Your weekly fact-checks
#TrumpCheck
PolitiFact
Mostly-False: “I’ve stopped six wars” since taking office in January 2025.
Trump claimed he "stopped six wars" during his presidency, but evidence for his direct role in preventing these conflicts is limited or disputed. While he played a part in easing some tensions, experts say his statement exaggerates the facts and overlooks key details, making it mostly false.
PolitiFact
Half-True: “We gave $60 million two weeks ago” for food aid to Gaza.
President Donald Trump did not specify which group or agency $60 million was sent to in Gaza. The White House and the U.S. State Department did not respond to requests for more information.The State Department approved a $30 million grant in late June to a U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza aid initiative. Department officials told reporters that as of July 26, the funds had not been disbursed.
#Politics
Snopes
True: A 2002 photo accurately depicts 22-year-old Chauntae Davies, an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, giving former President Bill Clinton a shoulder massage.
A viral photo showing former President Bill Clinton receiving a shoulder massage from Chauntae Davies, an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, is real and was taken in 2002 during a humanitarian trip to Africa. Davies has stated that Clinton was a "perfect gentleman" during the trip and that no inappropriate behavior occurred, despite her history of abuse by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Africa Check
False: Kenya's electoral commission will delete 2 million ghost voters before 2027 elections.
A graphic circulating on social media in Kenya claims that millions of ghost voters will be removed from the register before the 2027 elections. But the graphic is fake.
#Economy
Reuters
False: Brazil and China signed 20-year trade pact.
Brazil has not signed a formal 20-year trade pact with China, the Brazilian Presidency’s Communications Secretariat told reporters, contrary to social media posts saying it struck a deal with its largest trading partner the day after tariff threats from the United States.
News Mobile
False: India's S Jaishankar said "Our economy will not be run from the White House... Russian oil will continue to flow to India"
No official record or credible report supports the statement, and the Ministry of External Affairs has publicly flagged it as misinformation.
#Healthcare
Snopes
True: The Medical Board of Australia suspended Dr. Jereth Kok's medical license over social media posts expressing "Christian views" that a tribunal in Victoria since found amounted to professional misconduct.
Dr. Jereth Kok’s medical license was suspended by the Medical Board of Australia due to 54 social media posts found by a tribunal to amount to professional misconduct, including posts deemed denigrating toward LGBTQ+ people, doctors, and public health measures. While Kok and his legal team argue the posts reflected Christian or conservative views and raise concerns about free speech, the case remains ongoing as final consequences have not yet been determined.
Lead Stories
False: CNN reported that the tech billionaire Elon Musk was hospitalized on August 4, 2025.
Searches across Google and CNN produced zero confirmation that the network ever published such an article on its website. The account that spread the image on social media identified itself as a troll account.
Snopes
False: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed the belief that if you leave your dishes soaking overnight the bacteria drown, leaving the dishes germ-free.
A viral claim that U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes soaking dishes overnight kills bacteria is false and originated as a joke by a Threads user who later clarified it wasn't a factual statement. No credible evidence supports the claim, and experts warn that soaking dishes in cool water can actually promote bacterial growth rather than eliminate it.
#Conflicts
PolitiFact
Mostly-True: “Guns are the leading cause of death for children in North Carolina.”
A state-appointed task force tracks child fatalities in North Carolina.The group released a February report on data from 2023, the most recent available. Although there are multiple ways to parse the data, the group’s report mostly supports Stein’s claim.
Factly
False: Viral video shows Israeli police strangling a Palestinian child to death during a recent protest.
A viral video claiming to show Israeli police strangling a Palestinian child to death is actually from 2015 and depicts a Swedish security guard assaulting a 9-year-old boy at Malmö train station for fare evasion; the child survived. The video has no connection to the current Israel-Palestine conflict, making the claim entirely false.
#Nordics
Tjekdet
Falsk: Anders Vistisen, medlem af Europa-Parlamentet for Dansk Folkeparti, siger, at den offentlige sektor i England nu ansætter en sharia-lovgiver.
I sit indlæg vedhæfter han et screenshot af en jobannonce for at dokumentere sin påstand. Men det er en moské uden for Manchester, ikke regeringen, der ønsker at ansætte en såkaldt sharia-lovadministrator. Jobannoncen blev offentliggjort på en jobportal, der drives af regeringen. Annoncen har fået betydelig politisk opmærksomhed i England og er siden blevet fjernet.
#WTF?! What The Fact of the week
True: Alfred Heineken invented a bottle to function as a brick to build houses.
In the 1960s, Dutch businessman Alfred Heineken proposed turning beer bottles into reusable building blocks after seeing littered bottles in the Caribbean. He partnered with architect John Habraken to create the WOBO bottle—a rectangular, stackable design—but despite producing 100,000 of them, the idea was ultimately scrapped due to marketing concerns about the brand’s image.
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