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.

Checks from

November 2, 2026

20 checks · 10 morning · 10 afternoon

Morning run

10 checks

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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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Did the Houthis capture weapons just delivered to government forces in Marib?

X · Shared by pro-Houthi and Southern (STC) accounts; Misbar and CNN Arabic both covered it on 1 Nov

Misleading

The video is genuine Houthi Military Media footage, but it dates from September 2019 and shows the 'Victory from God' operation on the Najran axis — not weapons recently delivered to government forces in Marib and captured the next morning. Three independent verification desks (CNN Arabic, Misbar and Yemen Daily News) have debunked the exact clip as old footage recycled into the October 2026 Marib fighting.

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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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Afternoon run

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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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Were over 500 missiles fired at Iran with major fires across Tehran?

X · 1,239 likes, 69 replies on the primary; Arabic reposts (X syndication, 2 Nov)

False

The video is real but unrelated footage: it shows the 1 June 2026 fireworks-factory explosion in Malta, not missiles hitting Iran. No 500-missile strike on Tehran or major fires across the city had occurred as of 2 November 2026.

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Did Iran test a two-stage ICBM called "Rastakhiz" in this video?

X · Shared by several X accounts and Facebook reels in English and Arabic; 101 likes on primary (X syndication, 2 Nov)

Misleading

The video is real but mislabelled: it shows SpaceX's Starship lifting off from Texas on 18 November 2023, filmed by spectators at Playa Bagdad in Mexico, not an Iranian intercontinental ballistic missile test. The caption's 'Rastakhiz' ICBM details are unverified at best and contradicted by published reporting on the claimed weapon.

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Did a Delta CRJ-900 just crash and flip upside down at Toronto Pearson?

X · Spanish and Arabic 'breaking' posts; 106 likes on primary (X syndication, 2 Nov)

Misleading

The clip is genuine passenger footage of the 17 February 2025 Delta Flight 4819 crash at Toronto Pearson, but the post sells it as a new '#BREAKING' incident roughly 21 months later — a fact-check published on 2 November 2026 found the same video being passed off as recent.

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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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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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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 a jet collide with a fire truck at LaGuardia in a new mass casualty incident?

X · Reposted in English, Portuguese and Arabic; 44 likes on primary (X syndication, 2 Nov)

Misleading

The video and caption are recycled verbatim from the 22-23 March 2026 Air Canada Express crash at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, where a landing jet struck a fire truck, killing both pilots and injuring dozens. Posted with a #BREAKING tag on 2 November 2026, it falsely implies a new mass-casualty incident is unfolding now.

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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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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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