In mid-September 2025, an image circulated online purportedly showing an Ancestral Puebloan mural that a hiker discovered in New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park in October 2009.

The image appeared in a Facebook post alongside text claiming a woman named Sarah Johnson discovered “a rare Ancestral Puebloan kiva mural and pottery sherds dating to around 1100 AD” while hiking in the park. According to the post, archaeologists determined the mural to be “priceless” and Johnson received a “citizen’s commendation” for her find.

Another Facebook page also posted the photo and story on Sept. 14.

However, several details about the image and the accompanying copy indicated that the photo was fake and the story was false. Sightengine and Hive Moderation, two online artificial intelligence detectors, found the image highly likely to have been generated using AI. In addition, search engine results produced no credible reports about Johnson and the alleged mural discovery in October 2009, which would have been newsworthy if true, given Johnson’s reported “citizen’s commendation.”

According to Colin Purdy, an interpretive park ranger at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the mural in the image did not “look a whole lot” like existing imagery at the park. Additionally, Purdy pointed out that the cactus in the upper left corner of the image, that appeared to be of the Saguaro species, did not grow in the New Mexico park. Saguaro cacti grow only in “a specific area within” the Sonoran Desert that stretches across the Mexican state of Sonora and parts of California and Arizona, according to the U.S. National Park Service.

Purdy also questioned how the mural could have survived repeated flooding if it were actually located on the side of a canyon with water flowing through.

Similarly, Steve Carr, director of communications at the University of New Mexico, which the Facebook posts claimed valued the “priceless” mural, said via email that the chair of the university’s department that studied the Chaco Canyon “indicated that the story and photos are fake.”

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is the site of “a thriving regional center for the ancestral Pueblo people from 850 to 1250 CE,” according to the NPS. Visitors can see authentic Chacoan houses and artifacts on a variety of hiking trails through the park.

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In September 2025, reports began spreading online that from Oct. 1, 2025, online retailer Amazon would no longer allow members of its Prime subscription service to share free shipping with someone else unless they lived at the same address.

For example, CNET, a publication covering consumer technology, produced a post on Facebook stating that Amazon’s Prime Invitee Program was changing to “Amazon Family.”

The caption read, in part:

Starting October 1st, Amazon is replacing its free shipping perk, more specifically the “Prime Invitee Program” with Amazon Family which won’t allow free shipping to addresses outside of your home address.

According to an update on Amazon’s website, “If you’re a Prime Invitee: You can either ask the Prime member in your household to add you to their Amazon Family, or sign up for your own Prime Membership.”

However, to share Prime benefits, “you and your invitee must live together at the same primary residential address.”

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The post had amassed more than 20,000 reactions and 19,500 comments as of this writing. Besides, the claim also appeared elsewhere on Facebook and on Reddit.

In short, the claim was true. Amazon announced the change on its website, though when the announcement went live was unclear, saying that: “Amazon Family is replacing the Prime Invitee Program”:

To share benefits, you and your invitee must live together at the same primary residential address. This is the address you consider to be your home and where you spend the majority of your time.

The benefit would cover two adults, up to four teens who were added before April 7, 2025, and up to four children.

Amazon added that the Prime Invitee Program would end on Oct. 1, 2025. “Prime invitees will lose access to the shared Prime delivery benefit, but can use Amazon Family instead,” the page read. Those in the program could manage their family members on the Amazon Family page, which would be accessible once a member logged in.

The Verge, another website covering consumer tech news, reported that Amazon’s decision to switch to this system was an effort to attract more subscribers for the perks. According to a Sept. 2, 2025, article by Reuters news agency, Amazon failed to hit its subscription goal in the run-up to Prime Day, an annual event during which the company runs steep discounts on a range of its products across four days.

The benefits will cost former Prime invitees $14.99 for the first year and then $14.99 a month, The Verge’s report added.

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In August 2025, posts about a supposed “spotless giraffe” living in a Tennessee zoo spread online.

“Meet Kipekee — the only spotless giraffe alive today. In rural Tennessee, Brights Zoo welcomed a giraffe unlike any seen in half a century,” said one Aug. 14 Facebook post, a claim echoed by similar posts. This was not the first time social media spread claims about Kipekee; posts about the allegedly solid-colored giraffe have circulated on Facebook, Instagram and Reddit since 2023.

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Kipekee is a real spotless giraffe who, as of this writing, lives at Brights Zoo in Tennessee — with “no plans” of moving anywhere else, according to an email from David Bright, the zoo’s director. At the time of Kipekee’s July 31, 2023, birth, news outlets reported that Brights Zoo may have welcomed the only giraffe without spots alive in the world, as evidenced by Kipekee’s name, which means “unique” in Swahili. However, just a month later, another spotless giraffe was … spotted … in Namibia.

Given that the August posts accurately described Kipekee’s existence and living situation but relied on outdated information about the rarity of the giraffe’s coat, we rate this claim a mixture of truth and falsehood.

Numerous legitimate news outlets, including NPR and National Geographic, covered Kipekee’s birth. Broadcast journalists have filmed Kipekee at the private, family-owned zoo. Furthermore, zoo visitors have posted various images and videos of the giraffe online at different angles, and the dates of these posts range from 2023 to 2025. As such, we are confident that the giraffe exists.

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Kipekee was reportedly the first known spotless giraffe born since 1972, when one such giraffe was born at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, according to archival photos.

But in September 2023, the Giraffe Conservation Foundation announced that another patternless giraffe was photographed at Mount Etjo Safari Lodge in central Namibia — the first recorded in the wild. The Giraffe Conservation Foundation, which partners with organizations like the Smithsonian Institution, says it is the only nongovernmental organization in the world dedicated solely to the conservation of wild giraffes.

The foundation’s news release included images of the spotless Namibia giraffe. At the time, experts said they did not know why the giraffes had no spots.

“The lack of spots could be caused by genetic mutations or recessive genotype in one or more genes related to the pattern, but without detailed genetic analysis, these are mere speculations,” Julian Fennessy, the organization’s co-founder and director of conservation, said in the statement.

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