Latest Fact-Checks In Crime

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 23, 2024 A Facebook post
“The subway burning victim's name was Amelia Carter.”
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By Maria Briceño • January 2, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 16, 2024 social media posts
Tipster in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing is ineligible for reward money "because she called 911 instead of the tip line."
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By Loreben Tuquero • December 19, 2024
Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 16, 2024 a post
“The school shooter in Madison Wisconsin Christian School shooting has been identified as a female identifying as a male.”
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By Sara Swann • December 17, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 4, 2024 a Facebook post
"The city of… is being warned to be alert & vigilant as there is a serial killer on the run,” Robert Thibodeau.
False
By Maria Briceño • December 17, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on December 16, 2024 an Instagram post
Photo of a young man in a tie shows Wisconsin school shooter Natalie Rupnow.
False
December 17, 2024
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on December 10, 2024 una publicación enTikTok
Usuarios en redes sociales leen ‘manifiesto’ escrito por Luigi Mangione, el sospechoso de la muerte del ejecutivo de UnitedHealthcare.
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By Maria Briceño • December 12, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on December 9, 2024 a post
“A $7.20 an hour McDonalds employee … now gets a cool 1/2 million dollar reward” for helping police find the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter.
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By Sara Swann • December 11, 2024
Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 9, 2024 in social media posts
Substack article shows manifesto of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in health care executive's killing.
False
December 10, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on December 9, 2024 a Threads post
Elon Musk criticized the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter on X, saying, “It’s disgusting how everyone is turning this guy into some kind of folk hero.”
False
December 10, 2024
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on December 9, 2024 social media posts
Video shows CEO homicide suspect Luigi Mangione posted YouTube videos teasing his plans
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By Gideon Hess • December 10, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2024 remarks at a rally at Madison Square Garden
“As California attorney general, (Kamala Harris) redefined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon, and rape of an unconscious person as a totally nonviolent crime.”
False
By Grace Abels • November 1, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 29, 2024 a rally in Allentown, Pa.
In Lancaster, Pa., “We caught them with 2,600 votes. We caught them cold, 2,600 votes. ... And every vote was written by the same person."
False
By Amy Sherman • October 30, 2024
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on October 9, 2024 a Senate debate
“Arizona was safe” when she moved to the state in 1994, but has become “unsafe.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on September 28, 2024 una publicación en X
“Kamala Harris permitió la entrada a Estados Unidos de 13.000 extranjeros ilegales condenados por asesinato".
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 7, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2024 a rally in Erie, PA
Kamala Harris "let in the 13,099 convicted murderers and opposes all efforts to find them and to remove them."
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 2, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2024 a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania
Vice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.”
False
By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on August 17, 2024 In X post on Aug. 17
Photo shows “domestic Antifa are already gathering in Chicago, to create chaos during the Harris-Walz DNC.”
False
August 21, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2024 a news conference
California law lets you “rob a store as long as it’s not more than $950” and “not get charged.” Kamala Harris “did that.”
False
August 19, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 11, 2024 una publicación en Instagram
Video muestra policías entrando en una casa en Inglaterra "por comentarios en redes sociales".
False
By Maria Briceño • August 14, 2024
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on July 16, 2024 in a speech at RNC in Milwaukee
“Just last week, Ruben Gallego voted to let the millions of people who poured into our country illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election.”
False
By Amy Sherman • July 17, 2024
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