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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
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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 21, 2025 Facebook posts:
Photos show Elon Musk in a fight during a science conference.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • February 26, 2025
Nancy Mace
Nancy Mace
stated on February 20, 2025 an X post:
“You either have XX or XY chromosomes. Those are the options.”
False
By Grace Abels • February 21, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on January 21, 2025 a post:
“Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female.”
False
By Grace Abels • January 29, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on December 13, 2024 an Instagram post:
RFK Jr. posted on X that, “Effective January 20th, all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) will be BANNED in the United States.”
False
By Sofia Ahmed • December 30, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on September 29, 2024 X posts:
A biolab caught fire in Georgia right before the 2024 election.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • October 1, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 20, 2024 una publicación en Facebook:
Bill Gates dijo que "estamos tomando cosas que son ya sabes organismos genéticamente modificados y los estamos inyectando en los brazos de niños pequeños" en el contexto de las vacunas.
False
By Maria Briceño • September 26, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 18, 2024 an Instagram post:
The Gates Foundation “awarded $9.5 million to UW-Madison to make H5N1 bird flu transmissible to humans.”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 28, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on June 18, 2024 a post:
CERN scientists admit they “accidentally” ended the world in 2012 while performing experiments into the Higgs boson particle.
False
By Grace Abels • June 26, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 12, 2024 an Instagram post:
Bird flu in the U.S. is a "scamdemic" timed to coincide with the 2024 presidential elections “by design.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • May 24, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on April 14, 2024 an Instagram post:
Videos show “how they celebrated the CERN opening.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • April 17, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2024 a Facebook post:
CERN’s activation of its Large Hadron Collider is connected to the April 8 eclipse.
False
By Loreben Tuquero • April 5, 2024
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on March 19, 2024 una publicación enTikTok:
Expertos dicen que el eclipse solar del 8 de abril “será el eclipse más peligroso que ha habido, la guardia nacional se está preparando para este acontecimiento”.
False
By Maria Briceño, Madison Czopek • March 28, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 18, 2024 una publicación en Instagram:
Reportaje sobre "Eclipse solar 8 de abril 2024" habla sobre una fase del sol que "podría desatar catástrofes a nivel global y hambruna".
False
By Maria Briceño • March 26, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2024 a video posted on Facebook.:
The Oklahoma National Guard’s assistance for the April 8 eclipse signals something “bigger.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 20, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 22, 2024 a post on Instagram:
“Study reveals Bill Gates’ Fake Meat causes ‘turbo cancers’ in humans.”
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By Madison Czopek • February 28, 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
Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters
stated on January 31, 2024 a segment of "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News:
“We think the Earth’s warming” because “we’re literally cooking the books” with flawed temperature data.
False
By Madison Czopek • February 8, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 15, 2024 a post:
Women "store DNA" from all their male sexual partners.
False
By Grace Abels • January 17, 2024
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