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Instagram posts
stated on November 30, 2023 in an Instagram post:

With Apple’s NameDrop, anyone placing an iPhone near your child’s “will automatically receive their contact information.”

By Jeff Cercone • December 1, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 28, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“In Germany, you must be fully vaxxed before your death by assisted suicide.”

By Loreben Tuquero • December 1, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 25, 2023 in Facebook posts:

John D. Rockefeller wrote a secret covenant about controlling the world’s population.

By Sofia Ahmed • November 30, 2023
Newsmax
stated on November 10, 2023 in a segment:

"MSNBC airs Gaza 'crisis actor.'"

By Marta Campabadal Graus • November 30, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 22, 2023 in video:

Suggests homeless people mysteriously went missing in San Francisco.

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • November 30, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 27, 2023 in a video caption:

“8 MINUTES AGO! The largest underwater volcano has SUDDENLY CRACKED OPEN the Earth!”

By Grace Abels • November 30, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 26, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Video showing “Israeli occupation forces arrest a 2-year-old child” is from the Israel-Hamas war.

By Jeff Cercone • November 30, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 28, 2023 in an image:

Pizzagate “expert” went to jail for child pornography

By Sofia Ahmed • November 30, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 25, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Video shows Black Friday shoppers “in Biden’s thriving economy.”

By Jeff Cercone • November 30, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 26, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Iceland has banned COVID-19 vaccines “amid soaring sudden deaths.”

By Sara Swann • November 30, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on November 12, 2023 in a TikTok video:

Video of an Alabama compound shows “Hamas is here and training hidden in plain sight.”

By Loreben Tuquero • November 30, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 22, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:

"Ataque terrorista islámico confirmado cerca de la frontera con Canadá en el puente del Arco Iris en las cataratas del Niágara".

By Loreben Tuquero • November 29, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 16, 2023 in a Facebook post:

"The U.S. is sending everyone a free $6,400 right now.”

By Sara Swann • November 29, 2023
Fight Right Inc.
stated on November 23, 2023 in an ad:

Clips of Nikki Haley speaking about Hillary Clinton show Haley supports Clinton and is “not who she says she is.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 29, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 15, 2023 in a Facebook post:

A “brand new financial relief program available for Americans" provides $5,000 in cash.

By Madison Czopek • November 29, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 13, 2023 in Facebook videos:

Audio shows former President Donald Trump warned “300 million Americans” will die from a catastrophe “in a matter of weeks.”

By Loreben Tuquero • November 28, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on November 22, 2023 in a TikTok video:

“Fox News got caught” staging a video of Israel arresting a “crisis actor.”

By Jeff Cercone • November 28, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 21, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:

Desaparece “una niña de 4 años” en baño de Disneyland en octubre de 2023.

By Maria Briceño • November 28, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 21, 2023 in a video:

"Trump has selected his pick for running mate (and the) news stuns Republican Party.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • November 28, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 25, 2023 in an Instagram post:

"You’re in danger” because the American Red Cross doesn’t label blood donations from donors vaccinated against COVID-19.

By Jeff Cercone • November 28, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 22, 2023 in an Instagram reel:

Video shows a military chaplain praying, “Please get rid of Joe Biden and bring back the real president, Donald J. Trump.”

By Sara Swann • November 28, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 23, 2023 in en una publicación en Facebook:

"La industria alimentaria quiere que comas” lechuga de plástico sintético sin nutrición y lleno de contaminantes.

By Maria Briceño • November 28, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 9, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Video shows a Doctors Without Borders medic in Jenin taking a weapon from a wounded person and giving it to someone else.

By Sara Swann • November 27, 2023
Social Media
stated on November 22, 2023 in social media posts:

“Terrorist attack confirmed” in Niagara Falls, New York.

By Loreben Tuquero • November 27, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 20, 2023 in a video:

Video shows teacher teaching gender pronouns and being confronted by students

By Grace Abels • November 27, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 19, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Videos of Nancy Pelosi from Jan. 6, 2021, show the Capitol attack was staged.

By Sara Swann • November 21, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on November 11, 2023 in a TikTok post:

“Israel has changed their barcode from 729 to 871 … as the public was boycotting Israeli products.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • November 21, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 17, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows that “Troy Nehls FORCES Pete Buttigieg to admit that Biden is unfit to serve.”

By Loreben Tuquero • November 21, 2023
Megyn Kelly
stated on November 15, 2023 in a Facebook post:

“New police bodycam footage” of George Floyd’s arrest “changes the narrative”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 21, 2023
Clay Higgins
stated on November 15, 2023 in a congressional hearing:

A "ghost bus … filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.”

By Madison Czopek • November 21, 2023

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