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Instagram posts
stated on January 31, 2025 in 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 28, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“Elon Musk shocks the world by blocking Pride on X forever: ‘Children must come first.’”
False
February 4, 2025
Ashley Moody
Ashley Moody
stated on January 30, 2025 in 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 in 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 in a Threads post:
The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines crash “was being controlled remotely.”
False
February 3, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 14, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Video shows a dam breaking Sept. 28, 2024, in North Carolina.
False
February 3, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 2, 2025 in a post:
Photo shows “a dangerous serial killer” named Jaden Williams in Monroe, Louisiana.
False
By Sara Swann • February 3, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 27, 2025 in an Instagram post:
“1,500 IRS agents have submitted letters of resignation after Trump announced he would put 90,000 superfluous IRS personnel on border patrol.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • February 3, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 2, 2025 in 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 29, 2025 in a Threads post:
A Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump was “killed when she used her 2A rights with a shotgun while being served for eviction.”
False
January 31, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 27, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“A dangerous Hispanic couple” is “on the run after killing 3 female police officers.”
False
January 31, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 25, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Video shows “Donald Trump just announced that America will no longer give visas to Nigerians.”
False
January 31, 2025
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on January 31, 2025 in 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
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 29, 2025 in una publicación en Instagram:
Imagen muestra a oficiales de inmigración arrestando a un hombre vestido con una camisa de “Latinos for Trump 2024”.
False
By Maria Briceño • January 31, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2025 in 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
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on January 29, 2025 in a Threads post:
“ICE just announced it is pausing the hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants because 90% of the calls are from people reporting Elon Musk.”
False
January 31, 2025
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on January 24, 2025 in a Threads post:
“The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed” Bishop Mariann Budde “from the National Cathedral.”
False
January 31, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 31, 2025 in 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 in 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 in 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
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