Claim 1: “Our crime rate is skyrocketing.”

• Fact Check: This claim is incorrect. Crime rates, including violent and property crimes, have actually seen a significant decline in both 2023 and early 2024. Preliminary FBI data shows a 13% decrease in murders and a 6% reduction in violent crime in 2023 compared to the previous year. The first quarter of 2024 continued this trend, with murders down by 26% and overall violent crime down by 15%. Multiple sources confirm this downward trend, contradicting Trump’s assertion.

Claim 2: “We’re experiencing the worst inflation in 100 years. Some say it’s 48 years, but I don’t believe that.”

• Fact Check: This statement is misleading and inaccurate. The peak inflation rate during President Biden’s administration was 9.1% in June 2022, the highest since 1981—around 40 years ago, not 100 years or even 48 years. Additionally, inflation has significantly decreased since then, with July 2024 seeing a rate of 3.2%, similar to levels observed in 2011.

Claim 3: “The biggest threat isn’t global warming, where sea levels will rise by one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years… which would give us more oceanfront property, right?”

• Fact Check: This claim is false and grossly misrepresents the facts. The global average sea level is currently rising at a rate of about 0.17 to 0.19 inches per year, not over 400 years. This rate is accelerating, with NASA reporting a notable increase between 2022 and 2023. The consequences of rising sea levels are severe, particularly in coastal areas like Florida, where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is located.

Claim 4: “You’ve got a huge audience listening… around 60 million or something.”

• Fact Check: This claim is exaggerated. At the time Trump made this remark, only 1.1 million accounts were listening to the conversation. It appears Trump may have confused this with the number of views on his X post sharing the conversation, but the vast majority of those views did not equate to listeners.

Claim 5: “Kamala Harris wants to release all the prisoners in detention, and some of these guys are really dangerous. This was just reported today.”

• Fact Check: This claim is baseless. There is no evidence to support the idea that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to release all detainees. Trump seems to be misinterpreting Harris’ past statements from 2019, where she advocated for closing privately-run immigration detention centers—not for releasing all prisoners.

Trump’s conversation with Elon Musk was riddled with inaccuracies, many of which have been debunked multiple times before. It’s crucial for public discourse to be based on accurate information, especially on issues as significant as crime, inflation, and climate change. By fact-checking these claims, we hope to provide readers with a clearer understanding of the truth, ensuring that misinformation does not go unchecked.

For All Social Media Fans

Misinformation refers to false or inaccurate information that is unintentionally spread. It can occur due to misunderstandings, misinterpretations, or errors. Misinformation is often shared innocently, without malicious intent.

Examples of misinformation include:

• Rumors: Spreading unverified stories or claims.
• Mistaken Identity: Incorrectly attributing an event or statement to the wrong person.
• Outdated Information: Sharing facts that were once true but have since changed.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards confirmed the strike but did not provide details on the circumstances. The attack’s timing is critical, coinciding with ongoing U.S. efforts to broker a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Hamas and Israel. The suspicion immediately fell on Israel, which has targeted Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders in retaliation for the group’s recent attack on Israel. Although, Details of the circumstances of his assassination are still awaited.

Thousands have turned out for the funeral procession in Iran of the Hamas political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in a strike in Tehran on Wednesday.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led prayers for the Hamas leader, whose body will be buried in Qatar.

US media have quoted Iranian officials as saying the supreme leader has ordered a direct attack against Israel, which it says was responsible for the attack on Iranian soil.

Israel has not commented on the assassination directly.

Conclusion

Killing in Iran of Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh is true.

For All News junkies

‘Fake news’ refers to false information and news online. However, it’s more appropriate to use ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’.

Misinformation is false information spread by people who think it’s true.

Disinformation is false information spread by people who know it’s false.

Remember, From sock puppet accounts to scam ads, social media can help spread misinformation to thousands if not millions of people at once. Unfortunately, social media algorithms make it so any interaction helps the content reach more people.

Angry reactions on Facebook or comments calling a post out as false only helps the poster reach more people. This is because the algorithm only understands whether something is popular or not. It can’t tell if information is false; that’s why users must report false information rather than engage with it.

Misinformation and disinformation pose a significant threat to societies worldwide, with particularly severe implications for countries like India. Spread of false information is critical risk perceived by experts across the globe. Addressing this challenge requires a multifaceted approach, including media literacy education, robust fact-checking mechanisms, and increased digital literacy among the population.

Biden, in a post on X, said he will remain in his role as president and commander-in-chief until his term ends in January 2025 and will address the nation this week.

U.S. President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign on Sunday after fellow Democrats lost faith in his mental acuity and ability to beat Donald Trump while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the party’s candidate.

Biden, 81, in a post on X, said he will remain in his role as president and commander-in-chief until his term ends in January 2025 and will address the nation this week.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote.

His initial statement had not included an endorsement of Harris, but he followed up a few minutes later with an expression of support.

Harris, 59, would become the first Black woman to do run at the top of a major-party ticket in the country’s history.

Biden’s announcement follows a wave of public and private pressure from Democratic lawmakers and party officials to quit the race after his shockingly poor performance in a June 27 televised debate last month against Republican rival Trump, 78. Biden’s failure at times to complete clear sentences took the public spotlight away from Trump’s performance, in which he made a string of false statements, and trained it instead on questions surrounding Biden’s fitness for another 4-year term.

Days later he raised fresh concerns in an interview, shrugging off Democrats’ worries and a widening gap in opinion polls, and saying he would be fine losing to Trump if he knew he’d “gave it my all.”

His gaffes at a NATO summit – invoking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s name when he meant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and calling Harris “Vice President Trump” -further stoked anxieties.

Only four days before Sunday’s announcement, Biden was diagnosed with COVID-19 for a third time, forcing him to cut short a campaign trip to Las Vegas. More than one in 10 congressional Democrats had called publicly for him to quit the race. Biden’s historic move – the first sitting president to give up his party’s nomination for reelection since President Lyndon Johnson in March 1968 – leaves his replacement with less than four months to wage a campaign.

Biden was the oldest U.S. president ever elected when he beat Trump in 2020. During that campaign, Biden described himself as a bridge to the next generation of Democratic leaders. Some interpreted that to mean he would serve one term, a transitional figure who beat Trump and brought his party back to power.