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Claim: A photo authentically shows U.S. presidential election ballots being saved from a ballot drop box fire in Vancouver, Washington, in late October 2024. Context Though the image is authentic, it is unclear whether the ballots were successfully retrieved undamaged or just removed in an effort …
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Dobrin, Nikki. “Bruce Springsteen Said He’ll Leave US If Trump Reelected in 2024?” Snopes, 19 July 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/trump-springsteen-leave-usa/.”Fact Check: No Evidence Swift, Kelce Said They Will Leave US If Trump Wins Election.” Reuters, 20 Feb. 2024. www.reuters.com, …
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Claim: Two weeks before the 2024 presidential election, U.S. President Joe Biden said former President Donald Trump needed to be locked up. Context Biden did say “We got to lock him up”; however, immediately after he added: “Politically lock him up. Lock him out, that’s what we have to do.” In late …
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Claim: A photo shared online in late October 2024 authentically showed former U.S. President Donald Trump standing on “toe pads” to stop himself falling over. Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, social media users shared a photo they claimed showed former U.S. President Donald Trump standing …
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Claim: The U.S. Department of Justice sued the commonwealth of Virginia in October 2024 for attempting to remove noncitizens from voter rolls. What’s True Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order on Aug. 7, 2024, that included a provision asking the state to remove voters who could …
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Claim: Filling out an election ballot using a Sharpie will invalidate your vote. Claims that ballots for the U.S. presidential election will be invalid if a voter uses a Sharpie marker circulated online in October 2024. One X user wrote: “Do not use a sharpie to mark your ballot even if the …
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Claim: Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has bipolar disorder. In October 2024, as the U.S. presidential election approached, a rumor spread alleging that Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has bipolar disorder. Without providing evidence to …
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Claim: Kamala Harris’ frequent saying, “What can be, unburdened by what has been,” was borrowed from Karl Marx. Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential elections, numerous Republicans attempted to connect Democratic candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to communism and Karl Marx, the German …
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Claim: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris published photos of herself with a woman she claimed was her paternal grandmother, who died four years before Harris was born. Context Harris’ paternal grandmother died in 1995, when Harris was 31. An unrelated woman at the center of the claim died in 1960. …
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Claim: A Reddit post accurately revealed Kamala Harris’ IQ score as 78. A rumor circulating online as a screenshot of a Reddit post claimed U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris received a score of 78 on an IQ test while attending Howard University. The assessment platform Thomas defines IQ (or …
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