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False: “Breaking Trump quietly announces Hillary’s prosecution is moving forward.” This video is from 2016, when Donald Trump was president-elect. It takes a comment Trump then made out of context and exaggerates it. (Source: PolitiFact)

Barely-True: “Buyers with good credit scores will pay even more to cover for those with bad credit." On May 1, the U.S. government updated its mortgage fee system. Some, but not all, homebuyers with higher credit scores could see increased fees for a new mortgage, and people with lower credit scores will generally see fees decrease. But most high-credit homebuyers are not subsidizing fee reductions for low-credit homebuyers.Even with the changes, people with lower credit scores still typically pay higher fees overall than people with better scores. There is no evidence that President Joe Biden was involved in implementing the update, and the White House said Biden’s administration did not direct the action. (Source: PolitiFact)

False: A Minnesota lawmaker introduced a bill that would make it “illegal to discriminate against child rapists.” The bill updates the definition of "sexual orientation" in Minnesota’s Human Rights Act. But this does not create a protected class for pedophilia.Legal experts said laws prohibiting discrimination because of sexual orientation do not extend to child sex offenders, regardless of whether they are explicitly singled out.An amendment was added to specify that child sex offenders are not protected under the state’s Human Rights Act. (Source: PolitiFact)

False: Video shows people collapsing because of COVID-19 vaccines. None of these incidents in which people on air experienced medical emergencies were linked to the COVID-19 vaccine. Two of the incidents predate the pandemic. (Source: PolitiFact)

Pants-Fire: “The flag of Washington’s District of Columbia has three red stars. One for each city state in the three-city empire.” Washington, D.C.’s flag is based on President George Washington’s family coat of arms. Neither Washington D.C. nor London are independent city-states, and we found nothing to substantiate claims that the two cities comprise an "interlocking empire" with the Vatican. (Source: PolitiFact)

Scam: Facebook messages seemingly authored by a friend, beginning with the phrase, "Look who died, in an accident," and containing a link are legitimate. About this rating Several social media users have reportedly received a scam message via Facebook's messaging application, Facebook Messenger, claiming that an unnamed individual whom therecipient apparently knows hasdied "in an accident" and a link supposedly has more informatio (Source: Snopes)