Claim:Stand-up comedian Bill Maher experienced a “tense exchange” during an interview with U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” during or prior to early May 2025. Rating: A rumor shared online in...
Claim:In May 2025, Trump said of the conflict between India and Pakistan: “Why don’t you let them fight? Why are we getting in the middle of it? I said let them fight.” Rating: Context While the clip is authentic, it is from 2019. Trump was...
Claim:Video authentically shows Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour explaining why she permanently removed U.S. President Donald Trump from the Met Gala invitation list. Rating: A video circulating on social media in early May 2025 claimed to show Anna Wintour,...
Claim: Pope Francis donated a “popemobile,” one of the vehicles the late pope used for transportation, to a Catholic relief organization to convert the vehicle into a mobile health unit for children in Gaza. Rating: In early May 2025, rumors spread that...
Over the years, online users have shared a World War II-era photo allegedly showing a female war worker in Arizona writing a thank-you note to her Navy boyfriend for sending her a signed Japanese soldier’s skull. For example, on March 20, 2025, a Facebook user...
Claim: An image circulating online in late April and early May 2025 authentically showed a Time magazine cover featuring the words, “Hey, Donald” and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney holding up his middle finger. Rating: An image supposedly showing a...
