Snopes Debunker - Rumors about Iran, Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday, a Philip Morris ad, and the queen's guards

​ MONDAY EDITION Snopes Debunker Oct. 3, 2022 Trouble Reading? View in Your Browser Today: Rumors about Iran, Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday, a Philip Morris ad, and the queen's guards ​ No, This Video Doesn’t Show Iranian Father Dancing at His Daughter’s Funeral Protests spread across Iran last month in response to the death of a young woman who died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for “improper hijab.” Mahsa Amini’s (who was also known as Jina) death sparked a widespread movement against Iran’s “hijab and chastity” laws that require all women to wear headscarves in public.  Consequently, a number of videos and images circulated online amid internet outages and censorship efforts by Iranian leaders, and some of those clips and images authentically showed female protestors burning their headscarves and cutting their hair. Nur Ibrahim reports. Read Now Fact Checks and Original Reporting Did Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday Say ‘I’m Your Huckle Bearer,’ Not ‘Huckleberry’? The famous line from "Tombstone" has some people murmuring about the "Mandela Effect." Read Story. Is This a Real Philip Morris Ad Featuring Mother and Baby? "Proud mothers, please forgive us if we too feel something of the pride of a new parent." Read Story. No, the Queen’s Guards Weren’t Buried Alive With Her Even the Queen's funeral couldn't escape a bit of macabre humor. Read Story. Latest Fact Checks News Baseball Tiebreaker Games Now a Thing of the Past If baseball's new tiebreaker rules had been in place years ago, Bucky Dent and Bobby Thomson probably wouldn't be household names. Read More Nobel Win for Swede Who Unlocked Secrets of Neanderthal DNA Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries on human evolution that provided key insights into our immune system. Read More Royal Mint Unveils First Coins to Feature King Charles III Britons will begin to see Charles’ image in their change from around December, as 50-pence coins depicting him gradually enter circulation. Read More

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