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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, Friday, May 31, 2024, in New York. A day after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony charges, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee addressed the conviction and likely attempt to cast his campaign in a new light. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

FACT FOCUS: Trump responds to guilty verdict with attacks and false claims

In this photo illustration provided by Tammam Azzam, fragments of photographs showing destroyed buildings in Syria were combined using Photoshop to create an image resembling the Statue of Liberty. (Tammam Azzam via AP)

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Questions swirl around whether Trump can vote for himself in the 2024 election

Former President Donald Trump attends his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Posts misrepresent New York judge’s instructions to jury in Trump hush money trial

‘Statue of Liberty’ image was created using Photoshop, not ruins from the artist’s home

Posts misrepresent Illinois bill rebranding some criminal offenders as ‘justice-impacted individuals’

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Former President Donald Trump has pointed to standard language used in an unsealed FBI document to baselessly claim the Biden administration wanted to kill him during a search for documents at his Florida estate in 2022.

How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

The United Nations and other organizations have presented credible evidence that Hamas militants committed sexual assault during their Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel.

Judge in Trump’s hush money trial did not bar campaign finance expert from testifying for defense

As the trial continued Tuesday, social media users misrepresented Merchan’s ruling, repeating a statement Trump made that Smith, a law professor and former Republican member of the Federal Election Commission, was not being allowed to take the stand.

A warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest was requested. But no decision was made about whether to issue it

Social media users are misrepresenting the warrants’ status, including that of Netanyahu, by claiming that they have already been approved by the ICC.

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Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Milwaukee’s director of elections was not removed from her position for vote rigging in the 2020 presidential election.

JFK airport project misrepresented as not allowing bids from white, male-owned businesses

Social media users are falsely claiming that certain businesses will be excluded from JFK’s multibillion dollar redevelopment based on the race and gender of their owners.

Biden cites erroneous inflation statistic to make his case about the economy

Biden has twice cited this number, which is drawn from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, in the past week, first in a CNN interview on May 8 and again during an interview with Yahoo Finance on Tuesday.

A second scourge is battering Brazil’s flooded south: Disinformation

The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside. But another scourge has spread across the region: Disinformation on social media that has hampered desperate efforts to get aid to hundreds of thousands in need.

Replacement of Milwaukee election official unrelated to 2020 election

With the 2024 election just six months away, social media users continue to promote erroneous claims of election-related fraud in 2020, most recently with a spotlight on Wisconsin.

Trump suggests Chinese migrants are in the US to build an ‘army.’ The migrants tell another story

The daily struggle to find work for Chinese immigrants living illegally in a borough of New York is a far cry from the picture Donald Trump and other Republicans have sought to paint.

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Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: France did not send troops to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Hackers did not project the Soviet Victory banner on Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate this week

Social media users shared photos and videos that made it appear the banner was being projected onto the Brandenburg Gate ahead of this week’s commemorative celebrations.

No, France did not deploy troops to fight with Ukraine against Russia

Social media users are pointing to the blog post as proof that French troops have been sent to fight Russia alongside Ukraine as the war continues in its third year.

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Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: A video clip of actor Robert De Niro yelling in a crowd shows him rehearsing for a Netflix series, not confronting anti-Israel protesters in New York.

Posts share fake New York Post story saying a bill would make it illegal to question 9/11

Social media users are sharing the false image to erroneously allege that the U.S. government is considering limits on what people can say about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Misinformation surges on social media as India votes in the world’s largest election

Misinformation about India’s election is surging online as the world’s most populous country votes. Researchers who track disinformation in India say the country is particularly vulnerable to misinformation and hate speech because of its linguistic and cultural diversity as well as weak enforcement