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Threads posts stated on November 10, 2024 in a post:
Elon Musk’s Starlink technology manipulated votes in the 2024 election to benefit Donald Trump.
By Madison Czopek, Sara Swann• November 12, 2024
Facebook posts stated on April 30, 2022 in a post:
“Space X’s Starlink internet constellation has angered Russia as it was reported that the Starlink satellite constellation was used to guide the fire” on the Russian ship Moskva.
By Monique Curet• May 5, 2022
TikTok posts stated on March 05, 2025 in a TikTok post:
If you update your iPhone to iOS 18.3, you are going to have Starlink automatically installed in your phone.
By Maria Briceño• March 31, 2025
Instagram posts stated on January 15, 2025 in an Instagram post:
“Gavin Newsom directed the removal of Elon Musk from the command post and ordered Cal Fire firefighters to return donated starlinks.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 29, 2025
Social Media stated on October 04, 2024 in social media posts:
FEMA, FAA are “blocking” delivery of Starlink devices and supplies to North Carolina’s hurricane-hit areas.
By Madison Czopek• October 8, 2024
Instagram posts stated on February 05, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“‘Satellites’ are on balloons and not in space.”
By Sara Swann• February 7, 2023
Bloggers stated on September 06, 2022 in a blog post:
“The U.S. & Elon Musk reveal new hypersonic jet to help Ukraine.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 7, 2022
Bloggers stated on March 29, 2018 in a blog post:
NASA Has Just Confirmed Earth Has A New Moon
By Miriam Valverde• March 30, 2018
Facebook posts stated on October 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Mass media destroyed! Blackout for mass arrests event!”
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 20, 2021
Kay Bailey Hutchison stated on April 03, 2010 in a press release.:
"If the space-shuttle program is terminated, Russia and China will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space."
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 22, 2010
Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2024 in a Facebook reel:
There are no real pictures of satellites on Google Images because outer space is not real.
By Sofia Ahmed• April 18, 2024
Facebook posts stated on February 08, 2025 in Facebook posts:
Elon Musk spent $40 million to buy five Super Bowl Commercial ads to promote DOGE.
By Sofia Ahmed• February 13, 2025
Marco Rubio stated on February 04, 2016 in a town hall in Manchester, N.H.:
China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites."
By Louis Jacobson• February 5, 2016
Instagram posts stated on October 02, 2024 in Instagram posts:
Vice President Kamala Harris' comments in Augusta, Georgia, show the Biden administration is offering Hurricane Helene victims only $750 in relief.
By Loreben Tuquero• October 4, 2024
Facebook posts stated on May 11, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Aurora borealis sightings a “fabricated light show” created by a HAARP experiment.
By Jeff Cercone• May 13, 2024
Facebook posts stated on June 25, 2023 in a Facebook reel:
NASA warns of “internet apocalypse,” which “means they can execute the Great Reset in silence without anyone knowing it.”
By Sara Swann• June 29, 2023
Other Space stated on July 14, 2015 in in a Change.org petition:
"By declaring that Pluto was no longer a planet, the (International Astronomical Union) put into place a planetary definition that would have even declassified Earth as a planet if it existed as far from the sun as Pluto does."
By Anna Bruzgulis• July 21, 2015
Viral image stated on July 20, 2022 in an Instagram post:
NASA photos of the moon and Earth show that “space is fake.”
By Grace Abels• July 28, 2022
Barack Obama stated on February 17, 2009 in a bill signing ceremony in Denver.:
"We are making the largest investment in education in our nation’s history."
By Alexander Lane• February 27, 2009
Facebook posts stated on November 16, 2024 in a Facebook post:
“Elon Musk: 'I Am Releasing Tesla's $7,000 NEW Car That Runs On PURE Solar Power!’”
By Maria Briceño• November 19, 2024

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