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Ahead of the much-awaited 2026 FIFA World Cup, a rumor began circulating on social media platforms claiming that Canadian ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis justified his decision to release election denier Tina Peters from prison with a series of false ...

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Multiple accounts have been sharing a video across social media platforms since May 18, 2026, claiming that it shows a giant ...

April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day, purposefully set the day after April Fools’ Day (when mistruths are encouraged). The day was launched in 2016 by the International Fact-Checking Network, ...

PolitiFact is live fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 24. PolitiFact has fact-checked 1,144 of Trump’s statements since 2011. Tonight, we’ll draw on ...

Multiple pro-Iranian users, based on their past posts, were sharing a video on social media platform X since May 17, 2026, ...

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