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Seen this video that purportedly shows the view of a drone flying between trees to reveal a man being chased by a bear? We uncovered evidence that suggests the video shows a clever mix of CGI technology with drone footage. https://snopes.com/fact-check/drone-video-bear-snow/…

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Was This 9-pound Goldfish Found in a South Carolina Lake?

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Yes, a photo shows a group of mutated daisies in Japan. But they are not proven to have mutated due to radiation from the power plant.

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Are Mutated Daisies Growing Near Fukushima?

A photograph purportedly shows mutated Shasta daisies growing near the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

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Did Jack Black's Mom Help Create Abort System That Rescued Apollo 13 Astronauts?

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Does Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Contain Aborted Fetal Cells?

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That Picture of Betty White Flipping the Bird is Fake

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Does Time-Lapse Video Show Europa and Io Orbiting Jupiter?

To find answers, we turned to the video's creator: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Kevin M. Gill.

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Was This a Coffee Machine for the Volkswagen Beetle?

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Social media posts are rehashing and misinterpreting the details of a 1980s clinical drug trial. Here are the facts.

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Fauci's Guinea Pigs? Smear Campaign Rehashes 1980s HIV Clinical Drug Trial

Social media posts falsely claim that Dr. Anthony Fauci "murdered disabled children" in pursuit of an AIDS vaccine in the 1980s.

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False. The picture that showed these gas prices at a Circle K in Lancaster, California, was real. However, the gas station was surrounded by a construction fence and was not yet open to the public.

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Did Gas Prices Rise to $6.99 in Lancaster, California?

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Your daily reminder to use a search engine or credible news website to verify whether a social media post contains truth before deciding to share it.

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The 'Police Bulletin' About Chemical-Doused Masks Is a Hoax

For starters, the "police bulletin" was not a real police bulletin.

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The tweet was an apparent political jab at U.S. President Joe Biden.

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No, Mitt Romney Didn't Say This About Jill Biden

Romney supposedly tweeted that the first lady ought to win an Oscar for portraying "an Alzheimer's care giver posing as a loving wife."

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False. The meme is inaccurate, and appears to have been intended as a prank at the expense of politically conservative social media users.

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No, 'Let's Go Brandon' Is Not a Code Used by Pedophiles Online

A widely-shared meme appeared to be a distasteful prank at the expense of right-leaning critics of President Joe Biden.

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Real or not, very very creepy.

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The Legend of 'Sprinkles the Killer Clown'

"According to pictures taken recently on a trail cam in eastern Kentucky, Sprinkles could very well still be alive," according to the urban legend.

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Is This How Grains of Salt Look Under a Microscope?

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People across the country have reported giving too much personal information for “tests” that never returned results, or trying to reserve appointments that never actually happened.

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4 Tips To Help You Avoid Fake COVID-19 Tests

Whether getting your personal info or money, scammers nationwide are attempting to profit from the omicron era.

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A rhetorical technique commonly employed by anthropogenic climate change deniers is to reference fears some scientists had over the prospect of global cooling in the 1970s.

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FACT CHECK: Did a 1977 'Time' Story Offer Tips on 'How to Survive the Coming Ice Age'?

While a number of media outlets reported on some briefly-lived scientific fears over global cooling in the 1970s, viral images purporting to show a cover story on the topic are doctored.

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Keep a look out for an image supposedly showing a person experiencing a panic attack during a CT scan. It's actually something else.

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A Panic Attack During a CT Scan? Nope.

A lesson on how hoaxes are created resulted in the creation of a hoax.

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Jan 29

Our household tip for today: Be skeptical of incredibly long lists of household tips.

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Can Vinegar on a Slice of Bread Remove Odors from a Garage?

This household cleaning trick assumes you don't mind the smell of vinegar.

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Is This Orangutan Actually Driving a Golf Cart?

This video is an example of the intelligence of one great ape and the opulence of another.

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Jan 29

We present to you the story of “Miracle Mike," a chicken who lived for 18 months with his head cut off in the 1940s.

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Did 'Mike the Headless Chicken' Live for 18 Months After Losing His Head?

Miracle Mike was, quite literally, running around like a chicken with its head cut off in the 1940s.

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Jan 29

Spoiler alert: No one behind these Facebook posts are genuinely giving away $750 on Cash App for free.

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Avoid These $750 Cash App Facebook Scams

We found dozens of the scams within seconds, all with a simple search on Facebook.

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Jan 29

All available evidence suggests that the so-called “freedom convoy” to protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations consists of a few thousand trucks, at most.

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'Freedom Convoy' Size Exaggerated by Miscaptioned Videos

If the "freedom convoy" is as big as people say it is, why are so many videos being miscaptioned to exaggerate its size?

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Here's what's true — and what's false — about this disturbing old story.

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Did a Jameson Whiskey Heir Buy a Slave Girl to Watch Her Get Cannibalized?

In 2021, social media posts referenced a 130-year-old scandal and a horrifying anecdote from a colonial expedition to Africa.

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As the rumor goes, a California substitute teacher made humorous or dismissive remarks when a student expressed his feline alter ego, and in response to this, she was essentially asked not to come back to the school.

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Was a Teacher Fired for Not 'Meowing at Student Who Identifies as a Cat'?

A story shared on TikTok by California substitute teacher Bridget Maas went viral in January 2022.

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Years before his death in January 2022, Meat Loaf recounted a story in which he claimed he almost pushed Prince Andrew into a moat. But this story has never been confirmed or denied by the royal family or the prince.

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Did Meat Loaf Once Try To Push Prince Andrew Into a Moat?

The rocker had a falling out with the royal.

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Nope. This is a simulation video that was created with computer software.

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Is This CCTV Footage of Tonga Volcano Eruption?

There are many incredible videos of the devastating volcanic eruption in Tonga, but this is not one of them.

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Pouring dish soap down drains with heated water can help with minor and common clogs. However, some clogs will need the assistance of a licensed plumber.

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Does Pouring Dish Soap in a Toilet and Tub Remove Clogs?

Pouring dish soap in household plumbing, whether it be a toilet, bath tub, or kitchen sink, has prompted a lot of online tips and warnings.

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Misinformation using race-related propaganda is widely prevalent these days. And such posts have a pattern, often appearing to suggest violence and discrimination against white people through claims of “reverse racism.”

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Snopesing 101: How Snopes Fact Checks Racial Propaganda

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Jan 28

This is a genuine photograph of MLK shooting pool in the 1960s. But the man in the background (on the right with glasses) is not Samuel L. Jackson.

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Is This Samuel L. Jackson with MLK at a Pool Hall?

This is a genuine photo of Martin Luther King Jr., but the man wearing shades in the background isn't Samuel L. Jackson.

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No, an old episode of "The Simpsons" did not predict a protest against Canada's COVID-19 requirements among truck drivers in 2022.

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Did 'The Simpsons' Predict 2022 Canada Trucker Protest?

Two different episodes — and some altered audio — were cut together to make this "prediction."

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Does Time-Lapse Video Show Europa and Io Orbiting Jupiter?

To find answers, we turned to the video's creator: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Kevin M. Gill.

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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews was founded in 1754 and helped administer the rules of golf for 250 years.

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Prince Andrew Gives Up Membership of Prestigious Golf Club

Britain’s Prince Andrew has given up his honorary membership of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.

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Joseph Maldonado-Passage was convicted in a murder-for-hire case involving animal welfare activist Carole Baskin.

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‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic Resentenced to 21 Years in Prison

A federal judge resentenced “Tiger King” Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison, reducing his punishment by just a year after an appeals court ordered a new sentence.

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Claims about the number of trucks involved in the #canadatruckers freedom convoy have grown from 1000 to 10,000 to 50,000 to 150,000. If it's as big as social media users claim, why do they keep miscaptioning videos to exaggerate its size?

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'Freedom Convoy' Size Exaggerated by Miscaptioned Videos

If the "freedom convoy" is as big as people say it is, why are so many videos being miscaptioned to exaggerate its size?

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While this protest against mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for cross-border truckers indeed happened, several social media users have embellished the size (and global appeal) of the convoy.

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'Freedom Convoy' Size Exaggerated by Miscaptioned Videos

If the "freedom convoy" is as big as people say it is, why are so many videos being miscaptioned to exaggerate its size?

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Burrowing owls are the rare extroverts of the raptor world.

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Fake Poop Helps Evicted Owls Settle into New Neighborhood

Settling into a new home can be tough for anyone.

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This conspiracy rumor about still-living “dead” Challenger astronauts is sorely lacking in evidence and cohesiveness.

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FACT CHECK: Are the Crew of the Exploded Challenger Space Shuttle Still Alive?

Conspiracy theory claims the seven astronauts supposedly killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion are quietly living out their lives in the U.S.

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There were minor injuries from the collapse but no fatalities.

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Human Chain Formed to Help After Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse

A two-lane bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh, requiring rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet (46 meters) while others formed a human chain to help rescue occupants of a dangling bus.

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Is Scooby Doo's First Name Actually 'Scoobert'?

Scoobert-doobert-doo — who are you?

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Today marks exactly 36 years since the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven crew members.

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FACT CHECK: Are These the Final Words of the Challenger Crew?

Reports of a secret tape recorded aboard the doomed space shuttle Challenger that captured the final panic-stricken moments of the crew raised suspicions of a cover-up.

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Willow is a 2-year-old, green-eyed, gray and white farm cat from Pennsylvania.

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Here, Kitty: Bidens Welcome Cat Named Willow to White House

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have finally added the long-promised cat to their pet family.

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Important context: Organ transplant centers have, for many years, required would-be recipients to be vaccinated against various diseases.

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Did a Boston Hospital Deny Patient Heart Transplant Over COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal?

The ethics of organ donation and transplantation should be approached with care, and attention to detail.

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Kiribati has now opened multiple quarantine sites, declared a curfew and imposed lockdowns.

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COVID Hits One of the Last Uninfected Places on the Planet

When the coronavirus began spreading around the world, the remote Pacific archipelago of Kiribati closed its borders, ensuring the disease didn't reach its shores for nearly two full years.

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Keep a look out for this video of a truck convoy that's being misrepresented as a protest against COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Did US Truckers Join Canadian 'Freedom Convoy'?

Some 300 trucks did participate in a "Freedom Convoy" in Canada to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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Here, we looked into Biden’s history of draft deferments and the circumstances under which he was able to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.

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Did Biden Receive 5 Draft Deferments Because of Asthma?

The president did not serve in the military during the Vietnam War.

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Japanese fascination with the moon has been growing.

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Toyota Heading to Moon with Cruiser, Robotic Arms, Dreams

Toyota is working with Japan's space agency on a vehicle to explore the lunar surface, with ambitions to help people live on the moon by 2040 and then go live on Mars.

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The so-called "freedom convoy" was protesting Canada's requirement for cross-border truckers to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

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Did 50,000 'Freedom Convoy' Trucks Set Guinness World Record?

The vast majority of truck drivers in Canada are vaccinated.

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Yes, gay men incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps during World War II were forced back into prison even after the Allied forces won that conflict.

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Were Gay Concentration Camp Prisoners 'Put Back in Prison' After World War II?

An online comedy series highlighted the fact that the end of the war did not mean the end of persecution for many gay German men.

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Nope. We can say for certain this “Nazi Coke ad” was not an authentic Nazi-era advertisement.

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Did Coca-Cola Run 'Coke Ist Es' Ads in Nazi Germany?

"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Getrank" ("One People, One Realm, One Drink") read a supposed Nazi-era Coca-Cola ad shared widely in 2021. But was it "the real thing"?

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There's no evidence that this picture purportedly taken in China shows people working on behalf of the official store for Trump merchandise.

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Does Photo Show Official 'Trump 2024' Flags Made in China?

The slogan on the "Trump 2024" flags read, "Save America Again!"

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True. Thessaloniki, Greece, saw over 95% of its Jewish population murdered by Nazis.

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Is Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla the Son of Holocaust Survivors?

Thessaloniki, with a population of nearly 50,000 Jews, fell under German occupation in April 1941.

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Does This Photo Show Wedding Rings Taken from Holocaust Victims?

“Every wedding ring here represents a home broken and a human murdered by the Germans."

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"During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris. So now I always buy it," a woman supposedly said while buying the jelly in a grocery store.

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Did Bonne Maman Co. Shelter People During the Holocaust?

The founders of the jam company can trace their business roots back to a small village in France.

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A minute each? It would take more than 11 years.

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How Long Would a Moment of Silence for Each Holocaust Victim Take?

Snopes fact checks a meme that aims to represent the overwhelming scale and enormity of Holocaust in an easily assimilable form.

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Nope. In reality, this photo is a screenshot from a movie that was released in the year 2000.

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Does Photo Show Last Queen of Mongolia Before Execution?

A viral tweet and a Reddit post on r/pics purported to show "the last photo of the last queen of Mongolia, just before she was killed in 1938."

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Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for the work that tells the story of his Jewish parents living in 1940s Poland.

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Book About Holocaust Banned in Tennessee School District

The McMinn County School Board decided Jan. 10 to remove “Maus” from its curriculum.

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The anonmoyus letter was delivered to his wife, Coretta Scott King, along with a package that contained a tape that allegedly bore evidence of King’s sexual misconduct.

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Did the FBI Send MLK a Letter Telling Him To Kill Himself?

The anonymous letter purported to reveal secrets about Martin Luther King Jr.’s sex life.

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A video of an August 2021 truck convey that was participating in an annual fundraiser for the Special Olympics is being misrepresented as a protest against COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Did US Truckers Join Canadian 'Freedom Convoy'?

Some 300 trucks did participate in a "Freedom Convoy" in Canada to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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Yes, this happened last year.

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Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Liken US Congress' COVID-19 Rules to the Holocaust?

One of the Georgia congresswoman's Republican colleagues described her remarks as "evil lunacy."

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While it's true that truck drivers participated in a convoy across Canada in protest of mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, the so-called "freedom convey" hasn't earned a place in the Guinness World Records book.

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Did 50,000 'Freedom Convoy' Trucks Set Guinness World Record?

The vast majority of truck drivers in Canada are vaccinated.

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Avoid These $750 Cash App Facebook Scams

We found dozens of the scams within seconds, all with a simple search on Facebook.

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"I don’t give a shit who you are, you’re goin’ in the moat," Meat Loaf recalled of the argument.

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Did Meat Loaf Once Try To Push Prince Andrew Into a Moat?

The rocker had a falling out with the royal.

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Friends, be on alert for vids/posts that fall into this category of Holocaust denialism. The UN reports 17% of Holocaust content on TikTok either denies or distorts historical evidence. That's a terrifying statistic.

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Meanwhile, there is a relatively new form of Holocaust denialism — dubbed “soft denialism.” These people don’t deny the Holocaust outright but attempt to trivialize it instead. https://snopes.com/news/2017/04/14/how-holocaust-denial-works/…

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All of this said, it's a fact that ~6 million European Jews were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany & its collaborators in a state-sponsored program of genocide. Observing a one-minute moment of silence for each victim would take over 11 years. End.

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How Long Would a Moment of Silence for Each Holocaust Victim Take?

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The increasing popularity of "soft denialism" has seemingly followed the same curve as that of right-wing nationalist movements worldwide in recent years.

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How Holocaust Denial Works

What motivates some people to reject the overwhelming historical evidence and claim the Holocaust never occurred?

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Meanwhile, there is a relatively new form of Holocaust denialism — dubbed “soft denialism.” These people don’t deny the Holocaust outright but attempt to trivialize it instead.

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How Holocaust Denial Works

What motivates some people to reject the overwhelming historical evidence and claim the Holocaust never occurred?

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The notion, widespread among deniers, that Jews “invented” or “exaggerated” the Holocaust to further their own interests hearkens back to a centuries-old conspiracy theory positing a secret “cabal” of wealthy Jewish bankers seeking world domination.

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How Holocaust Denial Works

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Some Holocaust deniers are self-styled “historical revisionists” — meaning they present themselves as earnest re-interpreters of historical data — but it’s a misnomer. Scratch the surface of your typical Holocaust denier & you will find an anti-Semite.

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How Holocaust Denial Works

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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. And while the world reflects, a group of naysayers try to convince others that the genocide of European Jews never happened. They are known (to everyone but themselves) as Holocaust deniers. A thread

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How Holocaust Denial Works

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Update: We found where the video originated (TikTok) and ended up learning more about the drone and VFX/animation software that was used by the clever creator in other videos.

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Is Drone Video of a Bear Chasing a Man in Snow Real?

The video was posted to the r/Unexpected subreddit on Reddit with the caption: "Such a lovely day to test out my drone."

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17% of content related to the Holocaust on TikTok either denied or distorted the Holocaust.

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World Remembers Holocaust As Antisemitism Rises in Pandemic

International Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the death camps.

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Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint), this product isn't real.

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Is 'Squeez Bacon' a Real Product?

Squeez Bacon, the "fully cooked 100% bacon paste that could be squeezed from a tube," allegedly has its roots in WWII.

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For years, an image comparing "the new Antifa flag" and a swastika-bearing flag of Nazi-era Germany has made its way around conservative blogs and websites.

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Does the Antifa Flag Resemble a Nazi Flag?

A political group without an official flag has nonetheless been represented by many photoshopped ones.

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Steller’s sea eagle is one of the largest eagles in the world.

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Rare Eagle Seen in Maine, Wowing Birders, Might Stay a Bit

A rare species of eagle that has thrilled bird lovers and baffled scientists since arriving in Maine last month might not be in a hurry to leave.

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Simply put, the infrastructure bill requires that lawmakers establish regulations to include technology in new vehicles that would limit or prevent impaired driving, but it does not define the parameters of said technology.

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Does Infrastructure Bill Require Surveillance System in New Vehicles to Track Drivers?

The bill was said to require a "kill switch" that law enforcement could use to "shut your car off."

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The streaks by Schneider and Amodio have helped ease “Jeopardy!” past the mishandled replacement of its admired host, the late Alex Trebek.

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'Jeopardy! Champion Amy Schneider's History-Making Run Ends

“Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider’s dazzling streak is over, snapped by a Chicago librarian after 40 consecutive wins and nearly $1.4 million in prize money.

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Think twice before sharing this piece of text that is falsely attributed to actor Morgan Freeman.

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No, Morgan Freeman Isn't Telling People to Stop Taking COVID-19 Tests

One way to attract attention to an opinion is to pretend someone popular said it.

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The video is authentic and does show a real worm moving about inside a green bell pepper. The worm was likely to be a mermithid nematode, and therefore harmless to humans.

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Does a Video Show a Dangerous Worm in a Bell Pepper?

An unappetizing video clip went viral in August 2019.

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Seen the video? It's real. https://bit.ly/345F2dO

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This image purportedly showing a vintage ad touting the health benefits of butter has been circulating online for several years.

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Does a Vintage Advertisement Show Boy Eating a Stick of Butter?

An image purportedly showing a vintage advertisement for butter was created as a joke.

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