“CNN is recycling crisis actors in reports about a man dying in Afghanistan in 2021 and at the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting in 2022.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 25 May 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
A bogus tweet from accounts masquerading as CNN falsely asserted that the same man died in multiple events. CNN did not make these reports.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 25 May 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 May 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.