Category: Fact Check
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Fact Check: Pentagon: Video doesn’t show U.S. pilots arriving in Palestine
A recent Instagram post worries about the possibility of “World War Three” as the Israel-Hamas war causes death and suffering in the Middle East. “U.S.… Read More
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Fact Check: Day 2 of the New Hampshire GOP summit, fact-checked
NASHUA, N.H. — On the closing day of a summit sponsored by the New Hampshire Republican Party, two more presidential candidates — Sen. Tim Scott,… Read More
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Fact Check: No, a CNN reporter didn’t ‘fake’ being near the Israel-Gaza border
Amid false claims that a CNN team staged a rocket attack near the Israel-Hamas border, a recent Instagram post suggests that they weren’t even there. … Read More
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Fact Check: Video from 2020 isn’t evidence that recent violence in Israel and Gaza is ‘fake’
A video recirculating on social media suggests that recent violence in Israel and Gaza is staged. The footage shows about 10 people surrounding and carrying… Read More
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Fact Check: Altered image shows Las Vegas Sphere displaying Israeli flag. That didn’t happen
The Sphere venue in Las Vegas has an outdoor LED screen that can turn the orb into everything from a giant jack-o’-lantern to a seascape.… Read More
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Fact Check: Falso: La Esfera de Las Vegas no se ilumino con la bandera israelí
La Esfera en Las Vegas tiene afuera una pantalla LED que puede cambiar la apariencia de la órbita, incluyendo de calabaza a una imagen marina.… Read More
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Fact Check: False flag claims amid Israel-Hamas violence lack evidence
Thousands of people have been killed or injured amid fighting between Israel and Hamas, and recent online claims that the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack… Read More
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Fact Check: Claim that there’s ‘zero footage from the Ukraine war’ ignores countless photos and videos
As Russia’s war in Ukraine raged on, a different conflict erupted more than 1,200 miles away in Israel and Gaza. Social media users quickly drew… Read More
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Fact Check: Why do Americans have to pay for a State Department evacuation from Israel? It’s the law
As thousands of Americans try to flee Israel amid a war, the State Department has offered U.S. citizens the opportunity to get a chartered flight… Read More
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Fact Check: Cargo plane that evacuated people from Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021 is real, not a decoy
In August 2021, hundreds of people desperate to be evacuated from Afghanistan ran alongside a moving U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the international… Read More