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FalseA group of 300 bikers shut down a Walmart store because an employee made an 89-year-old military veteran crawl on the floor to pick up his spilled change.SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseAs of August 2025, Florida had banned "The Diary of Anne Frank" in its schools.SnopesAug 29, 2025MixedA video posted to Will Smith's official social media accounts shows genuine shots of the entertainer singing during his 2025 concert tour, intercut with AI-generated crowd footage of people who do not exist.SnopesAug 29, 2025FalseU.S. Vice President JD Vance was accurate in saying that every major conflict in human history had ended with a negotiation.SnopesAug 29, 2025FalseA Vanity Fair cover featured first lady Melania Trump as “The American Queen.”Said by X postsPolitiFactAug 29, 2025FalseMinneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman was Jewish.SnopesAug 29, 2025TrueIn August 2025, federal immigration agents arrested two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire in Washington state.SnopesAug 29, 2025Can’t tellAn image authentically shows an antifa-vandalized banner of U.S. President Donald Trump on the Department of Labor's building in Washington, D.C., including the addition of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the alteration of the words "American Workers First" to read "Pedophiles First."SnopesAug 29, 2025Can’t tellChief Justice of the United States John Roberts said, "I'm worried that President Trump is stretching the rubber band of democracy in ways it simply has never been stretched before."SnopesAug 29, 2025MixedFollowing the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”Said by Chris MurphyPolitiFactAug 28, 2025MixedIn August 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order making the burning of the American flag punishable by one year in jail.SnopesAug 28, 2025TrueA large banner of U.S. President Donald Trump was placed on the Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C., in August 2025.SnopesAug 28, 2025FalseVideos that surfaced in August 2025 accurately reported that U.S. President Donald Trump told former U.S. President Barack Obama, "Sit down, boy."SnopesAug 28, 2025TrueIn response to U.S. President Donald Trump claiming Washington, D.C., restaurants were closing due to crime, chef José Andrés wrote on X: “[It's] a flat out lie that half the restaurants have closed because of safety ... but restaurants will close because you have troops with guns and federal agents harassing people ... making people afraid to go out.”SnopesAug 28, 2025TrueA mural symbolizing North and South America working together was painted on the Mexican side of the U.S-Mexico border wall in Tijuana.SnopesAug 27, 2025TrueA chart based on legitimate research accurately showed that homophobic views declined in countries around the world from 1993 to 2024.SnopesAug 27, 2025FalseIn August 2025, social media posts and websites accurately reported Oprah Winfrey was endorsing a "pink salt trick" for weight loss.SnopesAug 27, 2025Can’t tellThe U.S. National Guard refused to deploy in Chicago, citing bone spurs.SnopesAug 27, 2025FalseIn Washington, D.C., “We always have a murder a week.”Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactAug 27, 2025FalseMike Holmgren, former coach of the Green Bay Packers, died in late August 2025.SnopesAug 27, 2025TrueAs of late August 2025, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex abuse planned to hold a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3, 2025.SnopesAug 27, 2025Can’t tellU.S. President Donald Trump once said the Japanese came through the Panama Canal to attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941.SnopesAug 27, 2025FalseDuring a televised debate in early August 2025, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett used quotes from the Bible to challenge U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.SnopesAug 26, 2025TrueMiami and Tampa have each reached triple-digit temperatures only once since temperatures have been recorded.SnopesAug 26, 2025