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| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was “caught on tape saying he discarded 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Paxton did not discard mail-in ballots. Every legally cast ballot was counted.) Impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton didn’t discard millions of mail ballots |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: A Pfizer subsidiary called Zoetis has injected mRNA vaccines into 100 million wildlife animals in the U.S.
AP News rating: False (This is crackpottery) Pharma company Zoetis isn’t injecting wildlife with mRNA vaccines |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Benny Johnson: “New tapes” of Nancy Pelosi show that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “was all planned.”
Politifact rating: False (Newly released security camera footage captured on Jan. 6, 2021, shows former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being filmed by her daughter, documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker, during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The footage does not prove the attack was scripted or planned.) New footage of Pelosi on Jan. 6, 2021, doesn’t prove the attack on the Capitol was planned |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: Has the 100th homicide in D.C. in recent years been earlier than average?
WUSA9 rating: True Yes, the date of the 100th homicide in DC has been earlier than usual the last couple years | VERIFY |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: The blue, pink, and white colors in the progress pride flag represent pedophiles
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (The pathetic attempt to defame transgender people for political reasons continues. The light blue, pink and white colors featured in the new and popular progress pride flag represent the transgender community whose flag features the same color. The new colors in the progress pride flag represent trans people, not pedophiles |
| FALSE | (International: Italy): Italy Officially Introduced ‘Family Pride Month’ To Replace Celebration Of LGBTQ+ Community In June 2023
Lead Stories rating: False |
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“Politifact rating: False (Newly released security camera footage captured on Jan. 6, 2021, shows former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being filmed by her daughter, documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker, during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The footage does not prove the attack was scripted or planned.)”
Perhaps. However, I can’t be the only one that said that unusual events leading up to 6 January seemed to indicate some sort of setup without any clarity as to what that might have been beforehand. You’d have to be blind to not notice this if you were half paying attention or merely listening to the MSM talking point version of things. The foot dragging of deploying security was admitted.
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955548910/ex-capitol-police-chief-rebuffs-claims-national-guard-was-never-called-during-ri