Maarten Schenk
@mschenk.bsky.social
Fact checker. Co-founder of leadstories.com.
When Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong suddenly like fact-checking apparently...
February 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM
When Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong suddenly like fact-checking apparently...
I *knew* @grok would be in the Epstein files...
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I *knew* @grok would be in the Epstein files...
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...
Read the fact check here:
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
January 23, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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...
Read the fact check here:
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Man, some of those notifications on X are ghoulish...
He's definitely not "LIVE".
He's definitely not "LIVE".
January 15, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Man, some of those notifications on X are ghoulish...
He's definitely not "LIVE".
He's definitely not "LIVE".
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Ondertussen hebben ze de kop al aangepast...
January 8, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Ondertussen hebben ze de kop al aangepast...
Elon Musk suddenly, for no reason, decides content moderation is a good thing after all...
x.com/i/status/200...
x.com/i/status/200...
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Elon Musk suddenly, for no reason, decides content moderation is a good thing after all...
x.com/i/status/200...
x.com/i/status/200...
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?
Has anyone lost their visa over this blatant censorship yet?
December 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It seems the account that did this was deleted.
Has anyone lost their visa over this blatant censorship yet?
Has anyone lost their visa over this blatant censorship yet?
They've updated it...
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
They've updated it...
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...
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
December 21, 2025 at 12:20 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...
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
Heh, my favorite fact checking slogan could have been in the Epstein Files :-)
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Heh, my favorite fact checking slogan could have been in the Epstein Files :-)
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...
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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...
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
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...
It seems she did recover quite nicely despite that.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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...
It seems she did recover quite nicely despite that.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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
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):
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...
The fact check? Nowhere to be seen.
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 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...
The fact check? Nowhere to be seen.
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
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
The irony of believing moderation is censorship and then "censoring" the people fining you for not being transparent enough...
Cain Ransbottyn is terug?
Wie weet meer?
Wie weet meer?
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Cain Ransbottyn is terug?
Wie weet meer?
Wie weet meer?
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
... 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
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
... 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
Have you tried turning Cloudflare off and on again?
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Have you tried turning Cloudflare off and on again?