There’s No Evidence Tom Cruise, Young Thug & Kendall Jenner will be on next Blue Origin flight

May 1st, 2025 | No Comments »

A rumor that a number of celebrities — Young Thug, Kendall Jenner, Tom Cruise, Jameis Winston, Drew Desbordes and Angel Reese — would be aboard the next Blue Origin flight in May 2025 circulated online in April 2025.

Claim: A number of celebrities, including Young Thug, Kendall Jenner and Tom Cruise, will be aboard Blue Origin’s next flight in May 2025.

One X post making the claim, by the user @DailyNoud, had received more than 8.6 million views as of this writing:

(X account @DailyNoud)

Variations of the rumor spread on TikTok as well.

Some readers seemed to interpret the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life events. However, there was no evidence Blue Origin made such an announcement. Blue Origin has not publicly announced any details regarding celebrity passengers on future flights. The link on the post directs users to a Blue Origin news release regarding the company’s April 14, 2025, flight.

Rather, the rumor about Young Thug and others originated with Daily Noud — a social media account that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature. Its bio states:

#1 Source For PARODY Hip-Hop News | Follow For Viral Content | These are fake stories

The fictional story spread after Blue Origin successfully launched six women — including pop star Katy Perry and TV host Gayle King — on April 14.

Daily Noud has a history of making up stories for shares and comments.

Conclusion: We labeled Satire.

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Tags: Blue Origin, Fact Check, Not Necessarily The News, Satire, space, Tom Cruise

Video Authentically Shows Bee Gees’ Grandchildren Singing ‘How Deep Is Your Love’?

April 13th, 2025 | No Comments »

Throughout the years, social media users have spread a rumor that a video authentically shows the grandchildren of Grammy Award-winning musical group the Bee Gees singing one of their songs, “How Deep Is Your Love.”

Claim: A video authentically showed the grandchildren of Grammy Award-winning musical group the Bee Gees singing “How Deep Is Your Love.”

A X post from April 9, 2025, that included the video was captioned, “The Bee Gee’s grandsons – WOW!!!!” We found the video previously posted to other social media platforms making the same claim, including also YouTube and TikTok posts from 2023.

@arely_rn this is sooo touching…so many memories. #thebeegees ? original sound – ARELY_RN

However, the video didn’t show the Bee Gees’ grandchildren singing “How Deep Is Your Love.” Rather, it was a cover recording of the song by Ky Baldwin, a singer and actor from Australia.

Baldwin has posted videos of his covers of various songs for years, often using a cloning visual effect like the one used in the one above. For example, he posted a cover of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” to Instagram in July 2023, with the caption, “Cloned a couple more Ky’s for this one #iwantitthatway #backstreetboys #vfx.”

We found the “How Deep Is Your Love” video posted to Baldwin’s TikTok account on Sept. 6, 2023. At the time of this writing, Baldwin’s original post had over 24 million views and didn’t mention anything about the grandchildren of the Bee Gees.

@kybaldwin MAN I’ve been looking forward to this one!! Hope you enjoy my cover of #howdeepisyourlove by the #beegees #cover ? original sound – Ky

We labeled Miscaptioned.

In another video posted to Baldwin’s TikTok account in October 2023, he said he doesn’t have brothers nor was he related to the Bee Gees.

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Does Image Shows Underwater Foundation Of Venice

April 8th, 2025 | No Comments »

An image purporting to show the underwater infrastructure supporting the canal-carved city of Venice, Italy, circulated across social media platforms in March and early April 2025, including Threads, Instagram and Facebook.

Claim: An image accurately depicts the underwater foundation of Venice, Italy

One such post published on X on March 15 had received more than 1.2 million views at the time of this writing:

(@BrianRoemmele/X)

It’s true Venice presented an early architectural challenge, being located in the marshy lagoons of Italy.

Despite Venice’s impressive architectural history, the image at the source of this fact check was generated using artificial intelligence (AI) and doesn’t accurately represent the “Most Serene” city’s underwater landscape.

It’s AI-generated image supposedly shows underwater foundation of Venice:

The online AI-detection tool Hive Moderation determined the image was 99.7% “likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content.” Google’s AI image detection app similarly determined that the picture was 93% likely to have been “generated by AI.” Both results can be seen in the screenshots below:

The image also displays signs of AI generation when enlarged, such as the unnatural shaping of the wood and how the posts appear to blend into the wooden mounds along the bottom, as shown in the magnified portions below.

(@BrianRoemmele/X)

Similarly, the above-water portion of the image also shows clear indications of having been created using AI. For example, the building on the left appears to have changing patterns, while the dome-shaped construction on the right has warped features that appear to melt into one another.

(@BrianRoemmele/X)

Although the illustration misrepresents what the actual foundations of the city look like, it’s true the substructure of Venice was initially built mainly of wood. The University of Washington Exploration Seminar Engineering Rome covers Roman and Italian engineering over 3,000 years, from ancient Rome to the 21st century. A 2024 article published by the group noted that Venice was constructed largely of large timber poles that were driven into the “Venetian Lagoon’s soft, marshy soil, which lacked load-bearing capacity.” The group added:

The Venetians collected large timber piles from the forests of Croatia and drove them deep into the islands of the lagoon. These piles had varying diameters from 10 to 25 cm and heights from less than 1 m to a maximum of 3.5 m, with around nine piles driven into the ground per square meter. Oak, pine, alder, larch, and elm were the primary woods used for these piles due to their durability and resistance to decay.

In this video, PBS’ science series NOVA also explained this unique construction in a 2022 documentary, “How Venice Was Built on a Swamp.”