Category: Fact Check
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Baseless Conspiracy Theories Follow Key Bridge Collapse
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take The Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore collapsed after being hit by a… Read More
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Fact Check: Angela Chao was CEO of a shipping company, but it doesn’t own the ship that hit Baltimore bridge
Conspiracy theories have flooded social media since a cargo ship hit a Baltimore bridge March 26, causing its collapse into a river. One attempted to… Read More
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Fact Check: A Tennessee bill doesn’t prove ‘chemtrails’ are real
Social media users are claiming Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that would ban “chemtrails” — something that doesn’t exist. A March 20 Instagram reel shared… Read More
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Elon Musk Overstates Partisan Impact of Illegal Immigration on House Apportionment
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. In claiming that illegal immigration benefits Democrats, entrepreneur Elon Musk vastly overstated its impact on… Read More
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Fact Check: No temas, no se esperan catástrofes a nivel global debido al eclipse solar del 8 de abril
El 8 de abril sucederá un eclipse total del sol, el cual oscurecerá el cielo por algunos minutos en Estados Unidos, Mexico y Canada, pero… Read More
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Fact Check: Fact-checking U.N. Secretary-General’s remarks about catastrophic hunger in Gaza
In Gaza, experts and journalists say, food is running out. Some people are making “bread” from animal feed ground into flour or “soup” from water… Read More
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Fact Check: Edited Wikipedia entry doesn’t prove Israel caused the Baltimore bridge collapse
A container ship in Baltimore struck a support column for the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a collapse around 1:30 a.m. March 26. Speculation over… Read More
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Fact Check: No, Walmart no regala laptops de la marca Dell en EE.UU.
¿Está Walmart regalando computadoras portátiles? La oferta en una publicación en Facebook suena demasiado buena para ser verdad, porque no lo es. “Walmart está regalando… Read More
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Fact Check: No, Nicole Shanahan wouldn’t be the youngest vice president in history
Near the end of her acceptance speech as the running mate for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., technology entrepreneur and lawyer Nicole Shanahan… Read More
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Fact Check: Officials still investigating why cargo ship lost power before Baltimore bridge crash
Social media speculation was rampant in the hours after a Singapore-flagged cargo ship smashed into a Maryland bridge, causing its collapse. PolitiFact has already debunked… Read More