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False: U.S. President Joe Biden and George Soros' son Alexander were photographed together in front of a picture of Jeffrey Epstein's island. About this rating In late April 2023, a photograph cropped up on social media purporting to show U.S. President Joe Biden posing beside Alexander Soros, one of billionaire investor George Soros' sons, in front of a large picture of what appears to be the late sex trafficker Jeffr (Source: Snopes)

False: Image shows boy found wandering in various cities Fact check: Posts that describe wandering boy are social media scams, photo dates to 2020Show Caption Hide Caption Young boy taken by father, grandmother reunites with mom in Miami A mother reunited with her son in Miami, Florida, after the boy went missing for two months. The image actually shows a boy found wandering alone in Iowa in 2020. Scammers use copy-and-paste scams as a 'gullibility check'The Northport Police Department said no such incident happened in the area, which lies about an hour southwest of Birmingham, Alabama. The image dates to at least October 2020 and shows a boy found walking by himself in Ottumwa, Iowa, a city near Des Moines, according to WOI-TV. Fact check: Scammers using photo of teen from 2016 car crash in copy-and-paste schemeThe posts are an example of a copy-and-paste scheme scammers use to identify potential targets. (Source: USA Today)

False: Adam Schiff is being impeached Fact check: Schiff can't be impeached, and there's no ongoing effort to remove him from officeShow Caption Hide Caption Jan. 6: One year after the deadly attack, are we safer? Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunksOur rating: FalseHouse members can't be impeached, but they can be expelled with a two-thirds vote. There are no credible reports of any effort to remove Schiff from office, and the video in the post doesn't show this. House, Senate members can't be impeached, but can be expelledDespite the post's claim, Rep. Adam Schiff – like other House and Senate members – can't be impeached. Fact check: Video shows Mayorkas being questioned by Hawley, not begging 'forgiveness'But that process doesn't apply to members of the House or Senate. (Source: USA Today)

False: BlackRock owns shares in Fox and Dominion, 'sued itself' to fire Tucker Carlson Fact check: Claim falsely links BlackRock to Dominion VotingShow Caption Hide Caption Don Lemon, Tucker Carlson out at CNN, Fox There's been a cable television news shakeup in the U.S. involving two leading on-air personalities. The split came one week after Fox News settled a defamation suit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, as reported by USA TODAY. The firm said both the claim that it has a stake in Dominion Voting Systems and the suggestion that it was involved in Carlson’s departure were false. More: Tucker Carlson breaks silence after Fox News departure: 'See you soon'Jack Eichner, a spokesperson for Dominion Voting Systems, also said the claim is baseless. “Dominion Voting Systems is not owned by BlackRock,” he said. (Source: USA Today)

False: Maharashtra government launches free night drops for women Authors Kushel HM Kushel HM is a mechanical engineer-turned-journalist, who loves all things football, tennis and films. He was with the news desk at the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, before joining Newschecker.ClaimMaharashtra government launches free night drops for womenFactPolice  (Source: Newschecker)