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TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on July 17, 2025 una publicación en TikTok:
Osos pardos, bisontes y pumas están huyendo del Parque Nacional de Yellowstone hacia Salt Lake City, Utah.
False
By Maria Briceño • August 7, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on July 16, 2025 a Threads post:
Elk, grizzly bears, bison and mountain lions are fleeing Yellowstone National Park to Salt Lake City, Utah.
False
By Maria Briceño • August 7, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 10, 2025 una publicación en Facebook:
Imágenes muestran animales heridos en los incendios de Los Ángeles.
False
By Maria Briceño • January 21, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on September 21, 2024 a video:
Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 22, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on September 14, 2024 una publicación en X:
Este es “vídeo de una inmigrante haitiana que asesinó y se comió al gato de sus vecinos” en Springfield, Ohio.
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Briceño, Sofia Ahmed • September 18, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 9, 2024 Instagram posts:
A Haitian woman was arrested in Springfield, Ohio, for eating a cat.
Pants on Fire!
By Sofia Ahmed • September 12, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 20, 2024 una publicación en Facebook:
Foto muestra a un delfín rosado en la costa de Carolina del Norte.
False
By Maria Briceño, Sara Swann • June 26, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2024 a Facebook post:
Photo shows a pink dolphin spotted off the North Carolina coast.
False
By Sara Swann • June 24, 2024
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on April 30, 2024 X, formerly Twitter:
“The science is clear — the gray wolf has met and exceeded recovery goals.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • May 21, 2024
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on May 9, 2024 an Instagram post:
Lyme disease became endemic because of U.S. government bioweapons labs.
Pants on Fire!
By Sofia Ahmed • May 16, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 16, 2024 a post on Facebook:
Video shows dolphins saving a mother whale and newborn from sharks.
False
By Madison Czopek • May 13, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 5, 2024 Facebook posts:
Image shows orangutan “stretching out his hand to help a geologist who fell into a mud pool.”
False
By Sofia Ahmed • May 10, 2024
Brad Holyman-Sigal
Brad Holyman-Sigal
stated on February 26, 2024 a press release:
“Nearly a quarter million birds in New York City, and more than one billion across the country, die each year from collisions with buildings.”
Mostly True
By Jefrey Canova, Ciaran Conneely • March 24, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 26, 2024 an Instagram post:
Chicken and cows have high levels of estrogen, which leads men who eat them to bald, develop man boobs and be unable to grow muscle mass.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • March 1, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 14, 2024 una publicación en Instagram:
Video muestra vacas muriendo “en extrañas circunstancias” para reemplazarlas por “carne sintética”.
False
By Maria Briceño • February 16, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 31, 2024 an Instagram post:
The presence of soft tissue and carbon-14 in dinosaur bones proves they lived “only a few thousand years” ago, not millions of years ago.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • February 8, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on July 4, 2023 a post:
Protestors in France have released animals from the zoo.
False
By Samantha Putterman • July 7, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 28, 2023 a Facebook post:
The World Economic Forum "wants to slaughter millions of pet cats and dogs to fight climate change."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • July 6, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 23, 2023 a reel:
More than “200 dogs showed up and lined up around the block” for a man’s 100th birthday celebration.
True
By Samantha Putterman • July 6, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 25, 2023 una publicación en Facebook:
En China se están fabricando huevos artificiales para el consumo humano.
False
By Maria Briceño • May 10, 2023
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