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Claims that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has âfrozenâ a contract for 80 fighter jets from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov are circulating on social media, as part of a fake Al Jazeera video.
But the proposal is partly the basis for a Trump campaign TV ad that falsely claims Vice President Kamala Harris âweaponizedâ and âliterally unleashedâ the IRS on tipped workers.
âItâs a well-constructed survey with weights that are carefully calculated to try to make the results as representative as possible of the types of employers in the United States by size and location,â Wilcox, a former director of the Federal Reserve Boardâs statistics division, told us.
The Olympic Games organisers did apologise after a sequence of the opening ceremony depicting Greek god Dionysus came under criticism by some Christian groups, including the Catholic Church in France, as it was perceived to be a parody of Leonardo da Vinciâs painting âThe Last Supperâ.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook.
A videocirculating on social media appears to show Democratic presidential candidate and current US Vice President, Kamala Harris, with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, posing for a selfie in front of a Revolutionary Communists of America poster.
But the ÂŁ400,000 figure is based on a report published by researchers at the University of Amsterdam which estimated that the net cost of âasylum migrationâ to the Dutch treasury averages âŹ475,000 per immigrant (approximately ÂŁ400,000).
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as missing context because the post refers to the number of people in the UK who meet the official definition of economic inactivity, rather than being unemployed.
The Peopleâs Voice article claims Pope Francis appointed Mr Schwab âuniversal bishopâ because âhis plan to restore nature to its position of primacy in the world order means he is more relevant figure than Jesus Christ in 2024 [sic]â.
On the campaign trail this summer, former President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubt on climate change by falsely claiming that the oceans will rise just âone-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.â Heâs previously used the same measurement over a period of 250 years.
Wheeler, for instance, said that the kit âhas everything that you or I will need to combat this lab-created virus that Iâm sure the globalists are going to unleash on us,â referring to H5N1 bird flu and listing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as components, while telling followers to buy it using her promo code.
âWhile the administration may be trumpeting this rule as a good thing for workers, that is a ruse,â Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by labor unions, wrote in a statement issued the same day.