Chelsea J. Carter

Fact Check: Meta Did NOT Add New Tags On Threads Posts To Warn That Certain Users Are Suspected Of Membership In Antifa -- Meme Appears To Mock Trump Administration War On Antifa
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Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE The Nobel Committee Removed Trump's Name From Peace Prize Nominee List | Lead Stories Did the Nobel Committee quietly remove President Donald Trump's name from the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize?...

Did the Nobel Committee quietly remove President Donald Trump's name from the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize? No, that's not true: The nominations list for a Nobel Peace Prize is private, and not made public until 50 years after it is awarded.

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Fact Check: AI Image Shows European Leaders Waiting On Chairs In White House Corridor -- Not Real Photograph Does a viral image authentically show several European leaders like Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen sitting on chairs in a White House corridor? No, that's not true: The image did not appear on any news sites. It contained...

Fact Check: AI Image Shows European Leaders Waiting On Chairs In White House Corridor -- Not Real Photograph

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Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

Meta fired its fact-checkers, citing concerns of liberal bias, and replaced them with a version of X's "Community Notes." How's that going?

Well, my coworker @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social proposed 65 fact-checks debunking false posts... and only 3 got approved. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Curious about the case of missing hikers "Sarah Bennett" and "Andrew Miller"?

* Google gives you two bogus videos, a summary of the fake story and a link to it on Facebook above the fact check that explains it is all fake.

* Bing gives you the fact check in position one

* So does DuckDuckGo

Fact Check: Trump Organization Epstein Letter Image Does NOT Match Description In Wall Street Journal -- Several Differences Does a viral image match the description of the birthday note Donald Trump sent to Jeffrey Epstein as given in a July 17, 2025 Wall Street Journal story? No, that's not true: Several elements in the image do not match...

Fact Check: Trump Organization Epstein Letter Image Does NOT Match Description In Wall Street Journal -- Several Differences

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show July 2025 Texas Flooding In Which '14 Childern' Were Among 'At Least 60 Dead' -- Viral Video Mixes AI Video With Clips From Non-Texas Floods Does a viral video of flood scenes include real clips of the 2025 Independence Day Weekend flooding in Kerr County, Texas? No, that's not true: The opening scene is an obvious product of generative AI. None of the clips in...

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show July 2025 Texas Flooding In Which '14 Childern' Were Among 'At Least 60 Dead' -- Viral Video Mixes AI Video With Clips From Non-Texas Floods

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Stealing a Club World Cup Player's Medal Did a video show U.S. President Donald Trump stealing the winner's medal of a player after the football Club World Cup Final in July 2025? No, that's not true: The medal in Trump's hands was earlier given to him by...

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Stealing a Club World Cup Player's Medal

Fact Check: FAKE 'Sheriff Larry Leda Applying For Green Card For Mexican Rescue Team' Video Misspells Name -- No Media Reports Is a viral video a real news report about a "Sheriff Larry Leda" saying he'd apply for a green card for the Mexican rescue team that saved his family? No, that's not true: The footage in the viral video came...

Fact Check: FAKE 'Sheriff Larry Leda Applying For Green Card For Mexican Rescue Team' Video Misspells Name -- No Media Reports

Comparing Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo on a recent fake story about a "Sheriff Larry Leda":

Google: AI Overview repeating the false claim, fact check in 9th position.

Bing: Fact check in 1st position

DuckDuckGo: Fact check in 1st position

But sure, stop using ClaimReview, Google...

Fact Check: Image Claiming Kamala Harris Got 68M Votes Does NOT Correctly Represent 2024 Election Results Did Democratic nominee and then-sitting Vice President Kamala Harris get 68 million votes in 2024? No, that's not true: In reality, she got more than 75 million, according to data on the Federal Election Commission website. That's fewer than Joe...

Fact Check: Image Claiming Kamala Harris Got 68M Votes Does NOT Correctly Represent 2024 Election Results

Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Ask Americans to 'Focus on Mexicans and Flooding' Instead of the 'Epstein Files' Did President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post, ask the public to "focus on Mexicans and flooding" rather than whether he is "all over the Epstein files"? No, that's not true: A widely-shared screenshot which appeared to show such...

Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Ask Americans to 'Focus on Mexicans and Flooding' Instead of the 'Epstein Files'

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A first look at Meta’s Community Notes Zuckerberg's pivot to crowdsourcing features three jacked dudes, a flirty farmer, and some useful notes

3 months into Meta’s pivot to Community Notes, the company has yet to share any data about its crowdsourced moderation feature.

With help from three @indicator.media readers in the pilot, I tried to piece together how it’s going:

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UPDATE: An ICE spokesperson said Lame was briefly "detained" on June 6, 2025 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after he overstayed the terms of his visa but was granted "voluntary departure" on the same day, which does not carry the same consequences as a deportation order. #factcheck

Fact Check: Khaby Lame NOT Under Arrest Or Deported By ICE -- Old Screenshot, Granted Voluntary Departure | Lead Stories Is TikTok influencer Khaby Lame currently under arrest by ICE and was he "deported"? No, that's not true: A video...

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Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Post 'Pigfoot' Message On X -- Fake Screenshot | Lead Stories Did Elon Musk send a cryptic tweet with the hashtag "#PIGFOOT" on June 6, 2025 following his public falling-out with...

Most screenshots of Trump vs. Elon posts today are fake again...

Nature is healing.

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Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t.

During his incendiary Oval Office meeting with South Africa's president, Trump played a video that he said showed "burial sites" for "over a thousand of white farmers." Except it didn't. @rileymellen.bsky.social and Aric Toler fact check.
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Fact Check: 'White Genocide' Video Played In Oval Office Does NOT Show Actual 'Burial Sites' Of White Farmers In South Africa | Lead Stories Did the footage shown to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 21, 2025 in the Oval Office capture a...

Did the footage shown to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 21, 2025, in the Oval Office capture a mass grave of "over 1,000 of white farmers", as claimed by U.S. President Donald Trump? No, that's not true: The video showed a 2020 temporary memorial, not a burial site. #factcheck

Fact Check: Photo of Two Men With Israeli Flags Does NOT Show Embassy Staff Shot Dead Outside Jewish Museum | Lead Stories Did a photograph shared online show the victims of a May 21, 2025 shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington...

Did a photograph shared online show the victims of a May 21, 2025, shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington D.C.? No, that's not true: The Israeli embassy named Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim as the two embassy staff shot dead. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... #factcheck

Fact Check: Pam Bondi Did NOT Say 'It's Illegal to Call Yourself The Boss' Did Attorney General Pam Bondi say "It's illegal to call yourself 'The Boss' if you're not in charge of the entire country"? No, that's not true: A fake Fox News graphic containing the fabricated quote originated on the Facebook page...

Fact Check: Pam Bondi Did NOT Say 'It's Illegal to Call Yourself The Boss'

UN's Statement About 14,000 Children Dying In 48 Hours In Gaza Without New Humanitarian Aid: What We Know Did the UN say that 14,000 babies would die if there is no aid to Gaza in 48 hours? Yes, the organization's representative did cite such a figure, but that figure appears to have been drawn from a UN prediction...

UN's Statement About 14,000 Children Dying In 48 Hours In Gaza Without New Humanitarian Aid: What We Know

Fact Check: Kamala Harris Campaign Did NOT Illegally Pay Beyoncé $200,000 For A Campaign Rally Appearance -- Satire Site Posted Claim As Troll Bait | Lead Stories Did a legitimate news report reveal the Kamala Harris presidential campaign was making an illegal $200,000 payment for travel expenses...

Did a legitimate news report reveal the Harris presidential campaign made an illegal $200,000 payment for travel expenses to Beyoncé for appearing at a rally in 2024? No, that's not true: A satire site created that story to trick conservatives into sharing it as real. #trump #factcheck #beyonce

Does a viral video prove U.S. President Donald Trump refused to drink coffee in Saudi Arabia in May 2025? Find out in The Fact Check, our weekly newsletter. Sign up here: leadstories.com/newsletter #factcheck #factcheckers

Fact Check: FAKE Photos Show Trump 'Shot Again Exiting the White House' in May 2025 Did authentic photos shared in May 2025 show President Donald Trump covered in blood after being "shot again while exiting the White House"? No, that's not true: We found no source or corroboration for the two images in question, which...

Fact Check: FAKE Photos Show Trump 'Shot Again Exiting the White House' in May 2025

This story has *really* taken off in some online circles.

Wait until they find out they've been trolled...

Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows 'Racist Cop' Encounter With a Black 'Navy Seal' -- It's Scripted Did a widely-shared video show an authentic gas station encounter between a "racist cop" and a Black "Navy Seal"? No, that's not true: The video originated on a Facebook page that publishes dramatic, scripted public disputes. The individuals in the...

Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows 'Racist Cop' Encounter With a Black 'Navy Seal' -- It's Scripted

This fake Pope Leo XIV quote calling on people to "Be Woke" has been going viral all weekend long.

Probably because partisans on *both* sides see it as confirming the view their side has of the new Pope.

But sure, Community Notes will fix it.