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  • Fact Check: Clickbait Thumbnail Images Boost False YouTube Conspiracies About Trump Shooter

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    Did a Jewish family hire Thomas Matthew Crooks to shoot former President Donald Trump? Or was Crooks trained to shoot by the CEO of BlackRock Security or by a rabbi? Has footage been leaked showing Crooks and the BlackRock CEO together carrying a gun? No, none of these claims are true: Using an AI-detection tool, Lead Stories found that the…

    • Aug 9, 2024
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    Did the U.K.'s King Charles III die on or before June 24, 2024 as a post on Facebook claimed? No, that's not true: As of this writing on June 26, 2024, the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and head of the Commonwealth, was alive. There have been no official announcements or credible reports regarding…

    • Jun 26, 2024
    • by: Ed Payne
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  • Fact Check: Rothschild Family Did NOT Buy, Does NOT Own Antarctica's Rothschild Island

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    Did the Rothschild family buy or do they own Rothschild Island in Antarctica? No, that's not true: The island, which is part of Antarctica and not owned by anyone, was sighted from a distance by the French Antarctic Expedition between 1908 and 1910. The expedition leader, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, named it after Baron Edouard de Rothschild, the then-head of the French…

    • Nov 29, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Rothschild Family Did NOT Buy, Does NOT Own Antarctica's Rothschild Island No One's Land
  • Fact Check: There Is NO 'Balfour Lease' For Israel That Ended On October 31, 2023

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    Is there a "Balfour lease" for Israel that expired on October 31, 2023? No, that's not true: Israel's creation did not stem from any agreement indicating that its land is temporary. There is a Balfour Declaration, a statement made by the British government in 1917 that set the stage for Israel to become a country; however, the declaration did not…

    • Nov 1, 2023
    • by: Christiana Dillard
    Fact Check: There Is NO 'Balfour Lease' For Israel That Ended On October 31, 2023 No Such Lease
  • Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Klaus Schwab Is 'A Relative Of The Rothschilds'

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    Does Klaus Schwab, a former professor of business policy in Switzerland widely known as the founder of the World Economic Forum, have family ties with the Rothschild dynasty via a person named Marianne Schwab, née Rothschild? Is she his mother? No, that's not true: A viral video making such an assertion did not include any public records to confirm it.…

    • Aug 16, 2023
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Klaus Schwab Is 'A Relative Of The Rothschilds' Not Related
  • Fact Check: Mel Gibson Is NOT 'Secretly Working On A 4 Part Docu Series' About Child Sex Trafficking Trade

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    Did Mel Gibson start working on a new documentary "exposing the 34 billion dollar global child sex trafficking trade"? No, that's not true: No credible sources confirmed he made such an announcement, and his publicist explicitly denied Gibson's involvement in the alleged project in an email to Lead Stories. The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Truth Social…

    • Jun 13, 2023
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: Mel Gibson Is NOT 'Secretly Working On A 4 Part Docu Series' About Child Sex Trafficking Trade Fact Check: Mel Gibson Is NOT 'Secretly Working On A 4 Part Docu Series' About Child Sex Trafficking Trade Online Rumor
  • Fact Check: 'Entire leadership of NATO' Was NOT Fired On September 5, 2022

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    Did the "entire leadership of NATO" lose their jobs on September 5, 2022? No, that's not true: There is no evidence to support this claim. An event of this scale would be intensively covered by media organizations in many countries, including the United States, but there were no such reports. The text of this claim does not name any of…

    • Sep 16, 2022
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: 'Entire leadership of NATO' Was NOT Fired On September 5, 2022 Did Not Happen
  • Fact Check: 2011 'Captain America' Movie Did NOT Foretell Coronavirus Pandemic With Hidden Clues

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    Did the movie, "Captain America: The First Avenger" contain secret clues about the coronavirus years in advance -- proving that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned? No, that's not true: The Times Square advertisements appearing in the background of a movie scene and highlighted with red circles in this meme do not contain a hidden message about a plan for a…

    • Sep 13, 2022
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: 2011 'Captain America' Movie Did NOT Foretell Coronavirus Pandemic With Hidden Clues It's Pasta Ad
  • Fact Check: The Rothschild Family Does NOT Own AP, Reuters

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    Does the Rothschild family own The Associated Press and Reuters? No, that's not true: A Reuters spokesperson told Lead Stories that this is not true. Also, Reuters 2021 annual report notes that, "As of December 31, 2021, the Company's principal shareholder, The Woodbridge Company Limited ('Woodbridge'), beneficially owned approximately 67% of the Company's common shares." The Associated Press describes itself…

    • May 31, 2022
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: The Rothschild Family Does NOT Own AP, Reuters Wrong Owners
  • Fact Check: NO Evidence Titanic Was Intentionally Sunk To Create Federal Reserve

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    Was the Titanic sunk intentionally in order to kill specific people who opposed a central banking system, thus clearing the way to establish the Federal Reserve? No, that's not true: This antisemitic conspiracy theory was already floating around the internet before it was promoted to followers of QAnon. There is no evidence to support this. In November 2017, a series…

    • May 18, 2022
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: NO Evidence Titanic Was Intentionally Sunk To Create Federal Reserve Baseless
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