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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 13, 2022 in a Facebook video:
Claims the U.S. military is using "polymer drone flies" that look and act like a large fly.
False
By Andy Nguyen • July 6, 2022
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on June 9, 2022 in a TV segment:
“Donald Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol" before Jan. 6, 2021, but was "rejected" by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
False
By Bill McCarthy • June 13, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 23, 2021 in a Facebook post:
The sale of more than 600,000 Wisconsin deer licenses shows that Wisconsin’s hunters are the “eighth largest army in the world.”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 6, 2022
Zach Nunn
Zach Nunn
stated on May 9, 2022 in a campaign ad:
“Zack Nunn saved over 2,000 Americans abandoned in Afghanistan by leading private rescue missions.”
Half-True
By Lyle Muller • May 27, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 15, 2022 in a post:
“Due to the baby formula shortage Tricare will now pay to have it shipped directly to you.”
Half-True
By Monique Curet • May 18, 2022
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 29, 2022 in a story:
“Military Arrests Biden’s Sec. of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.”
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • May 6, 2022
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on April 14, 2022 in a TikTok post:
A video shows the Russian warship Moskva exploding.
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 25, 2022
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on April 5, 2022 in 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 3, 2022 in a photo:
A photo shows a helicopter rescue mission in Afghanistan where wounded men were loaded onboard.
False
By Monique Curet • April 6, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on April 4, 2022 in 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
Russian Ministry of Defense
Russian Ministry of Defense
stated on April 3, 2022 in 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“There was a raid on the Biden residence yesterday by the military!”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 24, 2022
Alabama's Future
Alabama's Future
stated on March 11, 2022 in an ad:
Mo Brooks "voted to cut off funding to destroy ISIS terrorists in the middle of the fight."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • March 22, 2022
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on February 26, 2022 in a video:
The U.S. military has reinstated a draft, and women are included.
Pants on Fire!
By Monique Curet • March 14, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on March 9, 2022 in a tweet:
Classified documents from Ukraine “confirm without a shadow of a doubt” that the Ukraine government was “covertly preparing an offensive operation against Donbas, scheduled for March 2022.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 14, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 9, 2022 in a post on Instagram:
U.S. has biological weapons labs in Ukraine.
False
By Monique Curet • March 10, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 27, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“The former Miss Universe-Ukraine, Anastasiia Lenna, turned in her high heels for some combat boots to fight for her country.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 7, 2022
Russian Embassy in Canada
Russian Embassy in Canada
stated on March 1, 2022 in a statement:
"The Russian army does not occupy Ukrainian territory."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 25, 2022 in a post:
Russia unveiled a nuclear weapon, "Satan 2," that is "capable of destroying everything breathing in the world."
False
By Monique Curet • March 2, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 27, 2022 in a post:
"An 8-year-old Ukrainian girl confronts a Russian soldier telling him to go back to his country.”
False
By Monique Curet • March 1, 2022
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