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FalseA possible measles exposure at Dulles and Reagan airports is related to “Disease X.”Said by TikTok postsPolitiFactJan 17, 2024FalseAbraham Lincoln’s coin is copper because he ended slavery. Figures on other U.S. coins “face left because they turned their backs to him in protest.”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactJan 17, 2024FalseLil Nas X was accepted to Liberty University in Christian Leadership and Biblical Studies.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactJan 17, 2024FalseSuggests there have been 17 million deaths from the COVID-19 vaccines.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactJan 17, 2024FalseVideo shows President Joe Biden promoting a $6,400 government subsidy.Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactJan 17, 2024FalseWomen "store DNA" from all their male sexual partners.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactJan 17, 2024False“El nuevo Programa de Alivio de Impuestos está ayudando a miles de hispanos a que por fin puedan liquidar sus impuestos de una vez por todas”.Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactJan 17, 2024TrueA photograph shared in January 2024 showed an actual electronic billboard in Moscow displaying this quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Russia’s borders do not end anywhere.”SnopesJan 17, 2024FalseFormer U.S. President Donald Trump's margin of victory in the 2024 Republican Iowa caucuses was the smallest of any GOP candidate in history.SnopesJan 17, 2024Can’t tellA Nikki Haley campaign staffer in Iowa was arrested by United States Army Criminal Investigation Division agents for attempting to bribe voters.SnopesJan 17, 2024FalseA video authentically shows a U.S.-owned cargo ship hit by a missile from Yemen’s Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen in mid-January 2024.SnopesJan 17, 2024FalseMicrosoft Co-Founder Bill Gates said that U.S. citizens must accept digital IDs by 2028 or face exclusion from society.SnopesJan 16, 2024FalseA screenshot authentically shows a Truth Social post in which former U.S. President Donald Trump wrote, "Unlike Martin Luther King, Crooked Joe Biden and Deranged Jack Smith are persecuting me just because I put America first. I marched with King and he didn't mind that I was white. I have a hole [sic] lot of black friends."SnopesJan 16, 2024TrueWalt Disney originally named Mickey Mouse “Mortimer.”SnopesJan 16, 2024FalseVideo shows Kelly Clarkson endorsing a natural weight loss product.Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactJan 16, 2024FalseVideo shows a “US-owned cargo ship was just hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen!”Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactJan 16, 2024False“This is the third time we’ve won but this is the biggest win” in Iowa caucus.Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactJan 16, 2024FalseA viral photo shared in January 2024 authentically depicted pop singer Rihanna pregnant with her third child with rapper A$AP Rocky.SnopesJan 16, 2024FalseFormer U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd in Indianola, Iowa, on Jan. 14, 2024, he'll be president for "four years and beyond," meaning more than the two terms allowed by the U.S. Constitution.SnopesJan 16, 2024FalsePhotographs and videos shared in January 2024 showed bloodied "Palestinian baby dolls" made and sold in Israel.SnopesJan 16, 2024TrueNelson Mandela said, “[...] we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”SnopesJan 16, 2024Can’t tellA female NASA astronaut sabotaged the International Space StationSnopesJan 15, 2024Can’t tellU.S. civil rights leader Malcolm X said the Palestinian struggle is “not just a cry for justice. It’s a blistering battle for the most fundamental human rights that every living soul on this planet should inherit by birthright. It’s an unyielding resistance against the oppressive suffocating grip of occupation and the callous denial of the most basic human dignity. Just as the civil rights movement in the United States fought against the chains of racial discrimination, so too do the Palestinian people.”SnopesJan 14, 2024FalseAn image shared on social media in early 2024 authentically depicted a U.S. and U.K. strike on Yemen on Jan. 11, 2024.SnopesJan 13, 2024