Maarten Schenk
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Maarten Schenk
@mschenk.bsky.social
Fact checker. Co-founder of leadstories.com.
Uh, oh, Elmo!
February 2, 2026 at 12:05 PM
When Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong suddenly like fact-checking apparently...
February 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I *knew* @grok would be in the Epstein files...
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
OMG, @leadstories.com fact check in a visible Community Note under an X post from The White House.

Read the fact check here:
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
January 23, 2026 at 12:50 AM
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Man, some of those notifications on X are ghoulish...

He's definitely not "LIVE".
January 15, 2026 at 8:31 AM
U.S. Department of Labor posts slogan tied to QAnon conspiracy movement.

x.com/USDOL/status...
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Ondertussen hebben ze de kop al aangepast...
January 8, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Ambiance in de kuil! #zonhoven
January 4, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Elon Musk suddenly, for no reason, decides content moderation is a good thing after all...

x.com/i/status/200...
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Trump says the US captured Maduro...

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
January 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM
It seems the account that did this was deleted.

Has anyone lost their visa over this blatant censorship yet?
December 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
They've updated it...
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Google? Well, Google just puts copies of the hoax in positions 1 through 4 and the fact check in position 5.

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
December 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Heh, my favorite fact checking slogan could have been in the Epstein Files :-)
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Better now!
December 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Bad Bing! Showing an AI summary of a hoax about a "giant eclipse octopus" while the link to the fact check debunking it sits right below it:
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I never realized they gave my young daughter a weapon of mass destruction when she was in hospital after a grave accident some years ago.

It seems she did recover quite nicely despite that.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In general search the fact check ranks below the spoof posts & a copycat website (if it weren't for the Yahoo! News syndicated version of our fact check):
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Incredible. A satirical *Facebook post* about a mountain collapse in Casper, Wyoming (that didn't actually happen) was the top search result in *Google News* yesterday. Today it is two versions of a follow-up spoof post...

The fact check? Nowhere to be seen.

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The irony of believing moderation is censorship and then "censoring" the people fining you for not being transparent enough...
December 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Que bom!
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Cain Ransbottyn is terug?

Wie weet meer?
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
To everyone exitedly posting X showing where an account is based surely will be the end of foreign ragebaiting slop accounts...

... Meta has had this feature for years and it *totally* fixed the problem there </sarcasm>

To coin a phrase:

"Grandpa doesn't check the 'about' tab." -- Me
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Have you tried turning Cloudflare off and on again?
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM