The daily check-in

Trending, checked.

Twice a day we pull the posts going viral on TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook and run them through the record. Each entry is a published verdict — what we found, why, and the sources behind it.

43 checks

What did Stephen Miller claim about Trump’s record for the midterms?

X · 1.3K likes (X syndication, 12 Oct); RVM News and Raw Story coverage 11 Oct

Misleading

The video is authentic Fox News interview footage. DHS/CBP did announce '16 consecutive months of zero releases at the border' (a specific operational metric), but Miller’s phrasing that 'zero illegal aliens' were 'allowed into the United States' is misleading. The claim that fentanyl is 'down over 50%' and that this decline is directly caused by the cartels being designated as foreign terrorist organizations is not supported by a clear, single nationwide dataset or by demonstrated causation.

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What did Ted Cruz say in his tweet?

X · Cruz quote-post 7,522 likes; quoted origin post by @ThaisEscufon (3 Oct) 109,525 likes · resurfaced

True

The post is a text-only call to "watch" unspecified content and does not assert any factual claim or depict an event; there is nothing verifiable. An attempt to open the original tweet returned a 403 Forbidden error, but that does not change the assessment that the provided caption contains no checkable factual claim.

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Were ICE agents physically attacked by anti-ICE protesters in Oregon?

X · 3,369 likes (syndication, 11 Oct); NY Post story built around the video; Nick Sortor amplified it

Can't Verify

The posted video is authentic footage of a confrontation in northeast Salem on Oct 9–10, 2026 where protesters surrounded ICE-linked vehicles and federal agents deployed chemical irritants. That much is supported by local reporting. The post's stronger claim that ICE agents were physically attacked (e.g., grabbed by the neck and punched) is not yet corroborated by major local or wire outlets and so remains unsupported by high-quality independent coverage.

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What caused the fire at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)?

X · Wide Brazilian coverage (tvtnews, Brasil Paralelo, Correio da Manhã); Nikolas Ferreira announced lawsuits; PF investigating; students say air-conditioner fault

True

The video and caption correctly report a large fire that hit the UFPE DINE building on the night of October 7, 2026; multiple reputable Brazilian outlets corroborate the incident and reporting. Some auxiliary claims in the video (e.g., firefighters 'leaving because there is nothing to do') and the provenance/connection of threat screenshots to the cause remain unverified.

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Did Trump Say Minnesota is Being Taken Over by Somali Immigrants?

X · Picked up by Minnesota Reformer, Truthout, Western Journal, WND, CBS Minnesota; Gov. Walz responded

Misleading

A real Truth Social post by President Trump on Oct 8, 2026 urged Minnesotans to 'fight back' against Somali immigrants and offered federal help; the post is authentic and widely reported, but its claims that Somalis are 'taking over' Minnesota and that there is 'violence, murder, and mayhem all over the state' are inflammatory and misleading.

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Did a passenger threaten to blow up Southwest Airlines Flight 2094?

X · 15,857 likes (X syndication, 2026-10-10); Lead Stories fact check 9 Oct · resurfaced

Misleading

The video is authentic footage from March 6, 2026 showing a Southwest flight diverted to Atlanta and law enforcement removing a passenger; the October 9, 2026 post recycles that footage and falsely frames it as a new incident and falsely claims the removed passenger was a Muslim who threatened to blow up the plane. Authorities found no credible threat and no charges were filed.

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Did Kimberly Guilfoyle Ask a Donor for $100,000?

X · 12,879 likes; 'Kimberly Guilfoyle's donor texts' trending on Bluesky; donor went public; Mediaite, Daily Beast, Raw Story, HuffPost follow-ups

True But

The Wall Street Journal reported (Oct. 7, 2026) that messages it reviewed show Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to her American Express account days before her July 2025 confirmation hearing and wrote, 'It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express.' Multiple major outlets have relayed the Journal's reporting; Guilfoyle's lawyer disputes the authenticity of the messages.

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Did an ICE agent shoot a person in Marble Hill?

X · 88,943 likes on the Mamdani post; DHS counter-statement disputes the account; trending on Bluesky; NY Post, Blaze, Newsweek coverage

True

The Mayor’s statement that an ICE agent shot a person in Marble Hill on Oct. 8, 2026, with a young child reportedly in the car who was unharmed, is corroborated by official and credible news reporting and is TRUE.

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Did Pete Hegseth say Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad?

X · atrupar clip 1,288 likes; DOWResponse clip 3,707 likes; 'Execution will be streamed, says Pentagon' trending on Bluesky; Mediaite, HuffPost, Daily Beast, Raw Story, Fox, Radio-Canada coverage

True

The video is an authentic on-camera interview of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in which he says convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be executed by an Army firing squad and that the execution will be public. Multiple reputable news outlets confirm the Army set the execution for Dec. 3, 2026 and that the Pentagon intends to livestream it; the execution is scheduled in the future and has not yet occurred.

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Did the DOJ release photos of Tumbler Ridge school shooter's guns with transgender pride colors?

X · Kanekoa post 15,539 likes; Elon Musk reply 'And yet again it happens' 12,938 likes (verify.py); Twitchy and Blaze coverage

True

Supported: the DOJ criminal complaint and news reporting show photos of the Tumbler Ridge shooter and firearms with transgender-pride colors; the victim count and ages cited in the post match official reporting about the Feb. 10, 2026 attack.

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What happened during the FBI's Operation Blackout takedown in Ghana?

X · 7,885 likes on X (verify.py), posted about 3.5h before capture. Picked up by Punch, Vanguard, Graphic Online, 3News, Adom, Yen and Gazette NG on 8 Oct. Ghana Police, EOCO and the Cyber Security Authority had made no statement

True But

FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X on October 8, 2026 that an Operation Blackout takedown in Ghana resulted in nearly $10 million in identified losses, 89 victims, 130+ detained individuals, and 300+ devices seized. Multiple news outlets quoted his post; no separate formal FBI press release or detailed Ghanaian government inventory was found at the time of checking, so the numbers are credible but currently rely on the Director’s public statement.

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Did the Centre for Policy Studies hold a session at CPC26?

YouTube · Guardian, Independent (3 pieces), Mirror, GB News, Daily Mail, Luton Today coverage; Badenoch backed him; Bedfordshire Police denial reported

True

TRUE — The Centre for Policy Studies did hold a session titled 'From Boriswave to Brain Drain: How Can We Fix Migration?' at the Conservative Party Conference (CPC26) in Birmingham in early October 2026; multiple reputable news outlets and the CPS conference programme corroborate the event and reporting from it.

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What did Donald Trump say about the Cornell rape allegations?

X · Primary 2,604 likes / 509 replies; Cornell case still live with Fox, NY Post and Newsweek follow-ups 6 Oct

True But

The video is authentic pool footage of President Trump saying he 'feels badly for whoever she's looking at' after New York named Letitia James a special prosecutor in the Cornell case. Reporting shows a civil lawsuit alleges seven members of a Cornell fraternity assaulted a student in October 2024, but those are allegations from a lawsuit (not criminal convictions) and mainstream outlets describe the assault as occurring 'over several hours' rather than uniformly as '7 hours.'

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Did a flydubai flight experience a violent cockpit altercation?

X · Multiple X posts with 50K-100K+ views each; Saudi medic video viral on X; widespread coverage by Times of Israel, CNN, Al-Monitor; trending across Middle East/Africa regions

True But

The post correctly reports a violent cockpit altercation, a stabbing, and an emergency diversion and landing at Tabuk on 30 Sep 2026. The broader claim of an 18,400 ft drop in under two minutes and the precise 'nearly 100 kts' overspeed figure are not consistently supported by primary tracking data: ADS‑B/Flightradar24 reconstructions show an extremely rapid loss of altitude (examples ~14,000+ ft in under a minute) and high ground speeds, but the exact numbers cited in the post vary across sources.

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Did scammers create deepfake ads with Martin Lewis's wife?

X · £20M+ lost to these scams; Ads appear across Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, MSN News; widespread scam network

True

Martin Lewis's post accurately reports that scammers circulated AI‑generated (deepfake) adverts including a fake video purporting to show his wife Lara Lewington being assaulted to promote a 'Quantum AI' investment scam; multiple reputable outlets and AI incident monitors corroborate his statement and say the videos were fake and his wife was unharmed.

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What happened on the Flydubai flight on September 30, 2026?

X · One Objective post quotes the attacker as saying 'I'm going to bomb the plane, Death to America, Death to Trump - Allahu Akbar' over cockpit video. End Wokeness: 'Muslim co-pilot stabs pilot and tries to take down plane'. Both embedded by WND.

True But

Reputable news organisations confirm that on Sept. 30, 2026 a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv experienced a cockpit stabbing and an attempted crash; passengers and crew subdued the attacker and the aircraft landed in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. The social‑media caption correctly identifies the violent incident but mixes or amplifies details (exact passenger/child counts and quoted slogans) that are not corroborated in major reporting.

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Did the co-pilot stab the pilot on Flydubai flight?

X · Heidi Bachram post: 'video of the flight from Dubai plunging as the co-pilot appears to have tried to crash it'. Netanyahu said the pilot tried to crash the plane (Euronews/Newsweek); Flydubai says motive unclear, investigation underway (Newsweek).

True But

Contemporaneous reporting by major news organisations and statements by authorities confirm that a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Sept. 30, 2026 experienced a violent cockpit incident in which one pilot stabbed the other and an apparent attempt to crash the plane occurred; the aircraft was diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia and landed safely. Passenger-count specifics (174 passengers, 27 children) appear in several local reports but are not uniformly given as an official manifest figure.

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What did Erika Kirk say in her Vanity Fair interview?

X · A partial 'I am so fixated and paranoid...' quote was reframed online as Erika Kirk suspecting a cover-up; picked up by online news on 30 Sep.

True

The post quotes lines from a Vanity Fair profile of Erika Kirk published on September 29, 2026; those quotes appear verbatim in the Vanity Fair article and contemporaneous news coverage, so the post's claims are accurate.

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What happened on Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv?

X · Top Google Trends item in IL (5000+), KE (1000+), ZA, NG; wall-to-wall coverage (ToI, JPost, Newsweek, Fox, Al Jazeera). Passenger post says a crew member attacked the pilot with a knife; right-wing outlets (Geller) headline 'Screaming Allah Akbar'.

True But

The post mixes verified and unverified elements: it correctly reports that Flydubai flight FZ1073 was diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia after a violent cockpit incident in which one pilot was reportedly stabbed and passengers and crew restrained an attacker. Specific technical claims (for example that the attacker "disabled the aircraft's systems") and the identification of a pictured passenger by name ('Yaniv') are not corroborated in major, reputable reporting.

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