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False: “Jamie Foxx is on Life Support in ICU at this hour… Family is preparing for the worst.” Actor Jamie Foxx is not on life support, despite claims to the contrary. His daughter, Corinne Foxx, posted on Instagram that her father has been out of the hospital "for weeks" and is on the mend. (Source: PolitiFact)

Pants-Fire: “The government has been putting ground up human teeth and bone in our food and calling it 'calcium phosphate.’” Human teeth and bones that are ground into calcium phosphate ash after undergoing alkaline hydrolysis, an alternative process to burial or cremation, are not added to food. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration prohibits the use of human remains in food products, according to a spokesperson. The 2017 video footage shows the alkaline hydrolysis process at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Donated Body Program. The ashes from bodies donated to that program were spread off the coast of Camp Pendleton in California. (Source: PolitiFact)

True: In May 2023, Facebook sent friend requests to users if you looked at their profile page. About this rating Meta, Facebook's parent company, apologized and said the glitch was corrected. On May 12, 2023, claims began to spread across social media platforms that Facebook would send someone a friend request if you looked at their profile page. A TikTok post from May 12, (Source: Snopes)