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| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: It Is Impossible To Land A Plane On The Spinning Earth
Lead Stories rating: False (It has been done a billion or so times.) Fact Check: It Is NOT Impossible To Land A Plane On The Spinning Earth |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Texas voting machine adding voters as polls close was election fraud.
USA Today rating: False (E-pollbooks in Dallas County encountered a processing delay that resulted in data from already checked-in voters being downloaded after polls closed. It is normal for the equipment to experience delays and not indicative of election fraud.) Fact check: No, delayed data in Texas e-pollbooks was not a sign of fraud, officials say |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted that Democrats paid former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey “millions of dollars” to block negative information about the Bidens in 2020.
Snopes.com rating: False (He did not say that.) No, Musk Didn’t Tweet That the Dems Paid Jack Dorsey to Block Anti-Biden Info |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Scott Perry made a statement about Italian Satellites, CIA, Italian government.
Lead Stories rating: False (Scott Perry frequently lies, but this is a Fake Statement.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: An authentic tweet from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott read, “We celebrated Christmas Eve by putting migrants on a bus and kicking them out into the freezing cold. May the joy of Christ’s birth fill your heart as it did ours. Merry Christmas from the Abbott family.”
Snopes rating: False (It is not a real Tweet.) Did Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Tweet About ‘Putting Migrants on a Bus’ on Christmas Eve? |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): Bongbong Marcos is worth trillions to quadrillions of dollars.
VERA Files rating: False VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos NOT worth ‘trillions to quadrillions’ of dollars |
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