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Photo shows Elton John wearing a “MAGA” jacket.
Publisher’s rating: False
Ayn Rand said, "The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Kelly Clarkson is promoting weight loss gummies or other diet products.
Publisher’s rating: False
Research from related reporting addresses a specific alleged endorsement: a Jell-O diet said to involve vinegar and baking soda. It reports that Kathy Hilton tried the diet after believing it was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Kelly Clarkson and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Hilton later described discovering that the apparent endorsements were AI versions of the celebrities, rather than genuine promotions. This directly concerns the claim that Clarkson promoted a diet product, but the evidence provided focuses on this Jell-O diet; it does not document a separate gummies promotion.
Says Leonardo DiCaprio gave Ukraine $10 million.
Publisher’s rating: False
Photo shows Queen Elizabeth II being carried across a river by African porters.
Publisher’s rating: False
An MSNBC reporter was fired for using a racial slur while covering the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash.
Publisher’s rating: False
An episode of “The Simpsons” showed Donald Trump in a coffin.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Photo shows “P. DIDDY & KAMALA ‘hanging out’ back in the day."
Publisher’s rating: False
Quotes Benjamin Franklin as saying "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
“Jamaica becomes the first country to make K-pop illegal.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Whoopi Goldberg kept her job and was applauded by ABC after calling Jeanine Pirro a racist slur.
Publisher’s rating: False
Jorge Javier Vázquez hundido por su despido: represalias de VOX
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Says the character Freddy Krueger was based on a real serial killer.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
A video shows Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy singing “Imagine” by John Lennon.
Publisher’s rating: False
“Joe Biden banned ‘religious themed’ eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Images show Katy Perry at the 2024 Met Gala.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Prince Harry and Meghan “have finally signed the divorce papers.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Former slave Nancy Green, the first Aunt Jemima model, died “as one of America’s first black millionaires.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Says Cracker Barrel’s name has racist origins and its logo depicts a whip.
Publisher’s rating: False