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| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: purports gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson shared a post on Instagram featuring the Proud Boys logo.
Check Your Fact rating: False (Smith & Wesson shared the logo for Perce|eption Brand apparel, according to a Feb. 27 post published on their verified Twitter account. While the Proud Boys logo also uses the colors black and gold, the font differs from that of the Perce|eption Brand logo.) FACT CHECK: Did Smith & Wesson Share An Instagram Post Featuring The Proud Boys Logo? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Tucker Carlson: Capitol Police officers “helped” QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley and “acted as his tour guides.”
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (Officers repeatedly asked Chansley to leave the building. This is corroborated by the plea agreement Chansley signed and a Capitol Police officer’s account of the events. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger called Carlson’s claim “outrageous and false” in an internal department memo. He wrote that officers used de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the Capitol.) Evidence rebuts Tucker Carlson’s claim about Capitol Police acting as tour guides to ‘QAnon Shaman’ |
| FALSE | Claim by Alex Berenson: “huge peer review show[ed] vaccines may have caused tens of millions of serious new health problems worldwide”
Health Feedback rating: Inaccurate (Contrary to the claim, the researchers didn’t conclude that COVID-19 vaccines were associated with health problems. In fact, the authors and their research institution stated that vaccines are beneficial even in the light of these new results.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: President Donald Trump was the first to “acknowledge that children are being sold for sex in the U.S.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (Efforts to stop child sex trafficking in the U.S. have been underway for decades, led by presidents including Joe Biden.) Post Distorts History of Presidential Efforts to Fight Child Sex Trafficking |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Image: Screenshot shows Tim Pool saying that Woke agenda ended his sex life.
Check Your Fact rating: False (The image is digitally altered. There is no evidence that Pool made this statement.) FACT CHECK: Did Tim Pool Blame ‘Woke Agenda’ For Ending His Sex Life? |
| FALSE | (International: India): Italian PM Giorgio Meloni refused to shake hands with PM Modi.
The Quint rating: False |
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Claim by Tucker Carlson: Capitol Police officers “helped” QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley and “acted as his tour guides.”
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (Officers repeatedly asked Chansley to leave the building. This is corroborated by the plea agreement Chansley signed and a Capitol Police officer’s account of the events. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger called Carlson’s claim “outrageous and false” in an internal department memo. He wrote that officers used de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the Capitol.)
Evidence rebuts Tucker Carlson’s claim about Capitol Police acting as tour guides to ‘QAnon Shaman’
I’m not seeing a whole lot of wholehearted persuasion by many police officers going on in any of the footage. I think that the answer lies somewhere between the extremes. This whole deal is an overblown hit job by Democrats and you could see it being set up (I could see it as requests for protection were denied and prior to the act and those around me remember me saying it). I’d like someone to speak to the violation of the supposed arresteds’ rights. There’s silence here. Sure, there were transgressions but not nearly to the level of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 (Biden and Harris repeated this and in context). There are Democrats who should be going down for this. As I said, politically overblown for political advantage and of course one in a series of failed attacks to take down Trump. BTW, if he runs I’m probably voting for DeSantis.