2022
    • by: Kaiyah Clarke
    Fact Check: Video Is NOT Accurate In Calling Will Smith Slap At Oscars A Re-enactment Real Event 1st
  • Fact Check: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Was NOT Hanged at Guantanamo Bay

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    Did Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor get hung at Guantanamo Bay? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that she was sentenced to hang at Guantanamo Bay. A duty officer from the Pentagon told Lead Stories that the claim was false. There has also been no media coverage about Sotomayor being sent to Guantanamo Bay or being hung there…

    • Apr 1, 2022
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Was NOT Hanged at Guantanamo Bay Pure Fiction
  • Fact Check: Chris Rock Was NOT Wearing A Prosthetic Slap Protector On His Cheek At Academy Awards

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    Was Chris Rock's face fitted with some sort of prosthetic device to protect him from the staged and planned slap delivered by Will Smith at the Academy Awards ceremony? No, that's not true: A photo circulating on social media contains an anomaly not present in the original photo, and not present in other photographers' images documenting the evening. It is…

    • Mar 29, 2022
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Chris Rock Was NOT Wearing A Prosthetic Slap Protector On His Cheek At Academy Awards Image Anomaly
  • Fact Check: Chris Rock Did NOT Apologize To Jada Pinkett Smith For Oscars Joke As Of March 28, 2022

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    Did comedian Chris Rock apologize - as of March 28, 2022 - to actress Jada Pinkett Smith after making a joke about her hair at the Oscars? No, that's not true: Although actor Will Smith, Pinkett Smith's husband, apologized to Rock for slapping him onstage at the award show for the joke, Rock did not apologize for the joke. The…

    • Mar 29, 2022
    • by: Christiana Dillard
    Fact Check: Chris Rock Did NOT Apologize To Jada Pinkett Smith For Oscars Joke As Of March 28, 2022 Fake Apology
  • Fact Check: Alopecia Is NOT Just Hair Loss -- It Can Be Caused By An Autoimmune Disease

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    Is alopecia literally just male or female pattern baldness or hair loss? No, that is missing context. Alopecia does mean "hair loss," but it can be "an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss," according to Yale Medicine. The claim was made after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars on March 27, 2022, when the comedian joked about Jada…

    • Mar 28, 2022
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Alopecia Is NOT Just Hair Loss -- It Can Be Caused By An Autoimmune Disease It's A Disease
  • Fact Check: That Was NOT JFK Jr. Spotted At July 3, 2020, Mount Rushmore Celebration

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    Was JFK Jr. spotted at the Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020? No, that's not true: John F. Kennedy Jr. died in plane crash in 1999, which makes it a certainty that the son of the 35th president of the United States did not attend the Mount Rushmore speech of the 45th, President Donald Trump.…

    • Jul 6, 2020
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fact Check: That Was NOT JFK Jr. Spotted At July 3, 2020, Mount Rushmore Celebration JFK Jr Is Dead
  • Fake History: "Our National Anthem" Video By Robert Surgernor Is NOT The True Story Of "The Star Spangled Banner"

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    Is the "Our National Anthem" video produced by Robert Surgernor the true story of "The Star Spangled Banner"? No, that's not true: The video posted and shared many times on social platforms is filled with major historical inaccuracies and is about as fictional as a "Game of Thrones" episode. For example, it claims the song was written during the American…

    • Apr 16, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake History: "Our National Anthem" Video By Robert Surgernor Is NOT The True Story Of "The Star Spangled Banner"
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