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.
20 checks · 10 morning · 10 afternoon
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.
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.
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.
X · 28,705 likes; MEAWW says hundreds of thousands of views
False
The image is a fabricated screenshot meme, not a real X exchange: neither Bill Gates' 'I MADE MICROSOFT' post nor Elon Musk's 'don't make me buy Microsoft just to fire you' reply was ever posted, and X Community Notes plus multiple outlets have debunked it as AI-generated joke content.
X · 1,654 likes on X; FB copy 4.5K views; "elon musk helicopter memphis" is the top autocomplete suggestion
False
The video shows a real medical helicopter and accident scene, but it is not Elon Musk's helicopter and not on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis — it is a Hospital Wing air-ambulance response in Southaven, Mississippi, on 31 October 2026. The claim is fabricated and has been debunked by Lead Stories.
X · 1,893 likes; crash near Mar-a-Lago widely covered, other AI/missile claims checked by PolitiFact
False
The attached video is an openly labelled computer-generated reconstruction of the Learjet 60's final descent, not real footage; the caption's suggestion that the jet was flying without a wing and with the right engine cowling missing is false — it rests on an AI-processed still that fact-checkers showed was fabricated from dashcam video in which both wings are visible.
X · 11,030 likes; embedded by Onet, Welt, Bild, tvn24, 20minutos, BFM; toll reported 18 -> 24 -> 26
True But
The video is genuine State Emergency Service of Ukraine footage of the aftermath of the 2 November 2026 Russian glide-bomb strikes on Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia region, and Zelenskyy's caption is corroborated by BBC, Reuters, AP/Al Jazeera, Anadolu and Ukrainian outlets. The core facts hold; the death toll was later revised upward and the claim that Russia deliberately targeted civilians rests on Ukrainian assertions that Moscow has not answered.
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.
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.
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.
X · @iamKanha78 140 likes (syndication); Arabic copies @saadalsaedy77 55 likes, @banin97ahwaz 9 likes; Misbar fact-check 3 Nov · resurfaced
False
The clip of crowded Dubai Airport terminal halls is genuine but not new: two independent fact-checkers traced the same footage to 1 March 2026, when Iranian retaliation forced mass flight cancellations, so the 'Dubai Airport Now' framing and the claim of a fresh exodus driven by fears of another Iranian drone attack are false.
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.
X · 2,604 likes (syndication); rumour covered 2 Nov by Univision, TV Azteca, La Nación (CL), 24horas, Tiempo de San Juan, TuNota; Kravitz's team denied it
Misleading
The screenshot does capture a real, briefly erroneous Google knowledge panel entry for Lenny Kravitz, but the post's insinuation is wrong: Kravitz is alive — his publicist called the death reports 'untrue and incorrect' — and crash victims were publicly named within a day of the 1 November 2026 Learjet crash.
X · @hodannat55 2,210 likes; @Machhad517 301 likes ('mass flight for fear of nuclear'); Misbar EN+AR fact-checks 3 Nov · resurfaced
Misleading
The video is genuine passenger-shot footage from Hamad International Airport, but it dates from 28 February 2026, when Qatari airspace was closed after US–Israeli strikes on Iran — not from a current mass exodus. Misbar's fact-check and Qatar Airways' statement that the 2 November 2026 activity was an emergency drill with normal flight operations make the 'live mass escape' framing misleading.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.