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FILE - Actor Robert De Niro attends the Tribeca Festival opening night premiere of "Kiss the Future" at the OKX Theater at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in New York. On Friday, May 3, 2024, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming De Niro was captured on video yelling at anti-Israel protesters in New York City.(Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Posts share fake New York Post story saying a bill would make it illegal to question 9/11

FILE- Women queue up to cast their vote during the second phase of polling in the six-week long national election in Barmer district, western Rajasthan state, India, April 26, 2024. Misinformation about India's election is surging online as the world's most populous country votes. The country has a huge online ecosystem, with the largest number of WhatsApp and YouTube users in the world. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to vote in the multiphase election that ends next month.(AP Photo/Deepak Sharma, File)

Misinformation surges on social media as India votes in the world’s largest election

Video shows Robert De Niro rehearsing for a Netflix series, not yelling at anti-Israel protesters

Posts misrepresent Green Party candidate’s comment on a Jewish homeland

National Guard soldiers were not called to address Israel-Hamas war protest at Texas university

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Israeli PM announced plans to rebuild areas near Gaza border, not build inside the territory

Social media users are using the miscaptioned video of Netanyahu speaking at the start of an Israeli Cabinet meeting on Wednesday to make erroneous claims about the alleged settlement plans.

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts:

New York Judge Juan M Merchan did not tell former President Donald Trump on the first day of his trial that he can’t attend his son Barron’s high school graduation in May, no ruling was made.

No, immigrants did not storm New York City Hall in pursuit of luxury hotel rooms

Social media users are misrepresenting what happened at City Hall with false claims about how the immigrants acted and why they were there.

Trump says New York judge won’t let him attend son’s graduation, no ruling has been made

As he left court following the trial’s first day, Trump said of Merchan, “it looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation of my son.”

The WEF’s chairman is still alive and well, despite claims online

Social media users are spreading baseless rumors about Schwab’s health.

Noncitizen voting isn’t an issue in federal elections, regardless of conspiracy theories. Here’s why

Former President Donald Trump is turning to one of his favorite themes, the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections.

No, OJ Simpson did not admit on X to the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend

Following his family’s announcement, social media users falsely claimed that Simpson had made a deathbed confession on X that he killed Brown and Goldman — crimes he was acquitted of in 1995.

Posts distort former Virginia governor’s comments on third trimester abortions

Social media users are misrepresenting years old comments Northam made about abortion in Virginia on WTOP, a news radio station serving the Washington Metropolitan area.