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True: A 2013 post in the subreddit r/Manhattan warning people to "stay away from the Michael Jackson impersonator" specifically concerns Jordan Neely, who died on the F Train in May 2023 after a fellow rider put him in a chokehold. About this rating On May 2, 2023, a former U.S. Marine put a reportedly "disturbed man," later identified as 30-year-old Jordan Neely, in a chokehold on a New York City subway. The altercation ended in Neely's death. For years, several reports describedNeely as a locally known Mi (Source: Snopes)

False: Video shows eggs being destroyed in the US (3 May 2023) APThe claim: Video shows eggs being destroyed in the USA May 2 Instagram video shows a TikTok video of countless cartons of eggs being pushed into a dirt pit by a bulldozer. "This is where you're (sic) egg shortage went," reads on-screen text. It is unrelated to the recent U.S. egg shortage. Video was filmed in ArgentinaThe U.S. has been dealing with an egg shortage and skyrocketing egg prices for over a year, with prices peaking in January, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. However, the video is unrelated to the egg shortage in the U.S.A longer version of the video in the post was shared in an April 15 Instagram post from the Argentinian poultry company Avícola Santa Ana. (Source: USA Today)