"The famed ship at the bottom of the North Atlantic is actually NOT The Titanic. It is her near-identical sister ship The Olympic," a Nov. 29 Facebook post said. The post also said"she was switched ...
"Elon Musk announces January 20th as the date for bombshell release of Diddy and Epstein client list: ‘We expose them all,’" a Nov. 27 Facebook post said. It was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to ...
President-elect Donald Trump didn’t order the Dallas Police Department and the "Dallas Attorney General’s Office" — something that doesn’t exist — to get ready to arrest a suspect in former President ...
After President-elect Donald Trump tapped one of his loyal allies, Kash Patel, as FBI director, some social media users claimed Patel immediately disparaged the agency. A Dec. 1 X post showed a ...
PolitiFact reviewed Nexis news archives and found no evidence that Wahlberg called for teachers to be fired for taking down American flags. PolitiFact also found no posts on Wahlberg’s X or Facebook ...
Richard Horrmann, senior vice president of strategic communications at Disney Entertainment Television, which owns ABC, told PolitiFact via email that the claim is not true.
Joe Biden spent months saying he would not pardon Hunter Biden, and his press secretary repeatedly echoed that position. Then Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon. Whatever the justification for the ...
Trump’s campaign promises included adding a 10% to 20% tariff on all nondomestic goods sold in America, a 60% tariff on goods from China and reciprocal tariffs on nations that impose tariffs on the ...
The Chick-fil-A blog post did not refer to any new policies or boycotts. The two-paragraph post referred to news of the chicken chain’s original 1967 store at Atlanta’s Greenbriar Mall closing down.
CNN spokesperson Emily Kuhn told PolitiFact that the outlet never reported or published the story and she pointed to the fake article’s Statue of Liberty image, which includes a depiction of the ...
There has been an uptick of Facebook posts about innovations attributed to Musk, but these creations don’t exist. For now, fantasies of a Tesla flying car remain grounded. We rate claims that Musk has ...
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