Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Checking the Facts

Tue Apr 30 2024

Image of Michelle Obama wearing anti-Trump shirt is edited | Fact check

Obama's shirt is digitally altered in the image. The original photo shows the former first lady wearing merchandise for her book.

A spokesperson for the Brookings Institution said she was not aware of such an estimate from the organization.

A satellite image timelapse of one city's coastline is not enough to determine whether or not sea level rise or climate change has occurred.

The organization said no such thing. The claim references the recommendations in a 2021 handbook published by a nonprofit funded by the foundation.

Wisconsin offers free IDs that can be used for voting to people without documents, but it verifies their citizenship first.

The photo of the flyer has been circulating on social media since March, more than a month before an encampment protest began at Columbia University.

The university announced that all classes would be held remotely on April 22 because of protests, but most classes were switched to hybrid after.

A 2013 video filmed on the ISS is a montage of an astronaut's demonstration. The edits did not "fake" objects floating in space.

The image does not show rockets being fired at U.S. targets. It dates back to 2015 and shows Iraqi rockets headed toward Islamic State targets.

Comparing temperatures at one location on two random days does not demonstrate whether or not global warming is occurring.

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