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Sex traffickers are using a zip-tie contraption on the door handles of vehicles “to trick females into looking down and digging for something in their purse to cut with ... Once they’re distracted, boom! They are quickly forced into another vehicle, never to be seen again by their people.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Antifa “are killing our police. Looting our businesses. Assaulting the elderly and burning our churches.”
Publisher’s rating: False
The “SAME DOCTOR” performed the autopsies on “JFK, MLK, Epstein, AND George Floyd.”
Publisher’s rating: False
The posts named Michael Baden and asserted that he performed the autopsies of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Jeffrey Epstein, and George Floyd. The review distinguishes performing an autopsy from other forms of involvement: it says Baden had connections to all four cases, but performed an autopsy only on Floyd, as a secondary examination for Floyd’s family. In the other cases, he served on a panel that re-examined the Kennedy and King deaths, and observed Epstein’s autopsy.
Dejywan Floyd, a Black man arrested April 1 in the fatal shooting of a woman in North Carolina, is George Floyd’s brother.
Publisher’s rating: False
Ghislaine Maxwell’s co-defendants include Beyonce and Kanye West.
Publisher’s rating: False
"When I informed the Department of Justice that we had classified materials potentially in our home. ... The FBI was on my front doorstep the next day. ... When Joe Biden apparently alerted the Department of Justice, 80 days later, they showed up at his office."
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
Before 2020, “crime had been falling, every year, year after year, in the city of Buffalo.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
Elon Musk said, “In some parts of the world, journalists get murdered for crossing the wrong people.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Texas law says a woman who gets an abortion in Texas faces a "$10K fine, life in prison.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Say Jeffrey Epstein is not dead.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Research from related reporting supports that Jeffrey Epstein was dead, rather than alive. The Associated Press excerpt says Epstein “was found dead in a New York jail cell in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges.” It identifies the person and gives the central fact and timing that the claim denies. (S3) A separate report about a document described as Epstein’s possible suicide note provides more detail: it says he was “found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York” on Aug. 10, 2019, and that his death “was ruled a suicide.” The report also places this after his July 2019 indictment on child sex trafficking charges. (S6) These excerpts concern Epstein himself and the claimed question of whether he is dead, not a different person or event. They directly contradict the claim. This account is based on the supplied related reporting; it does not describe an investigation by PolitiFact.
“US Navy SEALs are arresting Ron DeSantis” for running a child sex trafficking ring.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
“Cities in notoriously ‘tough on crime’ states like Texas and Florida saw a more significant increase in violent crime than cities in NYS.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
En los vídeos de la detención de George Floyd amenazó con un arma a una mujer embarazada
Publisher’s rating: Falso
“Kamala Harris is the prosecutor who refused to charge the police in the murder of Oscar Grant!”
Publisher’s rating: False
John Fetterman wants to “eliminate life sentences for murderers."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False