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Social media misinformation

The spread of false information on social media platforms.

Fact-Checks

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Jan 27, 2026
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did Preeti quit his job as a nurse

The short answer: no — the available reporting shows was not fired from his nursing job and was employed as an ICU registered nurse at the at the time of his death . Multiple fact‑checks and news outl...

Jan 24, 2026
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who has custody of rene goods children

-claims-january-2026">Renee Nicole Good was the mother of three children; reporting indicates her two older children (approximately 14 and 12) are living with their biological father, while her younge...

Jan 20, 2026
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was Renee Good's children taken from her because of abuse?

No. Available reporting and multiple fact-checks find no credible evidence that Renee Nicole Good’s children were removed from her because of child abuse; viral screenshots and social posts claiming s...

Jan 12, 2026

did donald trump poop his pants

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...

Jan 18, 2026

How did social media posts about Jake Lang’s injury diverge from wire-service and local reporting?

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 ...

Jan 12, 2026

nanny called social services on erika kirk

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 ...

Jan 28, 2026

Luna von woke

A viral narrative about a protester named “” launching a for prosthetic fingers after allegedly losing them to a grenade at an anti‑ protest has been circulated on fringe platforms and questioned by m...

Jan 16, 2026

Does Donald Trump regularly shit his pants?

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...

Jan 18, 2026

Is Renee Good arrest records true?

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...

Jan 30, 2026

Are mn protesters being paid

There is no credible evidence that are broadly “being paid”; major fact-checkers and reporting have found viral clips and anecdotes that are either , satirical, or unverified while politicians asserti...

Jan 28, 2026

How did the fabricated buzzreport247 article attribute quotes and fabricate sources in the Alex Pretti story?

A viral report on the site had been fired for misconduct, attributing detailed quotes to a nonexistent and inventing an affiliation with “”; multiple no evidence for the people, place or quotes the pi...

Jan 28, 2026

What is Erika Kirk’s connection to the missing children from Romania?

’s documented connection to is limited to charitable work: she founded and ran a project called that sponsored gifts and supported an orphanage in , during the early 2010s . Multiple independent fact‑...

Jan 26, 2026

Has Ashley Biden claimed her father molested her

’s stolen diary contains passages in which the author wonders, “Was I molested? I think so,” and those passages have been publicized by sources that acquired the diary, but there is no record in the p...

Jan 30, 2026

Is there evidence of Israelis setting fires in Patagonia?

There is no verified, publicly available evidence that intentionally set the ; claims that they did are circulating widely on and have been amplified by Argentine opposition figures, but independent r...

Jan 14, 2026

Who is Dr Ania and what are her claimed 'salt trick' benefits?

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...

Jan 27, 2026

How have social media narratives about Alex Pretti’s life and role at the VA spread, and which posts contain misinformation?

about spread in two fast-moving channels: an initial official and partisan framing that labeled him an armed agitator and a parallel wave of eyewitness video and community testimony that contradicted ...

Jan 31, 2026

Is Trump stupid asf? Because i think so ☺️

The simple, vulgar question—""—collapses a complex public debate into an insult; the empirical record does not support any verified low-IQ score for , and major fact-checkers have debunked specific vi...

Feb 1, 2026

Did Renee good have custody of her children

Public reporting and multiple fact-checks find no credible evidence that had lost custody of her children prior to her death; two older children are reported to be living with their father while her s...

Jan 27, 2026

What fact-checks exist about viral social media claims concerning Renee Good and her family?

Multiple independent fact-checkers investigated viral claims about and her family after she was fatally shot by an in ; those checks found that photos and images purporting to show Good or the moments...

Jan 27, 2026

ICE car on fire in Philadelphia

caught fire in on February 18, 2025; multiple local and international fact-checkers and officials concluded the blaze was accidental and found no evidence of arson . claiming left-wing protesters or “...