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Is IRS Hiring 87K New Agents To Audit Middle-Class Americans? The GOP claimed newly hired tax agents will be "coming after" ordinary Americans.

False

Did Pelosi Say China Is ‘One of the Freest Societies in the World’? U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about her August 2022 trip to Taiwan during...

Correct Attribution

Did a CPAC Banner Say, ‘We Are All Domestic Terrorists’? Another banner at the same conservative conference warned, "You're Next: The Rise of the Democrat...

True

Did Biden Try To Shake Hands with Schumer Twice? Many thought the president looked a little confused at a recent press event.

Unproven

A meme said that before being elected to the presidency Donald Trump said at least six times between August and October 2016 that anyone being investigated by the FBI is not qualified to be the president of the United States.

Did Trump Say ‘Anyone Being Investigated by the FBI Is Not Qualified To Be President’? Occupy Democrats shared a meme with this purported Trump quote after news broke that his...

Research In Progress

Did Trump Issue This Statement About FBI Raid of His Mar-a-Lago Home? The statement compared the actions of FBI agents to that of operatives who "broke into...

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Do Memes Show Same ‘Crisis Actor’ at Multiple Shooting Events? Social media rumors claim the same girl, a "crisis actor," was seen crying at tragedies...

False

Did Kevin Costner Wear a Liz Cheney Shirt? The image of the "Yellowstone" star sporting a white T with a political message on...

Research In Progress

A meme claimed that Adolf Hitler and Marjorie Taylor Greene said we tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity and that our movement is Christian.

Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Echo Hitler’s Exact Words on Christianity? According to a meme, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., repeated Adolf Hitler's words verbatim in...

False

Was Ivana Trump Buried at the Trump National Golf Club? Rumors abound about the New Jersey gravesite of former U.S. President Donald Trump's first wife.

True

US President Donald Trump said without evidence that Biden was misdiagnosed for COVID-19 and instead had dementia and joked that he would be moving into a nursing home in Wisconsin.

Did Trump Say Biden ‘Has Dementia’ and Is Moving to a Wisconsin Nursing Home? Former U.S. President Donald Trump used his own social media platform, Truth Social, to spread...

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Was Barack Obama a Foreign College Student? This rumor took multiple forms during Obama's first year as U.S. president.

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