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TruePhotographs authentically show a group of starlings flying together in the shape of a giant bird.SnopesMar 18, 2025FalseAn authentic transcript shows Karoline Leavitt argued with a reporter about the history of U.S. relations with FranceSaid by x.comLead StoriesMar 18, 2025Can’t tellGeorge Floyd's Family Got Nearly $50 Million Just Four Years Ago. Last week they listed $1,900 in assets on a welfare application.Said by facebook.comLead StoriesMar 18, 2025FalseFollowing Gene Hackman’s death, the FBI discovered a secret tunnel under the actor's home where 701 bodies were found.SnopesMar 18, 2025Mixed“Breaking news: The Trump administration just announced that Medicare will stop covering telehealth starting April 1. … We need to stand up to these Medicare cuts.”Said by Ro KhannaPolitiFactMar 18, 2025MixedThe Arlington National Cemetery website removed links to webpages about Black, Hispanic and female veterans buried at the site.SnopesMar 18, 2025MixedA post celebrating a Black Medal of Honor recipient was deleted from the U.S. Department of Defense website and “DEI” (diversity, equity and inclusion) to the page's former URL on or about March 15, 2025.SnopesMar 18, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump authentically wrote on Truth Social: "After I've annexed Greenland and making it the 52nd State, I will annexe Alaska. The people of Alaska don't want to be part of a backward nation in Canada. I will make all Alaskan's rich and prosperous when they become the 53rd State of our mighty country. Nobody in Greenland or Alaska would ever have dreamed of this under Crooked Joe Biden."SnopesMar 18, 2025FalseAn audio recording authentically captured U.S. President Donald Trump advocating to rename the District of Columbia to the "District of America."SnopesMar 18, 2025TrueIn early 2025, an 82-year-old man named Ned Johnson in Seattle was declared "dead" by the U.S. Social Security and deprived of his benefits.SnopesMar 18, 2025MixedThe Department of Government Efficiency issued guidance restricting Transportation Security Administration employees from submitting requests related to food, kenneling and veterinary care for dogs on the agency's explosives detection canine teams.SnopesMar 18, 2025Mixed"9,000 new auto jobs. You haven't heard that in a long time. After autoworkers lost more than 27,000 auto jobs in the final year of Biden."Said by President Donald TrumpFactCheck.orgMar 18, 2025FalseA photo shows a police officer named Kathleen Ballinger who has recently gone missing in Wakefield.Full FactMar 18, 2025FalsePfizer announced a goal to reduce the number of people in the world by 50%.Full FactMar 18, 2025Can’t tellThe cost of welfare is going to go to £70 billion.Full FactMar 18, 2025Can’t tellThe trend of switching to pink salt, rock salt, and Himalayan salt without iodine is bringing the iodine deficiency back.Said by Social Media UserFirst CheckMar 18, 2025FalseThis image shows an authentic headline by Hull Daily Mail that reads, "70,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region died in vain," from March 13, 2025.Said by Social media usersLogically FactsMar 18, 2025TrueU.S. President Donald Trump's DOGE adviser, Elon Musk, reposted another user's post on X in March 2025, showing a screenshot reading, "Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did."SnopesMar 17, 2025FalseAn authentic video documents a TikTok influencer complaining she'll have to sell her BMW to keep receiving food stamps payments of $4,000 per month.Said by x.comLead StoriesMar 17, 2025FalseHomicide detectives seek two killers on the loose: Megan Brown and Jose Alex Ramirez.Said by facebook.comLead StoriesMar 17, 2025FalseSerbian authorities use sonic weapon against protestersSaid by tiktok.comLead StoriesMar 17, 2025FalseA new law was passed in March 2025 which allowed women to retire at 52 on $4,850 a monthSaid by tiktok.comLead StoriesMar 17, 2025TrueU.S. Department of Defense removed an article about Medal Of Honor recipient Army Major General Charles Calvin RogersSaid by defense.govLead StoriesMar 17, 2025FalseThis video of Tesla Cybertruck being crushed by a digger or excavator is realSaid by tiktok.comLead StoriesMar 17, 2025