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“Image shows Fox Business graphic titled “Tim Walz’s Communist Agenda.”
PolitiFact says: This image was altered. A graphic that Fox Business aired Aug. 7 was titled, "Tim Walz’s economic scorecard" and did not include any information about a "communist agenda."
“Israel attacked Palestinians by placing a time bomb inside a corpse.”
“Kamala Harris is a fake. If she wants to build the border wall, she could start right now!”
FactCheck.org says: Harris has not indicated a change on Trump’s border wall. She has only said she’d sign a compromise border bill that allowed money appropriated during the Trump administration to be used for border wall construction.
“La Belgique est "le pays le plus taxé au monde”
“Milanović motivira narod! 🏆”
Du-Check says: Na Instagramu je 28. kolovoza 2024. objavljen videozapis koji navodno prikazuje predsjednika Zorana Milanovića kako poziva građane na odlazak u kasino i kockanje. Video koristi lik i glas Zorana Milanovića, ali je zapra…
“morre cantor sertanejo Daniel #foryou morre cantor Daniel ninguém”
“Plusieurs affirmations de Kamala Harris et Tim Walz ont été vérifiées”
“The Inflation Reduction Act, what we have done to invest ... probably a trillion dollars over the next 10 years, investing in a clean energy economy. What we've already done creating over 300,000 new clean energy jobs.”
FactCheck.org says: Not all the funding has come from the IRA, and her jobs figure is an estimate based on announced projects.
“The proposal to put golf courses, hotels in Florida state parks “was something that was leaked. … a lot of that stuff was half-baked and was not ready for prime time.”
PolitiFact says: The initiative to build golf courses, hotels and more in nine Florida state parks was not an undeveloped idea. There were publicly shared plans, documents and scheduled public meetings across the state.
“The video shows an Islamic rally in Kolkata celebrating recent developments in Bangladesh”
“There’s no such thing as menopause.”
PolitiFact says: Numerous clinics and medical groups confirm menopause exists and is defined as the point at which a person has naturally gone 12 months without a period.
“This image show Sanjay Roy, the primary suspect in Kolkata's RG Kar rape, and murder case cutting a cake with former Principal Sandip Ghosh.”
“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”
PolitiFact says: Three Republican-led states — Alabama, Texas and Virginia — have taken steps to remove or flag ineligible people on the voter rolls, since at least 2021. But there are several unknowns about the list.
“Video shows miscreants vandalizing a railway track in India.”
FACTLY says: This viral video is from Karachi, Pakistan, and shows local children living near the railway track stealing railway equipment in the Boat Basin area of Karachi.
“Videos muestran a Kamala Harris ebria.”
PolitiFact says: La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris se paró y aplaudió varias veces durante la primera noche de la Convención Nacional Demócrata en Chicago. Ella permaneció sentada cuando la multitud la aplaudió durante los comentarios de e
“A man ended his life in Kerala by jumping into the water after losing his home and family in the 2024 Wayanad landslides”
FACTLY says: The incident occurred on 30 June 2024, in Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur, Philippines. The video captures Ramil Dulay, a local resident who was reportedly intoxicated, falling into floodwaters and being swept away. His body …
“A video claiming to show an Al Jazeera video report stating that UAE has frozen a contract to purchase 80 fighter aircraft from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.”
“Andhra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu criticising Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan”
“Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you're ultimately much better off.”
PolitiFact says: Surveys have shown that the vast majority of economists believe tariffs’ negative impacts — which include higher costs for consumers — consistently outweigh the benefits. Academic studies bolster those views.