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  • Fact Check: Tesla Has NOT Launched New Cryptocurrency

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    Did Tesla launch a new cryptocurrency that will rapidly turn a Β£200 ($240) investment into thousands in just days? No, that's not true: This deceptive ad is not associated with Tesla. Although Tesla has invested in cryptocurrency, and Dogecoin can be used to buy some Tesla products, the automotive-energy company owned by Twitter CEO Elon Musk has not created a…

    • Dec 22, 2022
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Tesla Has NOT Launched New Cryptocurrency False Promises
  • Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet That Tesla Was Forced To Recall Its Entire Fleet

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    Did Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweet that Tesla, his electric-vehicle and sustainable-energy company, was forced to recall its entire fleet? No, that's not true: The tweet was posted by a parody account impersonating Musk, the CEO of Tesla. The parody tweet (archived here) was published on December 22, 2022. It read: Tesla has just been informed by the NHTSA that…

    • Dec 22, 2022
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet That Tesla Was Forced To Recall Its Entire Fleet Parody
  • Fact Check: FBI Payments In 'Twitter Files: Part 7' Were NOT For Censoring -- They Were For Providing Information

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    Were the FBI payments to Twitter, documented in what's known as Part 7 of the "Twitter Files", compensation for censoring? No, that's not true: The evidence provided shows the payments were reimbursement for costs associated with the company's work responding to information requests from the FBI. Claims that the FBI was paying for content moderation are false, according to a…

    • Dec 21, 2022
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: FBI Payments In 'Twitter Files: Part 7' Were NOT For Censoring -- They Were For Providing Information Info For FBI
  • Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Report Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine 'Causes Blood Clots'

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    Did the Food and Drug Administration report that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine "causes" blood clots? No, that's not true: In remarks to Lead Stories, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that the vaccine meets its safety standards and denied that the agency had found that the vaccine causes health problems. The authors of a recent study, conducted in part…

    • Dec 20, 2022
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Report Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine 'Causes Blood Clots' No Causal Link
  • Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Elon Musk Flew To 'Epstein Island'; Map Is Fake And There's No Place To Land

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    Does an image of a flight log shared on social media show that a private jet owned by Elon Musk traveled to Little St. James Island -- also known as "Epstein Island" -- a dozen times since 2010? No, that's not true: The map has been acknowledged as a fake by its maker, and no plane can fly to the…

    • Dec 19, 2022
    • by: Jennifer Dobner
    Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Elon Musk Flew To 'Epstein Island'; Map Is Fake And There's No Place To Land Flight Fakes
  • Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet That Banning Reporters From Twitter Was 'Innocuous Alternative' To Murder

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    Did Elon Musk tweet, "You know, in some parts of the world, journalists get murdered for crossing the wrong people. Banning the reporters I don't like from my own platform feels like a pretty innocuous alternative to me" on December 16, 2022, the day after several journalists were banned from Twitter? No, that's not true: This screenshot of a tweet,…

    • Dec 19, 2022
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet That Banning Reporters From Twitter Was 'Innocuous Alternative' To Murder Fake Tweet
  • Fact Check: Hillary Clinton Did NOT Tweet About 'Elon Musk's Suicide' On December 2, 2022

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    Did Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, tweet about "Elon Musk's suicide" in response to the Twitter CEO releasing corporate discussions, now known as "The Twitter Files," about Twitter's removal of content or blocking accounts? No, that's not true: Lead Stories could not find the tweet on Clinton's verified Twitter account or its…

    • Dec 14, 2022
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: Hillary Clinton Did NOT Tweet About 'Elon Musk's Suicide' On December 2, 2022 Online Rumor
  • Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Say Ex-Twitter CEO Took Millions In Censorship Kickbacks From Democrats

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    Did Elon Musk tweet that Democrats paid former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey millions of dollars to block or delete the pages of people who posted about Hunter Biden's laptop during the 2020 election? No, that's not true: Lead Stories could find no evidence that Musk wrote the tweet nor any credible news reporting on its claims. The claim appeared in…

    • Dec 13, 2022
    • by: Jennifer Dobner
    Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Say Ex-Twitter CEO Took Millions In Censorship Kickbacks From Democrats Not From Elon
  • Fact Check: Katie Hobbs Did NOT Contact Twitter To Have Posts Removed To Censor Political Opponents

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    Did Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs' office contact Twitter to have posts removed to censor political opponents? No, that's not true: Hobbs' office asked the Center for Internet Security in 2021 to alert Twitter about an account that was making false claims about the state's voter information database. The tweets that were flagged had nothing to do with the…

    • Dec 8, 2022
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Katie Hobbs Did NOT Contact Twitter To Have Posts Removed To Censor Political Opponents No Connection
  • Fact Check: "Handled" and "Removed" Tweets in "Twitter Files" Were Hunter Biden Nudes Distributed Without Consent in Violation of Twitter Rules

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    Did the staff of presidential candidate Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee suppress political speech leading up to the 2020 election against then-President Donald Trump when it requested certain tweets be reviewed? No, that's not true: all of the deleted tweets we were able to review apparently violated Twitter's Terms of Service -- in particular, the rule that forbids…

    • Dec 5, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: "Handled" and "Removed" Tweets in "Twitter Files" Were Hunter Biden Nudes Distributed Without Consent in Violation of Twitter Rules Revealing Pix
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