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Can’t tellOn his deathbed, Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, said: “Oh my, oh my, what have I done! There’s something very wrong, there’s something very wrong, there’s something very wrong!”SnopesOct 5, 2024TrueA photograph shared to Reddit in September 2024 genuinely showed a fluorescing marsupial.SnopesOct 5, 2024FalseAs Minnesota governor, Tim Walz signed a law allowing babies born alive after failed abortions to be left to die.SnopesOct 5, 2024FalseA photograph authentically shows a crying girl holding a puppy on a boat in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.SnopesOct 5, 2024TruePhotograph authentically shows a circular "experimental forestry" project in Japan.SnopesOct 4, 2024FalseA video shared to social media in September 2024 genuinely showed a white "baby peacock."SnopesOct 4, 2024MixedRepublican vice presidential candidate JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman but has since changed his name three times.SnopesOct 4, 2024Can’t tellTom Selleck said he'll pull the "Blue Bloods" TV show from CBS if the network fails to fire two debate moderators.SnopesOct 4, 2024False"Elon Musk Declares: ‘Pride flags should be banned from classrooms, forever!’"Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactOct 4, 2024False"Missouri registered 78,421 in just one week of February of this year. Out of that number, 23,253 were dead people!"Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactOct 4, 2024FalseImágenes en este video de un tobogán inflable volando son de la "tormenta tropical helena en Florida EEUU".Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactOct 4, 2024FalseImágenes en este video son del "Huracan helen en la Florida".Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactOct 4, 2024FalseNorth Carolina removed 747,000 voters from the voter rolls to try to “steal the election.”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactOct 4, 2024FalseU.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg banned private drones from flying over areas affected by Hurricane Helene.Said by X postsPolitiFactOct 4, 2024FalseVice President Kamala Harris' comments in Augusta, Georgia, show the Biden administration is offering Hurricane Helene victims only $750 in relief.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactOct 4, 2024FalseWith U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One app, it “takes less than 5 minutes and zero documentation to get approved as an illegal immigrant and be flown to the United States with air tickets paid for by the American taxpayer.”Said by Elon MuskPolitiFactOct 4, 2024FalseA video authentically shows a 188-year-old Indian man found living in a cave.SnopesOct 4, 2024TrueIn a 2014 speech, then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris said 18- to 24-year-old people “are stupid. That is why we put them in dormitories and they have a resident assistant. They make really bad decisions.”SnopesOct 4, 2024Can’t tellA video authentically showed climate activist Greta Thunberg calling for the use of "sustainable" war tanks and weaponry, such as "vegan grenades."SnopesOct 4, 2024TrueA photo authentically documented the rescue of six North Carolina residents from a mudslide after their mountain cabin collapsed due to Hurricane Helene in September 2024.SnopesOct 4, 2024FalseProject 2025, a conservative coalition's proposal for a future U.S. Republican presidency, proposes ending the Federal Emergency Management Agency.SnopesOct 3, 2024Can’t tellThe Walt Disney Company announced "Discrimination Days," in which white people aren't allowed to attend the theme parks.SnopesOct 3, 2024FalseA video authentically shows Kamala Harris and Tim Walz posing in front of a sign reading, "Revolutionary Communists of America."SnopesOct 3, 2024FalseKamala Harris campaign ad “features a mother expressing regret for not having an abortion.”Said by X postsPolitiFactOct 3, 2024