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Can’t tellIn summer 2026, insurer State Farm started distributing $5 billion in cash to its automobile insurance customers.SnopesAug 20, 2026TrueIn April 2026, ICE detained Eissa Hashemi and his wife, Maryam Tahmasebi, as well as their teenage son, because Hashemi's mother was a spokesperson for the Iranian government during the 1979 hostage crisis.SnopesAug 20, 2026MixedEvery year, an Italian town punishes the politician behind the year's worst decision by locking them in a cage and plunging them into a freezing river.SnopesAug 20, 2026FalseLemons are not a "naturally occurring" fruit as they are a manmade hybrid of a sour orange and a citron.SnopesAug 20, 2026Can’t tellU.S. President Donald Trump demanded to equip all Navy ships with sails and considered adding cannons.SnopesAug 20, 2026MixedA fashion designer is creating shirts made to confuse automated license plate readers, such as Flock cameras, in mid-2026.SnopesAug 19, 2026TrueIn August 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump said of 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai's ocean rescue, "I don't know if I'd do it. I wouldn't, probably."SnopesAug 19, 2026MixedHakeem Jeffries took more than $300,000 of PAC money from healthcare companies during the 2026 midterm election cycle before coming out against Medicare for All.SnopesAug 19, 2026FalseFlorida Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly said he supports “gender-changing surgeries on kids.”Said by Byron DonaldsPolitiFactAug 19, 2026FalseIn September 1992, musician Eric Clapton invited 16-year-old Sarah Mitchell, who was deaf, onstage at a concert in Birmingham, England, and performed for her.SnopesAug 19, 2026FalseA summer 2026 UNICEF report "dismantled" the "lie" that there is or was a famine in Gaza.SnopesAug 19, 2026TrueCNN's Pamela Brown went aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in summer 2026.SnopesAug 19, 2026TrueIn 2012, a Twitter user posted “Stop chat gpt!!” even though ChatGPT would not be released until 2022.SnopesAug 18, 2026FalseNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is “requiring ID” to shop at city-run grocery stores.Said by Randy FinePolitiFactAug 18, 2026TrueA video authentically showed a Fox News graphic that falsely suggested national average gas prices fell between August 2025 and August 2026.SnopesAug 18, 2026TrueA photograph authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump looking through the window of the Marine One helicopter with his aide Natalie Harp.SnopesAug 18, 2026Can’t tellA U.S. Secret Service agent who has served seven presidents said Donald Trump is weirder than all of them put together and provided behind-the-scenes details about what he's like in his presidential limousine.SnopesAug 18, 2026TrueIn August 2026, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump declared brass instruments a national security threat and imposed tariffs on them.SnopesAug 18, 2026FalseFormer U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers “helped to architect the legislation that kicked off the opioid epidemic.”Said by Abdul El-SayedPolitiFactAug 17, 2026FalseA screenshot authentically shows an August 2026 Truth Social post in which U.S. President Donald Trump said, "Only suckers and losers would enlist, go to sea on an aircraft carrier, and then complain and send their family nasty notes about our military. They weren't at sea long enough."SnopesAug 17, 2026Can’t tellIn August 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to sign NDAs before they were allowed to leave the aircraft carrier.SnopesAug 17, 2026TrueAn image authentically showed South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace with tattoos on her arms.SnopesAug 17, 2026FalseIn July 2026, Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, demanded that churches stop ringing bells on Sundays.SnopesAug 17, 2026TrueScott Yenor, chairman of a Heritage Foundation initiative, said in 2021: "Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school and the law and every trade. If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that's not a failure."SnopesAug 16, 2026