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PolitiFact says: The video posted Aug. 21 ignores that government aid was made available hours after the wildfires started.
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PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Western Standard
Logically Facts rated this: False
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PolitiFact says: The helicopter pilot who took the video that some said showed a flooded Dodger Stadium said there was "significant" water on the surface, but it "primarily displays wet concrete reflected by light."
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El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
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Logically Facts rated this: False
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PolitiFact says: A video claimed to show military planes spreading materials for "geoengineering." We found no evidence of any such weather-modifying activity.
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PolitiFact says: The timing of a book’s publication about the Maui wildfires is not proof that the fires were planned. Details in the book’s online summary and introduction appear to be drawn from publicly available information.
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PolitiFact says: A closer look at a video clip showed the president was blinking and nodding as a speaker spoke. Biden wasn't sleeping.
Mike Pence, former vice president and 2024 presidential candidate
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China was planned months before a Chinese surveillance balloon was spotted over U.S. airspace in February. The meeting was postponed until June.
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PolitiFact says: The original creator of the Bud Light billboard explained in a follow-up video that he fabricated the image appearing on the sign based on a Disney+ billboard.
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PolitiFact says: Una portavoz de la ONU dijo que la organización no ha dado ningún mandato sobre la carne. La ONU no tiene el poder de mandar u obligar a consumir ningún tipo de alimentos a ningún país o persona.
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PolitiFact says: This August caption misses the context that "code red" air quality warnings in the U.S. were removed after a few days.
Steve Kirsch, Anti-vaccine activist
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: An anti-vaccine activist whose claims have been repeatedly debunked falsely stated that federal data shows that COVID-19 vaccines killed 676,000 people in the U.S.
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PolitiFact says: Las vacunas contra COVID-19 aprobadas en los Estados Unidos no contienen óxido de grafeno, según la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés).
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PolitiFact says: There is no evidence Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was "captured" by the U.S. Marine Corps. The article was published by Real Raw News, a website that publishes "humor, parody and satire."
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PolitiFact says: There is no evidence that Russia’s president was assassinated.
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PolitiFact says: The federal government did not declare a "food shortage emergency," despite a claim by a YouTuber user who makes frequent allegations about emergencies.