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False“Elon Musk shocks the world by blocking Pride on X forever: ‘Children must come first.’”Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactFeb 4, 2025False“Melania wins $900 million ‘defamation lawsuit’ against The View & Sunny Hostin.”Said by Threads postsPolitiFactFeb 4, 2025Can’t tellA New York City police official stated, "Way too many people are urinating on Trump Tower at any given moment to arrest them all.”SnopesFeb 4, 2025Can’t tellWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “They want you to panic, but Trump wants you to remember Jesus didn't have electricity either, and he did just fine."SnopesFeb 4, 2025TrueAmazon founder Jeff Bezos once said he tells employees to “wake up terrified every morning” in order to best serve customers.SnopesFeb 3, 2025TrueA 1990s advertisement authentically read, in part: "They say in thirty years a burger & fries could cost $16, a vacation $12,500, and a basic car $64,000."SnopesFeb 3, 2025FalsePhoto shows Black Hawk helicopter pilot in fatal crash worked for years with President Joe Biden at the White House.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactFeb 3, 2025FalsePhoto shows “a dangerous serial killer” named Jaden Williams in Monroe, Louisiana.Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactFeb 3, 2025FalseThe Black Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines crash “was being controlled remotely.”Said by Threads postsPolitiFactFeb 3, 2025FalseVideo shows a dam breaking Sept. 28, 2024, in North Carolina.Said by Viral imagePolitiFactFeb 3, 2025False“1,500 IRS agents have submitted letters of resignation after Trump announced he would put 90,000 superfluous IRS personnel on border patrol.”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactFeb 3, 2025FalseA photograph of Avril Lavigne and Steven Anthony Lawrence posing together was found saved on Osama bin Laden's hard drive.SnopesFeb 2, 2025TrueU.S. President Donald Trump once played tennis with tennis star Serena Williams.SnopesFeb 2, 2025TrueThe ancient Egyptian workers who built the pyramids at Giza received daily rations of 4 to 5 liters of beer.SnopesFeb 2, 2025FalseA video authentically depicts U.S. President Donald Trump saying he signed an executive order allowing people to call their friends "f*gs" and "re**rds."SnopesFeb 1, 2025FalseIn 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders was "the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money" in Congress.SnopesFeb 1, 2025TrueElon Musk posted on X in January 2024, regarding aviation hiring, "It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE."SnopesFeb 1, 2025MixedTennessee lawmakers passed a bill that makes it a felony to vote against U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.SnopesFeb 1, 2025FalseJo Ellis, a trans woman, was piloting the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger jet near Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2025.SnopesFeb 1, 2025MixedU.S. President Donald Trump disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee. He also fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard as well as 400 Federal Aviation Administration senior officials.SnopesFeb 1, 2025TrueAn image authentically showed a New York Daily Mirror newspaper clipping from the 1950s with the question, "If a woman needs it, should she be spanked?"SnopesJan 31, 2025TrueA Great Dane named Juliana received a medal during World War II for defusing a bomb by urinating on it.SnopesJan 31, 2025FalseA Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump was “killed when she used her 2A rights with a shotgun while being served for eviction.”Said by Threads postsPolitiFactJan 31, 2025FalseImagen muestra a oficiales de inmigración arrestando a un hombre vestido con una camisa de “Latinos for Trump 2024”.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactJan 31, 2025