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Flags brought by supporters wave in the breeze before President Donald Trump arrives at the Trump International Golf Club, Friday, April 4, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FACT FOCUS: Warren Buffett did not praise Trump’s recent economic policies

As the stock market reeled from President Donald Trump’s move to institute widespread global tariffs, Trump shared a video on Truth Social on Friday that erroneously claimed legendary investor Warren Buffet praised his recent economic policies.
 
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Miami International Airport, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

FACT FOCUS: Democratic leaders’ challenge to Trump’s election executive order misrepresented online

 
The Associated Press logo is shown at the entrance to the news organization's office in New York on Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Aaron Jackson, File

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

FACT FOCUS: Posts falsely claim federal judiciary members are in secret club, undermining Trump

 
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump during his address to Congress

 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Tetiana Dzhafarova/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump says Ukraine started the war that’s killing its citizens. What are the facts?

 
A Social Security card is displayed Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Tens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims

 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Officer director Matt Elliston listens during a briefing, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FACT FOCUS: No foul play suspected in ICE van fire in Philadelphia

 
Migrant, Cesar Anibal Bonilla Estrada, 54, from Ecuador, center, checks his phone during dinner time at the migrant shelter on Randall's Island, on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

FACT FOCUS: FEMA funding to New York City to assist migrants is misrepresented

 
A bouquet of white flowers placed outside the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts

 
President Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Breakfast at Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump promotes misleading claims about federal government’s media subscriptions

 
President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US to buy condoms for Hamas

 
President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with homeowners affected by Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, N.C., Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump during his first week back in office

 
President Donald Trump speaks from Emancipation Hall as House Speaker Mike Johnson, from left, his wife Kelly Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and his wife Jennifer Scalise, listen after the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Jasper Colt/Pool Photo via AP)

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims Trump made at inaugural events

 
A burned fire hydrant drips water in front of charred trees in Malibu, Calif., Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

For LA water issues, misinformation spreads nearly as fast as the wildfires

 
Commuters sit on the F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Police took over a week to name the NYC subway burning victim. A fake name spread in the meantime

 
President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk as he arrives to watch SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lift off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Nov. 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP, File)

Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

 
FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FACT FOCUS: Inspector general’s Jan. 6 report misrepresented as proof of FBI setup

 
Holiday visitors walk in downtown Woodstock, Vt., during a Thanksgiving Day snowstorm, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

FACT FOCUS: Vermont ruling does not say schools can vaccinate children without parental consent

 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant, Nov. 17, 2021, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

FACT FOCUS: Posts misrepresent Biden administration spending on EV charging stations

 
Elon Musk speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FACT FOCUS: Election officials knock down Starlink vote rigging conspiracy theories

 
A voter exits the polling station on Election Day at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex's Caribbean Marketplace in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)

FACT FOCUS: A multimillion vote gap between 2020 and 2024 fuels false election narratives

 
People leave after voting in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Ga., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, the first day of early in-person voting in Georgia. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims surrounding the 2024 election

 
This combination photo shows Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaking during a news conference, Oct. 25, 2024, in Austin, Texas, left, and Joe Rogan at a UFC event, Aug. 18, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo)

FACT FOCUS: Trump repeated election lies in his interview with Joe Rogan. Here are the facts