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TrueFormer NFL star and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick has agreed to fund an independent autopsy for Demartravion "Trey" Reed, a 21-year-old Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University in Mississippi.SnopesSep 23, 2025FalseA photograph authentically showed the late, disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.SnopesSep 23, 2025FalseOn May 29, 2018, Jimmy Kimmel said on his late night show that ABC was right to fire Roseanne Barr from her television sitcom for racist comments in a social post: “And ABC, to their credit, didn’t waste any time; they canceled her show today. I’m not a fan of censorship, but this wasn’t about free speech — it was about consequences for saying something vile. You can say what you want, but networks don’t have to pay you to say it. …You can’t just blame Ambien for that. Actions have consequences, and ABC made the right call.”SnopesSep 23, 2025FalseIn September 2025, musician Ringo Starr made comments defending slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk after ABC's suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"SnopesSep 22, 2025TrueTurning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk said George Floyd was a "scumbag."SnopesSep 22, 2025MixedMedieval peasants worked only around 150 days per year, a result of the church scheduling frequent holidays to keep the labor force happy.SnopesSep 22, 2025TrueA Minnesota man who removed his ailing wife from a nursing home and threw her a "death party" was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison.SnopesSep 22, 2025TrueIn the 1994 film "Forrest Gump," the main character says, "Life was like a box of chocolates," not "Life is like a box of chocolates."SnopesSep 22, 2025TrueFox News host Brian Kilmeade once said, "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them,” referring to mentally ill homeless people who reject social services.SnopesSep 21, 2025FalseAn image circulating online in September 2025 authentically showed an Ancestral Puebloan mural that a hiker discovered in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, in October 2009.SnopesSep 21, 2025MixedIn 1998, Sony released a camcorder that could "see through people's clothes," then immediately recalled the 700,000 devices allegedly sold.SnopesSep 21, 2025Can’t tellIn September 2025, ABC fired Jimmy Kimmel as host of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"SnopesSep 20, 2025TrueOn Sept. 18, 2025, a 12-foot golden statue of U.S. President Donald Trump holding a bitcoin was unveiled outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.SnopesSep 20, 2025FalseCountry music star Jelly Roll donated $5 million to build homeless shelters in his hometown of Antioch, Tennessee.SnopesSep 20, 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 20, 2025FalseAuthentic video shows thousands of protesters marching on the Westminster Bridge in London to protest the Sept. 16, 2025, visit of U.S. President Donald Trump.SnopesSep 20, 2025FalseIn 2019, Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk lied about being banned from speaking on the campus of Arizona State University in an effort to gain notoriety.SnopesSep 20, 2025FalseA video legitimately showed the United Kingdom's King's Guard playing "The Imperial March," Darth Vader's instrumental theme from the Star Wars franchise, to welcome U.S. President Donald Trump on a state visit.SnopesSep 19, 2025FalseA photograph authentically showed U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts seated next to Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.SnopesSep 19, 2025FalseA mountain lion broke into a Colorado Springs, Colorado, pet store and rolled around in catnip on May 4, 2022.SnopesSep 19, 2025FalseAuthentic footage released after Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting shows him recording his last words in the event of his death, in which he states: “If you’re seeing this, I recorded it knowing this day might come. I knew the risks of standing up for what I believe in and I knew the opposition would stop at nothing.”SnopesSep 19, 2025FalseIn September 2025, rapper Eminem released a tribute song honoring slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.SnopesSep 19, 2025Can’t tellErika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, filed a $40 million defamation lawsuit against ABC and "The View."SnopesSep 19, 2025TrueConservative activist Charlie Kirk once described Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager acquitted of killing two people and wounding another during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as "a hero to millions.”SnopesSep 19, 2025