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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: A reporter who was jailed for possessing child sexual abuse images was not the person who debunked the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, the FBI has not confirmed ‘pizzagate’ is real
CLAIM: The FBI has confirmed that the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory is real. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The FBI says it has made no such announcement about the long-debunked rumor.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Fox News accused of staging fake arrest in Israel, but raw footage shows the real story
“Fox News got caught” staging a video of Israel arresting a “crisis actor.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump’s Real Voice Used In Video Endorsing Film Claiming 300 Million Americans Will Die In A Matter Of Weeks
Was Donald Trump's real voice used in a video endorsing a documentary warning that 300 million Americans will die in an attack on the power grid in a matter of weeks? No, that's not true: There is no proof that Trump ever made the stateme
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Deepfake Video Of AOC Saying Ceasefire ‘Means That Somebody Sees a Fire’ Is NOT Real
Did U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say that a ceasefire is when "somebody sees a fire"? No, that's not true: This is a deepfake video originating from a meme account that identified it as such with a "deepfake" hashtag. The
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: DNA fragments used in the development of the coronavirus vaccine -- such as a portion of SV40’s DNA sequence — are not causing health problems in people who have recei
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Staged Video Of 3 Girls Beating Up Men In Tunnel Is NOT Real — Shows Stunt School Students
Does a social media video of three young women fighting off multiple men in a tunnel passageway depict an actual event involving Israeli girls -- or, depending on different versions using the same video, French paramilitary women or Turki
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Over-the-counter cold and cough medications aren't being pulled from drugstore shelves for nefarious reasons — some products that contain phenylephrine as a single ingre
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Satirical post about bank foreclosing on Mar-a-Lago spreads as real
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Logically→ Staged stunt video shared as a real fight between Israeli girls and Arab boys
Truth or Fiction?→ Fact-Check: The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving
The historic event known as the First Thanksgiving is universally recognized as a landmark in American history. Traditionally, it is viewed as a time of celebration and unity between the Pilgrims who arrived on the shore of the New World aboard the M
PolitiFact→ Ted Cruz – Does Texas really outproduce California in wind energy? Yes
“We produce a lot more wind energy in Texas than California does.”
The Dispatch→ Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
New evidence complicates the leading narrative around short-term benefits of the expanded child tax credit.
Truth or Fiction?→ Unraveling the Origins of the Internet: Who Really Invented It?
The advent of the internet brought about a revolution which has since been the backbone of technological evolution and a cornerstone of globalization, becoming an essential component of our daily living. Unraveling its inception poses an intriguing e
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A 13-year-old satirical blog post about Netanyahu’s ‘psychiatrist’ is being shared as real news
CLAIM: News reports say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's psychiatrist died by suicide. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The claim comes from a 2010 satirical blog post.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Reports of a gas leak at a Kentucky polling place were not an election-rigging tactic to gain more votes for Democratic Gov.
AllSides→ ‘Well, Actually’: Lester Holt Tries To Fact Check Tim Scott In Real Time, Fails
https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/08/lester-holt-tim-scott-energy-fact-check-rnc-gop-presidential-debate/
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Real British Policeman Questioning Motorist Waiting At Train Station — It’s A Skit
Does a video posted on social media show a genuine British police officer questioning a driver, who is waiting for a friend at a train station, to exclude him as a suspect in a crime "that may or may not be currently in progress"? No, tha
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Sorry, the viral video of drones creating a skyscraper-sized skeleton over Dubai isn’t real
CLAIM: Drones were used to create a giant, illuminated skeleton near the Burj Khalifa for a Halloween display above pedestrians in an outdoor plaza.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Airstrike scene from a video game is being misrepresented as real footage from the Israel-Hamas war
CLAIM: A video shows a soldier being thrown to the ground as an airstrike hits an Israeli tank. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Austria's Salzburg Airport does not have a special desk for travelers who thought they were going to Australia, people are misrepresenting an ad that appeared at the airpo
The Dispatch→ The New Right Gets Mugged by an Old Reality
Economic nationalists champion interventionism, but they’re waking up to a harsh fact: Political opponents can wield it too.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Show Palestinian Child As Crisis Actor — These 2016 Photos Show Real Child Helped In Aleppo, Syria
Was the same Palestinian child used to stage fake rescue photos from three separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip on the same day in October 2023? No, that's not true: These three photos were taken in Aleppo, Syria, on August 27, 2016
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Trump’s Plane Guarded By Jets Is NOT Real — It’s From A Video Game
Is a video of jets surrounding Donald Trump's jet real? No, that's not true: The video that appeared in a viral X post is from a video game. A YouTube video with the same footage has "#flightsim" and the acronym to a flight simulation vid
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: A clip circulating online doesn't show Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, threatening to cut off the world’s natural gas supply if Israel doesn’t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Plane In Video Is NOT Inflatable Prop — It’s A Real US C-17 Globemaster
Does a well-known video of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, now on social media, show an inflatable prop rather than a real military plane? No, that's not true: There's no credible evidence to suggest that the scores of peopl
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Cargo plane that evacuated people from Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021 is real, not a decoy
Video shows an “inflatable decoy plane” at the Kabul airport in 2021.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: BBC News did not report that Ukraine provided weapons to Hamas; a video circulating online was fabricated to look like it came from the news outlet.
PolitiFact→ West Virginia Republican Party – Are West Virginia Republicans correct that real wages have fallen since Joe Biden took office?
“Since Biden took office ... real wages have fallen monthly.”
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, this is not a real ABC News headline tying journalist death to Hunter Biden coverage
An ABC News headline said, “Journalist covering the Hunter Biden case dies after being shot 7 times.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: The Biden administration is not giving people who enter the U.S illegally payments of $2,200 per month.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CIA Head Did NOT Acknowledge ‘Chemtrails’ Are Real By Discussing ‘Stratospheric Aerosol Injection,’ A Proposed Solar Geoengineering Technology
Did the head of the CIA acknowledge in a speech that "chemtrails" are real? No, that's not true: In a 2016 speech then-CIA Director John Brennan was discussing a controversial and untested solar geoengineering method called Stratospheric
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Videos don’t show real people vanishing. They were made by a Christian group to depict the Rapture
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: A Federal Emergency Management Agency emergency broadcast system test on Oct. 4 won't activate nanoparticles contained in COVID-19 vaccines.
The Dispatch→ Getting Real About the Family
We are in a self-perpetuating cycle of intergenerational inequality, and too many Americans are just fine with the root cause.
The Dispatch→ Fiscal Wishes Meet Shutdown Realities
A government shutdown won’t actually improve America’s fiscal trajectory.
The Dispatch→ The UAW (and Bidenomics) vs. Economic Reality
How policy fuels a needless conflict that may have no long-term winners.
Full Fact→ Video of staged argument about trans plane passenger circulating as if it’s real
The video has been shared across multiple social media platforms.
Logically→ No, a trader did not throw real diamonds on the streets in Gujarat