Fact Check: Meta Did NOT Add New Tags On Threads Posts To Warn That Certain Users Are Suspected Of Membership In Antifa -- Meme Appears To Mock Trump Administration War On Antifa #CheckTok #Meta #Threads #Antifa #FactCheck leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Did the Nobel Committee quietly remove President Donald Trump's name from the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize? No, that's not true: The nominations list for a Nobel Peace Prize is private, and not made public until 50 years after it is awarded. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fact Check: AI Image Shows European Leaders Waiting On Chairs In White House Corridor -- Not Real Photograph

Stories from @leadstories.com: Now also via Yahoo! News... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Meta fired its fact-checkers, citing concerns of liberal bias, and replaced them with a version of X's "Community Notes." How's that going? Well, my coworker @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social proposed 65 fact-checks debunking false posts... and only 3 got approved. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Curious about the case of missing hikers "Sarah Bennett" and "Andrew Miller"? * Google gives you two bogus videos, a summary of the fake story and a link to it on Facebook above the fact check that explains it is all fake. * Bing gives you the fact check in position one * So does DuckDuckGo

Fact Check: Trump Organization Epstein Letter Image Does NOT Match Description In Wall Street Journal -- Several Differences

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show July 2025 Texas Flooding In Which '14 Childern' Were Among 'At Least 60 Dead' -- Viral Video Mixes AI Video With Clips From Non-Texas Floods

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Stealing a Club World Cup Player's Medal

Fact Check: FAKE 'Sheriff Larry Leda Applying For Green Card For Mexican Rescue Team' Video Misspells Name -- No Media Reports

Comparing Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo on a recent fake story about a "Sheriff Larry Leda": Google: AI Overview repeating the false claim, fact check in 9th position. Bing: Fact check in 1st position DuckDuckGo: Fact check in 1st position But sure, stop using ClaimReview, Google...

Fact Check: Image Claiming Kamala Harris Got 68M Votes Does NOT Correctly Represent 2024 Election Results

Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Ask Americans to 'Focus on Mexicans and Flooding' Instead of the 'Epstein Files'

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3 months into Meta’s pivot to Community Notes, the company has yet to share any data about its crowdsourced moderation feature. With help from three @indicator.media readers in the pilot, I tried to piece together how it’s going: indicator.media/p/a-first-lo...

UPDATE: An ICE spokesperson said Lame was briefly "detained" on June 6, 2025 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after he overstayed the terms of his visa but was granted "voluntary departure" on the same day, which does not carry the same consequences as a deportation order. #factcheck

Most screenshots of Trump vs. Elon posts today are fake again... Nature is healing. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

During his incendiary Oval Office meeting with South Africa's president, Trump played a video that he said showed "burial sites" for "over a thousand of white farmers." Except it didn't. @rileymellen.bsky.social and Aric Toler fact check. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Did the footage shown to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 21, 2025, in the Oval Office capture a mass grave of "over 1,000 of white farmers", as claimed by U.S. President Donald Trump? No, that's not true: The video showed a 2020 temporary memorial, not a burial site. #factcheck

Did a photograph shared online show the victims of a May 21, 2025, shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington D.C.? No, that's not true: The Israeli embassy named Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim as the two embassy staff shot dead. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... #factcheck

Fact Check: Pam Bondi Did NOT Say 'It's Illegal to Call Yourself The Boss'

UN's Statement About 14,000 Children Dying In 48 Hours In Gaza Without New Humanitarian Aid: What We Know

Did a legitimate news report reveal the Harris presidential campaign made an illegal $200,000 payment for travel expenses to Beyoncé for appearing at a rally in 2024? No, that's not true: A satire site created that story to trick conservatives into sharing it as real. #trump #factcheck #beyonce

Does a viral video prove U.S. President Donald Trump refused to drink coffee in Saudi Arabia in May 2025? Find out in The Fact Check, our weekly newsletter. Sign up here: leadstories.com/newsletter #factcheck #factcheckers

Fact Check: FAKE Photos Show Trump 'Shot Again Exiting the White House' in May 2025

This story has *really* taken off in some online circles. Wait until they find out they've been trolled...

Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows 'Racist Cop' Encounter With a Black 'Navy Seal' -- It's Scripted

This fake Pope Leo XIV quote calling on people to "Be Woke" has been going viral all weekend long. Probably because partisans on *both* sides see it as confirming the view their side has of the new Pope. But sure, Community Notes will fix it.

Fact Check: AI Image Does NOT Show Actual Jewish Settlers Splashing Liquid On Palestinian Woman In Wheelchairs

Trump Argues With ABC’s Terry Moran About Photoshopped Image. From transcript: “TRUMP: Don't do that -- M-S-1-3 -- It says M-S-one-three. MORAN: I -- that was Photoshop. So let me just-- TRUMP: That was Photoshop?” abcnews.go.com/amp/US/full-... #factcheck #trump

If Meta abandons fact-checking not only in the US but around the rest of the world too - this sort of harmful misinformation will spread more easily than before. Makes you wonder what is worth making the decision to stop fact-checking.

Fact Check: Canadian PM Mark Carney Did NOT Write 'Western Society Is Morally Rotten...Corrupted By Capitalism'

Love this: The Holy See “understand the danger of misinformation and were intrigued when Lead Stories requested accreditation to the press room last February. ‘You're the first fact-checking agency we've ever had,’ they told me.” —@menicr.bsky.social #pope #factcheck leadstories.com/analysis/202...

My favorite quote: I have seen the Holy See's procedures evolve toward transparency. They understand the danger of misinformation and were intrigued when Lead Stories requested accreditation to the press room last February. "You're the first fact-checking agency we've ever had," they told me.

Did The Guardian publish an opinion article titled "The next Pope must be Muslim or there will be violence on the streets of Europe" by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in April 2025? No, that's not true: A screenshot of an article shows it was published by an X account that promotes “satire and parody".

Pope Francis Has Died At Age 88 -- What Happens Next

Pope Francis Dies -- What We Know So Far

We've had a first report of a Community Note being spotted in the wild on Instagram. Ironically enough it linked to a Lead Stories fact check: www.instagram.com/reel/DH08t99... (It appears to be only visible to U.S. users. Let us know in the comments if you can see it and where you are based...)

It has now been roughly a week since U.S. fact checkers last flagged a piece of content on a Meta platform. Meanwhile, has anyone seen a Meta Community Note in the wild yet? Let us know via [email protected] or in a reply to this post...

@bluesky takes center stage at #ijf25 with “Breaking On Bluesky: Live News In A Post-Twitter Era.” “It was kinda nice when BlueSky arrived, and I had a place to post my stuff again.” — Sarah Jeong. Watch the session here: www.youtube.com/live/t1obk7G...

You are at #IJF25 in #Perugia Reasons to get up in the morning. 1. Beautiful sunrise 2. Italian coffee 3. A lovely breakfast 4. Attending a panel at 9.30 on how to counter the harm of false information and defend free speech. www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

Here we are now... journalismtain us! #ijf25 #journalismfestival #perugia

The good life #ijf25

The Daily NOT - A show about what didn't happen today. Episode 408. #TheDailyNOT "Vaccines, pyramids, rumors about politicians and Ukraine. Not everything about those subjects is real..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7uM...

Interesting read from @dailycaller.bsky.social about end of Meta’s fact-checking program. Story appears inadvertently to have left out that the Daily Caller owns Check Your Fact, also a part of the Meta fact-checking program and also an IFCN signatory. #facts #factchecking

Elon just tweeted and then deleted this, it was at this URL: x.com/elonmusk/sta... "It is improper for lawmakers to target a single person or company."

Did Warren Buffett say President Trump is making the best financial decisions in 50 years? No, that's not true: Buffet's company Berkshire Hathaway put out a statement saying any reports on social media about comments he made are "false". #trumptariffs #buffet #factcheck

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