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The circulation of alleged payroll screenshots and false claims about Alex Pretti's employment history on social media.
The has been represented in public reporting through statements by VA officials and affiliated parties that was an active intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at the , but the department has not released d...
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...
There is no credible evidence in the reporting provided that was a “paid protester”; multiple mainstream outlets and fact-checkers report videos of his but do not document any payment or employment as...
The Minneapolis VA has not, in the reporting collected here, released any primary personnel documents about ’s employment status; public accounts rely on union statements, family comments and media re...
The Minneapolis VA’s employment connection to has been repeatedly referenced by federal and media sources: publicly identified Pretti as a nurse at the , and multiple news outlets report that Pretti w...
VA colleagues and public records portray as a long‑time employee who transitioned from into bedside critical‑care nursing, serving as an while also assisting with clinical research; coworkers uniforml...
Fact-checkers traced the viral claim that had been fired to a single fabricated story published on the website , and then dismantled that narrative by showing the article contained invented sources, u...
No — the reporting available shows was employed as a registered intensive care unit nurse at the at the time of his death and was not fired from that position, contrary to viral social-media claims th...
fired is false: multiple fact-checking and news outlets report he remained an active registered nurse employed in the ICU at the at the time of his death . that he was terminated or had quit originate...
Available reporting documents that encrypted group chats and rapid-response networks were used by activists to coordinate protests in on the day was shot, and that messages about the incident circulat...
was employed as an intensive care nurse at the , according to multiple credible reports and his union; there is no reliable evidence he had been fired before his death . Reporting by major outlets and...