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Friday, May 30, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- Fact Check: Screengrab Does NOT Document A Macron Presidential Plane Attendant With A 'Ripped Bloody Shoulder'
- Fact Check: Fake Ben & Jerry's 'From The River' Ice Cream Tub Photo Is AI Generated
Monday, May 26, 2025
- Fact Check: Barron Trump Did NOT Marry Princess Leonor -- AI Generated Wedding Video
- Fact Check: Bruce Springsteen NOT Canceling Atlantic City Summer Concert Series -- Never Existed, Satire Origin
Sunday, May 25, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Game Clip Shows 'Polish Pilot' Landing Boeing 737 On One Wheel -- NOT Real Footage
Friday, May 23, 2025
- Fact Check: Picture Held Up By Trump In Oval Office Meeting Did NOT Show Body Bags For 'White farmers' In South Africa
- Fact Check: Pro-Trump Cuban Activist Hector Luis Valdes Cocho Was Picked Up By ICE Detention And Is Awaiting Possible Deportation
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Authentically Show Pope Leo XIV Criticizing JD Vance's Response To Biden's Cancer Diagnosis
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Authentically Show Houthis Missiles Targeting Israel's Ben Gurion Airport
- Fact Check: 'White Genocide' Video Played In Oval Office Does NOT Show Actual 'Burial Sites' Of White Farmers In South Africa
- Fact Check: Venezuelan Government Did NOT Donate $22.9 Million For Barack Obama Presidential Library Apartment -- Satire Origin
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Fact Check: Next Air Force One Is NOT Qatari-Made -- Qatar Manufactures No Jet Airliners
- UN's Statement About 14,000 Children Dying In 48 Hours In Gaza Without New Humanitarian Aid: What We Know
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
- Fact Check: Graph Does NOT Show Romanian Presidential Candidate Nicușor Dan Winning 98% Of Votes
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show China Air-dropping Aid To Gaza in 2025 -- It's USA Aid In 2024
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show China Fighter Jets And Cargo Plane Flying Over Giza Pyramids On Way To Gaza Air Drop
Sunday, May 18, 2025
- Fact Check: AI Video Does NOT Show Actual Cruise Ships Dumping Sewage Into The Ocean -- Fake Footage
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Fact Check: Image Does NOT Prove Ukrainian Government Issued 'Rules For Reporters' Photographing Zelenskyy In Turkey In May 2025
- Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Air Graphic Claiming 'Pakistan Strikes India's Air Defense'
- Fact Check: Mexican Government Did NOT Gift House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries A '$1.2 million Apartment' -- Story Is Satire
- Fact Check: AI-Generated Image Shows Women And Children Crying On Demand For A Cameraman -- Not Actual Palestinians In Gaza
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Fact Check: Chuck Schumer Does NOT Use a Rolls Royce Gifted to Him By the British Government -- Story is Satire
- Fact Check: Al Gore Did NOT Receive a $90 Million Custom Gulfstream from the Sultan of Kuwait -- Story Originated As Satire
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show A Ship From Kenya Landing In Germany
- Trump Vs. Coffee In Saudi Arabia: What We Know
- Fact Check: Australian Man Was Not Filmed Being Arrested For Trying To Take AU$5,000 From His Bank Account
- Fact Check: FAKE Letter Does NOT Show Pakistan Fired Air Vice Marshal Aurangzeb Ahmed
- Fact Check: Fake Bill Clinton Saudi Helicopter Gift Story Originated On Satire Pages -- No $17 Million Gift News Stories
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Pope Leo XIV Turning Away From Pride Flag -- It's The "Pace" (Peace) Flag
- Fact Check: 'Confidential' Memo Does NOT Prove Radiation Leak In Northern Pakistan
- Fact Check: FAKE Truth Social Screenshot Has Trump Calling Australian PM Albanese The R-Word -- Fabricated Image
Monday, May 12, 2025
- Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Air Graphic Saying 'Trump Helps Curb India's Losses' With Stats Showing India Losing In Conflict With Pakistan
- Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Trump Praising Pakistan's Air Force, Mocking 'Humiliated' India
Sunday, May 11, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Clearly Show Macron Hiding White Powder Cocaine On Train With Merz, Starmer -- Hi-Res Pic Looks Like Napkin
- Fact Check: Fake Headline About 'Pakistan Air Force' Being 'Undisputed King Of The Skies' Did NOT Appear In Daily Telegraph
Saturday, May 10, 2025
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Pope Leo XIV Said "Be Woke" Or That Statement Containing That Phrase Is Authentic
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Missiles From Pakistan Impacting Delhi -- Old Israel Footage
Friday, May 9, 2025
- New Pope, New Conspiracies, But At The Speed Of Social Media
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Pope Leo XIV Was A 'Celebrated' Jazz Trombone player AKA 'Bobby Prev' In His Spare Time In Chicago
- Fact Check: Videos Do NOT Show Fires, Explosions in Pakistani Port City of Karachi After Indian Attacks
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Fact Check: Fake Headline About Pope Leo XIV And 2020 Anarchist 'CHAZ' Protest Did NOT Appear In New York Times -- Location Wrong, Too
- Fact Check: New Pope Leo XIV Is NOT 'Registered Republican' -- He Voted In Republican Primaries But Illinois Voters Needn't Declare Party Affiliation When Registering
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Toyota, Nissan And Honda 'Will No Longer Sell Vehicles In The United States' Because Of Tariffs
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Indian Drone Shot Down By Pakistan in May 2025
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Say 'Let Em Fight' About India-Pakistan Clashes in May 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Pakistani Pilot Shot Down Amid May 2025 India-Pakistan Clashes
- Fact Check: Old Video Does NOT Show Nuclear Explosion During 2025 India-Pakistan Conflict -- Shows 2015 Explosion In China
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show India Striking Pakistan In May Of 2025 -- Video Clip Has Been Online Since 2023
- Fact Check: 'Monetizing MAGA' Panel Featuring Donald Trump Jr. WAS On Qatar Economic Forum Agenda
- Fact Check: FAKE Video About Imminent May 6 Arrest Of French Right-Wing Leaders In Leaked WhatsApp Messages Has AI Audio -- Not From Front Populaire
Monday, May 5, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Capture Canada's Carney Authentic Speech About Banning Cars Manufactured Before 2000
- Fact Check: Photo Of Man In SS Uniform Is NOT George Soros -- It's Oskar Gröning, A Corporal in Hitler's Waffen SS At Auschwitz
Saturday, May 3, 2025
- Private, Ritualistic And Consequential: The Conclave Is Conspiracy's Natural Habitat
- Fact Check: AI Image Does NOT Show Actual Jewish Settlers Splashing Liquid On Palestinian Woman In Wheelchairs
- Fact Check: President Trump Did Post An AI Image Of Himself Dressed As Pope
Friday, May 2, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Princess Anne Publicly Said 'I Will Never Bow To Camilla'
- Fact Check: AI Clip Of Trump Saying He Will 'Erase Pakistan' If It Attacks India Is NOT Real -- Old Footage, Fake Audio
Thursday, May 1, 2025
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