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| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Cellphones can be used to pop popcorn kernels.
PolitiFact rating: False (This video was produced in 2008 as part of a viral marketing campaign for a Bluetooth headset. It’s physically impossible for phones to pop kernels as portrayed in the video, an expert said.) Video of cellphones used to pop popcorn kernels is part of viral marketing campaign |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: US Rep Jim Jordan Played Video From Hunter Biden Laptop.
Lead Stories rating: False (The video with this claim shows Jordan criticizing Schiff over matters that have nothing to do with Hunter Biden or the contents of a computer hard drive that media reports have linked to him.) Fact Check: Congressman Did NOT Play Video From Hunter Biden’s Laptop |
| TRUE | Claim via Social media: A comic first published in 1919 predicted cell phones.
Snopes.com rating: True (Check out the comic by clicking the link below. It is amazingly accurate.) |
| FALSE | Claim by Social media: FL, KY, MO are the first states to require drug testing for welfare.
USA Today rating: False (Florida and Kentucky do not require drug testing for welfare recipients, state officials said. And Missouri wasn’t the first to implement this policy, nor did it happen recently – the testing began there in 2011. Arizona was the first state to enact such legislation.) Fact check: False claim on states drug testing welfare recipients |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral image: A photo shows a CIA agent impersonating Adolf Hitler.
PolitiFact rating: False (No, it shows Hitler.) |
| FALSE | (International: Russia): Putin’s Spokesman Was Caught Wearing $6 Million Watch
Newsweek rating: False (While Dmitry Peskov possesses a number of expensive watches by designer Richard Mille, including one estimated to be worth more than $600,000, the watch in the photo shared on social media is not worth $6 million.) Fact Check: Was Putin’s Spokesman Caught Wearing $6 Million Watch? |
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