Did U.S. Marines "kill" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Managing Officer" Aaron Aranas by fatally shooting him on November 24, 2023? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer confirmed to Lead Stories that this claim is fal
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Logically→ News outlets publish AI-generated image of rescue officials at Uttarakhand tunnel collapse site
Logically→ Old video from Jordan’s Parliament shared as assault on Israeli official
PolitiFact→ Wisconsin Election Committee, Inc . – Claim that Wis. elections official Meagan Wolfe refused to ‘clean up’ voter rolls is Pants on Fire
Wisconsin elections administrator Meagan Wolfe “refuses to clean up our voter rolls”
PolitiFact→ Wisconsin Election Committee, Inc . – Claim that Wisconsin official Meagan Wolfe allowed absentee drop boxes, ballot harvesting is false
Wisconsin elections administrator Meagan Wolfe “allowed for the use of illegal drop boxes and ballot harvesting.”
PolitiFact→ Wisconsin Election Committee, Inc . – Claim that Wis. elections official Meagan Wolfe permitted ‘Zuckerbucks’ in 2020 is Pants on Fire
Wisconsin elections administrator Meagan Wolfe “permitted the ‘Zuckerbucks’ influence money.”
Logically→ Old video from Uttar Pradesh shared as YSRCP councilor assaulting police official in Andhra
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: London Officials Did NOT Take Down UK Flag To ‘Maintain Peace’ — It Was Being Cleaned
Did London officials take down a United Kingdom flag before a march in support of Palestinians to "maintain peace"? No, that's not true: According to an X post from the local police, the flag was taken down to be cleaned. A Google News se
Logically→ Yemen has not officially declared war on Israel
Logically→ Unrelated video from Azerbaijan shared as Israeli officials captured by Hamas
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – New York officials didn’t value Mar-a-Lago at $18 million. A Palm Beach property appraiser did
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million.
AllSides→ Impeachment articles against Wisconsin elections official riddled with false and misleading claims
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/05/impeachment-articles-against-wisconsin-elections-c/ Impe
PolitiFact→ Impeachment articles against Wisconsin elections official riddled with false and misleading claims
Impeachment articles drafted by five Republican lawmakers seeking to remove Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe from her job contain more than a dozen misleading and false statements that misrepresent Wolfe’s role and regurgitat
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Biden and UN official did not warn of a planned disaster
At a United Nations summit, President Joe Biden and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned of a planned disaster.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Peter McCullough Did NOT Officially Address European Parliament On September 13, 2023 — Gathering Was Not A Hearing
Did Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist who has repeatedly made anti-COVID-19 vaccine statements, officially appear before the European Parliament and call for a "total recall" of COVID vaccines on September 13, 2023? No, that's not true
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: WEF Does NOT Call For ‘COVID Concentration Camps’ To Jail Those Who Question Official Narrative
Did the World Economic Forum (WEF) call on governments to establish "COVID concentration camps" globally for individuals who do not comply with the "official narrative" related to COVID-19? No, that's not true: A WEF representative called
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Florida Has NOT Officially Classified COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines As Bioweapons As Of September 18, 2023
Has the state of Florida officially classified COVID-19 mRNA vaccines as bioweapons? No, that's not true: There is no legislation in Florida that has classified mRNA vaccines as bioweapons as of September 18, 2023. One county Republican o
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Yes, a top FEMA official was in Hawaii before the Maui fires, but it was for a conference
CLAIM: President Biden admitted that a top Federal Emergency Management Agency official was already on the ground in Hawaii even before the Maui wildfires started.
Full Fact→ There are no official reports of an Ebola outbreak at Burning Man festival
The desert festival has been mired by wet weather but there are no credible reports of an Ebola outbreak.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, a top FEMA official was not arrested for treason following the Maui fires. The claim is satire
CLAIM: Erik Hooks, the deputy director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been arrested in connection with the agency’s response to the Maui wildfires.
PolitiFact→ Mike Pence – Pence’s misleading claim that Biden sent US official to China after surveillance balloon was spotted
“After China sent a balloon over strategic sites in the United States … President Biden literally sent the secretary of state hat in hand to go kowtow and ask for a meeting.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hawaii IS A State — President Eisenhower Signed Proclamation Making It Official
Was Hawaii "never really made a state" as a social media post claims? No, that's not true: Hawaii officially became a U.S. state on August 21, 1959. This happened after the U.S. Congress passed the Hawaii Admission Act and most people in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show An ‘Official Statement’ Saying That Putin Was ‘Assassinated’ or ‘Hospitalized’ in August 2023
Does a video demonstrate an "official statement" confirming an assassination attempt on Russian president Vladimir Putin? No, that's not true: The clip does not contain any images of such a document, and no credible reports from establish
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, Georgia officials didn’t err in releasing Trump indictment with grand jurors’ names
THE FACTS: A grand jury in Georgia on Monday indicted Trump as well as 18 others for their alleged efforts to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss in the state.
Logically→ 2021 video of anti-corruption raid on Karnataka government official falsely shared as Delhi
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The White House did not issue ‘official’ warning about imminent attack to critical infrastructure
The White House delivered an “official statement” July 28 that we “need to be getting prepared for something big to happen, potentially to our critical infrastructure.”
Logically→ Social media posts falsely label Yuval Noah Harari a WEF official
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Top WEF Official’ Did NOT Say That ‘Dangerous Conspiracy Theorists Must Be Eliminated’
Did a top World Economic Forum official call for the "elimination" of conspiracy theorists? No, that's not true: The man described as a "top WEF official" in the article making the claim doesn't work for them and doesn't have any authorit
PolitiFact→ What did Trump say in the other phone calls to Georgia officials?
In addition to former President Donald Trump’s phone call with Georgia’s secretary of state, he joined two other phone calls with Georgia officials in the weeks after the 2020 election as he sought to overturn the election.
PolitiFact→ Here's what Donald Trump asked Georgia election officials in 2020 phone call
The Fulton County district attorney launched an investigation following Trump’s January 2021 phone call with state election officials. Trump’s directives to state officials involved a quest to “find” enough ballots to put him in the winning col
Logically→ Visuals of a naked person hitting police officials in Uttar Pradesh falsely linked to Manipur
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – U.S., Canadian officials have not released audio of noises heard during Titan search, despite claims
Audio is of “the knocking they caught from the submarine” that imploded on the way to view the Titanic wreckage.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: LGBTQIA2S+ Community Has NOT Officially Added Autism Community Symbol To Progress Pride Flag As Of June 18, 2023
Has the LGBTQIA2S+ community officially added a purported symbol of the autism community to the Progress Pride flag as of June 18, 2023? No, that's not true: There is no such thing as an "official flag creator for prides and LGBT" organiz
Logically→ Video from Pakistan shared as Karnataka residents arguing with electricity board officials
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO US Government Program Launching In July 2023 Allowing Officials To Control Access To Bank Accounts
Is the federal government launching a new program that will allow officials to control individuals' bank accounts, and have officials of Visa and Mastercard warned about such a program? No, that's not true: The Federal Reserve is simply l
Full Fact→ Steve Barclay wrong to claim the WHO has announced the Covid-19 pandemic is ‘officially over’
In fact, the World Health Organisation has said Covid is no longer a global health emergency, but that the pandemic is still ongoing.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: AI Drone Did NOT Kill Human Operator In Air Force Simulation — An Air Force Official Misspoke
Did an artificial intelligence (AI) drone kill its operator in a U.S. Air Force simulated test? No, that's not true: Although a report of a conference stated that the Air Force conducted such a test, the official who gave the details late
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – U.S. Air Force didn’t conduct AI simulation in which military drone killed operator, official says
In a simulation, an AI-enabled drone operated by the U.S. Air Force killed its operators and “started taking out communication towers.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Italy Did NOT Officially Introduce ‘Family Pride Month’ To Replace Celebration Of LGBTQ+ Community In June 2023
Did the Italian government announce "Family Pride Month" to celebrate heterosexual "mothers and fathers" instead of the LGBTQ+ community? No, that's not true: While Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been criticized domestically an
AllSides→ Biden Officials Have Taken Oaths of Office, Contrary to Social Media Claim
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/06/biden-officials-have-taken-oaths-of-office-contrary-to-social-media-claim/