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stated on May 31, 2023 in an Instagram post:

"The European Union is now warning pregnant women not to get the COVID-19 vaccine due to the possibility of infertility and miscarriage.”

By Jeff Cercone • June 1, 2023
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stated on May 17, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Photos show “Elon Musk and his company are in the final stages of making a Robot Wife.”

By Loreben Tuquero • June 1, 2023
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stated on May 22, 2023 in a post:

Video shows boxes of books removed from a middle school library that were “banned by the DeSantis regime in Florida.”

By Gabrielle Settles • June 1, 2023
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stated on May 17, 2023 in an Instagram reel:

Pop-Tarts and other foods “have antifreeze in them.”

By Sara Swann • June 1, 2023
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stated on May 28, 2023 in a post:

Video shows officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, "illegally breaking into" voting machines.

By Tom Kertscher • May 31, 2023
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stated on May 26, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“Miami-Dade County has banned” Amanda Gorman’s poem “from elementary schools.”

By Jeff Cercone • May 31, 2023
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stated on May 17, 2023 in a post:

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called for the immediate “expulsion and prosecution of Rep. Adam Schiff for committing crimes of treason against the United States.”

By Madison Czopek • May 30, 2023
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stated on May 29, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Video shows Rep. Nancy Pelosi being arrested.

By Loreben Tuquero • May 30, 2023
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stated on May 22, 2023 in a post:

Says Bill Gates visited Jeffrey Epstein’s Island "37 times."

By Gabrielle Settles • May 26, 2023
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stated on May 24, 2023 in an Instagram post:

A list shows violent crimes in Los Angeles that “people will be set free on as of today.”

By Loreben Tuquero • May 26, 2023
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stated on May 20, 2023 in an Instagram post:

"NYC mayor plans to track and limit meat and dairy."

By Jeff Cercone • May 25, 2023
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stated on May 22, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“AIDS-associated diseases and cancers have increased by 338x since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, according to the CDC and foreign government bodies."

By Samantha Putterman • May 24, 2023
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stated on May 18, 2023 in a post:

Says a report shows that “Ventilators Killed Nearly ALL COVID Patients”

By Gabrielle Settles • May 23, 2023
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stated on May 21, 2023 in a screenshot shared on Instagram:

COVID-19 vaccines administered during pregnancy drove an increase in cases of myocarditis in babies.

By Madison Czopek • May 23, 2023
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stated on May 21, 2023 in an Instagram post:

A bill in Connecticut that changes the definition for “sexual orientation” would protect “minor attracted persons” from discrimination.

By Loreben Tuquero • May 23, 2023
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stated on May 17, 2023 in an image shared on Instagram:

“U.S. military is now testing soldiers for AIDS, after DOD database reports 500% increase in HIV since the COVID vaccine rollout.”

By Madison Czopek • May 19, 2023
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stated on May 9, 2023 in a video shared on Instagram:

An Instagram video shows a man confronting President Joe Biden about an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

By Madison Czopek • May 18, 2023
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stated on May 13, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Pregnant women getting the Tdap vaccine “voluntarily are quite literally the experiment.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 18, 2023
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stated on May 15, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“We are about 1 degree Celsius above the coldest it’s been in the last 10,000 years” and “that’s why we shouldn’t be panicking.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 17, 2023
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stated on May 13, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Photo shows Joe Biden touching a child inappropriately.

By Sara Swann • May 15, 2023
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stated on May 9, 2023 in Instagram posts:

Video shows Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion in a health care fraud settlement involving COVID-19 vaccines.

By Loreben Tuquero • May 12, 2023
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stated on May 7, 2023 in a post shared on Instagram:

Duke Health, UNC Health and ECU Health “in North Carolina are diagnosing toddlers who play with stereotypically opposite gender toys as having gender dysphoria and are beginning to transition them!!”

By Madison Czopek • May 10, 2023
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stated on May 8, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Chelsea Clinton said, “It’s time to force-jab every unvaccinated child in America.”

By Jeff Cercone • May 9, 2023
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stated on May 8, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Dropped globe in video shows NASA astronauts filming in TV studio.

By Jeff Cercone • May 8, 2023
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stated on May 2, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“mRNA in food is being tested by USDA now.”

By Samantha Putterman • May 8, 2023
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stated on May 5, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Simulation with fictional virus shows ‘“what they're preparing for us" in 2025.

By Jeff Cercone • May 5, 2023
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stated on May 3, 2023 in an Instagram post:

NASA's T-minus launch countdown is a mocking reference to Satan.

By Loreben Tuquero • May 5, 2023
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stated on April 28, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Walmart stores are being converted to FEMA camps to imprison Americans.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 5, 2023
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stated on April 27, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Kobe Bryant was killed “as a setup to stop him from testifying.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 5, 2023
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stated on May 4, 2023 in an Instagram post:

The phone President Richard Nixon used to talk to the first astronauts on the moon is evidence the 1969 moon landing was faked.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 5, 2023

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