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TrueOn May 14, 2023, former U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: "On Happy Mother’s Day to ALL, in particular the Mothers, Wives and Lovers of the Radical Left Fascists, Marxists, and Communists who are doing everything within their power to destroy and obliterate our once great Country."SnopesMay 15, 2023FalseIn May 2023, George Soros died.SnopesMay 15, 2023FalsePhoto shows Joe Biden touching a child inappropriately.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactMay 15, 2023False“NCAA strips Lia Thomas of National Championship After ‘Unfavorable’ Test Results.”Said by X postsPolitiFactMay 15, 2023TrueFormer President John F. Kennedy said, “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”SnopesMay 14, 2023Can’t tellThe NCAA stripped transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of her Division I national championship after “unfavorable” test results.SnopesMay 14, 2023TrueLinda Yaccarino, named as Twitter's new CEO in May 2023, has worked with both the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Biden administration.SnopesMay 13, 2023TrueThe Wright brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an editorial speculating it could take 1 to 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine.SnopesMay 13, 2023Can’t tellIn May 2023, a real poster circulated online identifying former U.S. President Donald Trump as a "registered sex offender."SnopesMay 13, 2023FalseCalifornia has approved $1.2 million in reparations for every Black resident.Said by X postsPolitiFactMay 12, 2023MixedFour North Carolina Republicans made “campaign promises” to protect reproductive rightsSaid by Roy CooperPolitiFactMay 12, 2023FalseVideo shows Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion in a health care fraud settlement involving COVID-19 vaccines.Said by Instagram postsPolitiFactMay 12, 2023True“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”Said by Ron DeSantisPolitiFactMay 12, 2023False“Hillary Clinton has Parkinson’s disease.”Said by Facebook postsPolitiFactMay 12, 2023True“When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game's salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So, if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away."Said by Robin VosPolitiFactMay 12, 2023FalseA photograph authentically shows an "underwater waterfall" in Mauritius.SnopesMay 12, 2023TrueAs Trump-era public health order Title 42 expired on May 11, 2023, the Biden administration implemented another restrictive policy pertaining to asylum-seekers. Similar to a Trump-era rule, this one disqualifies migrants from U.S. protection if they fail to seek refuge in a third country, like Mexico, before crossing the U.S. southern border.SnopesMay 12, 2023TrueA photo authentically shows Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's family watching his launch to the moon from Cape Canaveral in 1969.SnopesMay 12, 2023FalseEste video muestra "gente saliendo de Florida por nueva orden que se aprobó ley antimigrante”.Said by TikTok postsPolitiFactMay 11, 2023FalseHouse Speaker “Kevin McCarthy has quietly implemented a pay raise for members (of Congress) that could be $30,000+ per person. It circumvents the Constitution by instead reimbursing their rent, utilities, & meals.”Said by Brian Tyler CohenPolitiFactMay 11, 2023FalseNASA is “just a film studio, and all they do are movies.”Said by Viral imagePolitiFactMay 11, 2023FalseThe National Parks Service posted about children who have been freed from human traffickers.Said by Viral imagePolitiFactMay 11, 2023FalseVideo shows Elon Musk saying “I just unbanned President Trump’s Twitter and I already have crybaby liberals threatening to quit Twitter.”Said by Viral imagePolitiFactMay 11, 2023FalseVideo shows Fox News host Sean Hannity saying an impostor is pretending to be President Joe Biden.Said by Viral imagePolitiFactMay 11, 2023