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The spread of misinformation on social media platforms, including the amplification of unverified claims and the challenges of correcting them.
Social media posts amplified claims that Jake Lang was “stabbed,” brutally beaten, and abandoned by police—framing the episode as a near-martyrdom and mass “mob” assault—while wire services and local ...
There is no credible, verified evidence that Donald Trump soiled his pants; multiple fact-checkers have identified falsified headlines and viral clips as miscaptioned or fabricated, and news organizat...
There is no reliable reporting in the documents provided that a nanny called social services on Erika Kirk; the contemporaneous fact-checking and news coverage instead focus on viral claims that Kirk ...
The viral claim that Renee Nicole Good had an extensive criminal record — including child abuse and other violent charges — is false: multiple fact-checkers and news outlets found the widely shared sc...
Dr. Ania refers in reporting to Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD, a Yale School of Medicine obesity specialist whose name and image have been co-opted into a viral “pink salt” or “pink Himalayan salt” morn...
Social media influencers amplified a fringe narrative that antiparasitic treatments can cure type 2 diabetes by repackaging an unproven hypothesis from a controversial scientist into shareable posts, ...
Hasan Piker’s dog controversy was amplified when Kick streamer Adin Ross publicly alleged, during a livestream, that Piker was responsible for his former pet’s death—an accusation Ross framed as his o...
WikiLeaks’ publication of John Podesta’s hacked emails created a searchable trove of candid, out-of-context messages that conspiracists weaponized as “evidence,” and those arcane interpretations of mu...
The claim that Jill Biden worked as a nanny or babysitter for Joe Biden’s children and was a teenager when she and Joe began a relationship is false: multiple independent fact‑checks and the Bidens’ o...
Claims that former President Donald Trump used drugs have flowed through a mix of anonymous firsthand allegations, selective photographs and social-media threads, and investigative reporting — then be...
Katie Johnson’s allegations were presented in court papers and media interviews and were accompanied in some filings by affidavits and ancillary documents that circulated online, but independent corro...
Patients who substitute ivermectin for proven cancer therapies have documented harms that fall into three categories: direct drug toxicity from unsupervised or high-dose use, dangerous drug–drug inter...
Major fact‑checking organizations combed open‑source evidence, contactable records and visual forensics to separate authentic video from AI‑made or misattributed images after the Minneapolis ICE shoot...
Social media erupted with rapid speculation, doctored photos and AI‑generated images that misidentified both the victim and the ICE agent within hours of the Minneapolis shooting, while cable and tabl...
There is no credible, verifiable evidence that former president Donald Trump "regularly" soils himself; high-profile social-media posts claiming incontinence have been debunked as fabrications or sati...
Fact‑checking organizations concluded the viral “rap sheet” circulating after the Minneapolis ICE shooting did not belong to the victim by tracing the image to public records and spotting inconsistent...
Donald J. Trump received approximately 77,266,801 popular votes in the November 2024 presidential election, about 49.9% of the nationwide total, defeating Democratic nominee Kamala Harris who received...
There are no verified public statements from lawyers or official spokespeople confirming that Erika Kirk lost custody of her children or that a custody transfer to Charlie Kirk’s parents occurred; maj...
A widely circulated claim that Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife discovered a rapid cure for Type 2 diabetes caused by a pancreatic parasite is unsupported by available reporting and expert fact checks; th...
Fact‑checkers traced the post‑2025 rumor that "lost custody of her kids" to an isolated remark by on the and found no verifiable court records or credible sourcing to support the claim, with multiple ...