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 9, 2026

10 checks · 10 morning · 0 afternoon

Morning run

10 checks

Did the US attack Iran, with explosions in Bandar Abbas, Jask, Sirik and Qeshm, and did Iran issue a 24-hour ultimatum?

YouTube · 79K views in ~14h; Times of India video on same claim 310K views; cause disputed between Iranian outlets (warning shots vs US strikes on Qeshm)

Can't Verify

This is a text-only YouTube headline, not footage. Its core claim checks out — the US confirmed limited strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island and explosions were reported in Qeshm, Sirik, Jask and Bandar Abbas on 7 November 2026 — but the headline overstates the picture by attributing all four blasts to a US attack and by inventing a '24-hour ultimatum' from Iran.

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Did a Houthi attack damage the Aramco Tower in Riyadh?

X · Primary 3,224 likes; Osint613 1,679 likes; Times of India YouTube video 205K views in 14h; wide international coverage

True But

The clip shows genuine aftermath footage of the Aramco Tower in Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District after the 8 November 2026 Houthi missile attack, an event confirmed by Reuters, AFP, BBC and CNN and by Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry.

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Did Dave Chappelle say he feels better since Charlie Kirk was murdered?

X · Benny Johnson post 25.4K likes / 4.1K replies; Elon Musk 'Shame on Chappelle' quote-post 143K likes; Piers Morgan 15.8K likes; Fox says clip is leaked from 'Karmageddon' tour

True

The clip is genuine fan-captured footage of Dave Chappelle making the quoted Charlie Kirk remark at his Madison Square Garden show on 7 November 2026, as reported by the New York Post, Fox News and other outlets. The post quotes him accurately; the added characterisation of the joke as 'just sick' is the poster's opinion.

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Did the US disable the M/V Huda and did oil tankers burn in the Strait of Hormuz?

X · Primary 42 likes; IRIran_MiliarY 423 likes, SunilYadav990 315 likes; timely after 8 Nov IRGC claim that two tankers hit mines

True But

The core events are real and well documented: CENTCOM confirmed on 7 November 2026 that it disabled the St Kitts-flagged cargo ship M/V Huda in the Gulf of Oman for breaching the US blockade of Iran, and tankers did burn in and near the Strait of Hormuz. The caption nonetheless overstates matters — the 'mine' cause is an unverified IRGC/IRNA claim that CENTCOM disputes, and CENTCOM confirmed only the Huda strike, not the Iranian account.

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Did Trump tell CNN's Jim Sciutto five times that war with Iran is "highly unlikely"?

X · Sciutto post 261 likes; 'iran strikes' on Google Trends US at 10000+; IBTimes UK coverage

Can't Verify

Jim Sciutto's post accurately summarises his own on-the-record interview with President Trump: CNN's published report confirms Trump said "highly unlikely" five times about renewed war with Iran, described US forces as ready, and put Iran at 10% of missile capacity and 15% of drone capability.

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Was the PKP Intercity train 'Chemik' really shot at near Częstochowa?

X · 71.7K views, 299 likes; Google Trends PL 'pociag intercity ostrzelany' 2000+

Can't Verify

The screenshot is a genuine PKP Intercity service notice and the core story is real: on 8 November 2026 the IC 4124/5 'Chemik' was stopped near Rudniki koło Częstochowy after a carriage window was damaged, with a shooting suspicion confirmed by the rail infrastructure manager. The caption overstates certainty — police have not confirmed the damage was caused by a projectile and the train was running Katowice→Płock, not Płock→Katowice.

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Did Trump's net worth rise by nearly $3 billion since he returned to office?

X · 60 Minutes clip 6.8K likes / 860 replies; Forbes editor Dan Alexander's 'nonsense' quote-post 10.2K likes; Bluesky trending topic

True

The video is a genuine CBS 60 Minutes excerpt in which Ross Douthat asks President Trump about a Forbes estimate that his net worth rose nearly $3 billion since returning to office — a figure Forbes itself has published. Trump's deflection that everyone's net worth rose the same way is contradicted by the reporting.

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Was the Kraków attacker Michał Oksiński a leftist antifascist who mocked Christianity?

X · 564.8K views, 14.9K likes, 4.3K reposts; PAP lists AI-edited 'antifa badge' photo of attacker among top false narratives

Misleading

The post's factual anchor is correct — police confirmed that the Kraków attacker's two parents and sister were found shot dead in the family flat — but the framing is misleading: unverified 2019-2021 screenshots are presented as proof that he was a left-wing anarcho-communist, and an unsupported suggestion is made that the government had his Facebook accounts deleted to cover this up.

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Did Trump say the US 'won in Iran' and that no soldiers have been lost?

X · Clip 1.6K likes within 3h; Raw Story notes the Pentagon's official Iran war US death toll was raised to 23 in October

True

The clip is genuine Fox News footage of Trump's 8 November 2026 airport remarks, and his statement that no soldiers were lost in the Iran war is flatly false — the Pentagon's own database lists 23 US military deaths and 865 wounded.

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Is Russia replacing Norway at the 2027 World Junior Championship?

X · 390K views, 786 likes; no formal IIHF announcement; Carney says Russia's team will be barred from Canada

True

The Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation's post accurately reports that the IIHF has put Russia into the 2027 World Junior Championship in Norway's place, a move forced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport; Reuters, AP and NRK all confirm it. The attached logo graphic is genuine, and the federation's caveat that Norway's participation is not yet finally settled is also supported.

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