X users, Elon Musk circulate image of fake Atlantic headline
Searching The Atlanticâs site for the phrase "Trump is literally Hilter" returned only the publicationâs statement rebutting the fabricated image.
Will Musk be prosecuted for $1 million lottery? Unlikely
Citing the pushback Special Counsel Jack Smith has faced in attempting to quickly bring cases to trial against former President Donald Trump, Brand said he doubts a prosecution of Musk "would pay a high percentage return to engage."
Parental consent laws in NY would not change, experts say
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, executive director of the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center at NYU School of Law, told Gothamist that making a claim that children will be treated differently in medical settings is part of a political strategy.
Baldwin claim that Hovde âjust proposed cutting Social Security by 28%â is misleading
The Baldwin ad features an April 24, 2012 appearance by Hovde, then in his first run for U.S. Senate, at the Milwaukee Press Club, where he was asked if he favors "either raising the retirement age and/or cutting benefits for those who are considered wealthy."
False claims about new news on Princess Kateâs health
The postsâ comments include links to a blog story titled, "Royal Tragedy: William and Kate Devastated," published on multiple websites, which says Middleton had a successful abdominal surgery and is expected to return home.
X user pushes unverified sexual abuse claim against Walz
McKenzie Sadeghi, NewsGuardâs artificial intelligence and foreign influence editor, told PolitiFact, "DocNetYouTube played a key role in promoting the false Kazakhstan former exchange student narrative and distributing it to a larger audience."
Detroitâs absentee ballot return rate doesnât prove fraud
They said the return rate is not surprising and is likely caused by multiple factors, including expanded access to absentee voting, greater awareness and enthusiasm among voters to cast ballots for or against candidates or measures.
Image supposedly showing Israeli soldiers taken prisoner by Hezbollah almost certainly AI-generated
AI-created content with captions claiming to show real events are a growing form of misinformation we see being shared online, and we have previously fact checked fake images of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a ventilator and another of police officers in the UK supposedly kneeling in front of men in Islamic dress.
Can Trump use a 1798 law for mass deportations?
At an Oct. 11 campaign rally in Aurora, Colorado, he said heâd invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite gang membersâ removal and to "target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil."
Another edited image of Kamala Harris with Sean âDiddyâ Combs circulates online
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as altered because the original image has been edited to include Kamala Harrisâs face.
Video does not show Kamala Harris adjusting âearphone earringsâ prior to presidential debate
Additionally, the video circulating on social media has been cropped, which has cut out visible wires and audio hardware around her chair, which Ms Harris also picks up and adjusts during the longer clip, in which she talks about a recipe for cooking a turkey.
Video shows coral farm not HAARP research facility around Florida
Dr Ciaran Beggan at the British Geological Society also told us that HAARP uses âtinyâ amounts of power to transmit radio waves into the atmosphere, which would be a fraction of that needed to artificially create a hurricane.
Foreign adversaries amplify hurricane misinformation
A Sept. 11 New York Times article echoed that point, saying the impact of the Chinese campaign after the Maui fires "is difficult to measure, though early indications suggest that few social media users engaged with the most outlandish of the conspiracy theories."
Hurricane Nadine article from fictional site
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted 17 to 25 storms with winds of 39 miles per hour or higher would hit the United States during the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June 1 to Nov. 30.
Trump’s False Claim of Stolen Disaster Relief Funds
Some who made the claim got the inaccurate information from an Oct.1 Federalist story that misleadingly said: âThe Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.â
Fact-checking a claim about FEMA funding and stopgap bill
Colorado Rep. Greg Lopez released a statement that said he could not vote for a bill that "would extend the federal governmentâs current, exorbitant spending levels with no cuts or considerations for the elimination of expired programs."
Harrisâ misleading tax comparison for billionaires, teachers
CBS Newsâ Bill Whitaker pressed Harris on how she would pay for promises such as an expanded child tax credit and aid to small-business startups.