Fact Check in May 2024

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Friday, May 31, 2024

• Fact Check: Judge Merchan Did NOT Tell Jurors They Didn't Have To Reach Unanimous Verdict In Trump Hush-Money Trial
• Fact Check: Illinois Legislators Did NOT Pass Bill Redefining Criminals As 'Justice-Impacted Individuals'
• Fact Check: Image Of 'Barbara O'Neill's Daughter' In Court Is Likely AI Creation -- AI Detection Tool Rates It 98% Likely To Be Fake
• Fact Check: US Olympic Committee Did NOT Say Lia Thomas Can 'Try Out For The Men's Team'
• Fact Check: Fake Image Of Donald Trump In Police Custody After Guilty Verdict Is AI-Generated
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Soccer Manager Pep Guardiola Refusing To Shake Hands With Israeli Representative

Thursday, May 30, 2024

• Fact Check: Morgan Freeman Did NOT Thank Ben Carson for Curing His Dementia
• Fact Check: Vin Diesel Did NOT Pull $1 Million Donation to Boy Scouts -- Claim From Satire Site
• Fact Check: Ex-Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone Is NOT An Iranian National -- He Was Born And Raised In DC Area
• Fact Check: Tucker Carlson Did NOT Launch New Show On Russian TV In May 2024
• Fact Check: Daughter Of Judge Merchan Did NOT 'Show Trump Behind Bars' On Social Media
• Fact Check: NON-Authentic Video Shows Tucker Carlson Endorsing Fake Barbara O'Neill Anti-Parasite Pill
• Fact Check: Social Media Photo Does NOT Show Trump May 2024 Rally In Bronx -- It's Obama Event From 2008

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

• Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Withdraw $250 Million From Boy Scouts -- Claim From Satire Site
• Fact Check: Altered Video Has Cristiano Ronaldo Supporting 'Children Of Gaza' -- He Said 'Children of Syria' In Message Recorded Years Ago
• Fact Check: NO 'Terrifying New Discovery' By Scientists About Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 Is Revealed In YouTube Video -- It's Clickbait
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Palestinians Performing Funeral Prayer In Rafah After Israeli Strike In Late May 2024 -- 2023 Photo
• Fact Check: 31 Patent Citations Do NOT Prove Actor Terrence Howard Invented Virtual Reality
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Earth Is Flat -- Coriolis Effect DOES Affect Planes, Weather
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Statue of Liberty Art Built By Syrian Artist From Rubble -- It's Digital Media
• Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Authentic Flyer Of 'Pedosexual' Addition To 'LGBT' -- It's Internet Creation

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

• Fact Check: Fauci, Soros Did NOT Say They Would Leave US If Trump Wins 2024 Election
• Fact Check: Starbucks Lattes Do NOT Contain Semen -- Baseless Claims Originated On Satire Website In 2014
• Fact Check: Bee Pollen Does NOT Increase Breast Size
• Fact Check: Dust Particles Rising From Ground To Statically Charged Balloon Do NOT Prove Gravity Isn't Real
• Fact Check: FAKE Image Of Trump Smiling With Black Supporters At Barbecue Shows Signs of AI
• Fact Check: NO Vote On US Statehood Planned In Canada's Alberta Province In June 2024
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Tunnel Between Gaza's Rafah And Egypt -- It Used To Connect Gaza And Israel

Friday, May 24, 2024

• Fact Check: 'Black Knight Satellite' Is NOT 13,000-Year-Old Craft -- It Was Thermal Cover Lost In Space
• Fact Check: Travis Kelce Did NOT Vow To 'Quit Chiefs Immediately' If Team Doesn't Fire Harrison Butker
• Fact Check: Image Of UK Labour Leader Keir Starmer Socializing With Jimmy Savile Is DIGITALLY ALTERED
• Fact Check: House Democrats Did NOT Vote To Allow Noncitizens To Vote In US Elections Nationwide

Thursday, May 23, 2024

• Fact Check: Andy Reid Did NOT Say He Would Resign If Chiefs Fired Harrison Butker -- Made-Up Quote Is From Satire Site
• Fact Check: Patent Application Image Is NOT For 'Sun Simulator' But Autonomously Assembled Space Telescope
• Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Discuss Fruit Of The Loom Conspiracy Theory With Joe Rogan
• Fact Check: Disney Did NOT Cut Tinker Bell From Meet-And-Greets, Rep Did NOT Comment On 'Problematic Image'
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Lithium Mine 'For Electric Cars'
• Fact Check: Beyonce Did NOT Offer Country Stars Millions To Join Her On Stage -- Claim Originated On Satire Source

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

• Fact Check: Barbara O'Neill Or Other Celebrities Did NOT Tout Hypertension Remedy With $10,000 Guarantee -- AI-Generated Voices
• Fact Check: Harrison Butker Did NOT Say 'We Should Go Back To A Time' When 'Women Had More Babies Than Thoughts'
• Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Say In May 2024 That COVID Vaccines Killed 500,000 Children, Young Adults
• Fact Check: EISCAT Radar System In Finland, Norway and Sweden Does NOT Have Mind Control Capabilities
• Fact Check: NO Trump Assassination Authority Granted By Use-Of-Force Language In FBI Mar-A-Lago Raid Plan -- Self-Defense Language Is Boilerplate
• Fact Check: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem Did NOT Ban Sales Of Watermelon Slices

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

• Fact Check: Photos Of Sunflowers Facing Away From The Sun Do NOT Prove The Sun Has Been Replaced
• Fact Check: Measles Vaccine Is NOT Known To Have Killed '63 Times More People' Than Measles Did In US 2003-18
• Fact Check: May 19, 2024, Weather Data IS NOT Missing For Region Where Helicopter Carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi Crashed
• Fact Check: Taylor Swift Did NOT Say She'll Force Travis Kelce To Quit Chiefs Next Season If Team Doesn't Fire Harrison Butker
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Boeing Singapore Airlines Turbulence Incident In May 2024

Monday, May 20, 2024

• Fact Check: UK Did NOT Debate Removing The Holocaust From School Curriculums 'This Week' In May 2024
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show 'Iranian Capital Tehran Has Increased Security Levels' -- It Shows A Temporary U.S. Pier For Humanitarian Aid In Gaza
• Fact Check: NOT All Photos In Post Are Authentic Images Of Helicopter Crash That Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
• Fact Check: Image Of Burning Helicopter Going Down Is NOT Authentic Photo Of Crash That Killed Iranian President
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Iran's Special Forces Raiding India's Embassy In Tehran -- It Is From 2015 Exercise In Germany
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That Two Indian Diplomats Were Arrested In Iran In Investigation Of President Raisi's Fatal Helicopter Crash

Friday, May 17, 2024

• Fact Check: Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway Is NOT Petrified Giant Armadillo Skin -- It's Volcanic Rock
• Fact Check: Kelly Clarkson, Jimmy Fallon Did NOT Promote Weight Loss Gummies In 2024 Interview
• Fact Check: MOMS Act Would NOT Require Women To Register With Federal Government Once They Become Pregnant
• Fact Check: 23andMe Did NOT Sell All DNA Assets To Chinese Government In 10 Billion Dollar Deal

Thursday, May 16, 2024

• Fact Check: 'Fuck Joe Biden' Chant Dubbed In Mother's Day Video Of Biden And Granddaughter Leaving Church
• Fact Check: Breyers Ice Cream Is STILL Legally Ice Cream
• Fact Check: Fico Shooting Suspect's Wife Is NOT Ukrainian Refugee -- Police Said Such Speculation Is 'Hoax'
• Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Joe Biden In Sexually Suggestive Pictures With A Girl -- Man Pictured Is Someone Else
• Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Was NOT Awarded 'Greatest Trader In Congress' -- Altered Video With Fake Audio And Chyron
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show French Prisoners Celebrating Police Deaths, Ambush Of May 2024
• Fact Check: Black Pepper Essential Oil Does NOT Cure Arthritis Or Rheumatism
• Fact Check: Fico Shooting Suspect Is NOT Member Of Pro-Western Progressive Party -- Interior Minister, Party Chairman Denied It

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Irish Police Escorting Schoolchildren Because Of Migrant Camps In Dublin -- It Was Field Trip
• Fact Check: German Politician NOT Convicted, Fined For Simply Using Patriotic Phrase During 2021 Speech -- Penalty Has Broader Context
• Fact Check: FAKE Photo Of Donald Trump, Melania Trump And Stormy Daniels Was Doctored
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Robert Fico 'Formally And Publicly Rejected' WHO Global Pandemic Accord Days Before Assassination Attempt
• Fact Check: SCAM Posts Push Claim About Found 2-Year-Old To Lure People To Share Them

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

• Fact Check: FAKE Image Of 'Barbara O'Neill's Cousin' On Trial Is AI-Generated; There Was No Such Trial
• Fact Check: Original Pinocchio Story Does NOT Say Gepetto Was Slave Master Who Made Puppet From Human Skin, Hair
• Fact Check:Elon Musk Did NOT Say He Was Considering Buying NY Jets To Keep Colin Kaepernick Off Team -- Satire Origin
• Fact Check: HAARP Tests Were NOT Cause Of Northern Lights In Early May 2024 -- It Was Solar Storm
• Fact Check: Walt Disney Was NOT A Founder Of NASA
• Fact Check: Stones Showing Humans, Dinosaurs Living Together Do NOT Prove They Coexisted -- Farmer Confessed In 1975 He Created Them

Monday, May 13, 2024

• Fact Check: UN Did NOT Halve Its Estimate Of Women And Children Killed In Gaza
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Russian Submarine Carrying Underwater Missile In LA -- It's US Rescue Vehicle
• Fact Check: Belgian TV Channel Did NOT Post Message Criticizing Israel That Interrupted Eurovision Broadcast-- It Was Trade Unions' Protest
• Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Announce Plan To Build Modern Railway System On Moon As Of May 2024
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Danish King Frederik X On Balcony Waving Palestinian Flag -- It's Someone Else
• Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Trump Rally In New Jersey -- It's From 2006 Rolling Stones Show
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'Muslim Migrants' Destroying Property 'Because An Israeli Singer Took Part In Eurovision'

Friday, May 10, 2024

• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove French Air Force Made Russian Flag With Colored Smoke During Olympic Air Show
• Fact Check: Kathy Griffin Was NOT 'Thrown Off The Red Carpet' At Met Gala In 2024
• Fact Check: Canola Oil Was NOT First Developed As Engine Lubricant During WWII
• Fact Check: Rep. Ilhan Omar Does NOT Face Proposal To Remove Her From Congress As Of May 10, 2024
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Transgender Man Holding Surrogate Baby At Hospital
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Harrison Ford Expressing Support For Palestine -- His Topic Was The Amazon Rainforest

Thursday, May 9, 2024

• Fact Check: Satire Article Says Kid Rock Refuses To Do 'Collaborative Tour' With Taylor Swift
• Fact Check: NO Evidence 300,000 Ballot Images Are Missing From 2020 Election In Fulton County, Georgia; Results Are NOT Invalid
• Fact Check: FAKE Post About Dog Hurt In Hit-And-Run In Various Places Is Part Of Social Media Scam
• Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Tell Time Magazine 'He'd Force Every Pregnant Woman To Submit To Constant Government Monitoring' If Re-Elected
• Fact Check: NY's JFK Airport Renovation Does NOT Consist Entirely Of Grant To Minority, Women-Owned Businesses
• Fact Check: Truth Social NOT Shut Down As Of May 9, 2024 -- Platform Functioning As Usual
• Fact Check: White House Press Secretary Did NOT Answer Question On 'Ukrainian Manifestations Of Nazism' -- Altered Video

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

• Fact Check: Manipulated Image Of Pro-Palestine 'You Don't Get To Choose' Sign Replaces 'How We Resist' With 'Who We Rape'
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Netanyahu Announcing Plan To Build Settlements In Gaza Strip
• Fact Check: California's Fresno River Viaduct Did NOT Cost $11 Billion, Did NOT Take 9 Years
• Fact Check: Biden Administration Did NOT Interfere With Trump Transition Documents Later Shipped To Mar-A-Lago
• Fact Check: FAKE Quote Has Stormy Daniels Saying Trump Made 'Gurgling Sounds and Fell Asleep' After Sex
• Fact Check: NYPD Did NOT Say The People Arrested At Columbia Were Not Students -- PD Data Confirmed Majority Were Students

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

• Fact Check: Video Of Burning Cars Does NOT Show Assassination Attempt On Saudi Crown Prince In May 2024
• Fact Check: German Politician NOT Convicted, Fined For Merely Posting Statistics About Sexual Assaults By Afghan Immigrants
• Fact Check: Image Of 'Dr. Sebi's Cousin' In Court For 'Revealing ... Health Secrets' Is Likely AI Creation
• Fact Check: Democratic Party Did NOT Announce Proposal To Change US Flag 'To Make It More Inclusive'
• Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows AI-Voiced Mark Cuban Describing Banned 'Shark Tank' Episode With Secret Diabetes Remedy

Monday, May 6, 2024

• Fact Check: Footage Does NOT Show Gazans Preparing To Fake Injuries To Influence World Opinion -- It Shows Actors In TV Drama
• Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Document Donald Trump Kissing Melania And Ivanka On The Mouth -- Timing And Angles Mislead
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Harvard Protesters 'Replaced' U.S. Flag With Palestinian Flag -- U.S. Flag Was Not Flying At The Time
• Fact Check: New German Law Does NOT Introduce Fines For Incorrect Pronouns To Address Trans People -- It Punishes Forced Outing
• Fact Check: Post Mislabels As 'Current' A 4-Year-Old Der Spiegel Caricature Of 'Fire Devil' Trump Wielding Lit Match
• Fact Check: NO Record Keanu Reeves Rejected $1.7 Billion 'Woke' Movie Offer And Said 'Woke Mind Virus Should Be Destroyed'
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Robert De Niro Yelling At Anti-Israel Protesters -- He Was Rehearsing For An Upcoming Netflix Series

Friday, May 3, 2024

• Fact Check: Image Of 'Dr. Sebi's Cousin' In Court Is Likely AI Creation
• Fact Check: NO Evidence 'Hit Squad' From Boeing Killed Whistleblowers
• Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Prove Pro-Palestinian College Protesters Largely Had The Same Tents
• Fact Check: Woman Applying Lip Gloss In Police Shield Reflection Is NOT At Pro-Palestine Protest On US Campus
• Fact Check: SpongeBob SquarePants Was NOT Based On Boy's Abusive Childhood In 1940s

Thursday, May 2, 2024

• Fact Check: Fake Photo Of Israel, Nazi, Confederate Flags Together Is Edited 2017 Charlottesville Rally Image
• Fact Check: Photo Of Mike Lindell At The Waukesha Wisconsin Trump Rally Is NOT Real -- Digitally Edited
• Fact Check: 'Spetznas' Snipers Did NOT Kill WEF Member Kiva Allgood In Ukraine
• Fact Check: Fake Photo Of Rep. Matt Gaetz In Tigger, Spider-Man Costume Is Edited Old Image
• Fact Check: Denzel, Wahlberg, Sly Did NOT Quit SAG To Form 'No-Woke' Actors Union -- Claim Is From Satire Site
• Fact Check: NY Post Did NOT Report Congress Will Vote On Bill Criminalizing Skepticism About 9/11
• Fact Check: Computer Hacker Hamza Bendelladj Was NOT Executed -- As Of May 2024 He Still Serves His Prison Term

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

• Fact Check: Photo Of Dead Palm Trees Does NOT Prove They Were Killed By 5G In 2024
• Fact Check: FAKE Video Of Dr. Oz Promoting 'Fat-Dissolving Weight Loss Pills' Has AI Voice
• Fact Check: All 'Mainstream Commercial Branded Sunscreens' Are NOT Toxic
• Fact Check: U.S. Marines Did NOT Block FEMA From Tornado Relief In Omaha
• Fact Check: 'Parasites, Metals And Viruses' Do NOT Cause All Diseases, Illnesses, As Post Claims
• Fact Check: FAKED Video Shows Barbara O'Neill Advertising Diabetes Remedy