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Fact checking site looking at the most trending hoaxes on the Internet 🦋 https://t.co/HwVjhx4dBx https://t.co/YsGSWrypav
Joined June 2015
Fact Check: Biden Was NOT Wearing A Wire During Presidential Debate; It's a Shirt Crease
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Fact Check: Maskless Joe Biden Photo Was NOT Taken in 2020 -- It's From 2019, Before Pandemic
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'Kick-Ass' Actress @ChloeGMoretz Becomes A Mom -- To 3 Baby Squirrels http://t.co/TQJzt0Ai56 via @LeadStoriesCom
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Fact Check: Video of Joe Biden Talking To Press on W.H. Lawn Does NOT Reveal A 'Green Screen Fail'
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Fact Check: Blast in Beirut Was NOT A Nuclear Explosion
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Fact Check: Joe Biden Was NOT Wearing An IV Or A Wire In His Sleeve During The Cleveland Debate
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Fact Check: Democrats Did NOT Take Out 'Under God' From Nightly Pledge Of Allegiance At Their National Convention
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Fact Check: Barack Obama Did NOT Take 30 Million Documents From The White House To Chicago And Then Refuse To Return Them
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Fact Check: Video Of Putin Ending The War Is NOT Real -- It's A 'Deepfake'
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Fact Check: There Is NO Evidence Protesters Were Antifa Activists Dressing Up As Trump Supporters In The Capitol
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Fact Check: Joe Biden Was NOT Caught 'Fake Driving' During His Test-Drive Of Ford's Electric F-150
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Fact Check: Pile of Bricks In Kenosha Is NOT Found Suspicious By Police And Photos Are From 970 Miles Away
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Fact Check: MSNBC Did NOT Use World War Z Movie Clip In Los Angeles Protest Report
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Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show May 2021 Scene Of Woman Pumping Gas Into Plastic Bags -- It's From December 2019
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Fact Check: Image of Flooded BMW With "F*ck You Greta!" Sticker Is NOT Real
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Fact Check: 'The Simpsons' Did NOT Predict Queen Elizabeth's Death In 2022
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Fact Check: Waitress Is NOT Holding Dr. Oz Sign To Read 'NO' -- This Photo Has Been Edited
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Fact Check: Doctor Addressing Indiana School Board Does NOT Accurately Represent Benefit Of COVID-19 Vaccines
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Fact Check: Preprint Article Withdrawn -- Ottawa Study Had NOT Found Myocarditis In One Of Every 1,000 Vaccinated People
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Fact Check: David DePape Did NOT Go To Pelosi House For Gay Sex Or Drugs But To Kidnap House Speaker
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Fact Check: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Did NOT Tweet About 'Flimsy Circumstantial Evidence' After Posts Purported To Link Her To D.C. Pipe Bombs
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Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT Self-Spreading Vaccines
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Fact Check: Images Do NOT Show U.S. Soldiers Parting With Families Before Heading To Ukraine
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Fact Check: List Does NOT Show Over 14,000 Dead People Voted In Wayne County, Michigan
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Fact Check: Mandatory Vaccinations Are NOT In Direct Violation Of The Nuremberg Code
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Fact Check: GOP 'Commitment To America' Does NOT Say It Will Take Social Security From Disabled Veterans, Raise Medicare Age To 75
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Fact Check: A 'Quarter Of A Million Illegal Votes' Were NOT Found In The Arizona Audit
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@Spriter99880 Stop falling for bullshit. This is from the same account that brought you this fake quote:
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Update on the lawsuit of @RealCandaceO vs. @LeadStoriesCom and @USATODAY . We just won. again. That's it. That's the tweet.
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Fact Check: Absence Of Cameras in Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Is NOT Evidence Of A Cover-Up -- They're Banned In Most Federal Courts
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Fact Check: You Can NOT Update Voicemail In An Emergency With No Phone Service
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Fact Check: Wayfair Is NOT Selling Human Trafficked Children On Their Website With Very Expensive Cabinets
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Fact Check: Dominion Voting Machines Do NOT Use Smartmatic Software -- There Is No Connection Between The Two Companies
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Fact Check: A Study Does NOT Say Fully Vaccinated Health Care Workers Carry 251 Times Viral Load of Unvaccinated Workers, Threaten Unvaccinated Patients, Co-Workers
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Fact Check: California Does NOT Allow Non-Citizens To Vote In Congressional Elections
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POLL: Did you like @Joy_Villa and her #MAGA dress at the #GRAMMYs ?. #grammyawards #joyvilla #maga #grammys2017 #GRAMMYLive.
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Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Contain 99% Graphene Oxide To Conduct 'Mass Poisoning'
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Fact Check: 'The Great Reset' Is NOT A Secret Plan Masterminded By Global Elites To Limit Freedoms And Push Radical Policies
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Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Mandate Kids Get COVID-19 Vaccine For School -- It's Up To Each State
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Fact Check: Magic Johnson Did NOT Donate Blood To 'Help Underprivileged Communities Help Fight COVID-19' In This Video
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Fact Check: Billie Eilish Did NOT Say She Wanted To Be Poor 'So I Can Relate To Most Of My Fans'
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Fact Check: NO Evidence People Are Going Door-To-Door To 'See Your Papers' On COVID-19 Vaccination
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Fact Check: Dr. Fauci Was NOT Insulted By Instagram Influencer At Airport
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Fact Check: Protocol Does NOT Require Vice President To Salute Military Personnel
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Fact Check: Fact Check: Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Trial NOT Intended To Test Transmission Prevention -- That's Not How Clinical Trials Work
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Fact Check: C-SPAN Video Does NOT Prove Fauci, HHS Officials Plotted 'Avian Flu Virus' Release To Enforce Universal Flu Vaccine
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Fact Check: Georgia Voting Law Does NOT Include A Non-Water Loophole Allowing People To Give Tea, Soda Pop, Milk To Voters Standing In Line
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Fact Check: House Did NOT Vote to Criminalize Disassembling, Cleaning And Reassembling Your Gun
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Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Board Marine One For The Hospital With A Portable Oxygen Concentrator In His Pocket
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Fact Check: The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Does NOT Give House Members A $25 Million Bonus
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Fact Check: NO Evidence Two 'Far-Right Websites' Attributed to Pelosi Attack Suspect David DePape Were Faked
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Fact Check: There Were NOT 'Over 74,000' More Mail-In Ballots Received, Counted In Maricopa County, Arizona, Than Were Mailed Out
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Fact Check: Fully Vaccinated Are NOT 80% Of Serious COVID Cases In Israel
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Fact Check: Ted Cruz Does NOT Have A 'Template Ready To Tweet' Whenever Shootings Happen
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Fact Check: Pilot Deaths Are NOT 'Up 1700% After Vax Mandates'
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Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine Study Does NOT Confirm Vaccine Efficacy Is Not 95% Effective
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Fact Check: Congress Members Did NOT Receive 21% Pay Raise
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POLL: Will you observe #PresidentsDay or #NotMyPresidentsDay?. #Trump #Resist #MAGA #Lincoln #Washington.
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Fact Check: Zelenskyy Video Filmed At Night Does NOT Prove That He is In Poland
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Fake News: British Police Did NOT Find Putin's Passport at Scene of Salisbury Poison Attack
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Fact Check: California Did NOT Introduce A New Bill Allowing Mothers To Kill Their Babies Up To 7 Days After Birth
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Fact Check: Worker Did NOT Expose COV-19 Circuit Boards Being Installed in 5G Towers #CoronaVirusFacts #DatosCoronaVirus.
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BREAKING: We may have discovered who is behind the "Conservative Beaver" website that falsely claimed Pfizer's CEO was arrested a few weeks ago. Signs point to Canadian journalist @MarkSlapinski being the operator of the site.
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Fact Check: Some Explosion Details In Cherkasy Oblast Are Incorrect Or NOT Yet Verified
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UPDATE: Mike Lindell concedes in an email to Lead Stories that the "pcap" file shown in the video is not an "actual election pcap file", claims "actual" files were not shown for "security".
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Fact Check: Merriam-Webster Did NOT Change Definition Of 'Anti-Vaxxer' To Include Section About Mandates -- It Was Already There
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Fact Check: CNN Did Not Claim Colorado Shooter Was Factually Arabic But Morally White
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Cold snow blows hard, but Army sentinels keep watch at Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers #blizzard2016
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Even when @CNN tells you something is an apple. you still doublecheck it first before retweeting it!. #factchecking #FactsFirst
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@ariehkovler @the_emcube Yeah, we work with Facebook as part of the third party fact checkers partnership :-). Our fact check also took a big bite out of the virality of the video. Blossom probably won't be very happy about that. .
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Fact Check: Photo of Pilot Ejecting From Exploding Plane Does NOT Show Shootdown of Russian Plane
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Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Queen Elizabeth II In Coffin As Post's Timing, Content Imply
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Fact Check: White House Did NOT Set Up Fake Scene To Deceive Public About Biden's Booster Shot
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POLL: White House blocks CNN, Politico NY Times and LA Times from press briefing. Good move?. #CNN #NYTimes #LATimes #Politico #WhiteHouse.
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Fact Check: Vice President Kamala Harris Did NOT Call Unvaccinated Americans 'Dirty Trump People'
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Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Japanese Ambassador To Ukraine Dressed As Samurai
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Kristen Stewart Actress Did NOT Tell Black Hollywood To Stop Complaining & 'Go Do Something'
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Fact Check: Recent Fires At US Food Processing Plants Do NOT Show Plot To Cause Food Shortage
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Fact Check: NO Question About Cause of Cattle Deaths In June 2022 Kansas Heat Wave
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Fact Check: Kyle Rittenhouse Did NOT File $60M Defamation Suit Against Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg
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Fake News: 13-Year-Old Boy Was NOT Attacked For Being White And An RealDonaldTrump Supporter #fakenews
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Fact Check: Kids Do NOT Have To Have The Same Father To Receive The $1,400 Stimulus Check
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POLL: Which side are you on in the Coffee-wars?. #DrinkStarbucks #BoycottStarbucks #IgnoreStarbucks.
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Fact Check: House Resolution 6666 is NOT 'Bill Of The Beast' With Dark Motives #CoronaVirusFacts #DatosCoronaVirus.
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POLL: If there was a do-over of the U.S. Presidential Election today, would you. #Trump #Hillary #TheResistance #MAGA #Election.
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Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove COVID-19 Vaccine Contains A Magnetic Microchip
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Fact Check: NO Evidence 3 Canadian Doctors Died After Receiving 4th COVID-19 Shot
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Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine Redacted Ingredient Is NOT Mysterious, It's Salt Water
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Fact Check: New Social Media Website DJTUP Does NOT Show Any Connections To Donald Trump
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POLL: @realDonaldTrump not attending White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year?. #DonaldTrump #Resistance #press #Trump #MAGA.
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Fact Check: NO Evidence Japanese Ex-PM Abe Assassinated Because He Didn't Follow WEF Orders, Didn't Mandate COVID Vaccines, Gave Citizens Ivermectin
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Despite online rumors, police insist Christina Grimmie is still alive, but in critical condition #PrayForChristina.
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Fact Check: Dominion Voting Systems Did NOT Delete 2.7 Million Trump Votes
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