Fact Check in June 2024

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Friday, June 28, 2024

• Fact Check: INAUTHENTIC Video Shows Ben Carson Promoting Government-Funded Erectile Dysfunction Pill
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Drink Made Of Aloe Vera, Molasses, Honey, Gin 'Eliminates All Cancer Cells,' Cysts, Tumors
• Fact Check: Video Claiming To Show Genetically Modified Tomato And Grain Swimming In Water Originated On Channel That Uses CGI Effects
• Fact Check: 'Missing Child' Post Is NOT Current -- It's Ruse For Real Estate Scam
• Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Drop Space Capsule From Plane To Fake Return From Outer Space -- Test Done Before Manned Flight
• Fact Check: FAKE Post About 'Treasured Item' Is Social Media Tactic Used In Real Estate Scam
• Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Refer To Michelle Obama As Transgender Male After Presidential Debate
• Fact Check: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Did NOT 'Admit' COVID-19 Was Used As 'A Test'
• Fact Check: Video Of Barbara O'Neill Promoting Prostatitis Remedy Is Likely AI Creation -- NOT Authentic
• Fact Check: Volcanos Are NOT Petrified Dragons
• Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Fall Asleep During Debate On June 27, 2024

Thursday, June 27, 2024

• Fact Check: CNN Will NOT Implement Delay Of 1 Or 2 Minutes During Presidential Debate On June 27, 2024
• Fact Check: Marine Le Pen Did NOT Say She 'Will Save France From The New World Order'; Did NOT Promise 'Macron Will Be Arrested'
• Fact Check: Iceland DOES Have Prisons, Does NOT Have Free Electricity
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Crowds In Australia Greeting Assange On His Return In 2024 -- Scene Is From 2023
• Fact Check: WikiLeaks Error Message Does NOT Reflect Recent Removal Of Leaked DNC Emails -- Message Dates Back To 2022

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

• Fact Check: Texas Woman Did NOT Bake Bread In Outdoor Mailbox In Sweltering Heat of June 2024 -- Post Started As Joke
• Fact Check: UK PM Rishi Sunak Did NOT Announce Plans To Give British Citizens £75,000 To Leave UK
• Fact Check: UK's King Charles III Was NOT Dead As Of June 26, 2024

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

• Fact Check: Sister Ships Titanic And Olympic Were NOT Switched In An Insurance Fraud Scheme -- Baseless Conspiracy Theory
• Fact Check: Federal Government Did NOT Announce Free 6-Month CDL Courses Beginning June 2024
• Fact Check: Frankfurt Litter Scene Was NOT Caused By Immigrants To Germany -- The Mess Was Left By Euro 2024 Soccer Spectators
• Fact Check: Neil Armstrong Did NOT Say He Saw UFOs And Aliens On The Moon
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show A Picnic At Black Detroit Church Visited By Trump In June 2024 -- It Shows Group Of Celebrities At A Fishing Lodge In Idaho
• Fact Check: Tommy Robinson NOT Arrested In Canada For Expressing Anti-Islam Views -- It Was On 'Outstanding Immigration Warrant'
• Fact Check: Photo Showing 'FUCK TRUDEAU' Sign At Hockey Game Is NOT Authentic -- Sign Reading 'BELIEVE' Was Digitally Altered
• Fact Check: Nigel Farage Did NOT Misrepresent Size Of The Crowd At Rally -- Images Comparing Crowds Were Taken At Separate Events

Monday, June 24, 2024

• Fact Check: Digitally Manipulated Video Of Ayatollah Khamenei Banner Does NOT Document Protests At Brooklyn Museum
• Fact Check: London Mayor Sadiq Khan Did NOT Ban Taxi Drivers From Displaying Flag Of England During Euro 2024
• Fact Check: Data Do NOT Show 'More Than 40,000 People In Houston' Tested Positive For STDs In One Week -- It's ALL Tests For The Entire State, Regardless Of Results
• Fact Check: FAKE Audio Mimics Justin Trudeau's Voice In Investment Scheme Video
• Fact Check: Israel Is NOT Struck From List Of 2024 Paris Summer Olympics Competitors As Of June 24, 2024

Friday, June 21, 2024

• Fact Check: Team USA Did NOT Lose $60 Million In Endorsements After Caitlin Clark 'Snub' -- Claim From Satire Site
• Fact Check: Earth's Average Temperature NOT 2 Degrees Celsius Warmer 55,000 Years Ago
• Fact Check: HHS Did NOT Endorse Purported Barbara O'Neill 'US Without Diabetes' Initiative
• Fact Check: California Bill AB1955 Would NOT Ban Schools, Teachers From Notifying Parents If Their Child Modifies Their Gender Identity
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show All The Judges Who Could Hear Trump's New York Appeal

Thursday, June 20, 2024

• Fact Check: Doctored Photo Falsely Puts Epstein, Biden Together
• Fact Check: Environmental Group Just Stop Oil Did NOT Spray Taylor Swift's Private Jet With Orange Paint In June 2024
• Fact Check: UEFA Did NOT Make Team Captains Wear Armband In Support Of Pro-LGBTQ+ Campaign During Euro 2020
• Fact Check: Marjorie Taylor Greene Did NOT Tweet 'Everyone Needs To Buy More 'FVCK JOE BIDEN' Flags'
• Fact Check: Video Of Old Man And Young Girl In Field Does NOT Show Sexual Assault -- It's Scene From Iranian TV Drama

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show US Navy Deploying Via Miami In Response To 'Russian Warships' -- It's Footage From An Annual Air Show
• Fact Check: Apple Did NOT Announce Plans In June 2024 To Start Charging For Facetime -- It Remains Free
• Fact Check: Draft-age American Men Are NOT 'Automatically Registered In The US Military' After House Vote -- Pending Legislation Would Simply Automate Already-Mandatory Registration

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

• Fact Check: CIA Did NOT Issue Warning To US Citizens To Avoid Paris Metro During Summer Olympics
• Fact Check: Global Warming NOT Disproved By May 1895 Records Showing Average Temperature Was Higher Than May 2024 Average
• Fact Check: Noam Chomsky Is NOT Dead As Of June 18, 2024
• Fact Check: Albanian PM Did NOT Call US, Soviet Union, Israel 'Major Devils' Himself -- That Was Previous Albanian Regime's World View
• Fact Check: YouTube Does NOT Restart Ads If Viewer Looks Away As Of June 2024
• Fact Check: NO New Security Fencing Installed Around The U.S. Supreme Court Building In June 2024 -- Old Video Misrepresented

Monday, June 17, 2024

• Fact Check: Caitlin Clark Did NOT Replace Brittney Griner On The USA Women's Olympic Basketball Team -- It's A Satire Post
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Russian Naval Exercises Off The Coast Of Florida In June 2024 -- Video Is From 2018 Missile Tests Off The Russian Coast
• Fact Check: US Treasury Did NOT Fly Palestinian Flag -- It Was A Pride Flag
• Fact Check: Italian PM Meloni Did NOT Say 'If Russia Does Not Agree To The Terms Of The Peace Summit, We Will Force It To Surrender'
• Fact Check: Iowa 'MAGA Fan' Did NOT Burn Down House Trying To Burn A Gay Pride Flag -- Satire Website

Friday, June 14, 2024

• Fact Check: Earth As Globe Was NOT Concept Introduced By Hollywood -- Was Documented By Ancient Greeks
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Official US Space Force Logo Alongside Satanic Symbol
• Fact Check: Scarlett Johansson Did NOT Say 'I Am A Jew, And No Amount Of Money In The World Will Tempt Me To Go Against Israel'
• Fact Check: Ancestry.com Listing Does NOT Prove Biden Is Dead
• Fact Check: UK Law Does NOT Specifically Say People Can Be Fined For Flying Flag Of England On Their Vehicles -- It Potentially Applies To All Flags
• Fact Check: Kid Rock Did NOT Call On Grammys To Ban Taylor Swift As She's 'Destroyed Real Music' -- It's Satire
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Actual Israeli Soldier Mocking Rafah Offensive Victims -- It's Artistic Performance

Thursday, June 13, 2024

• Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Wander Off At G7 Summit -- He Was Greeting Nearby Paratrooper
• Fact Check: Edited Video Does NOT Accurately Show Angelina Jolie In 2024 Condemning Violence In Gaza -- It's Cut From Her 2020 Message On Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Fact Check: Obama Portrait Image Was Manipulated To Show Goat-Like Figure In Mirrored Version Attached To Original
• Fact Check: Inauthentic Photo Does NOT Show Real 'Ice Wall' In Antarctica Or Actual City Beyond It
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Pro-Palestinian Protesters Running Onto Field During Congressional Baseball Game -- It Was Environmental Group
• Fact Check: New-York-To-Florida Flight Did NOT Disappear Then Land 37 Years Later -- No Such Missing Flight Was Ever Recorded

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

• Fact Check: Clickbait Post Makes Bogus Claim That Michael Jackson Is Alive, Death Certificate From 2009 Proves He's Not
• Fact Check: 'Walter Jones' And Dog 'Cami' Are NOT Missing -- False Social Media Post Is A Ruse For Sharing A Scam
• Fact Check: Fulton County Election Worker 'Wanda Shaye Moss' Was NOT Arrested On Election Fraud Charges In June 2024
• Fact Check: Canadian Cancer Society Did NOT 'Apologize' For Using 'Cervix' Instead Of 'Front Hole' -- It Explained Its Word Choice
• Fact Check: NFL Did NOT Tell Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles Players They Cannot Wear Green In Brazil Opener
• Fact Check: Texas Constitution Does NOT Bar Trump From Presidential Ballot Due To Felony Convictions -- US Constitution Sets Requirements

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

• Fact Check: Hunter Biden Is NOT The Naked Man Captured On Security Video Dragging A Woman Down A Hotel Hallway
• Fact Check: Paramount Did NOT Offer Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards $500 Million To Make 'Un-Woke' Sitcom -- Story Is From Satire Site
• Fact Check: Context of Trump Saying 'I Don't Care About You, I Just Want Your Vote' Was Sarcastic, Jocular Segment of Speech -- Audience Laughed
• Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Broadcast Fake Story About A Sex Tape Involving Kourtney Kardashian And Justin Bieber

Monday, June 10, 2024

• Fact Check: Ryan Garcia Predicting LA Earthquakes Is NOT Remarkable -- They're A Daily Occurrence
• Fact Check: Barbara O'Neill, Other Celebrities Did NOT Promote Arthritis Management Strategies With $10,000 Guarantee -- AI-Generated Voices
• Fact Check: Photo Of Mexico's President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum Has Been Digitally Edited To Mimic Antisemitic Meme
• Fact Check: Cold Water Along The Seafloor Does NOT Prove Earth's Core Is Frozen -- Ocean Temperature Is Variable
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Build-Up To Attack On Danish Prime Minister
• Fact Check: Kansas City Chiefs Did NOT 'Refuse To Participate In Pride Month' -- It's A Satirical Article

Friday, June 7, 2024

• Fact Check: Biden Adding 600,000 Votes Overnight In Pennsylvania During 2020 Election Count NOT Statistically Impossible
• Fact Check: Clint Eastwood Did NOT Return All 6 Oscars, Did NOT Denounce Hollywood As 'Morally Bankrupt'
• Fact Check: Colin Kaepernick Did NOT Say He's Boycotting NFL As Long As Harrison Butker Is On Team -- It's From Satire Article
• Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Attribute Excess Deaths Since COVID-19 Pandemic To Vaccines
• Fact Check: Photos Of Brazil's Sugarloaf Mountain Do NOT Prove Sea Levels Aren't Rising
• Fact Check: Dana Perino Did NOT Announce She's Leaving Fox News, Launching Line Of CBD Gummies

Thursday, June 6, 2024

• Fact Check: Biden Was NOT Trying To Sit On 'A Chair That Doesn't Exist' -- Video Is Cropped, Chair Was Behind Him
• Fact Check: North Carolina Did NOT Ban Face Masks In May 2024
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Trump's NY Probation Officer, 'Rohondra Williams' -- It's Indiana Police Commander
• Fact Check: Jill Biden Did NOT Lead President Biden Out Of Normandy Ceremony Before It Ended
• Fact Check: Kyle Rittenhouse's Mother Is NOT 38 in 2024 -- Was Already 45 At The Time Of Shooting

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

• Fact Check: Chinese Grasslands Tourist Slides DON'T Really Look Like The Videos
• Fact Check: Ex-Mossad Director Did NOT Say Israel Armed Al Qaeda
• Fact Check: China's Defense Ministry Did NOT Warn Of Military Intervention If US Or NATO Attacked Russia
• Fact Check: Lia Thomas Has NOT Been Exclusively Banned From 2024 Olympics In Paris
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Is Worth '$42 Million'
• Fact Check: Taylor Swift Did NOT 'Bid Farewell' To Music In May 2024 -- Did NOT Say 'I'm Tired Of The Crticism And Being Called Woke'
• Fact Check: NONE of the Candidates Killed During 2024 Mexican Election Ran For President

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Houthi Missile Struck USS Eisenhower In June 2024 -- It's From 2020 Fire On Another Ship
• Fact Check: Walmart Did NOT Announce Return To 24-Hour Shopping In All US Locations Starting June 3, 2024 -- No Such Plan
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That Zelenskyy Bought $200 Million Casino Resort In Cyprus
• Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Invest $1 Billion In Mel Gibson And Mark Wahlberg's Non-Existent 'Un-Woke Production Studio'
• Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Houthi Missile Strike Against USS Eisenhower In June 2024 -- It's Screenshot From Arma 3
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Bombing In Rafah In May 2024 -- It's Northern Gaza In November 2023
• Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Say 'I'd Rather Drink Sewer Water Than See Taylor Swift At The Super Bowl' -- Satire Site Oirgin

Monday, June 3, 2024

• Fact Check: Sylvester Stallone Did NOT Withdraw From Movie With Robert DeNiro -- Did NOT Call Him 'Woke' And 'Creepy'
• Fact Check: Trump Was NOT Required To Report To NYC Probation Services Immediately After Hush-Money Trial Conviction
• Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Discuss Disney Princess 'Disorder' Theory In Interview
• Fact Check: Actor Chris Evans Did NOT Sign A Bomb In 2016 -- USO Tour Photo Shows Him Signing Inert Replica Used In Training
• Fact Check: U.S. Spokesperson Did NOT Justify Ukrainian Strikes On Belgorod, Russia Saying It Holds 'Virtually No Civilians' -- Video Is AI Fake
• Fact Check: Edited Video Does NOT Show People Celebrating Trump's Guilty Verdict -- They Were Celebrating A 2016 Soccer Game