Maarten Schenk
Fact checker. Co-founder of leadstories.com.
- The Armenian version of "Sir, this is a Wendy's"?
- Uh, oh, Elmo!
- When Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong suddenly like fact-checking apparently...
- More Epstein fun... a simple OCR scanning error has sent the conspiracy theory set into a frenzy...
- I *knew* @grok would be in the Epstein files...
- If you can't put the finger on why this video is fake, here's a fact check ;-)
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- He did post something with the words "gun" and "criminals" but he didn't post this...
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- OMG, @leadstories.com fact check in a visible Community Note under an X post from The White House. Read the fact check here: leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
- The White House is posting digitally manipulated arrest pictures...
- Reposted by Maarten SchenkKaroline Leavitt announced that Belgium joined Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds.
- "Ik had fact checkers moeten gebruiken." - Rik Torfs (Oh, nee, wacht, als dat een parafrase was van wat hij had moeten zeggen dan moet dat zonder aanhalingstekens zeker? Ik zal het aanpassen in de volgende druk van deze post...) vrtnws.be/p.LNGQp7xVp
- I'm not "pardoning your French" if you are misinterpreting a clip of a TV guest saying "Ukraine stopped sharing intelligence out of concern for leaks" with "Ukraine deliberately shared fake intelligence with the U.S. and saw Russia act on it". That's not what he said. Not even in French.
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- So this is where we post #xdown now? downdetector.co.uk/status/twitt...
- Man, some of those notifications on X are ghoulish... He's definitely not "LIVE".
- Once more for the people in the back: "Fact checking is the opposite of censorship, it *adds* information." www.poynter.org/ifcn/2026/if...
- U.S. Department of Labor posts slogan tied to QAnon conspiracy movement. x.com/USDOL/status...
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- You have to see the images in this story...
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- That one thing last year? Yeah, that wasn't real....
- Ambiance in de kuil! #zonhoven
- Elon Musk suddenly, for no reason, decides content moderation is a good thing after all... x.com/i/status/200...
- At the rate we're going I wouldn't be surprised if @grok was in the Epstein files ;-)
- Trump says the US captured Maduro... truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- Happy New Year! 🥂
- It seems the account that did this was deleted. Has anyone lost their visa over this blatant censorship yet?
- They've updated it...
- Google? Well, Google just puts copies of the hoax in positions 1 through 4 and the fact check in position 5. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
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- Heh, my favorite fact checking slogan could have been in the Epstein Files :-)
- Bad Bing! Showing an AI summary of a hoax about a "giant eclipse octopus" while the link to the fact check debunking it sits right below it: leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
- I never realized they gave my young daughter a weapon of mass destruction when she was in hospital after a grave accident some years ago. It seems she did recover quite nicely despite that. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- Don't say "fire the fact checkers" but say "Integrity Strategy pivot" --> a new term I learned from this Reuters story: www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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- Reposted by Maarten Schenk'Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases.' www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
- Ik wacht wel op de screenshot op Bluesky van de tweet over de making-of van het interview over de documentaire over de backlash op de documentaire over de comeback van Bart De Pauw...
- Our robot fact-checking show hosts Artie Ficial and Botty McBotface have new voices! Sound up!
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- Incredible. A satirical *Facebook post* about a mountain collapse in Casper, Wyoming (that didn't actually happen) was the top search result in *Google News* yesterday. Today it is two versions of a follow-up spoof post... The fact check? Nowhere to be seen. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
- The irony of believing moderation is censorship and then "censoring" the people fining you for not being transparent enough...
- Elon Musk Fined €120 Million By EU For Censoring Information About Ads, Blue Checks & Research Data ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
- I visited Veles and Kumanovo, two Macedonian towns famous for their "fake news factories" back in the day... leadstories.com/analysis/202...
- Neat! A Bluesky feed you can pin to your homepage that shows you the other posts liked by the people who liked the posts that you liked... The difference is, on Bluesky this is just one of the possible timelines you can use... bsky.app/profile/did:...
