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2 weeks ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Did Elon Musk reply to Stephen Miller's "We will take back America" post on X with "Just like I took your wife"? No, that's not true: Musk addressed the claim, saying he never posted that comment and there's no record of it on Musk's account or Miller's. Such a post would have been newsworthy and credible archives of it or reports about it do not exist to contradict Musk's statement that it's fake.
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3 weeks ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Did actor Robert De Niro call White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt "KKKatherine" and did she respond that her family "fought to end slavery" while his "snuck into the country illegally in the 1920s"? No, that's not true: A meme describing that supposed exchange originated on a Facebook page with a satire disclaimer. The owner of the page is known for tricking conservatives into liking and sharing made-up content.
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3 weeks ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Did President Trump post on Truth Social "That totally was a Nazi salute that Elon did by the way"? No, that's not true: a viral image of such a post was fabricated. There is no trace of such a post on Trump's actual Truth Social account and none was indexed by Google. Had he done so, it would have been a major news story, but there has been no evidence-based reporting on such a post.
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4 weeks ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Does the German government publish a sexual education website that includes a cartoon panel saying "Most German men will be happy to have gay sex with immigrants"? No, that's not true: The phrase doesn't appear on the German sex education site. The version circulating on X.com is a doctored version of an infographic used in multiple countries. The panel appearing in the meme was taken from a Belgian edition of the Zanzu web publication, hence the Zanzu.be label.
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1 month ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Did Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger write the warnings about the Big Beautiful Bill that have been attributed to them in a viral post? No, that's not true: Kinzinger took to social media to call it out as a fake. The words in the meme do not match public statements or social media posts by the two former Republican members of Congress.
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1 month ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Did the Pentagon in May of 2025 approve acquisition of a "Qatari-built jet" to be the next Air Force One? No, that's not true: There is no aircraft manufacturing industry in Qatar that could make a jet of that size. The Pentagon on May 21, 2025 announced it had approved President Trump's plan to accept a Boeing 747 as a gift from the government of Qatar to be the President's official mode of air travel. Boeing 747s were built at Everett and Renton, Washington.
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1 month ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Did Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testify before Congress that "China is putting gay chemicals in the vapes, coupled with fruity pina colada flavoring agents"? No, that's not true: The video uses generative AI to create a facsimile of Kennedy's voice and mouth movements, but it ends with a screenload of text that says it is a deepfake. The account on which the video was posted describes itself as "Mostly satire. I make videos".
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1 month ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Does this video authentically document the Israeli military bombing Gaza, as a social media post claimed? No, that's not true: The video used in the X post originated on a TikTok account labelled: "DISCLAIMER: ALL VIDEOS I POST ARE AI GENERATED." The name of that TikTok account is "@everythingai97". Several elements of the video reveal digital artifacts of the kind often found in videos that are made using generative AI.
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1 month ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Did a legitimate news report reveal the Kamala Harris presidential campaign was making an illegal $200,000 payment for travel expenses to music mogul Beyoncé for appearing at a campaign rally in 2024? No, that's not true: A satire site created that story as bait to embarass conservatives if they treated it as real. Campaign finance documents on file show no such payment to Beyoncé for travel expenses.
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1 month ago | 
leadstories.com | Dean Miller
Does authentic video show a Tesla cybertruck is not destroyed when a boulder described as a ton of rock is dropped on it? No, that's not true: The video originates from a social media account that specializes in generative AI fake videos. The same account features videos of a Yeti frozen in a block of ice, a giant spiked sea turtle and a crocodile the size of a semi-truck's trailer. The account clearly labels its work as AI and the action shown violates the laws of physics.
