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Viral image stated on April 4, 2025 in a Facebook post: Video shows South African news outlet reporting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “purchased a controlling stake” in a mine. Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post: Says Cleveland Clinic said, “Millions of COVID-vaxxed will die within ‘5 years.’” Viral image stated on April 2, 2025 in a Facebook post: “White hats to investigate Wisconsin Supreme Court election.” Facebook posts stated on March 30, 2025 in a Facebook post: Photo shows “Pope Francis, shaking the hand of the priest of the Church of Satan.” Viral image stated on March 31, 2025 in a Facebook post: Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.” Facebook posts stated on March 29, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Caitlin Clark stuns the globe, rejects Elon Musk’s $15 million offer.” Viral image stated on April 3, 2025 in a Facebook post: Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s family “must have just overlooked” “cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for a decade and a half.” Viral image stated on March 29, 2025 in a Facebook post: Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.” Facebook posts stated on March 27, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Daughter of boxing legend, Muhammed Ali, Laila Ali, has lost her life while giving birth in a Canadian hospital.” Viral image stated on April 1, 2025 in a Facebook post: Says President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am ending dual citizenship under the Espionage Act and all these traitors will be ‘denaturalized and deported.’” Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post: Photo shows a missing police officer in “extreme danger.” Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post: Images show damage from an “earthquake in Thailand.” Facebook posts stated on March 26, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Elon Musk called for a boycott of ‘The View,’ labeling it ‘a meeting place for ignorant women.’” Viral image stated on March 18, 2025 in an Instagram post: “Man gets plastic surgery and name change to date his ex-girlfriend after she obtains a restraining order.” Viral image stated on March 26, 2025 in a Threads post: Says U.S. Rep. Majorie Taylor Green wrote on X that she is “a product of incest.” Viral image stated on February 20, 2025 in a Facebook post: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on X, “In my first 6 months as HHS secretary … I’ll ban chemtrails.” Instagram posts stated on February 19, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Breaking News: Rep. Ilhan Omar has been removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.” Facebook posts stated on February 17, 2025 in una publicación en Facebook: “Noticia de Ultima Hora! Su Santidad el Papa Francisco ha fallecido” el 24 de febrero del 2025. Instagram posts stated on February 20, 2025 in an Instagram post: “Malia Obama received $2.2 million in funds from USAID.” Facebook posts stated on February 23, 2025 in a Facebook post: Pope Francis died as of Feb. 23, 2025. Viral image stated on February 16, 2025 in an Instagram post: Says Luigi Mangione posted on X, “He who saves his country does not violate any law.” Facebook posts stated on February 19, 2025 in a Facebook post: “The media is showing how Obama’s birth certificate was changed! He was never born in the U.S. so he was never a real president!” Instagram posts stated on February 16, 2025 in an Instagram post: Says Barron Trump posted on X, “We’re on the brink of uncovering a dark legacy in this country that’s been hidden for far too long.” Viral image stated on February 17, 2025 in a Threads post: Says Elon Musk said on X, “Spoiled crybabies across the country are protesting against America’s golden age. Brats like them should go to prison.” Facebook posts stated on February 15, 2025 in an Instagram post: “The very LIBERAL 9th Circuit Court has ruled that 84 of Biden's last-minute pardons are unconstitutional.” Facebook posts stated on February 12, 2025 in a Facebook post: Video shows Barron Trump singing on “America’s Got Talent.” Viral image stated on February 12, 2025 in a Facebook post: Photo shows National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and President Donald Trump at her swearing-in. Viral image stated on February 11, 2025 in a Facebook post: Video shows celebrities wearing T-shirts with graphics of a middle finger and the word “Kanye.” Instagram posts stated on February 10, 2025 in an Instagram post: Says Kash Patel said, “FBI investigation uncovers 256 emails between Adam Schiff and Jeffrey Epstein.” Viral image stated on January 15, 2025 in a Threads post: Photo shows Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wearing a “Make America Mexicana Again” hat.
Viral image stated on April 4, 2025 in a Facebook post: Video shows South African news outlet reporting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “purchased a controlling stake” in a mine.
Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post: Says Cleveland Clinic said, “Millions of COVID-vaxxed will die within ‘5 years.’”
Viral image stated on April 2, 2025 in a Facebook post: “White hats to investigate Wisconsin Supreme Court election.”
Facebook posts stated on March 30, 2025 in a Facebook post: Photo shows “Pope Francis, shaking the hand of the priest of the Church of Satan.”
Viral image stated on March 31, 2025 in a Facebook post: Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.”
Facebook posts stated on March 29, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Caitlin Clark stuns the globe, rejects Elon Musk’s $15 million offer.”
Viral image stated on April 3, 2025 in a Facebook post: Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s family “must have just overlooked” “cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for a decade and a half.”
Viral image stated on March 29, 2025 in a Facebook post: Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.”
Facebook posts stated on March 27, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Daughter of boxing legend, Muhammed Ali, Laila Ali, has lost her life while giving birth in a Canadian hospital.”
Viral image stated on April 1, 2025 in a Facebook post: Says President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am ending dual citizenship under the Espionage Act and all these traitors will be ‘denaturalized and deported.’”
Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post: Photo shows a missing police officer in “extreme danger.”
Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in a Facebook post: Images show damage from an “earthquake in Thailand.”
Facebook posts stated on March 26, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Elon Musk called for a boycott of ‘The View,’ labeling it ‘a meeting place for ignorant women.’”
Viral image stated on March 18, 2025 in an Instagram post: “Man gets plastic surgery and name change to date his ex-girlfriend after she obtains a restraining order.”
Viral image stated on March 26, 2025 in a Threads post: Says U.S. Rep. Majorie Taylor Green wrote on X that she is “a product of incest.”
Viral image stated on February 20, 2025 in a Facebook post: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on X, “In my first 6 months as HHS secretary … I’ll ban chemtrails.”
Instagram posts stated on February 19, 2025 in a Facebook post: “Breaking News: Rep. Ilhan Omar has been removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”
Facebook posts stated on February 17, 2025 in una publicación en Facebook: “Noticia de Ultima Hora! Su Santidad el Papa Francisco ha fallecido” el 24 de febrero del 2025.
Instagram posts stated on February 20, 2025 in an Instagram post: “Malia Obama received $2.2 million in funds from USAID.”
Facebook posts stated on February 23, 2025 in a Facebook post: Pope Francis died as of Feb. 23, 2025.
Viral image stated on February 16, 2025 in an Instagram post: Says Luigi Mangione posted on X, “He who saves his country does not violate any law.”
Facebook posts stated on February 19, 2025 in a Facebook post: “The media is showing how Obama’s birth certificate was changed! He was never born in the U.S. so he was never a real president!”
Instagram posts stated on February 16, 2025 in an Instagram post: Says Barron Trump posted on X, “We’re on the brink of uncovering a dark legacy in this country that’s been hidden for far too long.”
Viral image stated on February 17, 2025 in a Threads post: Says Elon Musk said on X, “Spoiled crybabies across the country are protesting against America’s golden age. Brats like them should go to prison.”
Facebook posts stated on February 15, 2025 in an Instagram post: “The very LIBERAL 9th Circuit Court has ruled that 84 of Biden's last-minute pardons are unconstitutional.”
Facebook posts stated on February 12, 2025 in a Facebook post: Video shows Barron Trump singing on “America’s Got Talent.”
Viral image stated on February 12, 2025 in a Facebook post: Photo shows National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and President Donald Trump at her swearing-in.
Viral image stated on February 11, 2025 in a Facebook post: Video shows celebrities wearing T-shirts with graphics of a middle finger and the word “Kanye.”
Instagram posts stated on February 10, 2025 in an Instagram post: Says Kash Patel said, “FBI investigation uncovers 256 emails between Adam Schiff and Jeffrey Epstein.”
Viral image stated on January 15, 2025 in a Threads post: Photo shows Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wearing a “Make America Mexicana Again” hat.
