Maarten Schenk

Psst... Google @searchliaison.bsky.social there's a fact check available about this AI generated image you know...

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

All the old people on Facebook and X are upset over this image...

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Hard to keep up...

Yes, a Kid Rock show got canceled.

No, not that one.

The Armenian version of "Sir, this is a Wendy's"?

Uh, oh, Elmo!

Screenshot of a fact check retweeted by Elon Musk

When Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong suddenly like fact-checking apparently...

More Epstein fun... a simple OCR scanning error has sent the conspiracy theory set into a frenzy...

I *knew* @grok would be in the Epstein files...

If you can't put the finger on why this video is fake, here's a fact check ;-)

Fact Check: 'Chair Chase' Video Of ICE Agents Chasing Huge Hand Giving 'The Finger' On Minneapolis Street Is NOT Real -- AI Made This Joke Is a video showing ICE agents chase a man, who is sitting in an office chair covered by a large hand "giving the middle finger," down a Minneapolis street real? No, that's not true: The short video originated on social...

Fact Check: 'Chair Chase' Video Of ICE Agents Chasing Huge Hand Giving 'The Finger' On Minneapolis Street Is NOT Real -- AI Made This Joke

He did post something with the words "gun" and "criminals" but he didn't post this...

What We Know About Claim Alex Pretti, Was Disarmed Seconds Before He Was Shot and Killed by ICE Agent Does video show an ICE agent taking a gun away from Alex Pretti two seconds before another ICE agent began shooting Pretti? A frame-by-frame look at the first viral video of the incident shared on social media does show a...

What We Know About Claim Alex Pretti, Was Disarmed Seconds Before He Was Shot and Killed by ICE Agent

OMG, @leadstories.com fact check in a visible Community Note under an X post from The White House.

Read the fact check here:
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

The White House is posting digitally manipulated arrest pictures...

Karoline Leavitt announced that Belgium joined Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds.

Oud-rector Rik Torfs gebruikt onbestaande citaten in zijn recentste boek 'Waarheid' | VRT NWS: nieuws In het recente boek van oud-rector van de KU Leuven Rik Torfs staan minstens 7 citaten die niet kloppen. Dat blijkt uit een analyse van VRT NWS. De citaten komen niet voor in de bronnen waarnaar Torfs...

"Ik had fact checkers moeten gebruiken." - Rik Torfs

(Oh, nee, wacht, als dat een parafrase was van wat hij had moeten zeggen dan moet dat zonder aanhalingstekens zeker? Ik zal het aanpassen in de volgende druk van deze post...)

vrtnws.be/p.LNGQp7xVp

I'm not "pardoning your French" if you are misinterpreting a clip of a TV guest saying

"Ukraine stopped sharing intelligence out of concern for leaks"

with

"Ukraine deliberately shared fake intelligence with the U.S. and saw Russia act on it".

That's not what he said. Not even in French.

Fact Check: French Channel LCI Did NOT Report Ukraine Sent False Strategic Info To US -- Clip Only Mentioned 'Leaks' To Moscow Did a guest in a clip from French TV channel LCI say Ukraine sent false strategic info to US intelligence services which they then observed Russian forces acting upon? No, that's not true: The video clip with guest Vincent Crouzet...

Fact Check: French Channel LCI Did NOT Report Ukraine Sent False Strategic Info To US -- Clip Only Mentioned 'Leaks' To Moscow

"Voor de goei" antwoorden als ze vragen op wie je hebt gestemd...

Twitter down or not working? Current status and problems for the UK Real-time problems for Twitter in the UK. Is the app not working? Can't log in or send tweets? Here you see what is going on.

So this is where we post #xdown now?

downdetector.co.uk/status/twitt...

Man, some of those notifications on X are ghoulish...

He's definitely not "LIVE".

IFCN Statement: U.S. visa bans on international researchers undermine press freedom - Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...

Once more for the people in the back: "Fact checking is the opposite of censorship, it *adds* information."

www.poynter.org/ifcn/2026/if...

Fact Check: Het is 100% zeker dat er geen midterms gepland zijn in oktober.

(Die staan immers op de kalender voor 3 november... waarmee ik verder niets wil zeggen over de twijfel, toekomstvoorspellingen kan je niet fact checken.)

U.S. Department of Labor posts slogan tied to QAnon conspiracy movement.

x.com/USDOL/status...

Ondertussen hebben ze de kop al aangepast...

An 18-month study found that fact-checking on Facebook reduced engagement with false info It also identified weaknesses in Meta's fact-checking program, which faces an uncertain future outside the US

It's been exactly one year since Mark Zuckerberg pulled the plug on the US arm of Meta's fact-checking program.

But the program trundles on everywhere else in the world: I was able to confirm the company has renewed many contracts in 2026, albeit at a steep discount.

You have to see the images in this story...

Is it 2027 next year? Google is not so sure...

www.google.com/search?q=is+...

(archived here: web.archive.org/web/20260106...)