Fact Check: FAKE Video Of Military Captain 'Elena Carter' Not Saluting Trump Is AI-Generated

Do you know what DID and DID NOT happen this week? Take the ‘Lead Stories Fact Check Quiz’ Did Jimmy Kimmel issue a sincere on-air apology “to everyone” for his controversial “widow” joke on Jimmy Kimmel Live!? Find the answer here: mailchi.mp/leadstories/... #factcheck #quiz #JimmyKimmel

Public concern over Australia's energy reserves has sparked a wave of misleading posts claiming to show the country's dwindling fuel in "real time". Experts told us the figures are estimates -- and are not an accurate measure of the current petrol reserves u.afp.com/SaPK

Take a moment and read the @indicator.media report. It found 192 TikTok videos for #hoax #isolationchallenges with 54.8 million cumulative views. #factcheck #tiktokchallenge

Vietnam-based boomer slop spam network floods Facebook with fake posts saying Cole Tomas Allen worked for dozens of celebs... If only they had fact checkers. Surely Community Notes will fix it :-) leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fact Check: White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Suspect Cole Allen Was NOT A Former Production Crew Member On Films Or Tours -- AI Spam From Vietnam #CheckTok #FactCheck #ColeAllen #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #Vietnam #FakeNews leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Marlon Brando Explaining He Declined 1973 Oscar Over 'Increasing Control Of Zionists In Hollywood'

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Here's the paper: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Fact Check: NO Book By Hungarian Opposition Leader Péter Magyar's Ex-Wife Accused Him Of Microwaving Puppy, Sexual Acts -- No Such Book Exists #CheckTok #FactCheck leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fact Check: Macron Did NOT Post FABRICATED Video Appearing To Show Epstein Kissing Melania Trump #CheckTok #FactCheck #EmmanuelMacron #JeffreyEpstein #MelaniaTrump #DepartmentOfJustice leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fact Check: President Trump's Easter Morning Truth Social Post Saying 'Open The F--kin Strait, You Crazy Bastards' Is Real

Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show American F-15 Crew Member After Rescue From Iran -- It's AI-Generated

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Fact Check: Keir Starmer Did NOT Threaten To Close U.S. Bases At Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Or Elsewhere, Or Demand Rent If Trump Withdraws From NATO

Fact Check: FAKE Video Does NOT Show Ruins Of Amazon Data Center In The Middle East

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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

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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