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FalseOn Feb. 8, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump called teachers "ugly" in a Truth Social Post.SnopesFeb 11, 2025FalseIn a social media post, President Donald Trump blamed the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl loss on DEI, USAID and Taylor Swift.SnopesFeb 11, 2025FalseA photo authentically shows a man displaying two middle fingers to U.S. President Donald Trump at the 2025 Super Bowl.SnopesFeb 11, 2025Can’t tellMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was the original author of a widely circulated text purporting to describe the reaction of “the rest of the world” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s border wall.SnopesFeb 11, 2025FalseA video authentically shows a "massive crowd" on Philadelphia's Broad Street celebrating the Eagles' 2025 Super Bowl victory.SnopesFeb 11, 2025TrueA photograph authentically shows a white demonstrator for racial justice at a June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Bethel, Ohio, with a sign reading, "I'm sorry I'm late. I had a lot to learn."SnopesFeb 10, 2025TrueDeep in the Gulf of Mexico exists a so-called "Jacuzzi of Despair," a pool of oceanic water that kills anything that enters it.SnopesFeb 10, 2025TrueU.S. Vice President JD Vance once said, "The professors are the enemy."SnopesFeb 10, 2025FalseRing is “alerting people about (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids.”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactFeb 10, 2025MixedThe green, falling digital code depicted as rain in the film "The Matrix" consisted of Japanese sushi recipes.SnopesFeb 10, 2025MixedA collage of four photographs authentically shows actors Macaulay Culkin and Ryan Gosling wearing T-shirts with photos of each other printed on them.SnopesFeb 9, 2025FalseThe Imafidon family was named by Guinness World Records as the “most intelligent family in England.”SnopesFeb 9, 2025FalseAs head football coach at Texas Tech University, “I recruited (Patrick Mahomes) ... I’ve got to be very good friends with him.”Said by Tommy TubervillePolitiFactFeb 9, 2025MixedAt Guantánamo Bay, “we'll have the capacity to continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained.”Said by Kristi NoemPolitiFactFeb 9, 2025TrueDuring his time in office, U.S. President Bill Clinton oversaw the termination of 377,000 federal employees.SnopesFeb 8, 2025FalseThe U.S. Agency for International Development funded actor Ben Stiller's trip to Ukraine, spending around $4 million.SnopesFeb 8, 2025MixedNASA has removed mentions of women and minorities from its websites.SnopesFeb 8, 2025TrueVikings believed a goat whose udders produced an endless supply of beer waited for them in the afterlife.SnopesFeb 7, 2025TrueIn 2021, during former U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration, Mexico increased numbers of troops at its borders an effort to reduce migration.SnopesFeb 7, 2025FalseUSDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong ordered the mass extermination of healthy poultry in 2024, citing "mutating bird flu," in order to artificially inflate poultry and egg prices in the U.S.SnopesFeb 7, 2025False"Empresa Coca-Cola le pide perdón a los inmigrantes y le envían un mensaje especial a todos los afectados".Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactFeb 7, 2025FalseAn E! News report said USAID paid millions of dollars to sponsor American celebrity visits to Ukraine.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactFeb 7, 2025FalseAn image of a website error code shows the Trump administration “trolling” former Vice President Kamala Harris.Said by Viral imagePolitiFactFeb 7, 2025FalseCBS News and “60 Minutes” “replaced” former Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview answers “with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview.”Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactFeb 7, 2025