“A tunnel connected a Brooklyn synagogue to a children's museum.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 10 Jan 2024.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
Officials ordered an illegal tunnel adjacent to a Brooklyn synagogue be stabilized. Posts baselessly claimed the tunnel was for child sex trafficking. But it apparently resulted from a dispute over synagogue expansion.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 10 January 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 January 2024, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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