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Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2020-04-15): The LGBTQ coalition is the latest in a series of barbs aimed at Samaritan’s Purse since it opened a 68-bed field hospital in Central Park two weeks ago. The conflict pits the country’s growing acceptance of LGBTQ rights with the conservative values of a premier evangelical relief organization. [...] Mount Sinai Hospital, on New York’s Fifth Avenue, partnered with Samaritan’s Purse as a way to relieve the overstretched hospital system grappling with a shortage of hospital beds and equipment. Mount Sinai does not oversee the field hospital. [...] The Central Park field hospital is the first Samaritan’s Purse has deployed in the United States. It set up a hospital in Cremona, Italy, in the hard-hit Lombardy region.
Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2020-03-30): "It's kind of surreal to see a field hospital sitting in the middle of Central Park," Kelly said. "I just don't think this is the way it was supposed to be my first time, but it's a pleasure for me to be here." [...] "Just getting the permits to put up a field hospital in Central Park should've taken years," Kelly said, adding that with help from de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the hospital has "been up really fast." [...] The field hospital in Central Park will have 60 to 70 medical staff, including nurses and doctors. Tenpenny said he could not provide specifics, but he said the nurses will outnumber the doctors.
Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2023-06-28): CLAIM: Photos show children who were trafficked as "sex slaves" being rescued from tunnel systems beneath Central Park in New York City. [...] As photos flash across the screen, a woman’s voice claims that "highly-equipped ships" had been sent to New York City "to take care of children rescued from tunnel systems under Central Park." [...] Three other photos in the video show an emergency field hospital set up in Central Park by Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian relief group. One was taken by an AFP photographer on March 30, 2020, while another was captured the same day by a photographer for Getty Images. The third was taken for Untapped New York, a tour company which publishes an online magazine about hidden gems in New York City.
Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2020-05-15): Tent hospital being constructed in New York City's Central Park As the coronavirus pandemic slams New York City, Mount Sinai Hospital and Sanitarian's Purse are setting up a tent hospital in Central Park. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gives an update on how the city's emergency system and health system are handling the crisis.
Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2020-05-03): If Your Time is short • The field hospitals set up in tents in New York’s Central Park were treating coronavirus patients from the Mount Sinai Health System. [...] The Central Park tent hospital, operated by Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian group run by the son of late televangelist Billy Graham, has since become the focus of online conspiracy theories. [...] The Central Park hospital treated coronavirus patients. There is no evidence to support the claim that it housed abused children released from captivity. It appears the claim originated with the QAnon conspiracy group.
Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2024-07-30): When a large, makeshift medical facility was set up near New York’s Central Park in April 2020, most Americans accepted it at face value: a treatment center for COVID-19 patients. Where some saw health care, though, others saw conspiracy. According to one group of right-wingers, the large white tents weren’t a medical facility at all, but rather a clever cover for a heroic mission: Trump’s administration was planning to rescue the "mole children." Just hours after the white tents appeared, followers of the conspiracy theory known as QAnon concocted this elaborate story: in a network of underground tunnels beneath Central Park, children had been bred and raised for sexual slavery. These "mole children" were raised underground, kept in cages, destined to feed the dark desires of an elite society of devil worshippers. The Trump administration was fighting back, however: the president had given orders for military special forces to storm the tunnels and liberate the children.
Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2021-08-08): With the help of the director of the Hollandsche Schouwburg, German Jew Walter Süskind, they ensured that the children disappeared from the German records. The children were then smuggled out through the College of Education: hidden in bags, suitcases, or between the dirty laundry, or simply walking out, when the guards were not paying attention. About six hundred children were saved in this way.
Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2023-10-31): Anxiety about the nation’s children, which is at a steady simmer in the best of times, boiled over in the summer of 2020, when the digital soldiers of QAnon occupied the otherwise innocuous hashtag #SaveTheChildren. Around the same time, major social-media platforms had started blocking overt QAnon accounts and hashtags. From their new beachhead, the digital soldiers were able to disseminate a cascade of false information about child trafficking on Instagram and Facebook: Children were being trafficked on the hospital ship USNS Comfort, then docked in New York City, and through tunnels underneath Central Park. [...] Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts "PEDOPHILES CAN BE ANYONE," Laura Pamatian, at the time a Palm Beach–based volunteer team leader for Operation Underground Railroad, wrote on Facebook in June. "They look just like you and me. They work with us … they sit next to us at our favorite restaurant … they are shopping with us at the grocery store." To raise awareness, and funds, for Operation Underground Railroad, Pamatian helped organize a statewide motorcycling event. "It’s about saving children who are being raped and abused by pedophiles 10, 20, 30 times a day!" she wrote. "And I don’t say that to sensationalize the topic, I say it because it’s TRUE and it’s happening and NO ONE is talking about it!" Her volunteer chapter claimed that "upwards of 300,000" children are victims of sex trafficking in the United States every year.
Claim: a tent hospital set up in New York City’s Central Park housed thousands of abused children saved from underground captivity. (Viral post, 2020-05-03)
Evidence (2024-07-30): I had to stay focused to ensure the doctors could reach patients safely. We set up treatment areas in nearby parks to accommodate patients. A multitude of ambulances lined the streets, transporting the most vulnerable children. Fire trucks entered the perimeter to continue clearing the rubble. Children waited on the shattered pavement. Some were wrapped in sheets while others sat in wheelchairs and donned oxygen masks. The sight proved tragic and hellish. Russia’s attack on one of Ukraine’s largest pediatric hospitals became an unforgettable sight. These children were already fighting for their lives. This is unforgivable.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2023-06-01): The original report does not claim that cartels are purchasing AT-4s that are originally routed to Ukraine. There is no evidence that Ukrainian AT-4s have been illegally sold or transferred to Mexican cartel members.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2023-06-02): "Mexican TV reports that dozens of U.S. AT4 weapons systems, which were originally shipped to Ukraine, have been purchased by Cartel Golfo in Mexico," claimed the Citizens Free Press account on Twitter. [...] First, the missile launcher hanging on the shoulder of the man, who wears insignia of Los Escorpiones, the paramilitary wing of the Gulf Cartel in Northern Mexico, is not an FGM-148 Javelin, but another type of portable missile launcher—likely either the Swedish-designed AT4 unguided anti-armor weapon, or its U.S.-made variant, the M136 AT4. [...] The fact that Ukraine has lost access to most of its ports, which are now occupied by Russia, further undermines the claim. Both the U.S. and Sweden have confirmed to have sent AT4s to Ukraine through the course of the war, but there is no evidence that these packages were the source of smuggled weapons seen in the news reports, which have emerged during and prior to the Ukraine war.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2023-06-06): "She also reports that dozens of U.S. AT4 weapons that were made in Sweden, originally given away to Zelenskyy in Ukraine, have indeed shown up in Mexico," Natalie Morris said, adding that weapons sent to Ukraine are now "in the hands of the cartel." [...] We found no evidence that a Mexican cartel obtained U.S. weapons destined for Ukraine. Experts told PolitiFact that the man in the video is carrying what appears to be an AT4 weapon, not a Javelin. [...] Twitter, Search "ukraine AT-4 mexico", June 8, 2023
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2023-08-24): AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A video shows a news anchor claiming in Spanish that a cartel member had been filmed with a Javelin, but she only noted that such weapons have also been used in Ukraine, not that it originated there. Additionally, the anchor misidentified the weapon, which is an AT4, another anti-tank weapon. While AT4s are being used in Ukraine, experts say there’s nothing to indicate that the one in the video came from there, and that it’s far more likely to have come from other black market channels. [...] Additionally, there is no evidence that the AT4 from the video is from a cache of weapons sent to Ukraine, experts who research organized crime specifically in Mexico told The Associated Press. [...] Jones cited a U.S. Government Accountability Office study that found 70 percent of illegally smuggled guns in Mexico were made in America. Jones said it’s "extremely unlikely" that the cartel would get an AT4 from Ukraine. "Typically, heavier weapons like this are not going to be diverted from US military stockpiles," said Jones.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2023-06-02): The weapon in the video is clearly an AT-4, not a Javelin. AT-4s were developed by Sweden but have been licensed for production in many countries. The AT-4 is an unguided light anti-armor weapon, whereas the Javelin is a more advanced anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). ISW has observed no evidence of any Javelins or any other weapons being 'smuggled' from Ukraine into Mexico. [...] The AT-4 is not used by the United States exclusively. It is widely available around the world. The Army Technology website reports: [...] The M136 AT4 is an 84-mm unguided recoilless weapon, whereas the FGM-148 Javelin is an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). This means that the Javelin uses a Command Launch Unit (CLU) to lock-on to a target before the user fires the weapon. An AT-4 is purely unguided.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2023-06-15): A video widely shared on social media in late May shows a man, wearing a bulletproof vest marked with the logo of a Mexican cartel, carrying a weapon that looks like an AT4 anti-tank rocket launcher. The Russian ambassador to Mexico joined in the debate about the video on Twitter, hypothesising that the weapon was likely sent to Ukraine by the West and that the cartel had bought it on the black market. We investigated this video. [...] The Mexican army doesn’t use AT4s. However, there have been a number of videos that have circulated in the past that show narco-traffickers with weapons that look like the AT4 (like this video or this one, both filmed in 2022). Again, however, it is impossible to know if the weapons shown are real rocket launchers or replicas. The specialists who spoke to our team don’t think that cartels have ever used this type of weapon. However, Mexican authorities did seize a number of rocket launchers back in 2020, including several from Tamaulipas. [...] Shortly after the video was posted online in late May, the Russian embassy in Mexico published a tweet in which it insinuated that the AT4 visible in the footage is likely a weapon sent to Ukraine by the West that was then put up for sale on the global black market by corrupt Ukrainian officials. The tweet was viewed 1.2 million times and garnered more than 13,000 likes.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2023-07-18): According to arms experts, the weapon in the video is an AT4 rocket launcher manufactured in Sweden. [...] The AT4 is widely used by Latin American militaries, including Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia and is "especially prized on the black market," according to a Small Arms Survey report. Both the US and Sweden have confirmed they sent AT4s to Ukraine since the start of the war. However, there is no evidence the weapon seen in the clip comes from a cache destined for Kyiv.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2022-07-15): The main items are more ammunition for the 16 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) the US has sent, as well as new missiles for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), a thousand Javelin anti-tank missiles, and hundreds of Swedish made AT4 shoulder launched anti-tank systems.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
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Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2024-04-17): Russian fakes about the alleged sale of weapons given to Ukraine by partners continued to permeate the public domain. The fake news and disinformation materials they produced varied depending on the context, allowing them more flexibility to shape their narrative about the "black market of weapons" to suit different audiences. One such case is that of Ukrainian Javelins allegedly being sold into the hands of a Mexican Cartel—causing a big discussion within the country. On August 1, 2022, Russian mass media and Telegram channels—with reference to the Mexican TV channel Milenio Televisión—published a video about the alleged sale of weapons provided by Ukraine to a Mexican drug cartel. The video mentioned dozens of American M136 grenade launchers, AK-47 assault rifles, and Javelin ATGMs—which were supplied to Ukraine by the USA. However, after carefully watching the video, it becomes evident that the presenter makes a mistake and calls an M136 AT4 anti-tank grenade launcher a "Javelin". This is an important clarification, since the AT4 grenade launcher has been mass-produced since the 1980s, and the total number of manufactured units currently exceeds 600,000. Considering this fact, it’s entirely possible that the launcher was purchased on the North American "black market" and not shipped from Europe.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2022-05-10): According to a picture released on the Twitter account of Hans Tino Hansen, Denmark has delivered an undisclosed number of AT4CS man-portable anti-structure tandem rocket weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces. [...] Ukraine receives AT4 anti-tank weapons from Sweden | 7 March 2022 | ArmyRecognition According to information published by Republic World on March 6, 2022, the Swedish AT4 anti-tank weapons have arrived in Ukraine amid the war. Indeed some visuals of Ukrainian soldiers with AT4 anti-tank weapons have been released.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2023-01-31): Ukrainian MoD data on Russian losses: ~208 910 KIAs, 3 819 MBTs, 7 490 AIVs, 6 267 wheeled transports, 465 specialized vehicles, 3 501 artillery guns, 575 MLRS, 335 AA systems, 313 aircraft, 298 helicopters, 3 137 UAVs, 1 117 1 "Good goyim, you did your job"; words fail me, when I try to express my hatred of the kikes, this one in particular. 397 missiles shot down, 18 naval vessels. Explosions during the night in Kursk. Local authorities claim they shot down the attacking Ukrainian UAVs. Kiev was again attacked with missiles and drones. ZeroHedge and other altmedia outlets write that Mexican cartel members were spotted with AT4 disposable anti-tank rockets. Strong suspicion was expressed that these weapons came from the deliveries made to Ukraine. FSB accused Apple corporation of spying on Russian diplomats. Apparently, Apple provided backdoor for American NSA spooks1 to infect thousands of Apple "smart" phones, belonging to Russian diplomats, with spying software. Cracks appeared on piers of the Crimean Bridge. I would not be surprised if this happened at the spans, which were affected by the explosion.
Claim: A post shared on Twitter claims Mexican television reported that cartels have dozens of AT4s sourced from Ukraine. (Viral Video, 2023-06-01)
Evidence (2011-11-16): - When Henry Blackburn and Co. drives in a convoy to capture Kaffarov the arms dealers. Matkovic, the guy wearing MultiCam OCP and the AT4, was sleeping on the convoy and when woken up he says "thirty four minutes... I've been asleep for thirty four minutes drinking a vanilla milkshake." Also a reference from the 5th episode A Burning Dog, when Ray Person wakes Brad Colbert to a team leader meeting, Brad responds "fifty six minutes. I've been asleep for fifty six minutes".
Claim: purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat (Image, 2023-07-18)
Evidence (2023-07-18): The image shows a traffic light that melted as a result of a July 2022 fire in Milan, Italy, according to the Italian website Open.
Claim: purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat (Image, 2023-07-18)
Evidence (2023-09-07): On Sept. 6, 2023, an artist on the platform known as X (formerly Twitter) named coyote2 (@YLKujo) posted a photo of a Vox drum set with the caption, "I'm SO mad, the Texas heat melted my kick drum while it was on the delivery truck." [...] i'm SO mad, the Texas heat melted my kick drum while it was on the delivery truck ? pic.twitter.com/hEDrC11epB — ᴄᴏʏᴏᴛᴇᄅ ? (@YLKujo) September 6, 2023 [...] For further reading about rumors of objects supposedly melting due to summer heat, we previously found the answers regarding photos of traffic lights, tires, street signs, waste bins, mannequins, and wind turbines.
Claim: purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat (Image, 2023-07-18)
Evidence (2022-07-20): While many descriptions of extreme heat’s effect on asphalt include the word "melting," that isn’t entirely accurate, said Steve Muench, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Washington. Instead, he said, the effect is more similar to what you could do to Play-Doh or clay.
Claim: purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat (Image, 2023-07-18)
Evidence (2022-08-12): The asphalt on about four miles of road in Crockett melted because of excessive heat.
Claim: purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat (Image, 2023-07-18)
Evidence (2021-06-17): In mid-June 2021, Snopes readers inquired about memes posted to social media that purportedly showed a wind turbine that had melted in scorching Texas heat (some versions sent in by readers claimed the turbine was melted in Nebraska). It's true that states in the Southwest, including Texas, were experiencing a heat wave in summer 2021. It's also true that the turbine in the image above is located in Texas. But the turbine was not melted by the heat wave.
Claim: purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat (Image, 2023-07-18)
Evidence (2023-07-28): image shared on twitter Reflecting traffic lights that have melted due to the heat wave in Texas. [...] "It’s so hot in Texas that traffic lights are melting," the caption read. The post contains an image of a visibly melted traffic light. [...] Similarly, a Twitter post purporting to show a melted traffic light in Texas is not the only iteration of this claim.Further repeated claims claiming to display traffic lights at Phoenix, Arizona and Catano, Puerto Rico It went viral on Facebook and Twitter. (Related: Old video showing military vehicles in Los Angeles)
Claim: purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat (Image, 2023-07-18)
Evidence (2023-07-28): An image shared on Twitter purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat. [...] "It’s so hot in Texas even the traffic lights are melting," the Twitter post’s caption reads. Included in the post is an image of a traffic light that is visibly melted. [...] Likewise, the Twitter post purporting to show the melted traffic light in Texas is not the only iteration of the claim. Additional iterations of the claim purporting to show a traffic light in Phoenix, Arizona and Catano, Puerto Rico have circulated on Facebook and Twitter. (RELATED: Video Showing Military Vehicles In Los Angeles Is Old)
Claim: purports to show a traffic light that melted in Texas due to extreme heat (Image, 2023-07-18)
Evidence (2021-06-27): For several years, it seems, every extreme heat wave in the U.S. has prompted the circulation of photographs purportedly demonstrating the effects of intense hot weather, images picturing melted objects such as automobiles, tires, trash receptacles, ceiling fans, and street signs: [...] Another much-traveled image shows a traffic light that looks to have melted from hot weather: One would wonder, naturally, why extreme weather would have melted a traffic signal but left another one adjacent to it apparently undamaged. That's because this picture appears to stem from a motorist in Kuwait's slamming into a traffic signal pole, with the resulting fire melting the signal directly above the burning vehicle: