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Instagram posts stated on February 27, 2024 in a post on Instagram:

“Your legal name is in fact a corporation. This is why you always see your name written in ALL CAPS.”

By Madison Czopek • March 1, 2024

Facebook posts stated on July 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization."

By Tom Kertscher • July 30, 2020

TikTok posts stated on September 8, 2023 in TikTok posts:

An 1871 law made the United States government a for-profit corporation.

By Sofia Ahmed • February 12, 2024

Facebook posts stated on April 23, 2022 in a video on Facebook:

“Paying taxes is optional!!”

By Madison Czopek • May 3, 2022

Donald Trump stated on June 30, 2018 in a tweet:

"I have watched ICE liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13."

By Miriam Valverde • July 9, 2018

André Carson stated on December 13, 2015 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week":

"Our larger domestic threat is from racial supremacist groups."

By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2015

Ben Carson stated on November 29, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group."

By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015

Bloggers stated on August 12, 2011 in web pages:

Say Ohio Reps. Marcia Fudge, Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich are "socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress."

By Charles Pope, Tom Feran • September 6, 2011

Chain email stated on June 3, 2010 in a chain e-mail circulated on the Internet:

Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."

By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2010

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What is the citizenship status of terrorist suspects in the United States?

By Amy Sherman • December 29, 2015

Anonymous X account shares falsehoods to Elon Musk, top US officials. What we know about ‘Amuse’

By Madison Czopek • March 31, 2025

Trump rally in Coachella, Calif., 10-12-24

A ‘third assassination attempt’ against Trump? Here’s what we know about California arrest

By Jeff Cercone • October 14, 2024

Experts say Ron DeSantis’ plan to send troops to the U.S.-Mexico border wouldn’t lower fentanyl flow

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 25, 2023

Understanding the battle over the Indian Child Welfare Act

By Noah Y. Kim • November 1, 2021

Could Donald Trump force US firms out of China? Pretty much

By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2019

Donald Trump doesn’t think white nationalism is on the rise. Data show otherwise

By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2019

Immigration: A few recent — and unusual — claims

By Jon Greenberg • September 10, 2015