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Fact Check

A closer look at claims and statements in the news, with fact checks from AFP and RTL.

No evidence Usha Vance attended conference with media gala shooting suspect

Fake Trump sleeping photo spreads after White House event

Conspiracy posts misidentify 'Mad Max' actor as NASA astronaut

Yerba mate supplements cannot replicate effects of GLP-1 agonists

Fabricated Trump post mocking Australian PM dupes social media users

The Family of Man photos exposed to high humidity longer than officially stated

Meloni did not tell Trump to 'watch his words'

Footage from earlier uncrewed lunar mission misrepresented as Artemis II’s return

Misleading fuel countdown posts stoke alarm in Australia

Fake Trump post ordering Catholic Church probe spreads amid pope spat

Did the state benefit financially from the rise in fuel prices?

Old footage from Pope Francis's visit in East Timor misrepresented as Israeli exodus

Troop homecoming video misrepresented after US-Iran ceasefire

US President Donald Trump speaks as he hosts the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC.

Trump falsely inflates number of US troops in S.Korea

Texas governor shares fake image depicting rescued US airman

Clip shows video game simulation, not US warplane downed in Iran

Images depicting capture of American soldiers in Iran are AI-generated

RTL Fact Check Day

Missing persons reports, trailers, and seized money and items

Den Transport vun engem Auto mat enger Remorque.

Towing trailers – what is allowed and how do licences work?

Where does the money go?

BGA director Michel Turk on the complex process behind seized assets

Each missing person case treated individually, public appeals remain last resort

Video shows Trump supporters storming US Capitol, not rally against Middle East war

New York City fire footage misrepresented as Middle East war

Posts falsely claim Netanyahu video fabricated to cover up his death

Trump post dropping interest in annexing Canada is fabricated

AI-generated videos fake medical credentials to sell wellness supplements

An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 sits on the runway after colliding with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York, on March 23, 2026

New York plane crash reignites 9/11 conspiracy theories

A medical worker holds a measles-rubella (MR) vaccine at a health station in Banda Aceh in Aceh province on September 19, 2018.

Experts refute 'natural' immunity claims as Indonesia battles measles outbreak

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