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Is the young man pictured in this collection of screenshots the Nashville school shooter, shown before a purported gender transition? No, that's not true: The young man in one of the photos is from Pennsylvania and was not involved in the shooting at The Covenant School in Tennessee. His social media accounts happened to share one feature with the Nashville…

Did Tennessee TV news station WSMV 4 Nashville tweet that a father vowed an "end to tolerance" of "trans evil" in response to the March 27, 2023, Covenant School mass shooting that killed six people? No, that's not true: The broadcast station publicly stated that the tweet was fabricated. Lead Stories found no evidence to corroborate that the claim was…

Was "Samantha Hyde" positively identified as the suspected shooter in the Nashville Covenant School shooting? No, that's not true: According to local police, it was Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Posts on social media were based on a long-running internet prank that a comedian named Sam Hyde, or some derivation of his name, is named as the suspected gunman by internet trolls…

Did a "local man" singlehandedly shoot down "in an EXTRAORDINARY act of vigilantism" the "Chinese spy balloon" recently flying over the continental United States? No, that's not true: The meme that makes this vigilante claim shows a comedian, Sam Hyde, who is routinely cast as the perpetrator in headline-grabbing news events in what one website has called an "extremely tired"…

Was a Ukraine ID card in the name of "Semen Hydenko" (or Samuyil Hydenko) found at the scene of the October 8, 2022, explosion on the bridge linking Crimea to Russia? No, that's not true: The spoof ID card shown in online messages has the face of American comedian Sam Hyde on it. In a bizarre internet in-joke, Hyde is…

Did a suspect named "Samoylo Haidyuk" have anything to do with the recent killing of Aleksandr Dugin's daughter Darya Dugina? No, that's not true: A tweet making the accusation was using a photoshopped image of comedian Sam Hyde, the latest in a long internet trolling tradition of blaming Hyde for every assasination or shooting that goes viral online. In the…

Was Samzuki Hydaiko identified as the person who shot former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe? No, that's not true: A man named Tetsuya Yamagishi was taken into custody by security officers at the scene of the shooting. A gun that appeared to be homemade was found at the scene. There has been a long-running prank that a comedian named…

Was Sam Hyde (or someone named Seth Sergio) the shooter at the July 4, 2022 shooting during a parade in Highland Park, Illinois? No, that's not true. Pictures of comedian Sam Hyde being shared on social media do not depict the shooter. Internet trolls use the same picture after every mass-casualty incident to blame the comedian in a twisted internet…

Was the "Ghost of Kyiv" identified after dying in battle? No, that's not true: The Ghost of Kyiv is not a real person. The mythical aviator "embodies the collective spirit of" Ukrainian pilots, according to the Twitter account of the Ukrainian air force. The Ghost of Kyiv has been both a rallying point and a source of pride for the…

Was this photo, purported to show the suspect in the April 2022 Brooklyn subway shootings, being circulated by official sources? No, that's not true: This man is not the suspect in the shootings, who is still at large and identified by authorities as Frank R. James, 62. This image shows comedian Sam Hyde and is a still taken from a…