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Says TikTok found Cassie Compton, who has been missing from Arkansas since 2014.
Publisher’s rating: False
“There’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
"The causation standard in Indiana is exactly the same as it is in Illinois."
Publisher’s rating: True
"A black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
"Last year, there were nine unarmed black people killed (by law enforcement). Nineteen unarmed white people.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa, Ontario were arrested and released “in the middle of nowhere” because the arrests were “illegal.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Jan. 6 defendants “are being held in prison without being charged.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Photos of the alleged Buffalo shooting gunman show two different people.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Photo shows a man who burned the car of an antifa member.
Publisher’s rating: False
Says a bill he sponsored would have made “it easier to get rid of bad cops”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Ukraine is the “money laundering and child sex trafficking capital of the world!”
Publisher’s rating: False
"SIX of the most prominent activists during the Ferguson riots have all been found burned to death in their cars. There are no coincidences here."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
“The gas station where they initially attacked” Kyle Rittenhouse “is owned by his grandparents.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Crime statistics “no longer include data from 30% of the country including the biggest and most violent cities.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Desaparece “una niña de 4 años” en baño de Disneyland en octubre de 2023.
Publisher’s rating: False
Former President Donald Trump was found guilty in the New York criminal trial "by a jury stacked with Biden voters."
Publisher’s rating: Unsupported
David DePape “stripped down to his underwear, grabbed a hammer, and jogged all the way to Nancy Pelosi’s house.”
Publisher’s rating: False
"I'm supposed to go to jail for 187 years," for the 34-count felony conviction in New York state.
Publisher’s rating: False
Andrew Tate was released from prison and “proven not guilty.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Research from related reporting describes Andrew and Tristan Tate as being held in a federal jail in Miami while they fought extradition to the United Kingdom. It says a magistrate scheduled a hearing for August 13 to decide whether they would be released on bail; the report does not say that Andrew Tate had been released or found not guilty. The excerpt therefore conflicts with the claim’s description of his status at that time, but it does not establish the outcome of any later proceeding. The report says UK authorities were preparing an extradition request concerning a combined total of 59 criminal charges, including rape and sex trafficking, and notes that the brothers denied wrongdoing. It also says the Tates had previously been arrested in Romania and were under investigation there over similar allegations. These details describe pending proceedings and allegations, not a verdict. Because the supplied excerpts contain no later court ruling or release outcome, they cannot establish what happened after the reporting described.
A photo shows Donald Trump with “Derek Chauvin - the cop who killed George Floyd.”
Publisher’s rating: False