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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 30, 2025 a video on Facebook
Early reports of four survivors show “this DC plane crash story isn’t adding up.”
False
By Madison Czopek • February 7, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on February 2, 2025 social media posts
Federal websites updated with a nine-star flag that represents the Confederacy.
False
February 5, 2025
Brian Mast
Brian Mast
stated on February 2, 2025 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
From the U.S. Agency for International Development funding, “10 to 30 cents on the dollar is what actually goes to aid.”
False
By Amy Sherman • February 5, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 31, 2025 a post on Instagram
CNN reported on the Potomac River plane and helicopter crash “hours before it happened.”
False
By Madison Czopek • February 4, 2025
Ashley Moody
Ashley Moody
stated on January 30, 2025 a hearing
The National Human Trafficking Hotline “in the last four years decided that they would no longer report tips to law enforcement, that they would take a more victim-centered approach.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 4, 2025
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 26, 2025 a TV interview
We’re one of the very few nations that allowed birthright citizenship.”
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • February 4, 2025
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on January 31, 2025 a Threads post
The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines crash “was being controlled remotely.”
False
February 3, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 2, 2025 an Instagram post
Photo shows Black Hawk helicopter pilot in fatal crash worked for years with President Joe Biden at the White House.
False
February 3, 2025
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on January 31, 2025 a Threads post
“Donald Trump is reportedly furious with Elon Musk for convincing him to push out the head of the FAA because Musk was mad SpaceX got fined last September by the FAA for license violations.”
False
January 31, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2025 a press briefing
“I changed the Obama policy (on hiring air traffic controllers) ... And then Biden came in and he changed it.”
False
By Caleb McCullough, Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 31, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 31, 2025 a Facebook post
“Pilot of Blackhawk helicopter that crashed into passenger jet at Reagan National was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis.”
Pants on Fire!
By Loreben Tuquero • January 31, 2025
Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff
stated on January 26, 2025 an interview on NBC's Meet the Press
“As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 White House press briefing
The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”
Half-True
January 30, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 28, 2025 an Instagram post
A video shows “people around the world” who are “protesting because Donald Trump is the president.”
False
January 30, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on January 30, 2025 an X post
“The VIP on the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed was Barack Obama.”
False
January 30, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2025 a Senate confirmation hearing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “made $2.5 million off suing one of the entities that (he would be regulating) and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • January 30, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 24, 2025 remarks in North Carolina
"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • January 29, 2025
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on January 20, 2025 a post
President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order would affect former Vice President Kamala Harris’ citizenship status.
False
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 24, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on January 23, 2025 X posts
Video shows “roads heading to Mexico are jam packed as mass deportations have started.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • January 24, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 22, 2025 an interview
The U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • January 24, 2025
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