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Latest Fact-Checks By Madison Czopek

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Social Media
Social Media
stated on January 20, 2026 posts on social media
Trees can explode if temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • January 26, 2026
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on January 11, 2026 una entrevista
“No están recibiendo el entrenamiento tradicional de cinco meses… .El entrenamiento para los agentes de ICE ahora es de 47 días”.
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek, Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 15, 2026
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on January 11, 2026 an interview
“They are not getting the traditional five months training. … The training for the ICE agents now is 47 days.”
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek, Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 12, 2026
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 3, 2026 a post on Truth Social
Gov. Tim Walz had Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed.
False
By Madison Czopek • January 6, 2026
Social Media
Social Media
stated on November 20, 2025 social media posts
The Trump administration removed nursing from the list of professional degree programs, affecting aspiring nurses’ student loan access.
Half-True
By Loreben Tuquero, Madison Czopek • November 26, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on November 17, 2025 remarks at George Washington University
“We’re not cutting science. We’re not cutting research.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • November 20, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on November 15, 2025 a post on TikTok
Video shows President Donald Trump patting President Bill Clinton’s crotch.
False
By Madison Czopek • November 17, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on September 23, 2025 posts on X
“Erika Kirk is banned from Romania because her Evangelical group was accused of trafficking children out of Romanian villages.”
False
By Madison Czopek • September 26, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 22, 2025 a press conference
“There's no downside” to avoiding Tylenol or acetaminophen use while pregnant.
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • September 23, 2025
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 17, 2025 an episode of "Hannity"
There was not “a single, prominent conservative voice in the country that even remotely wanted or hoped or was pushing to get Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Madison Czopek • September 18, 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
stated on July 27, 2025 remarks
“There is no starvation in Gaza.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • July 29, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on July 19, 2025 a post on TikTok
“The White House just announced that Trump only has four days left” because of his chronic venous insufficiency.
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • July 21, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on July 5, 2025 posts on social media
The Rainmaker Technology Corp.’s cloud seeding caused the July 4 flooding in Texas.
False
By Madison Czopek • July 7, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on June 16, 2025 social media posts
“Governor Tim Walz has DELETED every post he made praising Minnesota (assassin) Vance Boelter.”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 18, 2025
Mike Lee
Mike Lee
stated on June 15, 2025 a post on X
The suspect in the Minnesota lawmakers’ shootings was driven by “Marxist” ideology.
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • June 16, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on May 14, 2025 Senate testimony
It’s “all true” that the measles vaccine wanes quickly, was never fully safety tested and contains fetal debris.
False
By Madison Czopek • May 16, 2025
Alex Jones
Alex Jones
stated on May 11, 2025 en una publicación en X
Un vídeo muestra al presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, al primer ministro del Reino Unido, Keir Starmer, y al canciller alemán, Friedrich Merz, con una bolsa de cocaína tras visitar al presidente ucraniano, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Briceño, Madison Czopek • May 16, 2025
Alex Jones
Alex Jones
stated on May 11, 2025 a post on X
A video shows French President Emmanuel Macron, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Freidrich Merz with a bag of cocaine after visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Briceño, Madison Czopek • May 13, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on May 8, 2025 a post on X
Headline said, “Pope Leo XIV was a founding member of the 2020 anarchist Portland Autonomous Zone known as CHAZ.”
False
By Madison Czopek • May 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 8, 2025 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
“We have now close to $10 trillion” in investments. “We’re talking about essentially two months.”
False
By Louis Jacobson, Madison Czopek • May 8, 2025
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