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| FALSE | Claim by Viral image: Former President Donald Trump “was the 1st president in U.S. history to acknowledge that children are being sold for sex in the U.S.” while President Joe Biden “rescinded Trump’s executive order that helped combat child sex trafficking.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Presidents who held office before former President Donald Trump acknowledged child sex trafficking in the United States. President Joe Biden didn’t revoke Trump’s executive order to fight child sex trafficking in the United States.) Social media posts distort Trump, Biden child sex trafficking records |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by The Epoch Times: Accord gives WHO power over US pandemic policies.
AFP Fact Check rating: False (Another fake news story made up by the Epoch Times.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Winston Churchill didn’t mention the Holocaust in his memoirs because it didn’t happen.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (The word “Holocaust’ to describe the murder of 6 million Jews and millions more during World War II wasn’t in popular use when Winston Churchill wrote his memoirs about the war, and he clearly acknowledged the genocide in other writings.) Winston Churchill’s World War II memoirs aren’t evidence that the Holocaust didn’t happen |
| TRUE | Claim by Donald Trump (R): Referring to the train accident and his rollback of regulations, “I had nothing to do with it.”
The Washington Post rating: Correct (Thus far, the evidence indicates that Trump’s regulations rollback did not cause the accident.) So far, Trump’s rollback of regulations can’t be blamed for Ohio train wreck |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: In February 2023, Twitter alerted users they could no longer use the Ukrainian flag emoji unless they paid for “Twitter Blue” status.
Snopes rating: False (Fake) |
| FALSE | (International: Canada): It is illegal to fly the Canadian flag in the city of Ottawa.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (There are no regulations to prohibit flying the Canadian flag.) |
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