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Maarten Schenk

@mschenk

Fact checker. Co-founder of leadstories.com.

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WTF? X to start demonetizing unlabeled AI war videos...

Labeling false content? What a novel idea!

06.03.2026 11:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The source for the "President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth" quote from a U.S. "commander" is a single organization that didn't provide documentary or identifying info.

Did you witness it? --> tips@leadstories.com

05.03.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did the Department of War add "periscope crosshairs" to this torpedo footage to make it look cooler?

Looks like it was filmed from some fast-moving flying platform, a helicopter or a drone or something...

04.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Zeg, @gazetvanantwerpen.bsky.social, waar zijn we mee bezig? Moet daar niet "advertorial" of "publiciteit" bij staan?

En ook wel "quatch" en "onbewezen"?

03.03.2026 07:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The reports of "hospital boats for Greenland" are greatly exaggerated. Both US hospital SHIPS, USNS Mercy and Comfort, are in an Alabama Shipyard. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

22.02.2026 07:55 πŸ‘ 572 πŸ” 207 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 35
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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizationsβ€”including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Redditβ€”are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

Lead Stories ❀️ Internet Archive

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

22.02.2026 09:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lap! Een brief van de fanfare...

21.02.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
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Heeft Bill White al met JD Vance overlegd over deze kwestie?

21.02.2026 10:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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YouTube is so down it crashed downdetector!

downdetector.com/status/youtu...

#youtubedown

18.02.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Wacht, wat?!

#sneeuw #houthalen

15.02.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey @searchliaison.bsky.social, why is Google showing an AI article with false information for the query "christopher todd erick fact check" when a perfectly good fact check written by humans is available?

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

14.02.2026 09:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Psst... Google @searchliaison.bsky.social there's a fact check available about this AI generated image you know...

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

08.02.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

All the old people on Facebook and X are upset over this image...

08.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

08.02.2026 07:44 πŸ‘ 1735 πŸ” 837 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 156

Hard to keep up...

Yes, a Kid Rock show got canceled.

No, not that one.

08.02.2026 11:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Armenian version of "Sir, this is a Wendy's"?

06.02.2026 09:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Uh, oh, Elmo!

02.02.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a fact check retweeted by Elon Musk

Screenshot of a fact check retweeted by Elon Musk

When Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong suddenly like fact-checking apparently...

01.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

More Epstein fun... a simple OCR scanning error has sent the conspiracy theory set into a frenzy...

01.02.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I *knew* @grok would be in the Epstein files...

31.01.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you can't put the finger on why this video is fake, here's a fact check ;-)

30.01.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fact Check: 'Chair Chase' Video Of ICE Agents Chasing Huge Hand Giving 'The Finger' On Minneapolis Street Is NOT Real -- AI Made This Joke Is a video showing ICE agents chase a man, who is sitting in an office chair covered by a large hand "giving the middle finger," down a Minneapolis street real? No, that's not true: The short video originated on social...

Fact Check: 'Chair Chase' Video Of ICE Agents Chasing Huge Hand Giving 'The Finger' On Minneapolis Street Is NOT Real -- AI Made This Joke

30.01.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

He did post something with the words "gun" and "criminals" but he didn't post this...

25.01.2026 11:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What We Know About Claim Alex Pretti, Was Disarmed Seconds Before He Was Shot and Killed by ICE Agent Does video show an ICE agent taking a gun away from Alex Pretti two seconds before another ICE agent began shooting Pretti? A frame-by-frame look at the first viral video of the incident shared on social media does show a...

What We Know About Claim Alex Pretti, Was Disarmed Seconds Before He Was Shot and Killed by ICE Agent

24.01.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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OMG, @leadstories.com fact check in a visible Community Note under an X post from The White House.

Read the fact check here:
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

23.01.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

22.01.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The White House is posting digitally manipulated arrest pictures...

22.01.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Karoline Leavitt announced that Belgium joined Trump’s β€˜Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds.

22.01.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 6058 πŸ” 1927 πŸ’¬ 521 πŸ“Œ 201
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Oud-rector Rik Torfs gebruikt onbestaande citaten in zijn recentste boek 'Waarheid' | VRT NWS: nieuws In het recente boek van oud-rector van de KU Leuven Rik Torfs staan minstens 7 citaten die niet kloppen. Dat blijkt uit een analyse van VRT NWS. De citaten komen niet voor in de bronnen waarnaar Torfs...

"Ik had fact checkers moeten gebruiken." - Rik Torfs

(Oh, nee, wacht, als dat een parafrase was van wat hij had moeten zeggen dan moet dat zonder aanhalingstekens zeker? Ik zal het aanpassen in de volgende druk van deze post...)

vrtnws.be/p.LNGQp7xVp

21.01.2026 10:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not "pardoning your French" if you are misinterpreting a clip of a TV guest saying

"Ukraine stopped sharing intelligence out of concern for leaks"

with

"Ukraine deliberately shared fake intelligence with the U.S. and saw Russia act on it".

That's not what he said. Not even in French.

19.01.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0