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NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” highlights a false claim from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints proprietary database of provably false claims and their debunks. The claim that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Europe will shut U.S. bases and scrap trade deals in response to U.S. threats to acquire Greenland is NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” due to its widespread appearance across social media platforms and websites, its high engagement levels, and the high-profile nature of the sources promoting it. Those three factors, as well as both its significant subject matter and potential for harm, makes it our False Claim of the Week.
What happened: Anti-Trump social media users are misrepresenting comments made by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to falsely state that she advocated for Europe to close U.S. military bases and tear up trade agreements, due to President Donald Trump’s threats to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous region of Denmark.
Context: In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly suggested that the...
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