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The account's bio claimed they were an "astrologist" who "reads the future," but it's unclear if that was added before or after the post went viral.
In May 2026, Republicans proposed spending $1 billion in taxpayer funds on the ballroom's security infrastructure.
According an alleged memo, 1,103 pieces of cutlery and tableware had gone missing from the White House inventory.
Online users shared a video purportedly showing President Trump calling the journalist a slur during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Those eager to discredit Pfizer's mRNA vaccine, which is safe and effective, exploited the cruise ship outbreak.
Questions arose in May 2026 over whether the U.S. Secret Service would really need $1 billion to secure Trump's planned ballroom.
Patients who have been "functionally cured" of HIV underwent incredibly risky procedures. For most people, though, HIV is no longer a death sentence.
The story was yet another fabricated political confrontation, using real footage to lend credibility to a false claim.
The AI-generated posts followed a common pattern of fabricating shocking stories about famous people to get clicks on Facebook.
We tested our own computers to see if the model was present.
A proposal to revoke permits allowing a conservation group's bison herd to graze on federal land argued the animals are wildlife, not livestock.
The image was created by a user on Instagram whose page was full of AI-generated images.
Online users discussed a video allegedly showing a teenager in an orange jumpsuit reacting to a court sentencing him to hundreds of years in jail.
FBI officials confirmed the existence of the bourbon bottles, first reported by The Atlantic, and that Patel uses them in "formal gift exchanges."
Researchers have known since at least 1996 that at least one hantavirus variant — the Andes virus — could spread from person to person.
Meloni said on X in May 2026 that she had been targeted by deepfake photos.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military could “neither confirm nor deny” their use.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressional hearings last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that "there are no cuts to Medicaid" as a result of that 2025 law. The post Kennedy Denies the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Spending Cuts to Medicaid appeared first on FactCheck.org.
Blanche, one of President Donald Trump's former personal lawyers, made the statement during an interview on "Meet the Press" in May 2026.
Numerous versions of the alleged accusation spread on Facebook, but proof for each was nowhere to be found.