“CNN identified "Bernie Gores" as the “first American casualty of the Ukraine crisis.”
Social media posts
Social media posts. Claim dated 23 Feb 2022.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
It is a bogus tweet from a now-suspended Twitter account masquerading as CNN. The image used in the tweet is video gamer Jordie Jordan.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 February 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 February 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20220225214750/https:/twitter.com/CNNUKR
Links recorded by FactCheck.org. Some posts may have been deleted since.
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