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Latest Fact-Checks By Bill McCarthy

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Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on April 27, 2022 a TV segment
Conservatives gained Twitter followers after the company announced its deal with Elon Musk because "Twitter lifted a broad anti-conservative, anti-Trump shadow ban.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 2, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on April 25, 2022 a tweet
Elon Musk suspended Bill Gates from Twitter.
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 27, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2022 social media posts
Videos show that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy uses cocaine.
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • April 26, 2022
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on April 14, 2022 a TikTok post
A video shows the Russian warship Moskva exploding.
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 25, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 17, 2022 a Facebook post
“The White House presented commemorative coins” dedicated to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 25, 2022
"Watch The Water"
stated on April 11, 2022 a film
COVID-19 is a synthetic version of “snake venom” that evil forces are spreading through remdesivir, the COVID-19 vaccines and drinking water to “make you a hybrid of Satan.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • April 19, 2022
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on April 5, 2022 a Facebook post
Josh Mandel doctored an image in a campaign ad but "forgot to Photoshop the hands that clearly show he put his face on the body of a Black soldier."
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on April 4, 2022 a tweet
“The Russian army captured the U.S Major General Roger L. Cloutier Jr. … in the besieged Ukrainian Azov camp in Mariupol.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 5, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 2, 2022 a Facebook post
Says Barack Obama tweeted, “Has anyone checked to make sure Donald Trump doesn’t have a Russian birth certificate?”
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 5, 2022
Russian Ministry of Defense
Russian Ministry of Defense
stated on April 3, 2022 a Telegram post
A video taken from a car driving through Bucha, Ukraine, shows a corpse “moving his arm,” and then “in the rear view mirror the ‘corpse’ sits down.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 4, 2022
YouTube videos
YouTube videos
stated on March 19, 2022 a YouTube video's caption
A video shows Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy singing “Imagine” by John Lennon.
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 28, 2022
Jack Posobiec
Jack Posobiec
stated on March 22, 2022 a tweet
Ketanji Brown Jackson “says she gave pedophiles lighter sentences (because) it’s different when they use computers vs mail to get volumes of child porn. This makes ‘total sense’ according to Jackson.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 25, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on March 20, 2022 a tweet from a hoax account
Virginia Tech swimmer Reka Gyorgy tweeted, “My finals spot was stolen by Lia Thomas, who is a biological male.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 24, 2022
Pearson Sharp
Pearson Sharp
stated on March 11, 2022 a TV segment
The Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, had “the makings of yet another false flag operation” led by the U.S.
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • March 22, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 10, 2022 a Facebook post
A photo shows "NATO resupplying Ukrainian farmers anti-tank supplies."
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 18, 2022
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on March 15, 2022 a Fox News appearance
"What is happening here is not so different from what we're seeing happening in Russia, where you have got state TV and controlled messaging across the board."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • March 18, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 14, 2022 a Facebook post
“Wladimir Klitschko has auctioned off his 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games gold medal to raise money for the children of Ukraine.”
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • March 16, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on March 13, 2022 tweets
A Ukrainian combat medic who died in February was seen in a video Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted of his visit to see wounded soldiers.
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 14, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2022 a Facebook post
A 2022 CNN report said, “Russia deploys two nuke bombers in US backyard, Venezuela.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 3, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 24, 2022 social media posts
A photo of a wounded young child was captured in Ukraine in 2022.
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 1, 2022
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