Friday, August 23, 2024

Checking the Facts

Fri Aug 23 2024

Claim of Travis Kelce fine for anthem kneel started as satire | Fact check

The claim originated as satire in 2023. There are no credible reports from 2024 that Kelce knelt or was ejected or fined for any reason.

It's not unprecedented for a candidate's home state to initially pass during the roll call and cast delegate votes at the end.

A social media claim that Kamala Harris pledged to punish Donald Trump supporters and ignore the Constitution is fabricated.

The image has been online for nearly two years, long before Ukraine's offensive in Russian territory.

The video doesn't show people waiting to get tested for mpox. It shows the wait for a Tim Walz rally in La Vista, Nebraska.

The officers in the video were enforcing a curfew imposed by Walz during the George Floyd protests in 2020.

The 81-year-old actor has no connection to a suspended account using his name, his publicist said. The claim originated months earlier as satire.

A roundup of fact checks about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

A spokesperson for the league said the claim is false. It was taken from a satirical website and reposted.

The original photo was taken in 2011 in Chile. It showed an image of a beached whale, not a mysterious creature as the altered version does.

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