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Fact Check: NO 'Finding The Light' Program By Tom Hanks About Jeffrey Epstein's Sexual Abuse And Trafficking Of Virginia Giuffre -- Viet Spam Posts Made It Up
Fact Check: NO 'Finding The Light' Program By Tom Hanks About Jeffrey Epstein's Sexual Abuse And Trafficking Of Virginia Giuffre -- Viet Spam Posts Made It Up
Did Tom Hanks broadcast a program in 2026 about Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse and trafficking of Virginia Giuffre titled "Finding The Light?" No, that's not true: There has been no broadcast schedule and no real news report that such a...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Fact Check: Joke 3D Rendering Shows Kanye West NOT 14th-Century ruler Mali Ruler Mansa Musa Reconstructed By Harvard Researchers
Did researchers associated with Harvard University create a 3D model of Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire? No, that's not true: This image does not show a forensic and digital reconstruction of Mansa Musa. It is a...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Fact Check: Joke 3D Rendering Shows Kanye West NOT 14th-Century ruler Mali Ruler Mansa Musa Reconstructed By Harvard Researchers
Did researchers associated with Harvard University create a 3D model of Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire? No, that's not true: This image does not show a forensic and digital reconstruction of Mansa Musa. It is a...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
Did Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio say he works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No, that's not true. Tarrio sarcastically replied to a tweet claiming his name appeared on a leaked list of ICE employees, but later clarified that...
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January 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Fact Check: Colbert, Kimmel And Fallon Are NOT Officially Teaming Up For A New 'Freedom Show' -- It's Viet Spam
Fact Check: Colbert, Kimmel And Fallon Are NOT Officially Teaming Up For A New 'Freedom Show' -- It's Viet Spam
Are late-night TV hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon joining together to create a new "Freedom Show"? No, that's not true: This is an unsourced clickbait claim, made up and distributed by a spam network based in Hanoi,...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Fact Check: Joke 3D Rendering Shows Kanye West NOT 14th-Century ruler Mali Ruler Mansa Musa Reconstructed By Harvard Researchers
Did researchers associated with Harvard University create a 3D model of Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire? No, that's not true: This image does not show a forensic and digital reconstruction of Mansa Musa. It is a...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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Fact Check: David Muir Did NOT Launch Into An Anti-Trump Tirade Predicting Martial Law And No Midterms -- Clickbait Story
Did ABC News anchor David Muir "snap" in an on-air tirade against Trump, predicting martial law and no midterm elections? No, that's not true: This story is clickbait. David Muir never said this on-air. The story originated on a clickbait...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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Fact Check: Satirical Post Said Trump Smelled Like Rotten Beef, Farted Audibly During White House Meeting With Oil Executives -- Not Real News
Did an actual news outlet report that an oil executive said Donald Trump "smelled like rotten roast beef" and audibly farted multiple times during a White House meeting with oil industry leaders? No, that's not true: The viral message making...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Fact Check: Satirical Post Said Trump Smelled Like Rotten Beef, Farted Audibly During White House Meeting With Oil Executives -- Not Real News
Did an actual news outlet report that an oil executive said Donald Trump "smelled like rotten roast beef" and audibly farted multiple times during a White House meeting with oil industry leaders? No, that's not true: The viral message making...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Fact Check: Video Of EctoLife Facility Is NOT Reality -- It's Conceptual Presentation Of What Future Could Hold | Lead Stories
Is there a facility that can produce 30,000 lab-grown human babies per year from embryos incubated in artificial wombs? No,...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Fact Check: David Muir Did NOT Launch Into An Anti-Trump Tirade Predicting Martial Law And No Midterms -- Clickbait Story
Fact Check: David Muir Did NOT Launch Into An Anti-Trump Tirade Predicting Martial Law And No Midterms -- Clickbait Story
Did ABC News anchor David Muir "snap" in an on-air tirade against Trump, predicting martial law and no midterm elections? No, that's not true: This story is clickbait. David Muir never said this on-air. The story originated on a clickbait...
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January 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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The Daily NOT - A show about what didn't happen today. Episode 625. #TheDailyNOT

"Don't fall for jokes about ICE, Greenland, Enrique Tarrio and Mansa Musa like many people online did!"
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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Fact Check: Photo Of Arm With 'IV' Was NOT Released By DHS As Evidence Of ICE Agent Jonathan Ross Internal Bleeding -- Old Joke Photo
#CheckTok #FactCheck #DHS #JonathanRoss #ICE #ReneeGood
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January 16, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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Fact Check: Proud Boys Founder Enrique Tarrio Did NOT Say He Is In ICE
#CheckTok #EnriqueTarrio #ProudBoys #ICE #FactCheck
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January 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Fact Check: Joke 3D Rendering Shows Kanye West NOT 14th-Century ruler Mali Ruler Mansa Musa Reconstructed By Harvard Researchers
#CheckTok #KanyeWest #MansaMusa #HarvardUniversity #FactCheck
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January 16, 2026 at 10:20 AM