THE FACTS: On July 21, 2026, BFM-TV.net, a site resembling BFMTV’s website, BFMTV.com, published a French-language article titled “2027 Presidential Elections: Édouard Philippe suffers from frontotemporal dementia.” The article and accompanying video’s audio narration both stated that this “new diagnostic could compromise [Philippe’s] presidential campaign, as the disease can have serious effects on behavior, personality, and speech skills.” 

However, BFMTV never published an article or video making this claim, according to  NewsGuard’s review of the outlet’s website and its social media channels. The site where the claim emerged, BFM-TV.net, is an inauthentic news site that is not affiliated with BFMTV. The site was registered five days before the claim emerged, according to domain registration records Whois. 

Moreover, there are no credible reports that Phillippe, founder of the center-right Horizons party who serves as mayor of Le Havre and was French prime minister from 2017 to 2020, has been diagnosed with dementia. Philippe’s press advisor, Céline Poizat, told NewsGuard in a July 23, 2026, email: “This video is, of course, completely false, and we have reported it. BFM has also contacted its legal department.”

THE FACTS: In early July 2026, pro-Kremlin and pro-Trump social media users shared a video featuring the Euronews logo, in which a narrator claims that Oleksandr Zelensky and Rymma Zelenska, the parents of Volodymyr Zelensky, were searched by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau. The video shows a screenshot of a purported article by Ukrainska Pravda, titled, “NABU searches Zelensky’s parents’ home in tax evasion probe,” supposedly written by Ukrainska Pravda journalist Anastasiia Prots. 

However, there is no credible evidence that Zelensky’s parents have ever been searched by NABU or other Ukrainian anti-corruption bodies. Asked about the claim, NABU’s press service told NewsGuard in a July 3, 2026, emailed statement that “it is fake.”

 Euronews chief content officer Peter Barabas said in a July 3, 2026, email to NewsGuard: “We confirm this is another elaborate fake story, in a long series of similar fake ones … with the obvious politically-charged intention to disseminate fake information.” The supposed Ukrainska Pravda article cited in the video is also inauthentic. The supposed author, journalist Anastasiia Prots, told NewsGuard in a July 6, 2026, email, “I did not write or publish such an article, and no such article has ever been published by Ukrainska Pravda.”

THE FACTS: In early June 2026, pro-Kremlin X accounts shared a video bearing the logo of The Associated Press, which claimed that Allen had visited the Ukrainian embassy in Washington at least four times prior to the shooting, suggesting Ukrainian involvement in the attack. 

In fact, The Associated Press did not publish a report stating that Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged shooter who targeted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2026, had visited the Ukrainian embassy multiple times prior to the attack. The Associated Press told NewsGuard that the report in question is “not authentic,” and it appears to be linked to Russian influence operation Storm-1516. Footage in the video purporting to show Allen inside the Ukrainian embassy appears to be AI-generated. The Ukrainian embassy in Washington called the claim “false,” saying the embassy had no records of visits from Allen, nor of any contact with him.

THE FACTS: There is no evidence that Germany plans to take in up to 400,000 Palestinian refugees. Elena Singer, a spokesperson for the German Ministry for the Interior, told NewsGuard in a March 17, 2026, email that the claim was “entirely fabricated” and that the governing agreement between the two ruling parties in Germany “stipulates that voluntary federal resettlement programs are to be phased out as much as possible and that no new programs are to be launched.”

Moreover, Politico never published an article advancing the claim, according to a NewsGuard review of the outlet’s websites, Politico.com and Politico.eu, and its social media channels. Politico-24.com, which published the article, is not affiliated with Politico, and domain registration records show the website was registered on March 6, 2026, six days before the article’s publication. As of March 16, 2026, the site was no longer accessible.

THE FACTS: In mid-March 2025, pro-Kremlin social media channels shared a video carrying Fox News’ logo and branding, with a voiceover stating: “The Trump administration has banned the use of hundreds of words including pro-Ukrainian slogans … This includes such pro-Ukraine slogans as ‘Slava Ukraini’, glory to Ukraine, and others.”

Fox News did not publish a video in mid-March 2025 reporting that U.S. President DonaldTrump’s administration banned pro-Ukraine slogans. A Fox News spokesperson told NewsGuard that the video was not published by Fox News. Hive Moderation, an AI detection software, determined with 99 percent certainty that the video’s audio voiceover was AI-generated.