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A video shared on X, formerly Twitter, claims to show the recent tsunami in Japan. Don’t ever do this during #tsunami. Stay home stay safe. #earthquake Footage earthquake occurred in #Japan. Footage from the local Shinkansen station in Ishikawa prefecture, extremely powerful shaking! warning has also been issued. #deprem#deprem #deprem #sismo @aascarmedia23 pic.twitter.com/iFdkpnrrZS — Ascar Media

A photo shared on X , formerly Twitter, allegedly shows an article from The New York Times saying Western military experts were “bewildered by low amount of civilian casualties in Ukraine.”  “Experts” pic.twitter.com/rwoErgJNmq — Jeremy MacKenzie◻️ (@Jeremy_MacKenzi) December 31, 2023 Verdict: False This image is digitally altered. The New York Times did not publish this

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has announced it will spend $35 million to reach black, Latino and Asian American and Pacific Islander voters in preparation for 2024 elections as support dwindles. Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have been hemorrhaging support among these demographics that are crucial to their election victories. The initiative will go

A video  shared on social media  purportedly shows trucks full of migrants passing through the border in Arizona. It’s now being reported that trucks filled with illegal immigrants are just smashing straight through the southern border in Arizona. pic.twitter.com/Pb8fkL1qoM — I’LL BE BACK!!! (@DavidYeshua4) December 30, 2023 Verdict: False The claim is inaccurate. The original

A post  shared on social media purportedly shows an image of a Times Square billboard against a ceasefire in Gaza. The image has been digitally altered. Violence is intensifying in the West Bank after Nine Palestinians and Israeli Defense Force officers were killed recently,  The New York Times  reported. Israel is claiming that Hamas is

A post shared on Facebook purports to show a Toronto Sun headline about human feces appearing near a statue of a Hindu god in Brampton. Verdict: False The purported headline is digitally fabricated. According to the actual headline published by the outlet, a 55-foot statue of the Hindu god Hanuman is being built in Brampton.

Connecticut Democratic Sec. of State Stephanie Thomas encouraged voters Monday to vote in person rather than by absentee ballot after fraud concerns. The state holds its primary race on Jan. 23, with Thomas saying the state is working to increase its presence at City Hall but that two officials set to monitor Bridgeport elections “cannot

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is cutting into former President Donald Trump’s lead in the key early primary state of New Hampshire, polling behind him by only single digits for the first time this cycle, according to a Tuesday survey. Trump is ahead of Haley 39% to 32% among likely Republican primary voters in the

A driver crashed into a White House gate Monday evening, the Secret Service said in a statement posted to Twitter. “Not long after 6 p.m., a vehicle collided with the exterior White House gate,” Chief of Communications for the United States Secret Service Anthony Guglielmi posted in a statement on Twitter. President Joe Biden was

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee raised concerns over the defense secretary’s unexplained absence in a statement Monday, breaking the senator’s three-day silence as calls for accountability mounted elsewhere. Committee Chairman Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization, kept hidden for days from his deputy and