Latest Fact-Checks By Loreben Tuquero

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Pete Buttigieg didn’t blame Baltimore bridge collapse on racism. This clip is from 2021

March 27, 2024

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg blamed the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s collapse on “racism.”

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Findings on short-term heat exposure had no relationship to COVID-19 vaccines

March 26, 2024

A study that found sunbathing can increase the risk of heart disease is a cover-up for the “side-effects of the vax.”

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These clips of Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy dancing are altered

March 22, 2024

Clips show French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dancing.

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Tucker Carlson clip on Biden gaffe is 4 years old, not from ‘Saturday’

March 8, 2024

President Joe Biden had a gaffe “in a rally in Michigan on Saturday.”

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Did a ‘traffic court judge’ try to remove Trump from the Illinois primary ballot? No

March 8, 2024

“The ‘Judge’ who took Trump off the ballot in Illinois is a traffic court judge.”

Sen. Katie Britt on Capitol Hill, 5-3-2023

Did Joe Biden ban TikTok for US workers but start a campaign account? Fact-checking Sen. Katie Britt

March 8, 2024

President Joe Biden “bans TikTok for government employees but creates an account for his own campaign.”

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The U.S. Code doesn’t say traitors would be publicly hanged at high noon

March 6, 2024

The U.S. Code states that a person convicted of treason would be “taken by the posse to the nearest busy intersection and at high noon…

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A Texas petition doesn’t prove chemtrails are real

March 5, 2024

Texas petition to outlaw “aerosolized spraying” is evidence of chemtrails.

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Donald Trump, not his lookalike, promoted the COVID-19 vaccine several times

February 29, 2024

It was not former President Donald Trump who promoted the COVID-19 vaccine, but a “lookalike.”

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This photo doesn’t show the Smokehouse Creek fire in Texas; it was posted in 2017

February 29, 2024

Photo shows the Smokehouse Creek fire in Texas.

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No proof Taylor Swift said she’d leave the U.S. if Donald Trump won

February 28, 2024

Taylor Swift said she “will leave the United States if Donald Trump becomes President in 2024.”

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Is the U.S. third in gun violence because of five cities? Data doesn’t support that claim

February 27, 2024

Removing gun-related homicides in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis would drop the U.S. to 189th out of 193 countries in gun violence.

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