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.

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Was the Kraków attacker Michał Oksiński a leftist antifascist who mocked Christianity?

X · 564.8K views, 14.9K likes, 4.3K reposts; PAP lists AI-edited 'antifa badge' photo of attacker among top false narratives

Misleading

The post's factual anchor is correct — police confirmed that the Kraków attacker's two parents and sister were found shot dead in the family flat — but the framing is misleading: unverified 2019-2021 screenshots are presented as proof that he was a left-wing anarcho-communist, and an unsupported suggestion is made that the government had his Facebook accounts deleted to cover this up.

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Was the PKP Intercity train 'Chemik' really shot at near Częstochowa?

X · 71.7K views, 299 likes; Google Trends PL 'pociag intercity ostrzelany' 2000+

Can't Verify

The screenshot is a genuine PKP Intercity service notice and the core story is real: on 8 November 2026 the IC 4124/5 'Chemik' was stopped near Rudniki koło Częstochowy after a carriage window was damaged, with a shooting suspicion confirmed by the rail infrastructure manager. The caption overstates certainty — police have not confirmed the damage was caused by a projectile and the train was running Katowice→Płock, not Płock→Katowice.

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Was the Krakow shooter linked to pro-Azov Ukrainian fighters or Ukraine's International Legion?

X · OKO.press (8 Nov) traces graphic's spread across Telegram, Facebook, TikTok, X, VK and Bulgarian/Greek/Spanish/Chinese/Vietnamese outlets; Demagog fact-check 8 Nov; police denial post (kwpkrakow) widely shared

False

The Krakow mass shooting of 7 November 2026 is real, but the claim that the attacker was tied to pro-Azov Ukrainian fighters is false — a Russian-sourced narrative built on a generic, freely sold 'Blackbeard flag' patch that Polish outlets have debunked.

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Was a suspicious person spotted on the roof of St Barbara's Church in Kraków?

X · 4,193 likes on the X post (syndication, 2026-11-08 02:33Z); national pickup via naTemat; police issued a denial

False

The video is genuine night-time footage of police outside a church in Kraków's Old Town, but the caption's claim that a suspicious person was spotted on the roof is false — police said the footage was hours old and officers had reacted to a priest on the rectory terrace, not a roof intruder.

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Was Wilson Joseph, leader of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, captured by El Salvador's military?

X · 20,947 likes (syndication, 2026-11-07); Lead Stories fact check 2026-11-06

False

The image is synthetic — it carries a Google SynthID watermark and scored 83.5% AI-generated on Hive — and the claim it illustrates is fabricated: Wilson Joseph, leader of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, has not been captured by Salvadoran forces.

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Is the clip of Russell Brand and Noel Fielding on Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2007) real?

X · 11,978 likes (X syndication, 7 Nov); covered by Independent, Daily Mail, Irish Sun 6 Nov · resurfaced

True

The video is genuine footage from Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2007, and the caption correctly identifies the show, year and panellists.

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Were the Irish Independent, RTÉ and Newstalk evacuated after bomb threats?

X · Google Trends IE "bomb scare rte" 20000+ (6 Nov); TheJournal, Irish Independent coverage; post 47 likes

True

The video is genuine on-scene news footage from outside the Irish Independent's Dublin offices on 6 November 2026, and its claim that Irish media organisations were evacuated after emailed bomb threats is confirmed by Gardaí, AFP, BBC and the Irish Times.

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Was a Somali daycare owner elected to the Minnesota House, and did his wife brag about illegally entering the US?

X · 6,480 likes, 426 replies (X syndication); RyanAFournier repost 8,726 likes; Fox News article 6 Nov

True But

Abdi Daisane's election to the Minnesota House on 3 November 2026 is confirmed by multiple independent outlets, and the daycare's licensing record is well documented, but the post's portrayal of his wife as having 'bragged about illegally invading' the country is a loaded characterisation of a translated 2023 BBC interview, with her legal status unverified.

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Did Gavin Newsom commute all 548 California death row sentences?

X · 89,969 likes, 1,386 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); HuffPost, Daily Wire, Twitchy coverage

True But

The caption is accurate: on 5 November 2026 Gavin Newsom commuted all 548 California death sentences to life without parole, the largest mass commutation of death sentences in modern US history, though many of the commutations still need California Supreme Court concurrence. The attached official-style portrait of Newsom shows no sign of manipulation and is purely illustrative.

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Was Russell Brand convicted of rape with no evidence?

X · Trending story 329.7K posts (US-geo X stories list, 6 Nov ~03:00 UTC); AmiriKing post shown at 458K views, 13K likes; JK Rowling reply-style post 2.7M views pushing back on 'conviction must be wrong' posts

Misleading

The image is a genuine screenshot of a real Hollywood Reporter article: Russell Brand was indeed convicted of one count of rape and three sexual assaults at Southwark Crown Court on 5 November 2026. The account's caption, however, is misleading — it denies the existence of any evidence ('NOTHING') and mocks the complainants, ignoring the testimony and supporting witnesses on which the unanimous verdicts rested.

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Did an FBI raid in Houston uncover 20,000 fraudulent ballots for Democrats?

X · 17,788 likes on X post (syndication, 2026-11-04); Newser: 400,000+ views and ~15,000 related posts on X; FBI and Harris County Clerk issued denials; PolitiFact, Lead Stories, Dallas News, NYT coverage

False

The caption is a fabricated election-fraud story from a satirical/comedy account: the FBI said no election-related raid occurred in Houston, and the attached photo of an 'FBI Atlanta' vehicle actually comes from a January 2026 FBI search in Fulton County, Georgia.

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Did Murcia fire crews respond to a bomb threat on a flight from Manchester?

X · Primary 23 likes; follow-ups by Murcia official Francisco Lucas 45 and 21 likes; Google Trends GB 'bomb threat' 2000+ and IE 1000+; covered by Guardian, Sky, Mirror, MEN, GB News, Irish Independent, TheJournal

True

The photo is a genuine image posted by the official Murcia fire service showing its crews at Murcia-Corvera airport, and the accompanying claim about a bomb threat on a flight from Manchester is confirmed by Spanish and international media coverage of the 3 November 2026 incident.

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Is Trump right that lawyers are hiding and coaching the "fake" Dan Sullivan?

X · 3,767 likes (syndication); Trump repeated claim at 1:12 AM ET 3 Nov ('MISSING IN ACTION... maybe kidnapped'); Daily Beast, Raw Story, AOL, RedState, NY Post ('Decoy Dan') coverage

Misleading

The image is a genuine screenshot of a 2 November 2026 Truth Social post by Donald Trump, and the Daily Wire quote is verbatim accurate. But the substance of the quoted statement is misleading: Sullivan's public disappearance is documented, while the central claim that lawyers are hiding and coaching him, and are criminals, rests on no evidence.

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Did a crowd really surround an ambulance in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka and demand a masked man show his face?

Facebook · Widely covered 2-3 Nov (Kyiv Independent, Ukrainska Pravda '40 fake hostages', Novynarnia, RBC, 24tv live stream with Budanov on site); police called the 40-hostage report false; Budanov cited 'outside influence'

True But

Genuine on-scene footage from the 2 November 2026 confrontation in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka near Kyiv, where a crowd surrounded an ambulance and demanded a masked man show his face. The scene is accurately described and corroborated by BBC Ukrainian, Kyiv Post, RFE/RL, Babel, Hlavkom and Gordon, although the '40 hostages' allegations that drew the crowd were rejected by police and the National Guard.

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Did the Trump administration deliver record-low crime and $472 billion in New York?

X · 8,668 likes on @VP post; Community Note added (per HuffPost); Mamdani's meme quote-reply has 1,484,496 likes (syndication); covered by HuffPost, Express Tribune

Misleading

The White House graphic is real and most of the raw numbers it cites exist, but it is packaged to imply they are federal, New York-specific results: the '$472 billion' adds up nationwide corporate pledges, and the '48% drop in murders' comes from New York State's own GIVE programme, not the Trump administration.

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Did police violently arrest a school nurse in front of Lycée Jean Monnet in Montpellier?

X · 6,771 likes; prefecture responded publicly; student protests and strike on 5 Nov

True

The video is genuine, widely broadcast footage of the 2 November 2026 police takedown of a 53-year-old school nurse during the blockade of Lycée Jean Monnet in Montpellier, an incident confirmed by AFP, police and the Hérault prefecture. The LFI deputy's caption is factually accurate, though its 'scandal'/'repression' framing is political advocacy.

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Were the police who sealed off Poland's Constitutional Tribunal German officers without service numbers?

X · 41,640 likes, 1,585 replies (X syndication, 2 Nov); amplified by ex-MEP Krasnodebski; Polish police issued three denials on X

False

The video is genuine footage of Polish riot police filmed outside the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw on the night of 30-31 October 2026, but the German-police insinuation built around it is false: Poland's police headquarters deny any foreign officers were deployed and Konkret24 rated the claim false.

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Did Chuck Schumer's Democrats resort to 'pure bribery' in Kansas?

X · Trump Truth Social post; Kobach cease-and-desist to Bluestem Kansas; Gateway Pundit, RSBN, RedState coverage 1-2 Nov

Misleading

The attached image is a genuine screenshot of a real Donald Trump Truth Social post, and the Kansas attorney general did send Bluestem Kansas a cease-and-desist letter over a reported $5 gift-card-for-votes offer. But Senator Marshall's caption goes well beyond the evidence by calling it 'pure bribery' by 'Chuck Schumer's Democrats' — reporting confirms no established Democratic Party involvement, a single reported offer, and no charges.

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Was Danuta Holecka's husband really handcuffed in a 'regime attack' at a cemetery?

X · 7,293 likes, 1,492 replies (X syndication); covered by rp.pl and RMF24; the interior ministry spokesperson responded

Misleading

The footage is genuine and the detention it shows really happened: Danuta Holecka's husband was handcuffed by police near a Warsaw cemetery on 1 November 2026. But the post's central framing — a deliberate 'attack by the Tusk regime' and 'another repression' of the station — is an unsupported political allegation that police and the interior ministry flatly reject, so the post is misleading overall.

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Did riots reach Birmingham with fireworks fired at police on Halloween?

YouTube · 49,912 views in about 5 hours (YouTube search page); GB News, Metro, Mirror and Express covered the Birmingham Halloween fireworks disorder and 7 arrests

True But

The reported incident is real: West Midlands Police and multiple UK outlets confirm fireworks were set off towards police and the public in Birmingham city centre on Halloween night, 31 October 2026, with seven arrests. The headline's framing of this as 'riots reaching Birmingham' inflates what police described as 'pockets of disorder'.

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Did looting by migrants start in Frankfurt on Halloween night?

X · visegrad24 post 9,607 likes; RadioGenoa 'multicultural Germany, Frankfurt right now' 22,222 likes; looting confirmed by Euronews, The Local, dpa (x-syndication counts, 1 Nov)

True But

The video is genuine footage from the Halloween-night unrest in Frankfurt on 31 October 2026, when stores on the Zeil including a Snipes branch were smashed open and looted — an event confirmed by FAZ, BILD, n-tv, DW and agency reporting. The caption's core claim holds, and its 'migrant' characterisation reflects Hesse's interior minister's own statement that the perpetrator group was predominantly of migrant background, though officials also stressed most arrestees hold German citizenship and that left-extremists were involved.

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Did gangs paint a migrant boat in Kurdish flag colours and launch it from Belgium?

X · 11.8K likes, 651 replies; Mirror, Independent, Rudaw coverage; Downing Street asked about it

True But

The footage is genuine: a migrant dinghy with a Kurdish-flag-like colourway really did leave De Panne in Belgium on 29 October 2026 as police watched, and the Budget did commit £150m for large asylum sites on former military land. The checkable substance holds, but the 'gangs are painting the boats their national colours' generalisation rests on one hedged case and the 'invasion' framing sits against a 43 per cent year-on-year fall in small-boat arrivals.

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Did James O'Keefe get charged just for asking poll workers questions?

X · 44.3K likes, 1.6K replies on O'Keefe post; related @nicksortor charges post 46.2K likes; Hennepin County Attorney filed felony charges

Misleading

The clip is genuine footage of Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty's 28 October 2026 press conference on felony charges against James O'Keefe and Cam Higby, but O'Keefe's caption reframes identity-theft and unlawful-voting charges over using real voters' names as an attack on people who merely ask poll workers questions.

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Did Enoch Burke confront Archbishop John McDowell in Armagh?

YouTube · 97,533 views on the YouTube video (watch page, 31 Oct); PSNI investigating; covered by RTE, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, TheJournal, Belfast Telegraph

True

The headline is accurate: Enoch Burke did confront Church of Ireland Archbishop John McDowell in the grounds of St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh on 29 October 2026, an incident confirmed by the Church of Ireland and now under PSNI investigation for a reported assault. No media was attached to this submission, so there was nothing to assess for authenticity.

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