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.

540 checks

Did the FBI tell people Election Day was on Wednesday?

X · Klippenstein post 16,764 likes; Krassenstein follow-up 5,987 likes (syndication, 2026-11-04); FBI post had 257,000+ views and a Community Note (IBTimes); CT Secretary of the State statement; Lead Stories, Snopes, Raw Story coverage · original post deleted

True

The post's factual assertion checks out: the FBI's New Haven field office did publish a since-deleted post telling people Election Day was Wednesday, when the 2026 midterms were held on Tuesday, 3 November. The FBI called it a typo, so the implication of deliberate deception is unproven.

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Did Iran put up a billboard in Tehran reading 'We will kill Trump'?

X · X post 1,381 likes, 52 replies with image (verify 2026-11-04); IBTimes UK headline 'Tehran Unveils We Will Kill Trump Billboard' 3 Nov

True

The photograph is genuine: Iran did unveil a giant billboard over Tehran's Enghelab Square on 3 November 2026 reading "We will kill Trump" with Trump depicted behind bars, as reported by AFP and many international outlets. The post's core claim is accurate, though its "terrorists occupying Iran" wording is advocacy framing rather than neutral description.

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Was Tehran's oil refinery just bombed, as this video claims?

X · Primary 744 likes/38 replies (X syndication, 4 Nov); repost by @QanatSadaQDSIQ ('more than 100 US planes targeting Iran now') 425 likes, @Alomari67 254 likes; Misbar fact-check 3 Nov

Misleading

The video is real fire footage but far older than claimed: a fact-check by Misbar traced the same clip to the Shahran oil depot blaze in Tehran on 14/15 June 2025, and no bombing of Tehran's refineries took place around 2-3 November 2026 — the only documented US action then was limited strikes near Qeshm Island and the Strait of Hormuz.

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Did Trump say "the inflation is solved" on Fox & Friends on Election Day 2026?

X · Clip of Trump statement, 974 likes (verify 2026-11-04); Independent headline 'Trump declares inflation is solved' 3 Nov

True

The clip is authentic Fox News footage of Trump's 3 November 2026 Election Day call-in to Fox & Friends, and he did say "the inflation is solved" and "everything is going good" — statements contradicted by official data showing 3.7 percent annual inflation in September 2026.

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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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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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Is Abby Ronson, a Mike Rogers campaign spokesperson, a registered foreign agent for Israel?

X · 44,911 likes (syndication); follow-up coverage by TNR, Washington Examiner ('two Mike Rogers campaign strategists are lobbyists for Israel'), IBTimes UK, Anadolu

True

The video is genuine Fox News live footage of Haley Stevens' 1 November 2026 endorsement press conference in Detroit, and the caption's claim checks out: Abby Ronson, who handles press for Mike Rogers' Senate campaign, is registered under FARA as an agent of the Israeli government through a Havas/Clocktower X contract.

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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 Claudia Tenney say New York Democrats will 'do anything and everything to cheat'?

X · 1,324 likes (syndication) within ~2h; quoted poll-worker post; NY AG, RNC, News 12, Raw Story, RedState, NY Post live blog all covering the outage

Opinion

A text-only Election Day post by Rep. Claudia Tenney stating that New York Democrats 'will do anything and everything to cheat' — a broad partisan accusation with no specific, checkable allegation, so it is opinion rather than a verifiable factual claim.

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Did Trump announce the US is ending $4 billion in annual aid to Israel by the end of the year?

X · 1,065 likes within ~45 min; Google Trends US 'trump israel' 500+; Bluesky trending 'Trump calls Israel a helper'; Reuters, CNN, Bloomberg, NY Post, Newsweek, HuffPost, Ynet all reporting

True But

The video is genuine Fox News election-day broadcast footage of President Trump telling Fox & Friends that the U.S. will end roughly $4 billion in annual aid to Israel by year's end, which Reuters and multiple other outlets reported the same day. The announcement and its dollar figure check out, but Trump's claim of a completed, months-old agreement with Netanyahu is unconfirmed and at odds with the aid pact that runs to 2028.

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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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Did Święczkowski authorize Piotrowicz to lead the Constitutional Tribunal?

X · 3,185 likes; embedded by Onet, tvn24, natemat amid Tribunal standoff

True

The image is a photo of a genuine-looking Constitutional Tribunal authorization dated 28 April 2026, and the caption accurately describes it: Święczkowski did empower judge Stanisław Piotrowicz to substitute for him and lead the Tribunal's work. The document's existence and text are independently confirmed by Polish media across the political spectrum, though its legal effect in the current TK leadership dispute is contested.

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Is the US mediating Ukraine–Russia talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10–11?

X · 2,746 likes; embedded by Spiegel, Figaro, NOS, ZDF

True

Steve Witkoff's official account did announce that the US will mediate Ukraine–Russia working-level talks in Abu Dhabi on 10–11 November 2026, and the announcement is corroborated by Reuters, AFP, Der Spiegel and other outlets. The post is a genuine, accurate scheduling announcement; the talks themselves have not yet taken place.

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Did Iran's IRGC ground and seize two American MQM-170 drones over Qeshm?

X · IRGC claim carried by Al Jazeera, Sabq, MTV Lebanon and others; same night as reported US strike on Qeshm; no CENTCOM comment yet

Can't Verify

The post correctly reports an IRGC announcement: on 2 November 2026 the IRGC said its electronic warfare systems grounded and captured two US MQM-170 drones south of Qeshm Island, bringing its claimed total to four. The attribution is accurate, but the underlying claim is unverified and was rejected by US Central Command, which the post does not mention.

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Did Abdul El-Sayed say it's okay for men to be in girls' locker rooms?

X · 41,400 likes; amplified by Speaker Johnson, Scalise, Cruz, Leavitt per Mediaite; Michigan Senate race on Election Day

False

The video is genuine CBS 60 Minutes footage, but the post's caption is fabricated: Abdul El-Sayed never said men should be in girls' locker rooms and never uttered the quoted line about children 'finding out about it on the internet anyway'. The clip was trimmed by the Rogers campaign to strip the surrounding context.

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Did Senator Chris Murphy have a stroke and is the hospital photo real?

X · 36,834 likes on the X post; Murphy stroke (31 Oct) widely reported

True But

Chris Murphy really did suffer a stroke and was hospitalized on 31 October 2026, but the attached hospital-bed photo is not him — it is an unrelated BBC image of a stroke patient in England — and the 'severe' wording plus the hint that his Iran criticism is connected overstate the story.

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Did Mike Rogers say he is 7% ahead on returned Michigan ballots?

X · NY Post coverage 1 Nov; contrasts with NYT/Siena poll showing El-Sayed +11; election 3 Nov

True But

The clip is a genuine Fox News segment and the caption fairly reports what Mike Rogers said — his campaign's internal models put him about seven points ahead among returned early ballots. The claim itself, however, is an undisclosed internal model and runs contrary to public early-vote data showing Democrats leading the share of ballots already cast.

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Did Trump's team have the Dubuque 'Solidarity' mural covered before his visit?

X · Raw Story coverage; venue manager told KCRG the White House advance office decided on the tarp; city ordered it removed

True But

The post's factual claim is accurate: the White House advance team had the 'Solidarity' mural on Dubuque's city-owned Five Flags Center tarped before Trump's 1 November 2026 rally, and the city ordered the tarp removed. The attached photograph is a genuine-looking picture of that mural, though the post's closing lines are partisan opinion.

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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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Did the Oleshky ceasefire end with nearly 800 people evacuated?

X · 9,471 likes, 531 replies (X syndication, 2 Nov); Kyiv Independent, Ukrainska Pravda, Meduza note Kyiv and Moscow withhold figures

True But

Melania Trump's post accurately announces the end of the Oleshky humanitarian ceasefire and the delivery of aid, though the 'nearly 800 evacuees' figure is her own and neither Ukraine nor Russia has published official numbers.

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Is the US about to launch a nuclear strike on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain?

X · 294,500 likes, 20,110 replies (X syndication, 2 Nov ~15:30 UTC); Bluesky trending topic; amplified by MTG, Hunter Biden, Ryan Grim; Daily Beast, Premium Times, Raw Story

Misleading

Tucker Carlson's post is his own unevidenced speculation: he asserts an imminent US nuclear strike on Iran built on anonymous sources, even though Trump had publicly ruled out nuclear use nine days earlier and the strike options actually under discussion are conventional bunker-busters.

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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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Is Haley Stevens no longer a member of the Michigan Democratic Party?

X · About 54.3K likes and 3.1K replies (X syndication); Mediaite headline 'Thrown Out of the Michigan Democratic Party'; Gateway Pundit 'Kicks ... Out of the Party'

True But

The post is an authentic statement from Michigan Democratic Party chair Curtis Hertel Jr., and his declaration that Rep. Haley Stevens is no longer a member of the state party was made on 1 November 2026 and widely reported, with the party reportedly stripping her website listing and voter-file access. The wording is accurate, with the caveat that Michigan has no party registration and no formal expulsion process has been documented, and Stevens insists she remains a Democrat.

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