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  • Fact Check: Leaked IRS Tax Returns Did NOT show George Soros Wired $1.7M To Antifa

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    Did leaked IRS tax returns show George Soros wired $1.7 million to Antifa? No, that's not true: The Open Society Foundations, created by Soros, has made several large donations to The Center for Community Change, but that group is not affiliated with Antifa. The tax documents were not leaked since they are widely-available public records. The claim originated in a…

    • Jun 7, 2020
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fact Check: Leaked IRS Tax Returns Did NOT show George Soros Wired $1.7M To Antifa Not ANTIFA
  • Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Order Guantanamo Bay To Prepare For 'High Level' Prisoners

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    Did President Trump order the military prison at Guantanamo Bay to prepare for "high level" prisoners? No, that's not true: The original publisher of the story posted in 2018 determined it was an "unreliable conspiracy" theory and retracted it. In the two years after the claim was first made, there have no arrests of American politicians as was predicted. The…

    • May 28, 2020
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Order Guantanamo Bay To Prepare For 'High Level' Prisoners Still Waiting
  • Fake News: Bill Gates Did NOT Admit Vaccinations Are Intended To Reduce Population

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    Did Bill Gates admit in a CNN interview that vaccinations are intended to reduce the world's population? No, that's not true: The Microsoft founder was talking to CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta in 2013 about his investment in delivering child vaccinations to third world countries with the goal of saving lives. Gates said that reducing population growth is one of the…

    • Nov 11, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Bill Gates Did NOT Admit Vaccinations Are Intended To Reduce Population
  • Fake News: Supreme Court Did NOT Rule Illegal Aliens Have No Due Process Rights In America

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    Did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that illegal aliens have no due process rights in America? No, that's not true: It is a twisted conclusion based on ancient court decisions -- made in 1856, 1892, 1896, 1950, and 1972 -- that mostly involved the rights of foreigners who sought entry into the United States through legal means and were not…

    • Sep 14, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Supreme Court Did NOT Rule Illegal Aliens Have No Due Process Rights In America
  • Fake News: U.S. State Department NOT Tied To Child Trafficking Operation With Epstein

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    Was the U.S. State Department connected to a child trafficking operation with Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy accused sex trafficker who died in federal jail in August 2019, by a shared aircraft registration number? No, that's not true: The false claim is based on a single entry in the personal flight log of an Epstein pilot. The August 6, 2002 entry…

    • Sep 7, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: U.S. State Department NOT Tied To Child Trafficking Operation With Epstein
  • Fake News: Entertainment Lawyer Did NOT Say Heather O'Rourke Was Killed By Hollywood Pedophile Ring

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    Did an entertainment lawyer say that Poltergeist child star Heather O'Rourke was killed by a Hollywood pedophile ring? No, that's not true: It is a false claim based on a "blind item" entry on a gossip site that acknowledges its content could be fictional. The purported circumstances of the alleged actress murder given in the story do not match the…

    • Jul 10, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Entertainment Lawyer Did NOT Say Heather O'Rourke Was Killed By Hollywood Pedophile Ring
  • Fake News: Julia Roberts Did NOT Say 'Michelle Obama Isn't Fit To Clean Melania's Toilet'

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    Did Julia Roberts say Michelle Obama isn't fit to clean Melania Trump's toilet'? No, that's not true: the story was put out by a site once notorious for taking existing news reports and spicing them up with some invented facts to get a more spectacular headline. The site has since removed the story after being called out by fact checkers…

    • Jul 3, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Julia Roberts Did NOT Say 'Michelle Obama Isn't Fit To Clean Melania's Toilet'
  • Fake News: David Lynch Did NOT Say Trump Is Destroying The 'New World Order'

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    Did David Lynch say President Trump is destroying the 'New World Order' or that President Trump will go down in history for destroying it? No, that's not true: a story reporting on an interview Lynch gave to The Guardian in 2018 attributes several things to him that are not actually in the interview and the claims were widely copied later…

    • Jun 20, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: David Lynch Did NOT Say Trump Is Destroying The 'New World Order'
  • Fake News: Police Investigating Death Of Former Senator Who Did NOT Believe She Was Closing In On Child Trafficking Ring

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    Are police investigating the death of a former Arkansas state senator who believed she was closing in on a child trafficking ring? No, that's not true: Linda Collins, who lost her state senate post to another Republican last year, was shot to death at her Pocahontas, Arkansas, home on June 4, 2019, but there is no evidence that she had…

    • Jun 13, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Police Investigating Death Of Former Senator Who Did NOT Believe She Was Closing In On Child Trafficking Ring
  • Fake News: (UPDATE) Mom Says She Believed Boys Who Attack Toddler Leaving 15 Bite Marks On Her Face Were Muslim & Somali - But NO Media Blackout

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    Did Muslim boys of Somali heritage attack a toddler at a British play center, leaving 15 bite marks on her face and did the London media "black out" coverage of the incident? The answer is a little complicated: A 17-month-old girl was repeatedly bitten by another toddler at a play center in Leeds on November 2, 2018, and the mother…

    • May 22, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: (UPDATE) Mom Says She Believed Boys Who Attack Toddler Leaving 15 Bite Marks On Her Face Were Muslim & Somali - But NO Media Blackout
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