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FalseTV personality Simon Cowell has teamed up with late-night talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert to launch an uncensored "Truth News" channel.SnopesOct 1, 2025FalseIn September 2025, Kansas City Chiefs Coach Andy Reid said he would refuse to attend the 2026 Super Bowl over a planned tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.SnopesOct 1, 2025False“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”Said by JD VancePolitiFactOct 1, 2025Can’t tellIn September 2025, the Nobel Prize Committee announced that U.S. President Donald Trump was permanently disqualified from receiving future awards due to recent remarks to the United Nations General Assembly and his effort to rebrand the Department of Defense as the "Department of War."SnopesOct 1, 2025FalseOn an episode of the ABC daytime talk show "The View," co-host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at Erika Kirk, the wife of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, saying, "Sit down, Barbie" or "Sit down, monkey," as well as calling her a "T.R.U.M.P. puppet."SnopesOct 1, 2025Can’t tellPope Leo XIV once said, "Trump is not a savior; he is a mirror-reflecting your hatred, anger, and fear. He could have walked the path of light and hope, but instead he chose the road of darkness, bitterness, and lies. His words mislead, his attacks divide, and his greed for power is tearing this nation apart. Look into your mirror and see what he is shaping you into. You can choose God, hope, and joy — not the evil Trump pushes. Remember: God does not preach hatred or fear. So why follow a man who does?"SnopesOct 1, 2025FalseAn image authentically shows an octopus assisting a diver during underwater repairs off the coast of Portugal by handing him tools.SnopesSep 30, 2025FalseErika Kirk, widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, recruited victims for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and had her husband killed to keep him quiet about her ties to Epstein.SnopesSep 30, 2025MixedSome 274 undercover FBI agents were embedded in the crowd in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, inciting violence that resulted in the riot at the U.S. Capitol.SnopesSep 30, 2025FalseOn Jan. 6, 2021, 274 FBI agents were “probably acting as agitators and insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘law enforcement officials.’”Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactSep 30, 2025TruePeople with insurance through the Affordable Care Act will see a “75% increase in premiums starting Nov. 1” if enhanced subsidies are not extended, including “twice as much in the rural areas.”Said by Amy KlobucharPolitiFactSep 30, 2025True“If the government shuts down, members of Congress still get paid. The janitors never get paid.”Said by Dan KohPolitiFactSep 30, 2025FalseA video authentically features an audio recording of Pope Leo XIV issuing a stark warning from God about the dangers of idolizing U.S. President Donald Trump.SnopesSep 30, 2025FalseMultiple country music stars, including Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson and George Strait, refused to perform a planned tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the 2026 Super Bowl.SnopesSep 30, 2025MixedQueen frontman Freddie Mercury did not sing "of the world" at the end of the band’s song "We Are the Champions," which was first released in 1977.SnopesSep 29, 2025FalseEngineers in Norway created floating artificial "ice pods" for seals to replace the animals' vanishing habitat of Arctic sea ice.SnopesSep 29, 2025FalseA video accurately identifies the world largest meteorite impact crater as being in Mexico.SnopesSep 29, 2025False"Republicans have effectively ended medical research in the United States of America."Said by Hakeem JeffriesPolitiFactSep 29, 2025FalseMembers of Hells Angels biker gang rescued 23 children from a school bus sinking in floodwaters.SnopesSep 29, 2025Can’t tellFollowing the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, his widow, Erika Kirk, announced the launch of a Christian dating app called "Faith & Fellowship."SnopesSep 28, 2025FalseSeven-time, Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles commented on conservative activist Charlie Kirk's past remarks about her after his fatal shooting in September 2025.SnopesSep 28, 2025TrueAn image authentically shows a newspaper article from Feb. 4, 1939, reporting that Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, banned five comedians for joking about the Nazi Party and its leaders.SnopesSep 28, 2025FalseDuring a Sept. 23, 2025, speech, U.S. first lady Melania Trump plagiarized the following sentences from writer C.J. Cherryh: “As children, we all played marbles, flew paper airplanes, and ran with a thin string in our hand watching our kites lift off. Great minds have turned marbles into microchips, paper airplanes into drones, and kites into satellites.”SnopesSep 27, 2025TrueAutism has existed for longer than Tylenol.SnopesSep 27, 2025