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FalseVideo shows “Donald Trump just announced that America will no longer give visas to Nigerians.”Said by Viral imagePolitiFactJan 31, 2025False“A dangerous Hispanic couple” is “on the run after killing 3 female police officers.”Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactJan 31, 2025True“As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.”Said by Adam SchiffPolitiFactJan 31, 2025False“Donald Trump is reportedly furious with Elon Musk for convincing him to push out the head of the FAA because Musk was mad SpaceX got fined last September by the FAA for license violations.”Said by Threads postsPolitiFactJan 31, 2025False“I changed the Obama policy (on hiring air traffic controllers) ... And then Biden came in and he changed it.”Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactJan 31, 2025False“ICE just announced it is pausing the hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants because 90% of the calls are from people reporting Elon Musk.”Said by Threads postsPolitiFactJan 31, 2025False“Pilot of Blackhawk helicopter that crashed into passenger jet at Reagan National was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis.”Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactJan 31, 2025False“The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed” Bishop Mariann Budde “from the National Cathedral.”Said by Threads postsPolitiFactJan 31, 2025FalseFormer U.S. President Barack Obama was on the military helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines passenger jet in January 2025.SnopesJan 31, 2025FalseA Fox News broadcast authentically showed U.S. President Donald Trump signing an executive order to ban "grown men" from wearing skinny jeans.SnopesJan 31, 2025Can’t tellTech entrepreneur Elon Musk once said he "longs to get pregnant so he can produce as many children as possible."SnopesJan 30, 2025TrueU.S. Vice President JD Vance has said and written that his grandmother once set his grandfather on fire.SnopesJan 30, 2025TrueA study found that cats learn to associate images with words faster than human babies do.SnopesJan 30, 2025TrueTech entrepreneur Elon Musk received a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025.SnopesJan 30, 2025FalseA video shows “people around the world” who are “protesting because Donald Trump is the president.”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactJan 30, 2025FalseImage shows immigration officers arresting someone wearing a “Latinos for Trump 2024” shirt in 2025.Said by Viral imagePolitiFactJan 30, 2025FalseImages show a “beautiful baby boy, estimated to be between 7 months to a year old … found dumped by the roadside” in January 2025.Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactJan 30, 2025MixedRobert F. Kennedy Jr. “made $2.5 million off suing one of the entities that (he would be regulating) and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.”Said by Elizabeth WarrenPolitiFactJan 30, 2025FalseSays Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent posted on X, “I’m committed to eliminating income taxes, replacing them with a fair consumption tax, and adopting gold-backed currency.”Said by Viral imagePolitiFactJan 30, 2025MixedThe U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”Said by Karoline LeavittPolitiFactJan 30, 2025False“Biden pardons are unconstitutional! 7th Circuit Court Judge Joseph Barron ruled that there is no provision to pardon someone who hasn’t been formally charged.”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactJan 30, 2025False“DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.”Said by Karoline LeavittPolitiFactJan 30, 2025False“JD Vance is in North Carolina, and he’s found furnished apartments to put the people in that have been living in tents.”Said by TikTok postsPolitiFactJan 30, 2025False“Pfizer just released its list of side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine.”Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactJan 30, 2025