Was former talk show host Oprah Winfrey convicted by the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps and sentenced to death? No, that's not true: The claim appeared in an article on a website that regularly publishes fabricated content, and
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US JAG Did NOT Hang WHO Official Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu — Story Is Made Up
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps execute World Health Organization official Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories that this claim is "false." The claim appeared in an article
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Prohibition Was NOT Intended To Stop People From Fueling Cars And Homes With Alcohol
Was the purpose of Prohibition to stop people from fueling their cars and homes with alcohol? No, that's not true: Professors in history and sociology told Lead Stories that there's no truth to the claim. Prohibition in the United States,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Marine Corps ‘White Hats’ Did NOT Arrest FEMA Regional Administrator Tony Robinson In February 2024
Did U.S. Marine Corps "white hats" arrest Federal Emergency Management Agency Regional Administrator Tony Robinson on February 2, 2024? No, that's not true: FEMA and Pentagon representatives confirmed to Lead Stories that this claim is fa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Hang Assistant Defense Secretary Tanya Skeen January 31, 2024
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps hang Assistant Defense Secretary for Acquisition Tanya Skeen on January 31, 2024? No, that's not true: This claim appeared in an article on a website that regularly publishes fabricated con
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy Seal ‘White Hats’ Did NOT Kill Intruders At Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Estate In January 2024
Did U.S. Navy Seal "white hats" kill two intruders at Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate on January 27, 2024? No, that's not true: This claim originated from a website that regularly publishes fabricated content. A Palm Beach Police Departm
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Orgone Energy Is NOT Proven To Exist In The Form Of Orgonite
Did scientists prove in 2024 that "orgone energy" exists in the form of orgonite? No, that's not true: A Princeton physics professor interviewed by Lead Stories described the claim as unscientific. The post in which the claim was made is
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Convict WHO Official Chikwe Ihekweazu In January 2024
Did the U.S. Judge Advocate General's Corps convict World Health Organization official Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu of committing multiple crimes on January 25, 2024? No, that's not true: This claim appears in an article on a website that regular
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Contain Marburg Virus — It’s Not On Ingredients List, Post Gives No Proof
Do COVID-19 vaccines contain the Marburg virus, a severe and often fatal illness in humans? No, that's not true: Each vaccine has its unique formulation, but none include the Marburg virus. The disease is rare, usually found in Africa aft
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Special Forces Did NOT Arrest Merrick Garland In January 2024
Did U.S. Special Forces arrest Attorney General Merrick Garland on January 29, 2024? No, that's not true: This claim appeared on a website that publishes fabricated content. The Posse Comitatus Act also prohibits the U.S. military from ar
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Marines Did NOT Hang NIH Official Alfred Johnson — Story Is Made Up
Did U.S. Marines hang National Institute of Health Deputy Director Alfred Johnson after pranking him "Whitmer-style"? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories that the claim is false. The claim is in an article on a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Marines Did NOT Arrest Ex-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly — Story Is Made Up
Did U.S. Marines arrest former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories that the claim is false. The claim appears in an article on a website that regularly publishes fabricated
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Claim 97 ‘Media’ Arrests In November And December 2023
Did the U.S. Judge Advocate General's Corps arrest 97 media personnel in November and December 2023? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories that this claim is false. Also, the website where this claim was made decl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Delta Force Did NOT Arrest D.C. District Attorney For Treason — It’s A Made-Up Scenario
Did Delta Force arrest Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, for treason on January 18, 2024, in Breckenridge, Colorado? No, that's not true: The website reporting this false claim of Graves' arrest is notorious
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Sentence OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar To Death On January 16, 2024
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps sentence Arati Prabhakar to death at a Guantanamo Bay military tribunal on January 16, 2024, for committing treason? No, that's not true: Prabhakar, the director of the White House Office o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That ‘White Hats’ Arrested Campaign Staffer For Nikki Haley in Iowa
Did the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division arrest a staffer of 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley in Iowa in January 2024? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that a Haley staffer was arrested, purportedly for handing ou
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Oprah Winfrey Was NOT Sent To GITMO On December 3, 2023
Was former talk show host Oprah Winfrey arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay in early December 2023? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Winfrey is in Guantanamo Bay. She has posted as recently as January 15, 2024, on her verifi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Arrest Journalist Mehdi Hasan on January 7, 2024
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) place journalist Mehdi Hasan under arrest on January 7, 2024, for committing treason? No, that's not true: Hasan has been active on his verified social media accounts since the date o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Was NOT Killed In Kyiv On January 3, 2024
Was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin killed by Russian cruise missiles in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 3, 2024? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer confirmed to Lead Stories that this claim is false. On January 1, 2024, Austin was
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Military Did NOT Arrest ‘Second’ Colorado Supreme Court Justice
Did the U.S. military arrest a "second" Colorado Supreme Court justice who voted in favor of removing former President Donald Trump from the ballot in the state for the 2024 presidential election? No, that's not true: A spokesman for the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Katie Hobbs Was NOT Hanged At GITMO
Was Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs hanged at Guantanamo Bay on December 22, 2023? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories that this claim is false. The website where this claim was made has a disclaimer that states it pub
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Marines Did NOT Arrest WHO Official Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu — Story Is Made Up
Did U.S. Marines arrest World Health Organization official Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories that this claim is "false." This claim appears in an article on a website that regularly publi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Marines Did NOT Arrest Assistant Defense Secretary Tanya Skeen — Story Is Made Up
Did U.S. Marines arrest Assistant Defense Secretary for Acquisition Tanya Skeen? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories that this claim is "false." This claim appeared in an article on a website that regularly publ
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Marines Did NOT Kick FEMA Out of Tennessee
Did U.S. Marines "kick ... out" the Federal Emergency Management Agency from Tennessee following a disaster recent as of December 21, 2023? No, that's not true: A FEMA representative told Lead Stories, "FEMA teams are on the ground in Ten
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Arrest Georgia Secretary Of State Raffensperger For Treason — It’s A Made-Up Story
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps arrest Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for treason in December 2023? No, that's not true: The chief operating officer for the Secretary of State's office posted a message on s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy At GITMO Did NOT Fend Off ‘Deep State Drone Attack’
Did U.S. Navy forces at Guantanamo Bay shoot down uncrewed aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to fend off a "deep state drone attack"? No, that's not true: The U.S. Navy has not released any report about an attempted attack on Guantanamo Bay. The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Arrest CDC Official Karen Hacker
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps place Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official Dr. Karen Hacker under arrest for committing "treason, abuse of office, and defrauding the country"? No, that's not true: A Pentago
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Arrest Stephen Colbert On November 25, 2023
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps place talk show host Stephen Colbert under arrest for committing treason and defrauding the country as of November 25, 2023? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Calling A 1-800 Number Does NOT Help Get ‘Stimulus Deposit’ — US Government Did NOT Distribute Such Payments In November 2023
Could a call to a hotline number expedite receiving a "stimulus deposit" in November 2023? No, that's not true: The federal government was not distributing such payments as of this writing. The toll-free number shared on social media was
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Marines Did NOT Kill CDC Official Aaron Aranas — It’s A Made-Up Story
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
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Putin Did NOT ‘Bomb Big Pharma in Ukraine’ For ‘Suspected’ COVID-19 Vaccine Production In 2023 — Farmak’s Warehouse Was Hit In 2022 During Nearby Battle
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin order "the destruction of a Kyiv pharmaceutical laboratory suspected of manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines" owned by Farmak, one of Ukraine's major companies selling medical products, in November 2023? No
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Special Forces Did NOT Arrest Ukraine Presidential Aide Andriy Yermak And Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko
Did U.S. Special Forces arrest Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak and Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko on U.S. soil as of November 17, 2023? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer confirmed for Lead Stories that this claim i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Bomb Cloning Lab in Ukraine — Story Is From Site That Makes Things Up
Did Russia bomb "a cloning lab" in Ukraine's Donetsk, occupied by Russia in November 2023? No, that's not true: The website that published the claim relied on a fictitious single source, and that site carries a disclaimer saying it publis
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FBI Has NOT Warned Of Coordinated Hamas Attacks On US Cities — There’s Nothing ‘Specific And Credible’
Did the FBI warn about coordinated attacks on more than two dozen American cities by Hamas in the aftermath of the militant group's attack on Israel in October 2023? No, that's not true: The FBI said it hasn't "issued such a warning" and
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mass Vaccinations Did NOT Cause Spanish Flu
Did mass vaccinations cause the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918? No, that's not true: According to medical research and medical experts, the pandemic, which killed at least 50 million people worldwide, was caused by an influenza A (H1N1) vir
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Lia Thomas Was Booed Off Stage At NCAA Legends’ Meet And Greet — Claim Is From Satire Site
Was swimmer Lia Thomas "Booed Off Stage at the 'NCAA Legends' Meet and Greet"? No, that's not true: This claim appeared in an article on a satirical website known for publishing fabricated content. The website where this claim originated
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Palestinian Ambassador In Japan’ DID Say Gaza Hospital Received Warning From Israel ‘One Hour Before The Strike’ — But He Later Clarified That To Say His Words Referred To Previous Airstrikes
Did the "Palestinian ambassador in Japan" say that the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza had received a warning from Israel before an explosion on October 17, 2023? Yes, that is true. However, the representative, Waleed Siam, later correct
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Peter McCullough Cites Discredited Papers, Recirculates COVID-19 Falsehoods In September 13, 2023, Speech
Did Dr. Peter McCullough, an American cardiologist who has repeatedly made anti-COVID-19 vaccine statements, successfully discredit the World Health Organization (WHO) and the global health community's approach to COVID-19 treatment durin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mayo Clinic Website NOT ‘Recently’ Updated To Say Hydroxychloroquine Can Be Used To Treat COVID-19 Patients — Doctors Can Prescribe But It’s Not Recommended Treatment
Did the Mayo Clinic website change in September 2023 to say hydroxychloroquine can be used to treat COVID-19 patients, after previously saying it was ineffective? No, that's not true: First, the Mayo Clinic's website was not "recently" up
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: China Did NOT Ban ‘All iPhones,’ As Of September 25, 2023
Did China pass a law formally prohibiting the use of "all iPhones" in the country? No, that's not true: No credible sources reported about the purported piece of legislation; China's officials denied the existence of such a law, and then,