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Advertisment: Claim: A photograph shows a woman wearing a special “mechanical nozzle mask” during the so-called Spanish influenza pandemic. Since early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged both across the U.S. and the world, various photographs of masks worn during
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Advertisment: Claim: “Balenciaga” is Latin for “Baal is king.” Luxury fashion brand Balenciaga has been the focus of outrage and conspiracy theories due to a backlash over ads published in November 2022 showing child models holding bags shaped like teddy
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Advertisment: Claim: After repeating his claim that the results of the 2020 presidential election were “fraudulent,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Dec. 3, 2022: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination
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Advertisment: Claim: The tweet that got Ye suspended for “incitement of violence” actually contained a symbol associated with the UFO-focused religion known as the International Raëlian Movement. Context Ye did post the symbol of a UFO-based religious movement containing both
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Advertisment: In November 2022, European researchers announced they had reanimated a virus that had been frozen for almost 50,000 years. The researchers cautioned that their work points to a potential public health risk posed by climate change. The scientists studied
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Claim: Unexplained jumps in vote totals due to large “ballot drops” led to Democratic victories in several 2022 U.S. midterm elections. Advertisment: During the 2020 presidential election, far-right conspiracy blog The Gateway Pundit aggressively pushed the notion, still championed by
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Advertisment: On Monday, Nov. 7, 2022 — the day before Election Day 2022 — the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would be “monitor[ing] polls in 24 states for compliance with federal voting rights laws.” Despite the
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Claim: In U.S. elections, every vote was counted on election night until a few years ago. Advertisment: On Nov. 1, 2022, the @catturd2 Twitter account, described by The Daily Beast as a “MAGA troll account,” tweeted to its nearly 1
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Did Bill Gates Say ‘Hung Election and Civil War’ Are Coming? | Snopes.com Bill Gates said: “I admit that political polarization may bring it all to an end, we’re going to have a hung election and a civil war.” Context
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There’s No Evidence Ivana Trump Was Cremated | Snopes.com Ivana Trump was actually cremated and a casket supposedly for her was instead filled with several classified and top secret documents to keep them hidden from federal investigators. On Sept. 20,
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