Ciara O'Rourke

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Since his first term, President Donald Trump’s golf trips have drawn criticism from detractors. And a recent HuffPost analysis found that taxpayers have so far footed a bill of more than $26 million for such outings in his second term. But billionaire and White House adviser Elon Musk didn’t suggest on X that the Department of Government Efficiency had inadvertently identified Trump as the source of fiscal waste. "Unbelievable," reads what looks like a March 16 screenshot of a Musk post.

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An image of what looks like Pope Francis grinning and gripping the hand of someone wearing a pale mask, clad in a red cloak, is circulating on social media with a caption that lacks context. "Pope Francis, shaking the hand of the priest of the Church of Satan... ‘God does not reject anyone,’" a March 30 Facebook post said. It was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., didn’t glibly dismiss news that her family had been receiving improper Social Security payments on behalf of a deceased relative. That’s because this purported news originated on a self-described satire site. "AOC has no excuse for why her family has been cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for a decade and a half: ‘We must have just overlooked it,’" an April 3 Facebook post said.

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During President Donald Trump’s March 4 address to a joint session of Congress, he addressed "the incredible people of Greenland." "We strongly support your right to determine your own future," he said. "And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America. We need Greenland for national security and even international security. And we’re working with everybody involved to try and get it. But we need it really for international world security. And I think we’re going to get it.

2 weeks ago | politifact.com | Ciara O'Rourke

U.S. law allows Americans to hold citizenship in other countries, "whether by birth, descent, naturalization or other form of acquisition," the State Department’s website says. But an image of a purported Truth Social post from President Donald Trump might leave some social media users wondering whether that right is threatened.