Is U.S. billionaire George Soros financing a Hungarian left-wing effort to "drag the country" into the Russo-Ukrainian War? No, there is no evidence to support this claim: While a civic group that supports Hungary's left-of-center opposition has accepted donations from sources outside Hungary, there is no proof the money came from Soros. Moreover, there is no evidence that any opposition…

Did saboteurs deliberately sink the Titanic in order to kill off three elite U.S. passengers -- John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Isidor Straus -- because they were trying to block the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve System? No, there is no evidence to support this conspiracy theory. None of these three men are known to have opposed…

Will an amendment to Hungary's 2021. XCII. law require apartment residents to give their real estate to the apartment building's legal entity? No, that's not true: The amendments take effect in July 2023, but it won't change the real estate ownership. The law only relates to the record keeping of legal entities. The claim appeared in a video (archived here)…

Did Marton Gulyas admit in a social media video clip that he is paid by George Soros to help oust the Hungarian government? No, that's not true: the quote in the video was taken out of context. In the full video from which the clip was taken Gulyas is making almost the opposite argument, saying that while he may have…

Did the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rule that mothers are women and fathers are men? No, that's not true: The ECHR's decision in O.H. and G.H. v. Germany addressed the narrow question of whether Germany had the right to identify a transgender parent as "mother" on a child's birth certificate, even though authorities had already confirmed the parent's…

Were Russian nuclear weapons captured on video moving in the Russian town Vyborg very close to the border of Finland hours after Finland joined NATO? No, that's not true: precise matches of the images show the video was shot in Kolchugino, near Moscow, a thousand kilometers away from Vyborg. The video (archived here) circulated on social media and was posted…

Did the World Economic Forum (WEF) say that "water is not a human right" and order governments to begin rationing household water supplies? No, that's not true: The claim is a fabrication based on an WEF website article that urged policymakers "to rethink our approach to how we can best allocate and value water" in the face of a potential…