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False: A video taken from a balcony shows a sea of protesters packing the street outside former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s London home in response to this week’s arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Numerous videos circulating online this week do show unrest and protests inresponse to Khan’s arreston corruption charges, including in London. However, some social media users are sharing a video of the 2022 protest, falsely claiming it is recent. (Source: Associated Press - AP News)

False: Video shows Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion in a health care fraud settlement involving COVID-19 vaccines. In 2009, Pfizer was fined $2.3 billion for fraudulent marketing of an anti-inflammatory drug called Bextra. The settlement came more than a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic. ​ (Source: PolitiFact)

Half-True: Four North Carolina Republicans made “campaign promises” to protect reproductive rights (Source: PolitiFact)

True: The Wright brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an editorial speculating it could take 1 to 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine. About this rating For years, social media posts have claimed that the Wright Brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an article about it potentially taking 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine. The brothers are credite (Source: Snopes)