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Latest Fact-Checks By Madison Czopek

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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 7, 2023 a post shared on Instagram:
Duke Health, UNC Health and ECU Health “in North Carolina are diagnosing toddlers who play with stereotypically opposite gender toys as having gender dysphoria and are beginning to transition them!!”
False
By Madison Czopek • May 10, 2023
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on May 4, 2023 a video shared on TikTok:
U.S. Marine Corps arrested a CDC official.
False
By Madison Czopek • May 8, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 3, 2023 a Facebook post:
“If you need Girl Scout cookies this year and don’t have a local troop to support, please consider buying from Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC’s homeless shelters.”
True
By Madison Czopek • May 8, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 29, 2023 a TikTok shared on Facebook:
“The flag of Washington’s District of Columbia has three red stars. One for each city state in the three-city empire.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • May 3, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 24, 2023 a post shared on Facebook:
BlackRock owns 59 million shares of Dominion Voting Systems and 45.7 million shares of Fox News. BlackRock sued itself and fired Tucker Carlson as part of the lawsuit.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • April 26, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 14, 2023 a speech to the National Action Network:
“One in 5 Americans has lost a family member to gun violence.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Madison Czopek • April 18, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2023 a video shared on Facebook:
U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence.
False
By Madison Czopek • April 7, 2023
Tom Fitton
Tom Fitton
stated on April 4, 2023 a segment on Fox Business:
“President Trump is officially a political prisoner.”
False
By Madison Czopek • April 6, 2023
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on March 31, 2023 a segment on “The Ingraham Angle":
Video clip shows that protesters in Tennessee “made their way onto the state Capitol floor.”
False
By Madison Czopek • April 4, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 29, 2023 an Instagram post:
“The UK has had ZERO school shootings since” it changed its gun laws after a 1996 school shooting.
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek • March 31, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 28, 2023 a screenshot shared on Facebook:
Photo of person holding sign shows the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville, Tennessee, school.
False
By Madison Czopek • March 30, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 23, 2023 a screenshot shared on Instagram:
“The gay dating app Grindr says if Florida doesn’t stop passing homophobic and transphobic laws, they’ll reveal every Republican legislator and party official who secretly uses the app.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 28, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 10, 2023 a video shared on Facebook:
“At a top robotics company in Japan this week, four robots being developed for military applications killed 29 humans in the lab.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 27, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2023 a headline shared on Facebook:
Silicon Valley Bank “donated $73M to 'BLM Movement'”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 22, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 2, 2023 a video shared on Facebook:
Video shows that certain drinks can “test positive” for COVID-19 when using at-home COVID-19 tests.
False
By Madison Czopek • March 10, 2023
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 7, 2023 a chain email:
Because of daylight saving time, “NO alarm set for the 2:00 a.m. hour will go off” on March 12.
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • March 9, 2023
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on March 6, 2023 a segment on "Tucker Carlson Tonight":
Capitol Police officers “helped” QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley and “acted as his tour guides.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • March 8, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 6, 2023 a Facebook post:
“The moon is a habitable place.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • March 6, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on March 3, 2023 a Conservative Political Action Conference speech:
Says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wants America’s “sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 3, 2023
Kat Cammack
Kat Cammack
stated on March 2, 2023 a speech at CPAC:
The Justice Department has been “calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Madison Czopek • March 2, 2023
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