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TrueAn image collage of six police booking photos circulating online in September 2026 authentically shows Vermont faith leaders who were arrested after protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.SnopesSep 10, 2026TrueIn 2026, some families of 9/11 victims signed a petition aimed at excluding New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani from the 25th-anniversary commemoration ceremony of the attacks.SnopesSep 10, 2026FalseAs shared in September 2026 social media posts, a black bear took a raccoon and later a fox to a wildlife center where it had previously been treated.SnopesSep 9, 2026TrueThe voter registration website VoteSafe.org was funded by Elon Musk's America PAC and it collects and shares users' personal information.SnopesSep 9, 2026TrueFormer NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines called WNBA fans in Minneapolis a “bunch of disgruntled lesbians.”SnopesSep 9, 2026FalseU.S. President Donald Trump posted an animated video of himself repeatedly hitting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on his Truth Social account in September 2026.SnopesSep 9, 2026TrueMI5, the U.K.’s internal and domestic security agency, used Boy Scouts as messengers during World War I but replaced them with Girl Guides because the Boy Scouts were too noisy and less reliable.SnopesSep 9, 2026TrueU.S. President Joe Biden's administration renamed roughly 650 geographic features.SnopesSep 9, 2026TrueU.S. President Donald Trump appeared to claim U.S. ownership of the moon in a Truth Social post.SnopesSep 8, 2026TrueIn 1967, Julia Roberts' parents couldn’t afford the hospital bill for her birth, so Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King covered it.SnopesSep 8, 2026TrueAn image authentically shows Pope Leo XIV wearing Nike sneakers with his vestments.SnopesSep 8, 2026FalseA U.S. military dog named Valor was honored at the Pentagon for surviving a suicide bombing and saving 47 soldiers in 2023.SnopesSep 7, 2026TrueThe Oklahoma Department of Corrections contracted inmates to work for a call center company that handled making calls for a conservative super PAC.SnopesSep 6, 2026TrueA federal judge rule certain AI-generated child sex abuse material is protected by First Amendment.SnopesSep 6, 2026TrueTarget uses a Bluetooth device on its baskets that tracks shoppers in store.SnopesSep 5, 2026Can’t tellIn early September 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of New Mexico to "New America."SnopesSep 5, 2026MixedA meme accurately cites facts and fundraising figures in comparing prosecutors charging Lindsay Clancy with killing her three children, with Clancy receiving more than $1 million in fundraising, and the story of Emma Schols sustaining severe burns while rescuing her six children from a house fire, then receiving only $42,000 in fundraising.SnopesSep 4, 2026TrueThe late feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem once worked with the CIA.SnopesSep 4, 2026False“For every 38,000 ChatGPT queries, that is the same amount of water that is used in the production of a single almond in California.”Said by Sam AltmanPolitiFactSep 4, 2026TrueThe White House website has a series of arcade-style games that let players catch and deport migrants and build a border wall, among others.SnopesSep 4, 2026FalseAdding a stamp to a postage prepaid ballot will “force” the U.S. Postal Service to handle it as first-class mail instead of bulk.SnopesSep 4, 2026Can’t tellIn August 2026, Steve Clack, the mayor of Walhalla, North Dakota, sued a wind farm in the Canadian province of Manitoba, asking them to pay for using "American wind."SnopesSep 4, 2026FalseAn image authentically shows a French map from 1688 that replaced the name "Lac Ontario" with "Lac America."SnopesSep 4, 2026FalseAs cited by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a database from anti-trans group Do No Harm proves that from 2019 to 2023, more than 5,500 minors in the United States had sex change surgeries.SnopesSep 4, 2026