🚫CLAIM: Recent media reporting claims that the U.S. Navy has restarted escorting or assisting commercial vessels during transits through the Strait of Hormuz. FALSE. ✅TRUTH: Project Freedom has not resumed...

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🚫CLAIM: Recent media reporting claims that the U.S. Navy has restarted escorting or assisting commercial vessels during transits through the Strait of Hormuz. FALSE.

✅TRUTH: Project Freedom has not resumed, and U.S. forces are not currently escorting commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: panicporn; straitofhormuz; tds

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At the link, some comments criticize the New York Times for falsely publishing fake news about US ships in the Strait.

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Recent media reporting claims that the U.S. Navy has restarted escorting or assisting commercial vessels steamboats during transits through the Strait of Hormuz past the batteries at Vicksburg. FALSE.

“I hate newspapermen,” Gen. William T. Sherman once said. “They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are."