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Does video show Zelenskyy singing ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon? No, it’s a Florida band’s lead singer

By Bill McCarthy March 28, 2022

A video shows Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy singing “Imagine” by John Lennon.

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A GOP Senate candidate’s muddled claim about windmills and greenhouse gas emissions

By Jon Greenberg March 28, 2022

“If you look at windmills” and the greenhouse gas emissions from building to retiring them, “the overall return is negative.”

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No, Janice Rogers Brown wasn’t the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court

March 28, 2022

Republicans “nominated the 1st Black woman to the SCOTUS & she was BLOCKED & filibustered by… Joe Biden.”

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No, these trees don’t prove White House tweeted an old photo of Joe Biden

March 25, 2022

A photo of President Joe Biden leaving for Europe that the White House tweeted wasn’t actually taken on March 23.

Ketanji Brown Jackson at hearing

Fact-checking false claim about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record on immigration

March 25, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson has "a weak record — defund police, abolish ICE and now a completely open border policy."

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Viral tweet distorts Ketanji Brown Jackson’s answer on report about child porn sentencing

By Bill McCarthy March 25, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson “says she gave pedophiles lighter sentences (because) it’s different when they use computers vs mail to get volumes of child porn. This…

Hunter Biden, 2012

No, Hunter Biden hasn’t been arrested despite persistent online rumors

March 25, 2022

“Hunter Biden has been arrested!”

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No, JFK Jr. isn’t alive (or behind anonymous QAnon messages)

March 25, 2022

John F. Kennedy Jr. is alive and the author of anonymous QAnon messages.

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No, the Simpsons did not predict Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Yacob Reyes March 25, 2022

“The Simpsons” predicted Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Lars Larson leaves out context on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s article on sex offender registries

By Yacob Reyes March 25, 2022

“Judge Jackson doesn’t think perverts should have to register (as sex offenders). She says it ‘stigmatizes’ THEM.”

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Zelenskyy’s shirt bears emblem of Ukraine armed forces, not Nazi cross

By Samantha Putterman March 25, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wore a Nazi cross symbol.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin interior

Yes, Evers gave COVID relief money to Planned Parenthood — but it’s not being used to fund abortions

By Madeline Heim March 25, 2022

Says Gov. Tony Evers gave $2.4 million in COVID relief money to Planned Parenthood affiliates throughout Wisconsin “to bail them out and fund abortions."

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