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TrueFrom April 2022 to March 2023, King Charles III made $34 million in rent.SnopesMar 12, 2024TrueDuring a speech in 2009, then-U.S. President Barack Obama said, "We can't have half a million people pouring over the border [...].”SnopesMar 12, 2024Can’t tellIn March 2024, the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, launched an initiative by which city workers would fill potholes if residents posted pictures of the potholes and added the hashtag #ShowUsYourHole.SnopesMar 12, 2024FalseIn his 2024 Oscars acceptance speech for the Holocaust drama "The Zone of Interest," filmmaker Jonathon Glazer said he "refutes" his Jewishness.SnopesMar 12, 2024TrueAs of March 2024, MacKenzie Scott had given away $16.5 billion and said she planned to "keep at it until the safe is empty."SnopesMar 12, 2024TrueIn high school, actor Lily Gladstone was voted "Most Likely to Win An Oscar" by her peers.SnopesMar 11, 2024Can’t tellSinger Cher said to former U.S. President Donald Trump, “You are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You have demonstrated every loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.”SnopesMar 11, 2024TrueA new Missouri bill “would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they ‘contribute to social transition’” of transgender students, including by using gender-affirming pronouns.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactMar 11, 2024FalseA woman was “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12 … We wouldn't be OK with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America.”Said by Katie BrittPolitiFactMar 11, 2024FalseThe stock market “hit an all-time high under President Biden and not under President Trump."Said by Pete ButtigiegPolitiFactMar 11, 2024Mixed“We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.”Said by Joe BidenPolitiFactMar 11, 2024TrueA photograph shared widely online shows a real traffic roundabout consisting of five mini-roundabouts.SnopesMar 11, 2024Can’t tellActor Robert Downey Jr. once credited Burger King with helping him overcome his drug addiction.SnopesMar 10, 2024Can’t tellIsrael's Benjamin Netanyahu was recorded in 1990 saying: "America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control."SnopesMar 10, 2024TrueViral social media posts accurately claimed a heart transplant recipient married his donor's wife, then died in the exact same way the donor had.SnopesMar 9, 2024TrueNPR published an article with the headline, "We watched the State of the Union with one undecided voter. She wasn't that impressed."SnopesMar 9, 2024FalseA Facebook policy will begin in March 2024 that allows the company to do what it wishes with users' photos, but this can be prevented by copying and pasting a message into a new post.SnopesMar 9, 2024MixedA photograph captured in 1946 shows a father who fainted after he saw his newborn triplets for the first time, as ultrasound technology for fetal monitoring had not yet been developed.SnopesMar 8, 2024False"We have technology and medical advancements today that can tell you if you are pregnant the day after conception."Said by Amanda NedweskiPolitiFactMar 8, 2024Mixed"We’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion."Said by Joe BidenPolitiFactMar 8, 2024FalseJoe Biden's executive orders meant "for the first time in American history we have a president who will not detain the people who enter this country illegally."Said by Marco RubioPolitiFactMar 8, 2024FalsePresident Joe Biden had a gaffe “in a rally in Michigan on Saturday.”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactMar 8, 2024TruePresident Joe Biden “bans TikTok for government employees but creates an account for his own campaign.”Said by Katie BrittPolitiFactMar 8, 2024FalseSays U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin “was one of the staunchest supporters of the Iran deal which sent billions of dollars and plane loads of cash to Iran.”Said by Eric HovdePolitiFactMar 8, 2024