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FalseCalifornia "lost" over 10 million mail-in ballots in 2022.SnopesJan 21, 2023TrueA photograph circulating online in January 2023 depicted a real airship nicknamed "the flying bum."SnopesJan 21, 2023TrueBritish news outlet BBC published a headline about resigning New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern that read, "Jacinda Ardern resigns: Can women really have it all?"SnopesJan 21, 2023FalseBefore choosing Jack Nicholson for the role, director Stanley Kubrick considered hiring Robin Williams to play the main character, Jack Torrance, in the horror film "The Shining."SnopesJan 20, 2023FalseThe CEO of Moderna "admitted" during the 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that the company was making a COVID-19 vaccine in January of 2020 "before SARS-CoV-2 even had a name."SnopesJan 20, 2023TrueRoughly 25% of the nation's debt was incurred during the Trump Administration.SnopesJan 20, 2023Can’t tellA genuine photograph circulating online in late 2022 and early 2023 shows a cat sitting in an eerily human-like posture.SnopesJan 20, 2023TrueOnline retail giant Amazon is ending its AmazonSmile charity program.SnopesJan 19, 2023FalseMassachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley once tweeted, "IQ is a measure of whiteness."SnopesJan 19, 2023Can’t tellBig Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin's missing millionaire husband Don Lewis was found "alive and well in Costa Rica."SnopesJan 19, 2023Can’t tellFootball player Aaron Rodgers described seeing a shadowy “Hat Man” during ayahuasca-fueled trips in Peru, saying, “He will sometimes appear in the distance usually veiled by darkness holding the corpse of a dead rabbit and sometimes a blade.”SnopesJan 19, 2023TrueA brand of cigarettes in the 1950s, Kent cigarettes, used extremely toxic asbestos in their filters.SnopesJan 18, 2023Can’t tellGrocery stores were locking egg cartons closed in January 2023 with anti-theft devices amid an egg shortage.SnopesJan 18, 2023TrueA committee has proposed that the city of San Francisco give $5 million each to qualifying Black people as part of a reparations plan to cover “economic and opportunity losses” the community has endured throughout history, both due to the city’s policies and the wider effects of societal discrimination.SnopesJan 18, 2023TrueThe Norwegian government in 2023 was funding a multi-year research project to find out if white paint is racist.SnopesJan 18, 2023Can’t tellDisney World is opening a Waffle House restaurant inside Magic Kingdom park.SnopesJan 18, 2023TrueMartin Luther King Jr. once said or wrote, "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."SnopesJan 17, 2023FalseActress Goldie Hawn has died.SnopesJan 17, 2023TrueSony owns a patent for an interactive commercial system that allows viewers to skip commercials by yelling the brand name of the advertiser at their television or monitor.SnopesJan 17, 2023FalseThe World Economic Forum was hiring unvaccinated pilots to transport the wealthy and powerful to the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2023.SnopesJan 17, 2023Can’t tellIn Price Harry's 2023 memoir "Spare," he wrote that his father's "I've got your nose" joke resulted in "torment" that "haunts me to this day."SnopesJan 17, 2023TrueFormer U.S. President Jimmy Carter said, “Robert E. Lee was a man who understood the values of a region which he represented. He was never filled with hatred. He never felt a sense of superiority. He led the southern cause with pride, yes, but with a sense of reluctance as well. He fought his battles courageously.”SnopesJan 17, 2023TrueA Facebook live video taken by a passenger in a Nepal Yeti Airlines flight captures the moments right before the crash in mid-January 2023.SnopesJan 17, 2023TrueWhile campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa, for the U.S. presidency in August 2019, former Vice President Joe Biden said, "We choose truth over facts."SnopesJan 16, 2023