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X posts – Deadline has not passed in Wisconsin to replace Biden on the ballot

“Deadlines have passed in … Wisconsin” to replace President Joe Biden on the ballot.

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Tim Sheehy – GOP’s Tim Sheehy revives discredited abortion claims in pivotal Senate race

“Elective abortions up to and including the moment of birth. Healthy, 9-month-year-old baby killed at the moment of birth. That’s what Jon Tester and the Democrats have voted for.”

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Threads posts – No, a July 3 CNN report did not say Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race

CNN reported July 3 that “Joe has decided to drop out of the 2024 Presidential race and will be replaced by Hunter Biden.”

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Threads posts – Space rocks, but the meteor in this video in Hungary is fake

Video shows “huge green coloured meteor” on July 7, 2024, in Budapest, Hungary.

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Facebook posts – Footage of towering tornado does not show Hurricane Beryl making landfall in Mexico

Video shows tornado caused by Hurricane Beryl in July 2024.

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Facebook posts – Photo shows Mount Etna erupting in February 2021, not July 2024

Photo shows Mount Etna erupting in Sicily in July 2024.

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