Fact Check

Fact Check

X posts – The ‘American Queen’ Vanity Fair cover of Melania Trump is fake but fooled people anyway

A Vanity Fair cover featured first lady Melania Trump as “The American Queen.”
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20 rumors we’ve investigated about US-Mexico border wall

Rumors about the border wall often relate to U.S. President Donald Trump, who has made it a central part of his immigration policy.
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Addressing Trump’s Claims About Ending Multiple Wars

Q: Did President Donald Trump solve seven wars in seven months? A: Trump has claimed he “ended” six or seven wars since returning to the...
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Chris Murphy – Sen. Chris Murphy says mass shootings decreased as a result of a 2022 law. Is that true?

Following the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”
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Unpacking long-standing claim oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050

A 2016 report claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 million tons of plastic in the oceans and just 812 million tons of fish.
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Fake stories about Texas floods reached millions on Facebook. Foreign ad companies likely profited

A slew of fabricated stories duped Facebook users after the deadly floods — and sites promoting them had ties to ad tech firms in Southeast Asia.
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