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Fact Check: Posts Saying White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Suspect Cole Allen Worked Security For Sports Teams Are Not Real -- AI Spam From Vietnam

Are viral posts claiming Cole Allen, the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, worked as a security ...

Fact check: Did Ilhan Omar say "World War Eleven" in viral clip?

The video clip gained thousands of views across various reposts.

Fact Check: Viral Post Does NOT Prove Woman Taking Bottles From 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner Was Ukrainian Ambassador To U.S.

Did a viral post prove that the woman collecting wine bottles at the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner was Ukraine's ...
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Fact-checkers reached more people in 2025. That didn’t help their finances

When VERA Files lost funding last year, the Manila-based newsroom had no choice but to overhaul its staffing plans. Five reporters left by the end of the year, and nobody replaced them. A fact-checker ...