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Pants-Fire: "Adam Schiff will be impeached.” This video does not show any discussion about U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., supposedly being impeached. Congress has only once tried to impeach one of its members — a senator in 1797. That case set a precedent that members were not "civil officers" and therefore not subject to impeachment. They can, however, be expelled by a two-thirds vote in their chamber.There are no news stories to suggest Schiff is at risk of being expelled, either. (Source: PolitiFact)

False: After a haphazard reversal of who would lose blue checkmarks on Twitter, CEO Elon Musk tweeted, “Ahh fuck it, I’m closing this site, fuck you and fuck Twitter, I can never post a single goddamn thread in here without you tweeters making tweets in some way or another. [...] Thanks for running me out of my own goddamn website.” Advertisment: About this rating Twitter descended into chaos in April 2023 with the final rollout of the Twitter Blue paid verification system, as some prominent accounts unexpectedly received blue check marks while others didn't, and many poked fun at the haphazard verification  (Source: Snopes)