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Can’t tellIn May 2024, U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett said, "If you don’t like paying taxes, make billionaires pay their fair share and you would never have to pay taxes again."SnopesMay 20, 2024FalseIsrael War Room posted a helicopter emoji “minutes before the news of the Iranian President’s helicopter crash landing broke.”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactMay 20, 2024False“The millions (of immigrants) that have been paroled can simply go to their local welfare office or the DMV and register to vote.”Said by Mike JohnsonPolitiFactMay 20, 2024TrueFormer U.S. President John F. Kennedy wrote in a 1939 letter to his father, "Palestine was hardly Britain's to give away."SnopesMay 20, 2024FalseA photo posted to social media in April 2024 shows Keanu Reeves with his grandfather.SnopesMay 20, 2024FalsePosting a legal notice on your Facebook wall will protect you from having all your posts and photos made polygraph.SnopesMay 19, 2024MixedPop star Taylor Swift burned 138 tons of jet fuel visiting her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, over three months.SnopesMay 19, 2024Can’t tellKansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid defended Harrison Butker and said, "If Harrison goes, I go with him."SnopesMay 19, 2024FalseVideo captured in 1938 shows a female "time traveler" talking on a cellphone.SnopesMay 19, 2024Can’t tellKansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker said in a statement that his speech at a 2024 commencement at Benedictine College was taken "out of context," adding in part, "All I said is that we should go back to a better time, like the 50s and 60s."SnopesMay 18, 2024Can’t tellTo keep Genghis Khan's burial site secret, everyone who attended his funeral were put to death; the executioners then died at the hands of Khan's personal escort, who in turn killed themselves. More than 2,000 people lost their lives.SnopesMay 18, 2024Can’t tellKid Rock banned Bud Light at all of his concerts.SnopesMay 18, 2024FalseDisney "canceled" the "Peter Pan" character Tinker Bell in May 2024.SnopesMay 18, 2024TrueFootball player Harrison Butker — who said at a graduation speech the majority of graduating women are “most excited” about marriage and children — has a mother who is a medical physicist.SnopesMay 18, 2024TrueWhile greeting North Korean dignitaries during his summit meeting with Chairman Kim Jong Un in 2018, then-President Trump returned the military salute of a North Korean general.SnopesMay 18, 2024FalseA video shared online in May 2024 shows singer Amy Winehouse's last performance before her death.SnopesMay 18, 2024TrueA photograph used for a Beatles album cover ("Yesterday and Today") authentically showed the four band members with bloody dolls and cuts of raw meat.SnopesMay 17, 2024TrueVideo shows Mexican bus drivers training on exercise bikes to experience cyclists' fear.SnopesMay 17, 2024FalseA police officer named Brian Davidson let a mother off the hook at a traffic stop until a little girl in the back seat blurted out two words.SnopesMay 17, 2024False"Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.”Said by Ron JohnsonPolitiFactMay 17, 2024False"La Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos acaba de aprobar... el proyecto Antisemitismo que propone eliminar parte de la biblia".Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactMay 17, 2024FalseAnti-abortion activist sentenced to 57 months in prison for “handing roses and resources to women at an abortion facility.”Said by Lila RosePolitiFactMay 17, 2024FalseChiefs kicker Harrison Butker said we should go back to a time when “women had more babies than thoughts.”Said by Threads postsPolitiFactMay 17, 2024MixedTariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”Said by Jared PolisPolitiFactMay 17, 2024