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Instagram posts stated on January 30, 2025 in a video:

The U.S. Army helicopter in the Jan. 29 plane collision was the same model of helicopter in the 2020 Kobe Bryant crash.

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • February 7, 2025

Threads posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a Threads post:

The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines crash “was being controlled remotely.”

By Sofia Ahmed • February 3, 2025

Facebook posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a Facebook post:

“Pilot of Blackhawk helicopter that crashed into passenger jet at Reagan National was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis.”

By Loreben Tuquero • January 31, 2025

Threads posts stated on January 30, 2025 in a Threads post:

“U.S. figure skater Jon Maravilla was reportedly prevented from boarding a doomed flight to Washington, D.C.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 5, 2025

X posts stated on January 30, 2025 in an X post:

“The VIP on the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed was Barack Obama.”

By Sofia Ahmed • January 30, 2025

Threads posts stated on October 28, 2024 in a Threads post:

Says Donald Trump Jr. “has a banner photo of Joe Biden being hung from a helicopter.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 5, 2024

Social Media stated on October 9, 2024 in social media posts:

“FEMA helicopters caught disrupting North Carolina supplies by using a ‘rotor wash’.”

By Mia Penner • October 16, 2024

Instagram posts stated on August 25, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Video shows helicopter “dropping millions” of mosquitoes in Massachusetts towns hit by eastern equine encephalitis virus.

By Jeff Cercone • August 28, 2024

Donald Trump stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference:

“I went down in a helicopter with (Willie Brown). We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together and there was an emergency landing.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 9, 2024

Richard Hudson stated on September 1, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says U.S. left 33 Black Hawks to the Taliban, which has more than “85%” of all countries.

By Paul Specht • September 20, 2021

X posts stated on August 30, 2021 in tweets:

A video shows the “Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter.”

By Bill McCarthy • August 31, 2021

Lara Logan stated on February 19, 2021 in a TV segment:

"The reality" in Texas is that "you’re flying helicopters, using fossil fuels, to put oil on wind turbines to defrost them.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 24, 2021

Viral image stated on January 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says a video shows footage of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 27, 2020

Viral image stated on January 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says a video shows the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 27, 2020

Facebook posts stated on October 26, 2021 in a post:

President Joe Biden threatened to “swoop down with Special Forces folks and gather up every gun in America.”

By Monique Curet • November 9, 2021

Linda Curtis stated on March 4, 2010 in a Web post:

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's "concession speech came with less than 20 percent of the precincts having been counted."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 15, 2010

Social Media stated on June 16, 2025 in social media posts:

“Governor Tim Walz has DELETED every post he made praising Minnesota (assassin) Vance Boelter.”

By Madison Czopek • June 18, 2025

Threads posts stated on February 5, 2025 in a post:

President Donald Trump said he “‘didn’t have time’ to meet the families of the men, women and children who tragically died in the plane crash.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • February 14, 2025

Instagram posts stated on February 1, 2025 in an Instagram post:

Recent plane crashes in the United States were “human sacrifice rituals” for the Super Bowl.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 7, 2025

Facebook posts stated on January 30, 2025 in a video on Facebook:

Early reports of four survivors show “this DC plane crash story isn’t adding up.”

By Madison Czopek • February 7, 2025

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