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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Did the Home Office ban Eva Vlaardingerbroek from entering the UK for a Restore Britain event?

X · 35,394 likes, 5,060 reposts, 541 replies (X syndication, 7 Nov ~02:40Z); earlier Lowe post on same claim 13,091 likes

Misleading

The photograph is a genuine press image of migrants landed at Dungeness in April 2023, reused without a date in a November 2026 post. The post is right that Eva Vlaardingerbroek's UK travel authorisation was revoked and that she could not attend the Restore Britain event, but calling it a flat Home Office 'ban' overstates a revoked ETA and pending visa application, and the rant about 'dangerous third world scumbags' being welcomed is unsupported dehumanising rhetoric.

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Did nine major US arenas turn down Macklemore's Free Palestine tour?

Instagram · Wide mainstream pickup 6-7 Nov: NYT, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Guardian, USA Today, People, Hollywood Reporter, NY Post, Jerusalem Post/Reuters; MSG publicly rebutted ('not an arena-level act')

True But

The carousel is the genuine text of Macklemore's 6 November 2026 Instagram statement, and its checkable political claims largely hold — Abdul El-Sayed did win Michigan's Senate seat days earlier, and AIPAC-linked spending against him was in the tens of millions. His central claim that nine arenas blocked the tour because of its pro-Palestine purpose remains his own uncorroborated account of private negotiations, which Madison Square Garden disputes.

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Did Viktor Orbán refuse a state-security recruitment attempt during military service?

Facebook · Wide pickup 5-6 Nov: VSquare, InsightHungary/444, hromadske, mezha, MSN syndications; Google suggest 'orbán ügynökakták' top hit

True But

The five images are genuine Hungarian state-security archive documents, and the post accurately reflects what they show: a 1982 recruitment study of Orbán that was abandoned, and later III/III surveillance and bugging of him and his wife. But the specific assertion that he refused recruitment is his own account, not documented in the papers, and sits uneasily with the surviving military-counterintelligence record listing him as a 'social contact' and with Miklós Németh's claim to have seen reports attributed to him.

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Does Wisconsin have 7 million registered voters but only 4 million adults?

X · 33,384 likes (syndication, 2026-11-07); Lead Stories fact check 2026-11-06

False

The video is genuine footage of a 9 February 2022 Wisconsin legislative hearing, but the claim it carries — that Wisconsin has 7 million registered voters against only 4 million adults, proving mass voter fraud — is false. The 7 million figure counts inactive records alongside active ones, Wisconsin actually has roughly 3.6 million active registered voters and about 4.6–4.8 million adults, and no evidence of mass fraud exists.

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Did Abdul El-Sayed give his victory speech in Arabic and Ilhan Omar address her party in Somali?

X · 15,353 likes on original (syndication, 2026-11-07); Community Note; Free Press correction posted 2026-11-06 21:48Z, quoted by Greenwald, MeidasTouch, George Conway, Kyle Clark; Mediaite and Raw Story stories 2026-11-07 · resurfaced

True But

The video is a genuine Free Press commentary built on real, verifiable events: El-Sayed's Michigan Senate win, Omar's Somali-language victory remarks, Kawas's New York win and Khamenei's 'collapse has accelerated' post all check out. But it overstates the picture by calling El-Sayed's mostly-English speech an address 'in Arabic', repeats an unverified 'Hamas headband' claim about Kawas, and wraps accurate facts in a strongly slanted 'Islamists don't share American values' narrative.

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Did Trump say the stock market suffered one of its worst days in history because of the election?

X · 45,517 likes on the White House post (syndication, 2026-11-07); covered by Fox Business, Forbes, Washington Examiner, IBTimes, KATV, Benzinga

True But

The image is a real screenshot of a genuine Truth Social post in which President Trump blamed the Democrats' midterm wins for a historic Wall Street sell-off on 5 November 2026. The market plunge and the quote are both confirmed by major outlets, but Trump's 'one of the worst days in history' framing and his single-cause blame exaggerate and simplify what drove the rout.

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Are Muslims turning IKEA car parks in Germany into improvised mosques?

X · 9,403 likes, 441 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Maldita check 6 Nov

Misleading

The video is genuine footage of an Eid al-Adha prayer held with IKEA's permission in the car park of its Freiburg store in May 2026, but the caption misrepresents it as Muslims seizing IKEA car parks across Germany for one of their daily prayers.

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Did Nigel Farage appoint Angus MacIntyre as Reform UK's shadow armed forces minister?

X · 4,019 likes, 975 replies (X syndication); MacIntyre announcement 8,444 likes; The Poke, Guardian sketch

True

The video is genuine footage of Nigel Farage speaking at Reform UK's 5 November 2026 London event, and the caption's two checkable claims — that Angus MacIntyre is Reform UK's new 'shadow armed forces minister' and that he served 40 years in the military — are both confirmed by independent reporting.

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Did the White House block CNN from the TV pool for Trump's Oval Office event?

X · 31,826 likes, 6,513 replies (X syndication); White House RapidResponse47 rebuttal 10,104 likes; Daily Beast

True

CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins reported accurately that the White House blocked CNN, the scheduled TV pool outlet, from President Trump's 5 November 2026 Oval Office event, leaving the five networks without pooled audio or video of his remarks. The text-only post is confirmed by same-day reporting from TheWrap and HuffPost.

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Did Jamie Raskin promise universal gun registration as a top priority?

X · 12,460 likes, 3,967 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Twitchy pickup

Misleading

The photograph of Jamie Raskin is a genuine press image, but the post mischaracterises what he said: in his interview he named background checks on private gun sales as a priority, not 'universal gun registration', which is the gun-rights group's own framing.

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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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Did Hillary Clinton say Congress could still call Elon Musk to testify even if he is pardoned?

X · Video post: 4,732 likes, 1,033 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Twitchy pickup

True

The video is authentic footage of Hillary Clinton at the live Pivot podcast recording, and her remarks — including the call to summon Elon Musk even if pardoned — are accurately captioned and confirmed by independent reporting.

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Did Trump say "Russia is losing civilians also" when asked about Putin killing Ukrainian civilians?

X · 1,341 likes, 395 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06 ~03:00Z); embedded in HuffPost live blog

True But

The clip is genuine White House footage and the quoted exchange is accurately reported by the Associated Press and other outlets. Trump's on-camera claim that 'Russia is losing civilians also' is technically tinged but misleading, since documented Russian civilian deaths are a small fraction of the Ukrainian civilian toll and it was Russia that invaded.

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Did Trump post on Truth Social that American Crypto, Super Intelligence and Epstein files are cancelled?

X · 11,699 likes, 1,235 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06 ~03:00Z); Lead Stories check 5 Nov, syndicated on Yahoo

False

The image is a fabricated screenshot of a Trump Truth Social post; no such message exists on his account or in any archive, and multiple fact-checkers have labelled it a forgery. The caption presents it as a genuine sign of things 'getting crazy on Truth Social', which is false.

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Did a German kindergarten rename its St Martin's parade 'Lichterfest'?

X · X post 406 likes / 64 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov). dpa says the image is 'currently' being shared again and fact-checked it 5 Nov. Also shared by author Rainer Zitelmann on Facebook. Seasonal: St. Martin's Day is 11 Nov · resurfaced

True But

The clip shows a plausible, apparently genuine photo of a kindergarten notice renaming its St Martin's parade 'Lichterfest' so all children feel included — a real, documented practice in German kindergartens — but the notice names no facility, town or date, so this specific case cannot be verified, and the caption's aggressive 'no consideration for anyone' framing is the poster's own far-right commentary rather than anything the notice says.

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Were German military vehicles parked at the German embassy in Warsaw, near the Sejm?

X · Matecki post 1,831 likes / 327 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Jakubiak post 5,317 likes / 476 replies; covered 5 Nov by Konkret24 (st9323475), RMF24, Onet, Wprost, Fakt, Super Express, Dziennik, Niezalezna, TV Republika, wPolityce, Tysol; German ambassador Miguel Berger issued a statement (soldiers

Misleading

The video is genuine self-shot footage of Bundeswehr vehicles on the grounds of the German embassy in Warsaw, a presence the German ambassador publicly confirmed — but the post presents an explained, ceremonial NATO-ally appearance as a sinister, unexplained German military incursion.

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Did Trump just walk out to a huge White House crowd and say 'four more years, maybe eight more years'?

X · Primary post 3,759 likes / 87 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06); identical copy-paste text posted by several accounts through 5 Nov (Misbar lists 4)

Misleading

The video is genuine footage of Trump's 4 June 2025 White House "Summer Soiree" and the "four more years, maybe eight more years" quote is accurate — but the post repackages a 17-month-old clip as "BREAKING" news in November 2026.

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Did Andy Burnham hand Caribbean countries £40 million for slavery reparations?

X · X trending story page shows Lowe post at 549K views, 38K likes, 4.1K reposts; TalkTV clip 58K views; TheBritLad 75K views (as displayed on trending page 6 Nov). Debate still live 5 Nov: Guardian slavery-apology pieces, Welby 'group punishment' remarks (GB Trends 'justin welby'), Mirror poll piece 5

Misleading

The £40 million figure is real — Andy Burnham's government approved £40m over three years for Caribbean infrastructure and green energy at the November 2026 Commonwealth summit — but the post misleadingly presents it as a slavery reparations payout made in response to Caribbean demands, when Downing Street said it was unrelated to reparations, drew it from existing budgets, and Burnham has ruled out direct reparations.

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Did the Environment Secretary tell an interviewer to "get a life" over a bacon crisps ban?

YouTube · Telegraph 4 Nov, then Mail/Express/Mirror/Independent/HuffPost/GB News 4-5 Nov; Guido Fawkes 'every common item set to be banned' list (4 Nov) and video (5 Nov); 'smoky bacon crisps banned' in GB autocomplete (previous run)

True But

The Environment Secretary, Dame Angela Eagle, did tell a Times Radio interviewer to "get a life" when asked about a possible smoky bacon crisp ban under the UK's EU reset deal — the exchange is quoted verbatim by multiple mainstream outlets. The only overstated element is the headline's 'incoming ban' framing, since the EU rule in question is a proposed labelling restriction with a proposed snacks exemption, not a confirmed ban.

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Did Lancaster, Pennsylvania officials just bust a large-scale fraudulent voter registration scheme?

X · 17,244 likes, 1,068 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06 ~03:00Z); fact-checked by Lead Stories 5 Nov · resurfaced

Misleading

The video is genuine footage of Lancaster County DA Heather Adams' October 25, 2024 press conference, but the post presents it as a brand-new, 'breaking' 2026 voter fraud bust just after the midterms. The 2024 investigation was real; the 2026 framing is false, and the case was already resolved in April 2026.

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Did North Carolina, Ohio and Nevada all pass amendments requiring ID to vote?

X · Libs of TikTok and Gateway Pundit X posts cited by PolitiFact explainer 4 Nov

True But

The text-only post accurately reports the 3 November 2026 ballot-measure results: Ohio, North Carolina and Nevada did approve voter-ID amendments, and five states did approve citizenship-voting measures, though one of those five (Alaska) was a statute change rather than a constitutional amendment.

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Did Muslim members of the Israeli Knesset pray inside parliament?

X · Spread in English and Arabic on X 4 Nov (Arabic reposts at 23:34-23:38Z 4 Nov, lt24h); primary ~125 likes, Arabic repost ~170 likes (syndication, 5 Nov); fact-checked by Kashif 5 Nov. No view counts given

False

The video is real but mislabelled: it shows Jordanian MPs performing the noon prayer in the Jordanian parliament in Amman on 3 November 2026, not Muslim members of the Israeli Knesset praying in the Knesset chamber. Fact-checkers Factly and Vishvas News rated the claim false.

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Did Trump smash up the Oval Office as his first decision after the midterm defeat?

X · Shared by Iran's embassy in Lebanon (official account) plus Indian/Pakistani X users; fact-checked by Newschecker in English, Hindi and Bengali on 5 Nov; origin is an AI parody ('Trump's Midterm Meltdown | AI Parody') uploaded by YouTube channel Eman Rus on 4 Nov. No view counts given.

Misleading

The video is AI-generated — the frames themselves carry an 'AI GENERATED' label and it traces to the AI-parody creator Eman Rus — so the depicted Oval Office rampage never happened. The caption's underlying premise, that Trump's Republicans were routed in the November 2026 midterms, is accurate, which makes the post a real political backdrop dressed up with a fake 'first decision'.

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