Latest Fact-Checks In Ukraine

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2022 a Facebook post
Poland palace that Biden visited is fake.
False
April 12, 2022
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stated on April 7, 2022 a Facebook post
Ukraine is the “money laundering and child sex trafficking capital of the world!”
False
April 12, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2022 a post
"Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a cousin of George Soros, Pentagon official says."
Pants on Fire!
By Monique Curet • April 7, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 27, 2022 an Instagram post
Photo of injured Ukrainian woman was from 2018 Russia gas explosion.
False
April 7, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on April 4, 2022 a tweet
Says Tucker Carlson said, “What if these bodies of tortured, dead civilians were staged? What if they’re fake? What if the Ukrainian military killed them & then blamed Russia? I’m not saying any of this is true, I’m just asking the questions. Why can’t we ask these questions?”
False
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
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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2022 a Facebook post
“The Space Foundation has erased the honors previously bestowed on Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever be in space. His name was stripped ‘in light of current events.’”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • March 29, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2022 a blog post
Putin beheaded bioweapon engineers in Ukraine.
Pants on Fire!
By Gabrielle Settles • March 29, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on March 28, 2022 a tweet
Will Smith slapped Chris Rock “to take attention away from Ukraine.”
False
March 29, 2022
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stated on March 28, 2022 a Facebook post
CNN staged a fire in Edmonton, Canada, and claimed it was filmed in Ukraine.
False
March 28, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 17, 2022 a Facebook post
The United Nations sent out an email instructing staff not to use the words “invasion” or “war’” when referring to Ukraine.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • March 28, 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
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Viral image
stated on March 23, 2022 an Instagram post
A photo of President Joe Biden leaving for Europe that the White House tweeted wasn’t actually taken on March 23.
False
March 25, 2022
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stated on March 5, 2022 a tweet
“The Simpsons” predicted Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
False
By Yacob Reyes • March 25, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2022 a Facebook post
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wore a Nazi cross symbol.
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 25, 2022
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Viral image
stated on March 21, 2022 a Facebook post
CNN tweeted a picture of a Serbian resort and said it was in Ukraine.
False
March 25, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 13, 2022 a Facebook post
Video shows “Russian soldiers using weapons that have been in a cupboard since Soviet times.”
False
March 23, 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 20, 2022 a Facebook post
“Ukraine has been shooting residents of Donetsk and Lugansk just because they wanted to speak Russian.”
False
March 22, 2022
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