Society in May 2025
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
- Fact Check: German Ministry Of Health Website Does NOT Tell Immigrant Men Most German Men Will Be Happy To Have Gay Sex With Immigrants
- Fact Check: 'Big Beautiful Bill' Would NOT Make Eight-Year-Olds Ineligible For Any Food Aid -- Proposal Would Ratchet Up Parental Work Rule
- Fact Check: Satire Story Said 'Betheda' Military Court Dismissed Admiral Levine Discrimination Lawsuit As Frivolous -- Fictional Story
Thursday, May 29, 2025
- Fact Check: Florida Court Did NOT Rule That New York Times And Washington Post Have To Return Their 2018 Pulitzers, As Of May 28, 2025
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Black Teen About to Be Arrested at High School Graduation
- Fact Check: Population of 'Tremont, Nevada' Did NOT Disappear in 1954 -- Town Never Existed
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
- Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows 'Emotional Support Kangaroo' Denied Entry to Plane
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Authentically Show Black Man Resting Foot on White Woman's Wheelchair on Bus
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Friday, May 23, 2025
- Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE That Harvard University Has Announced A Plan To Blacklist Trump Supporters On Campus
- Fact Check: Picture Held Up By Trump In Oval Office Meeting Did NOT Show Body Bags For 'White farmers' In South Africa
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: 'White Genocide' Video Played In Oval Office Does NOT Show Actual 'Burial Sites' Of White Farmers In South Africa
- Fact Check: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did NOT Fail To Condemn Capital Jewish Museum Shooting
- Fact Check: Photo of Two Men With Israeli Flags Does NOT Show Embassy Staff Shot Dead Outside Jewish Museum
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Portray Karmelo Anthony Attending Prom
- Fact Check: AI Video Has Trump Cancel Pride Month, Replace It With 'Confidence Month' -- Potty Language NOT Real
Monday, May 19, 2025
- Fact Check: Kentucky Weather Service DID Send Out Tornado Warning Despite Trump Funding Cuts
- Fact Check: Bruce Springsteen Was NOT Met With 'A Strong Chorus Of Boos' At Atlanta Rock Fest -- It's Trolling
Sunday, May 18, 2025
- Fact Check: AI Video Does NOT Show Actual Cruise Ships Dumping Sewage Into The Ocean -- Fake Footage
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Fact Check: Dollar General Did NOT Post Sign Saying Self-Checkout Is Closed 'Due To N-----s'
- Fact Check: Bodycam Video Does NOT Authentically Show Cop Pull Over Black Judge -- Staged
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show A Ship From Kenya Landing In Germany
- Fact Check: Australian Man Was Not Filmed Being Arrested For Trying To Take AU$5,000 From His Bank Account
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show RFK Jr. Declaring War On 'Fat, Gay Kids' And Things That Make Them 'Effeminate Weirdo Skanks' - Fake
- Fact Check: Sam Smith and Pamela Anderson Did NOT Trade Insults in May 2025 -- Started as Satire
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: Research Paper Did NOT Show Pfizer COVID Vaccine Increased Death Risk by 36%, Killed 470,000 in America
- Fact Check: UK Government Did NOT Announce New 'Window Tax'
- Fact Check: 'Confidential' Memo Does NOT Prove Radiation Leak In Northern Pakistan
- Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows 'Racist Cop' Encounter With a Black 'Navy Seal' -- It's Scripted
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Woman Dancing With 'Trump 2024' Flag, Then Deported -- Different People
Monday, May 12, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show President Trump Saying 'Lopping Off Someone's Ding-A-Ling' Makes A Eunuch, Not A Woman -- Faked
- Fact Check: AG Pam Bondi Did NOT Announce 'RICO Probe' Into 'Network of The Clinton, Obama, And Biden Families'
- Fact Check: FAKE Video Does Not Document 'Eliteists' On Yacht At Sea Getting Washed Overboard By A Wave
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Authentically Show Police Officers Approaching Black Army Colonel
Friday, May 9, 2025
- New Pope, New Conspiracies, But At The Speed Of Social Media
- Fact Check: As of May 9, 2025, Shiloh Hendrix's Fundraising Campaign Was NOT Frozen, Despite Criticism
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Pope Leo XIV Was A 'Celebrated' Jazz Trombone player AKA 'Bobby Prev' In His Spare Time In Chicago
- Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE Elon Musk Decided To Gift Alysa Liu Tesla
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Fact Check: Posts About Suspects 'Kelvin Buckland' And 'Malena Renae Mason' Being On The Run In May 2025 Are NOT Authentic Warnings
- 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
- White Smoke: Cardinals Choose American Robert Prevost As Pope Leo XIV -- What We Know So Far
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Fact Check: Supreme Court Did NOT Refuse To Hear 'Sexual Orientation Discrimination Lawsuit' From Rachel Levine, As Of May 6, 2025
- Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Argument Between Pizza Delivery Driver and Woman Outside 'Prestigious' Apartment
Monday, May 5, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Capture Canada's Carney Authentic Speech About Banning Cars Manufactured Before 2000
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Authentically Capture Real Cop 'Losing His Mind' Over Parking Ticket
- 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
- Posts About Removal Of Ruby Bradley's Service History: What We Know
- Fact Check: Fake Post About Shell Company Tied To Three Democratic Senators Receiving Millions In Ukraine War Contracts Originated On Karoline Leavitt Satire Account
Friday, May 2, 2025
- Fact Check: Video Did NOT Capture Real-Life Fight
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Princess Anne Publicly Said 'I Will Never Bow To Camilla'
- Fact Check: Indians or Pakistanis Did NOT Set Fire to a Church in Wales -- Police Arrested Local Teens
Thursday, May 1, 2025
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