Pride Month

Did a man make it public that he plans to go after Target stores in Phoenix, Arizona, that support the LGBT movement? Yes, the screenshot of a text message warning is real. A person who considers himself a professional internet provocateur made a video with another person that was posted online. In the video he threatened that in the month…

Did Chelsea Clinton have a "secret lesbian love affair" with an exotic dancer? No, that's not true: The fake story was posted on a website that notes it has been "voted best satire on the planet 3 times." The photograph used in the post is of the former first daughter and singer Alyson Cambridge at an event in 2017 and…

Did Reba McEntire talk about relieving arthritis and back pain with CBD gummies in this short video clip? No, that's not true: This clip of McEntire speaking was taken from a live TikTok broadcast where she briefly talked about having been sick with COVID-19 and encouraged her audience to be safe. In a 2020 interview McEntire told pridesource.com that she…

Did California ban travel to Florida? No, that's not entirely true: While California did ban state-sponsored travel to Florida due to the latter state's policies against LGBTQ individuals, that ban does not extend to private travel. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) published on August 3, 2021. It featured a graphic that read: California bans travel to…

Did PETA call for the immediate censorship of the Instagram page @Ruthless.Nature? No, that's not true: This is a fake tweet created to promote an Instagram page's social media account about graphic themes regarding animals attacking one another. PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, only publicizes images of animals suffering at the hands of human beings, and…

Did Kit Kat release a diagonally cut, "not straight" candy bar to celebrate Pride Month? No, that's not true: the manufacturers of Kit Kat candy bars (the Hershey Company in the United States and Nestlé around in the world) confirmed with Lead Stories that they have no record of such a product. The claim, which may have originated from a…

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.…

Is eating at Chick-Fil-A soon to be a hate crime according to newly drafted legislation from the Democrats? Of course not, that story is not true. It originated on a Christian themed satire website that was mocking the recent social media storm that erupted after the CEO of Twitter was criticized for ordering a sandwich from the chain during Pride…

Several fake news sites all came out with copies of the same article, all titled something like "Trump Orders to Remove Obama Highway Name and Get Back The Previous Name of `Old Dixie' Highway". Here are several examples: Trump Orders to Remove Obama Highway Name and Get Back The Previous Name of `Old Dixie' Highway?Do you support him? - ConservativeDaily…

A website named American Prides recycled an old fake news article (archived here) titled 'Miley Cyrus: "Today I Leave America And Never Come Back, In 10 Days I Will Be British Citizen"'. It opened: Miley Cyrus and numerous other American celebrities threatened to move out of the country to avoid living under newly-elected President Trump. As the Mirror reports, other…