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Social media claims

The spread of misinformation on social media regarding the Epstein files.

Fact-Checks

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Jan 17, 2026
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Where did Renee good and her wife live before moving to Minnesota

Multiple credible news outlets report that Renee Nicole Good and her wife lived in Kansas City, Missouri, before moving to Minneapolis, having spent a brief interim period in Canada after the 2024 pre...

Jan 19, 2026
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Did a black man help pull Jake lang out of a window sill at city hall to keep him from being attacked

No contemporary reporting reviewed confirms that “a Black man” pulled Jake Lang out of a window sill at Minneapolis City Hall to protect him; available accounts show Lang was confined in a recessed wi...

Jan 26, 2026
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Was Barron Trump born in 2006 and where was he born?

Yes—multiple mainstream biographical and news sources record ’s birthdate as March 20, 2006, and his birthplace as . Those contemporary profiles and news stories consistently report the same facts whi...

Jan 25, 2026

Which law‑enforcement deaths were directly linked to George Floyd protests and how were they investigated?

The post– protests were accompanied by a spate of violence and a wave of that by protesters; show that very few deaths of people with law‑enforcement backgrounds were directly attributable to demonstr...

Jan 16, 2026

Which documents in the DOJ Epstein release mention 'William Riley' by name and where can they be downloaded?

Public reporting and the official DOJ repository show no incontrovertible evidence that any document in the department’s released Epstein files names “William Riley” (also reported as William/Sascha/S...

Jan 11, 2026

Why didn’t Renee Goodman have custody of 2 of her children?

Available reporting indicates that Renee Nicole Good’s two older children were living with or in the custody of their father at the time of her death, not because of any publicly documented criminal f...

Jan 6, 2026

What are the known affiliations of the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk?

The publicly reported record shows no clear organizational membership for Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk: investigators say he was registered to vote but ...

Feb 7, 2026

How have news organizations and fact‑checkers evaluated claims from the Epstein files for credibility and provenance?

News organizations and fact‑checkers have treated the newly released files as simultaneously consequential and ambiguous: they have scoured the documents for verifiable records of contact, gifts and c...

Feb 6, 2026

What evidence do reporters in the Oval Office give about why the event ended abruptly?

Reporters in describe two distinct categories of on-the-ground evidence for why : direct, observable medical emergencies that were later confirmed by White House communications, and ambiguous audiovis...

Feb 3, 2026

Which claims in the Epstein documents overlap with names or events Gabriela Rico Jiménez mentioned in 2009, and are those overlaps documented by primary sources?

The recent unsealing of –related documents prompted media and social‑media users to revisit a viral 2009 video of , and several outlets report that “some elements” she mentioned appear in the newly re...

Feb 2, 2026

What travel records or flight logs exist for Epstein's island and do they mention Biden?

The public record includes , an address book and thousands of pages of documents from ’s estate that have been released in phases and made searchable by news organizations, and those released flight l...

Feb 1, 2026

What do official VA personnel records show about Alex Pretti’s employment history?

Officially sourced public reporting does not produce a released personnel file for ; instead, contemporary news accounts and public records uniformly describe him as a registered intensive‑care nurse ...

Jan 31, 2026

How have fact‑checkers and legal scholars differed in their interpretation of whether Rittenhouse’s gun possession was lawful?

Fact‑checkers such as and initially judged saying ’s August 2020 possession of an AR‑style rifle was “perfectly legal” to be false or at best legally murky, pointing to statutes that criminalize under...

Jan 8, 2026

What independent investigations exist into Everyday Heroes Like You and its overseas projects?

Every available mainstream fact-checking and nonprofit-record source reviewed turns up no public, independent criminal investigation specifically targeting Everyday Heroes Like You (EHLY) or its overs...

Jan 6, 2026

Uvalde Texas shooter political alignment

The available, contemporaneous reporting and official briefings show no credible evidence that Salvador Rolando Ramos—the gunman in the Robb Elementary School massacre—held or acted from an articulate...