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Chelsea J. Carter
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Editor. Writer. Producer. All-around newshound. Breaking news survivor. Senior editor/International Teams Manager at Lead Stories (@leadstories.bsky.social) Just the facts, please.
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Fact Check: Meta Did NOT Add New Tags On Threads Posts To Warn That Certain Users Are Suspected Of Membership In Antifa -- Meme Appears To Mock Trump Administration War On Antifa
#CheckTok #Meta #Threads #Antifa #FactCheck
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September 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Did the Nobel Committee quietly remove President Donald Trump's name from the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize? No, that's not true: The nominations list for a Nobel Peace Prize is private, and not made public until 50 years after it is awarded.

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Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE The Nobel Committee Removed Trump's Name From Peace Prize Nominee List | Lead Stories
Did the Nobel Committee quietly remove President Donald Trump's name from the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize?...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Fact Check: AI Image Shows European Leaders Waiting On Chairs In White House Corridor -- Not Real Photograph
Fact Check: AI Image Shows European Leaders Waiting On Chairs In White House Corridor -- Not Real Photograph
Does a viral image authentically show several European leaders like Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen sitting on chairs in a White House corridor? No, that's not true: The image did not appear on any news sites. It contained...
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August 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Stories from @leadstories.com: Now also via Yahoo! News...

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July 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Meta fired its fact-checkers, citing concerns of liberal bias, and replaced them with a version of X's "Community Notes." How's that going?

Well, my coworker @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social proposed 65 fact-checks debunking false posts... and only 3 got approved. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement.
Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.
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August 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Curious about the case of missing hikers "Sarah Bennett" and "Andrew Miller"?

* Google gives you two bogus videos, a summary of the fake story and a link to it on Facebook above the fact check that explains it is all fake.

* Bing gives you the fact check in position one

* So does DuckDuckGo
July 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Fact Check: Trump Organization Epstein Letter Image Does NOT Match Description In Wall Street Journal -- Several Differences
Fact Check: Trump Organization Epstein Letter Image Does NOT Match Description In Wall Street Journal -- Several Differences
Does a viral image match the description of the birthday note Donald Trump sent to Jeffrey Epstein as given in a July 17, 2025 Wall Street Journal story? No, that's not true: Several elements in the image do not match...
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July 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show July 2025 Texas Flooding In Which '14 Childern' Were Among 'At Least 60 Dead' -- Viral Video Mixes AI Video With Clips From Non-Texas Floods
Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show July 2025 Texas Flooding In Which '14 Childern' Were Among 'At Least 60 Dead' -- Viral Video Mixes AI Video With Clips From Non-Texas Floods
Does a viral video of flood scenes include real clips of the 2025 Independence Day Weekend flooding in Kerr County, Texas? No, that's not true: The opening scene is an obvious product of generative AI. None of the clips in...
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July 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Stealing a Club World Cup Player's Medal
Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Stealing a Club World Cup Player's Medal
Did a video show U.S. President Donald Trump stealing the winner's medal of a player after the football Club World Cup Final in July 2025? No, that's not true: The medal in Trump's hands was earlier given to him by...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Fact Check: FAKE 'Sheriff Larry Leda Applying For Green Card For Mexican Rescue Team' Video Misspells Name -- No Media Reports
Fact Check: FAKE 'Sheriff Larry Leda Applying For Green Card For Mexican Rescue Team' Video Misspells Name -- No Media Reports
Is a viral video a real news report about a "Sheriff Larry Leda" saying he'd apply for a green card for the Mexican rescue team that saved his family? No, that's not true: The footage in the viral video came...
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July 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Comparing Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo on a recent fake story about a "Sheriff Larry Leda":

Google: AI Overview repeating the false claim, fact check in 9th position.

Bing: Fact check in 1st position

DuckDuckGo: Fact check in 1st position

But sure, stop using ClaimReview, Google...
July 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Fact Check: Image Claiming Kamala Harris Got 68M Votes Does NOT Correctly Represent 2024 Election Results
Fact Check: Image Claiming Kamala Harris Got 68M Votes Does NOT Correctly Represent 2024 Election Results
Did Democratic nominee and then-sitting Vice President Kamala Harris get 68 million votes in 2024? No, that's not true: In reality, she got more than 75 million, according to data on the Federal Election Commission website. That's fewer than Joe...
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July 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Ask Americans to 'Focus on Mexicans and Flooding' Instead of the 'Epstein Files'
Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Ask Americans to 'Focus on Mexicans and Flooding' Instead of the 'Epstein Files'
Did President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post, ask the public to "focus on Mexicans and flooding" rather than whether he is "all over the Epstein files"? No, that's not true: A widely-shared screenshot which appeared to show such...
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July 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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3 months into Meta’s pivot to Community Notes, the company has yet to share any data about its crowdsourced moderation feature.

With help from three @indicator.media readers in the pilot, I tried to piece together how it’s going:

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A first look at Meta’s Community Notes
Zuckerberg's pivot to crowdsourcing features three jacked dudes, a flirty farmer, and some useful notes
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June 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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UPDATE: An ICE spokesperson said Lame was briefly "detained" on June 6, 2025 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after he overstayed the terms of his visa but was granted "voluntary departure" on the same day, which does not carry the same consequences as a deportation order. #factcheck
June 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Fact Check: Khaby Lame NOT Under Arrest Or Deported By ICE -- Old Screenshot, Granted Voluntary Departure | Lead Stories
Is TikTok influencer Khaby Lame currently under arrest by ICE and was he "deported"? No, that's not true: A video...
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June 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Most screenshots of Trump vs. Elon posts today are fake again...

Nature is healing.

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Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Post 'Pigfoot' Message On X -- Fake Screenshot | Lead Stories
Did Elon Musk send a cryptic tweet with the hashtag "#PIGFOOT" on June 6, 2025 following his public falling-out with...
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June 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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During his incendiary Oval Office meeting with South Africa's president, Trump played a video that he said showed "burial sites" for "over a thousand of white farmers." Except it didn't. @rileymellen.bsky.social and Aric Toler fact check.
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Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t.
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May 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Did the footage shown to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 21, 2025, in the Oval Office capture a mass grave of "over 1,000 of white farmers", as claimed by U.S. President Donald Trump? No, that's not true: The video showed a 2020 temporary memorial, not a burial site. #factcheck
Fact Check: 'White Genocide' Video Played In Oval Office Does NOT Show Actual 'Burial Sites' Of White Farmers In South Africa | Lead Stories
Did the footage shown to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 21, 2025 in the Oval Office capture a...
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May 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Did a photograph shared online show the victims of a May 21, 2025, shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington D.C.? No, that's not true: The Israeli embassy named Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim as the two embassy staff shot dead. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2... #factcheck
Fact Check: Photo of Two Men With Israeli Flags Does NOT Show Embassy Staff Shot Dead Outside Jewish Museum | Lead Stories
Did a photograph shared online show the victims of a May 21, 2025 shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington...
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May 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Fact Check: Pam Bondi Did NOT Say 'It's Illegal to Call Yourself The Boss'
Fact Check: Pam Bondi Did NOT Say 'It's Illegal to Call Yourself The Boss'
Did Attorney General Pam Bondi say "It's illegal to call yourself 'The Boss' if you're not in charge of the entire country"? No, that's not true: A fake Fox News graphic containing the fabricated quote originated on the Facebook page...
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May 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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UN's Statement About 14,000 Children Dying In 48 Hours In Gaza Without New Humanitarian Aid: What We Know
UN's Statement About 14,000 Children Dying In 48 Hours In Gaza Without New Humanitarian Aid: What We Know
Did the UN say that 14,000 babies would die if there is no aid to Gaza in 48 hours? Yes, the organization's representative did cite such a figure, but that figure appears to have been drawn from a UN prediction...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Did a legitimate news report reveal the Harris presidential campaign made an illegal $200,000 payment for travel expenses to Beyoncé for appearing at a rally in 2024? No, that's not true: A satire site created that story to trick conservatives into sharing it as real. #trump #factcheck #beyonce
Fact Check: Kamala Harris Campaign Did NOT Illegally Pay Beyoncé $200,000 For A Campaign Rally Appearance -- Satire Site Posted Claim As Troll Bait | Lead Stories
Did a legitimate news report reveal the Kamala Harris presidential campaign was making an illegal $200,000 payment for travel expenses...
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May 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM