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PolitiFact says: The explosion shown in this footage did not happen on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It's from 2022 and happened on Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea and Russia.
PolitiFact says: The ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge is owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and managed by Synergy Marine Group. Andrea Chao has no connection to either company.
PolitiFact says: It's accurate if you look at data from the 4th quarter of 2019 to the 4th quarter of 2023. But Biden didn't serve for part of that time; on his watch, the number of native-born workers rose by 5.7 million.
PolitiFact says: The Tennessee bill does not mention chemtrails. It refers to geoengineering, which is a real practice but not in use in Tennessee. Experts say chemtrails are not real and are part of a conspiracy theory.
PolitiFact says: When The Dali hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, a crew of 22 Indian nationals were aboard, per a spokesperson for the ship's management company. We found no evidence that the captain during the incident was from Ukraine.
PolitiFact says: Sphere Entertainment Co. told PolitiFact this image of the Las Vegas Sphere is not real.
PolitiFact says: Netflix’s film “Leave the World Behind,” does show a cargo ship crashing ashore during a cyberattack. But officials say the Baltimore bridge collapse was an accident, and there is no evidence of a cyberattack.
PolitiFact says: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s quote on infrastructure with racist design choices was from 2021, not after the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s collapse March 26 in Baltimore.
PolitiFact says: The study found that short-term heat exposure can increase inflammation and impair a person’s immune system. It involved participants who were recruited in 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
PolitiFact says: The clips of Macron dancing were altered from footage of a California dance club in the 1980s. The video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy belly dancing was altered from a 2020 video.
PolitiFact says: Wikipedia pages about the bridge collapse do not link the incident to Israel. Anyone can edit Wikipedia pages, so an edited page does not prove that Israel caused the collapse.
PolitiFact says: A March report found that 677,000 Gazans currently face "catastrophic" acute food insecurity. We found no instances in which more people have been classified that way since the IPC system was created in 2004.
PolitiFact says: Nicole Shanahan is 38 years old and will be 39 if the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket wins the 2024 presidential election and she’s sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025. John C. Breckenridge was 36 years old when he became VP.
PolitiFact says: A container ship lost power as it approached the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The ship crashed into a pillar of the bridge, causing the structure’s collapse. Maryland officials said it was an accident.
PolitiFact says: Nickelodeon’s logo was designed in the network’s 2023 rebranding. It was created to create a sense of nostalgia for the network’s early branding, which included a "splat" logo.
PolitiFact says: Un video en Instagram sacó fuera de contexto el audio de un reportaje de 2020 sobre una advertencia solar; no es sobre el eclipse solar de 2024. El audio es de un reportaje de Telemundo de 2020 sobre el mínimo solar.
PolitiFact says: Federal and Maryland officials have said there is no evidence that a cargo ship crashing into a Baltimore bridge was anything other than an accident.
PolitiFact says: Walmart no está regalando laptops de la marca Dell.
PolitiFact says: The groups’ lawsuit seeks to protect Montana from a law they say is vague, not an affirmative right for Montana voters to register to vote in a second state.
PolitiFact says: Estimating the number of bird deaths is difficult, and even the best academic attempts have described broad ranges. However, published data supports both of Holyman-Sigal’s numbers.