War & conflict fact checks

“Donald Trump exposes why 9/11 was an inside job.”

Publisher’s rating: False

China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Photo shows a Russian tank Ukrainians are selling on eBay.

Publisher’s rating: False

“BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Russia will support Iran if the United States attacks Iran’s soil in support of Israel.”

Publisher’s rating: False

"88,000 children are missing. … And unfortunately, many of those children are dead, just like many of the hostages held by Hamas.”

Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios

“Hamas has already said publicly that they plan on attacking Israel again, like they did before, to where they were cutting babies’ heads off to burning women and children alive.”

Publisher’s rating: Caution warranted

"We don’t have an Iron Dome in this country, yet, we’re vulnerable to nuclear missile attacks any given day."

Publisher’s rating: This is misleading

نشرت حسابات وصفحات على منصة إكس مقطع فيديو مدعية أنه يظهر منشاة نفطية في منطقة الخراخير الحدودية مع السعودية لسرقة نفط حضرموت وثقة جندي في قوات درع الوطن.

Publisher’s rating: مضلل

The review says satellite imagery identified the facility as an old, abandoned power station, not an oil facility. It reports that the site and nearby camp became part of Yemen under the June 2000 border-demarcation agreement.

“The Russian army is withdrawing from Ukraine!” in September 2022

Publisher’s rating: False

Former President Donald Trump “was blocked from getting troops out of (Afghanistan) by Liz Cheney and others.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Says Sean Penn’s trip to Ukraine in November is evidence the war is staged.

Publisher’s rating: False

President Joe Biden said: “The idea that we’re going to send tanks to Ukraine, that’s called World War III.”

Publisher’s rating: False

“The Confederacy was more about states’ rights than slavery.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

“Russia is showing off its naval firepower right off the coast of Florida today thanks to Joe Biden and his useful idiots.”

Publisher’s rating: False

“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Three hundred sixty thousand Pennsylvanians fought on the side of the Union to defeat the flag, that Confederate flag, including more Black soldiers coming from Pennsylvania than any other state in the nation.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

"Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq" while "Trump was right" on the war.

Publisher’s rating: Half True

“EXPOSED: Israel’s named victims of ‘October 7th massacre’ are copied from an article that was written in 2014.”

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Images posted pupporting to be those of the Pokot Defense Forces

Publisher’s rating: False.

"Instead of having a counterterrorism capability to have small forces there in — or in the region to be able to take on al-Qaeda if it tried to reconstitute, we decided to engage in nation building. In nation building. That never made any sense to me.”

Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios