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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 10, 2025 in Facebook posts:
“BREAKING NEWS: Dolly Parton announces her refusal to celebrate Pride Month in June.”
Pants on Fire!
June 25, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on May 21, 2025 in posts:
Video shows the Qatari emir saying, “I truly regret inviting Trump, the robber, to the Middle East.”
Pants on Fire!
May 21, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 16, 2025 in Facebook posts:
Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney wrote a viral letter to Democrats suggesting steps to take against the Trump administration.
False
By Loreben Tuquero • April 18, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on April 13, 2025 in a post on X:
Cody Balmer, the person charged with setting fire to Pennsylvania governor’s residence, posted a photo that said “F--- Trump.”
False
April 14, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 4, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Video shows South African news outlet reporting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “purchased a controlling stake” in a mine.
False
April 4, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Says Cleveland Clinic said, “Millions of COVID-vaxxed will die within ‘5 years.’”
False
April 4, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 2, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“White hats to investigate Wisconsin Supreme Court election.”
False
April 4, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Photo shows “Pope Francis, shaking the hand of the priest of the Church of Satan.”
False
April 4, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 31, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.”
False
April 4, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“Caitlin Clark stuns the globe, rejects Elon Musk’s $15 million offer.”
False
April 4, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 1, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Video of gray skies in northern Michigan is proof of weather modification.
False
By Loreben Tuquero • April 4, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 28, 2025 in una publicación en Facebook:
“Trump ordena ataques militares en los túneles del Vaticano - Laboratorios de (adrenocromo) dirigidos por la CIA cerrados por las fuerzas especiales de EE.UU”.
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Briceño • April 4, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 3, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s family “must have just overlooked” “cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for a decade and a half.”
Pants on Fire!
April 4, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 27, 2025 in a post:
Conservative activist Laura Loomer’s reporting proves “Alex Wong is the individual who added (journalist) Jeffrey Goldberg” to the Trump administration Signal group text about bombing Yemen.
False
April 4, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 29, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.”
False
April 4, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 27, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“Daughter of boxing legend, Muhammed Ali, Laila Ali, has lost her life while giving birth in a Canadian hospital.”
False
April 4, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 1, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Says President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am ending dual citizenship under the Espionage Act and all these traitors will be ‘denaturalized and deported.’”
False
April 4, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Photo shows a missing police officer in “extreme danger.”
Pants on Fire!
April 4, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on March 4, 2025 in una publicación en TikTok:
El presidente Donald Trump aprobó una nueva ley “que exige la implantación obligatoria de un chip en todos los extranjeros”.
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Briceño • April 3, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 26, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“Elon Musk called for a boycott of ‘The View,’ labeling it ‘a meeting place for ignorant women.’”
False
April 2, 2025
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