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 Democrat Haley Stevens show up at a Black Detroit church with Republican Mike Rogers?

X · About 12.2K likes (X syndication); Stevens said El-Sayed 'chose to say I wasn't welcome' (Mediaite); CBS reported it; El-Sayed brushed off questions

True

The video is genuine footage of Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens arriving at Perfecting Church in Detroit with Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers on 1 November 2026, and the caption's claims about the church, Rogers' presence and El-Sayed telling her to stay away are all supported by AP, the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit News and Axios.

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Is Jack Posobiec being removed from Turning Point USA over Qatar lobbying?

X · About 10.7K likes (X syndication); Raw Story reported on 1 Nov that rumours were flying as Team Trump reportedly unfollowed him

Misleading

A text-only post recycling an unconfirmed rumour that Jack Posobiec is about to be removed from Turning Point USA over supposed Qatar lobbying. The cited FARA filing records only a routine PR-firm media contact with Human Events, no payment evidence exists, and the 'Team Trump unfollowed him' claim has not been confirmed and has been called fake.

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Did Poland's Constitutional Tribunal face a forcible takeover after its president was suspended?

X · 30,250 likes, 2,171 replies (X syndication); Polish FM Sikorski replied publicly; covered by RMF24

Can't Verify

Marine Le Pen's text-only post accurately describes the 30 October 2026 crisis at Poland's Constitutional Tribunal — a contested suspension of its president and a police deployment around the building — but her framing of it as a 'forcible takeover', with an 'indifferent' EU and 'silent' media, is contested and in parts inaccurate.

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Did Russian forces suffer record losses in October 2026, with a big share in the Azov Corps' sector?

X · 8,668 likes, 696 replies (X syndication); picked up by Ukrainska Pravda, Radio Svoboda, RMF24 and Kyiv Independent

True But

Ukraine's General Staff reported that Russian personnel losses in October 2026 reached 54,400 killed, wounded and missing — the highest monthly total since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022, surpassing the 48,670 recorded in December 2024. President Volodymyr Zelensky repeated the record claim and said Ukrainian forces recaptured more territory than Russia seized during the month. The National Guard's 1st Azov Corps, operating in the Dobropillia sector of Donetsk Oblast, reported roughly 6,843 Russian troops killed, wounded or captured in its own area of responsibility; all figures are Ukrainian military estimates and are not independently audited.

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Was Pakistan's ambassador to Iran attacked at a meeting in Tehran?

X · At least 7 accounts posted it within about 5 hours (Misbar). English copy from @eaglepos: 687 likes (X syndication). Pakistan's embassy in Tehran issued a formal denial, reported by Dawn

False

A real but unrelated clip — the 29 October 2026 mass brawl in Armenia's National Assembly — is being passed off as an attack on Pakistan's ambassador in Tehran, an attack Pakistan's embassy in Tehran has explicitly and categorically denied.

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Did the plane that crashed near Mar-a-Lago change course and head for Trump's estate?

X · About 9.4K likes and 786 replies (X syndication, 2 Nov); TotalProSports story on the speculation; IBTimes UK and AOL covered related missile and air-defence rumours

Misleading

The crash of Learjet N722BD near Palm Beach on 1 November 2026 is real and killed all nine aboard, but the post's 'plot' framing is misleading: flight data and reporting show the jet stayed on its Bahamas routing and lost control in a steep right-hand dive after reporting icing, not a deliberate course change toward Mar-a-Lago.

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Is the viral video of Bhagwant Mann drunk real?

X · Post itself small (2 likes at check); claim fact-checked by Newschecker (1 Nov) and AajTak (31 Oct, face-swap) and shared widely per both

False

The video is a face-swapped fake: the body belongs to Jassi Deol, filmed drunk at a wedding in 2017, with Bhagwant Mann's face inserted, as Aaj Tak and Newschecker both confirmed in fact-checks published on 30-31 October 2026. The caption's conclusion that the Punjab Chief Minister is a drunk who cannot deliver a drug-free state rests on this fabricated clip.

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Did Patrick Stewart say America was on the edge of a "very bad flu infection" because of Trump?

X · 29,550 likes, 220 replies (x-syndication, 2026-11-01); spread after Stewart's death and got a Snopes check on 31 Oct

True

The video is genuine 2017 interview footage and the quote is accurately attributed to Patrick Stewart, as confirmed by Snopes and the original A.V. Club broadcast; his remarks are largely opinion with the checkable historical references holding up.

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Did Fox News present Mike Rogers campaign backers as a "bipartisan voter panel"?

X · MeidasTouch 6,844 likes; Acyn quote 3,808 likes (x-syndication, 2026-11-01); Mediaite confirmed and Raw Story covered it on 1 Nov

True

The screenshot is a genuine Fox News broadcast still, and the claim is corroborated: Fox's "My View with Lara Trump" billed a five-person Michigan panel as bipartisan "voters" even though four had stumped for Mike Rogers and one was treasurer of a multimillion-dollar pro-Rogers super PAC.

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Did over 1,200 migrants cross the Channel since Thursday, costing £396 million?

X · 3,331 likes about 2h after posting (X syndication, 1 Nov). No news pickup found yet; Channel crossing figures covered by GB News and Daily Mail on 1 Nov

True But

Farage's numbers largely check out: Home Office figures show 1,193 small-boat arrivals from Thursday to Saturday and more on Sunday, and a Dutch study did put the lifetime net fiscal cost of an asylum seeker at about €400,000 (£330,000), cited by the MAC. But the post dresses a discounted lifetime estimate up as an immediate bill and implies Britain has lost control of its borders, when 2026 crossings are down roughly 43% and the pause was weather-driven.

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Did James Talarico say he loves trans children, God is non-binary and he wants to dismantle capitalism?

X · VigilantFox clip 27,440 likes; Elon Musk quote-post 'Something seriously wrong with Talarico' 45,719 likes, 2,889 replies (x-syndication, 2026-11-01); IBTimes story

Misleading

The video is genuine HBO Real Time footage from 30 October 2026 in which Ted Cruz attacks James Talarico's past statements while Bill Maher partly pushes back. Most of Cruz's quotes are grounded in real Talarico remarks, but the headline 'I really love trans children' line is a reworded paraphrase of a podcast answer about children who had rallied at the Capitol, making the post's framing misleading.

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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 Kemi Badenoch say slavery involved every continent and Britain led the way in ending the slave trade?

X · 38.4K likes, 1.7K replies (X syndication); covered by LBC, Independent, GB News 31 Oct

True But

Kemi Badenoch's X post is genuine and accurately quoted: she did argue that slavery involved people from every continent, that Britain led the way in ending the transatlantic slave trade, and that a fresh apology or reparations are unnecessary. Her historical premises are broadly accurate, though the post is a strongly slanted political argument about reparations rather than a neutral account.

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Does this video show a current rally in Hamburg of Middle Eastern migrants demanding Sharia law?

X · Primary 144 likes, 76 replies; also on several Facebook reels · resurfaced

Misleading

The video is genuine footage of a Muslim Interaktiv rally in Hamburg on 12 October 2024, but it is being circulated in October 2026 as if it were a current gathering of Middle Eastern, mostly Syrian, migrants demanding Sharia law — a framing that fact-checkers and German reporting do not support.

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Did Trump post a 'Welcome to Greenland' image showing the island as a giant US air base?

X · 3.8K likes; Trump's AI Greenland-carrier image covered by Mediaite, IBTimes, Raw Story and MEAWW 31 Oct

True But

Trump really did post this AI-generated 'Welcome to Greenland' illustration on Truth Social on 31 October 2026, and the September security deal did expand US military rights on the island — but there was no 'Greenland takeover': the territory remains under Danish sovereignty.

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Did Hasan Piker compare West Bloomfield Township to the KKK?

X · Slotkin post 3.7K likes, ~3K replies; Guy Benson reply 6.5K likes; tied to Michigan Senate race days before the 3 Nov election

True

Elissa Slotkin's text-only X post accurately describes a real Hasan Piker livestream in which he likened El-Sayed campaign door-knocking in the Jewish suburb of West Bloomfield to canvassing a KKK neighborhood and called the pro-Israel stance there 'Jewish supremacy.' Her condemnation is an opinion, but the factual premise is confirmed by verbatim clips and by Times of Israel and Jewish Insider reporting.

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Is inflation "way down under Trump" as his Truth Social post said?

X · Kobeissi post 2.9K likes, 860 replies; covered by Benzinga/MSN, Raw Story, Daily Beast

False

The screenshot is a genuine, accurately reproduced Truth Social post by Donald Trump from 30 October 2026, but the claim it spreads — that inflation is 'way down' — is contradicted by official data showing CPI inflation rising to 3.7% in September 2026, above the level when he took office.

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Did Trump say of Abdul El-Sayed, "send him back to where he came from"?

X · McMorrow quote-post 28.3K likes; DarrigoMelanie 7.3K likes; HuffPost, MEAWW coverage 31 Oct

True

The video is genuine Fox News live footage of Trump's 30 October 2026 Daytona Beach rally, and the caption quotes him accurately: he did tell the crowd to send Abdul El-Sayed "back to where he came from." The falsehood is inside the clip — Trump's unsupported charge that El-Sayed dislikes Jewish and Black people, and the implication that a Michigan-born American is foreign.

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Did Putin say Russia is ready for war with Europe and that World War III has begun?

X · Primary post 25.5K likes, 730 replies (X syndication, 1 Nov); copied by several Arabic-language accounts

Misleading

The Russian audio and footage are a genuine Moscow Victory Day parade, but the caption misrepresents it: Putin's "we are ready, but we do not want war with Europe… there will be no winners" line from 29 October 2026 is real, while the added claim that "World War III has begun" is invented and the parade video is old footage passed off as breaking war news.

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Did Trump post on Truth Social that he shouldn't have bought Intel stock?

X · 3.1K likes, 133 replies; Intel's 29% drop on 30 Oct is real (Forbes)

False

The image is a fabricated Truth Social mock-up: Trump never posted the quoted complaint about Intel. The Intel crash it leans on, however, did happen — shares closed down about 29% on 30 October 2026.

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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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Was an important White House official fired on the night of 30 October 2026?

X · 11.3K likes, 911 replies; MEAWW reports 1.2M+ views within 3 hours

Can't Verify

Patrick Byrne's text-only post floats an unnamed rumour of an 'important firing' at the White House on the night of 30 October 2026, but no credible outlet reported any such dismissal, and the claim cannot be tied to a specific person. It is unconfirmed rather than shown to be false.

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Did Germany just limit toilet flushes to three a day under a new eco-law?

X · Low on this post (3 likes); named by Mimikama as the source of the fake FOCUS-branded video aimed at US midterm voters

False

A fabricated 'news report' claims Germany's government capped citizens at three toilet flushes a day and limited showers under a new 'Eco-Sanitation Act'. No such law exists, FOCUS Online never aired the report, and the voiceover is AI-generated audio dubbed over unrelated real footage.

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Did Lt Gen Girish Kalia say China has taken control of Asaphila, Longju and Taksing in Arunachal Pradesh?

X · 11.7K likes, 609 replies; Indian Army debunk; part of ongoing Arunachal deepfake wave

False

The video is a deepfake: real 2023 footage of then Major General Girish Kalia in Kupwara was re-voiced with AI lip-syncing to insert fabricated remarks about China seizing parts of Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian Army and several independent fact-checkers have debunked the clip and the claim it carries.

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