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The Dispatch→ Pay to Play
What should a Democratic House do about Trump’s crypto scam?
The Dispatch→ Hogg Wild
All power, no principles, and the problem with our politics.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of JD Vance Talking About ‘Parodies’ AND ‘Accusations’ In Aftermath Of His Last Meeting With Pope Francis Is NOT Authentic
Does a viral video authentically portray U.S. Vice President JD Vance talking about "parodies" and "accusations" after visiting the Vatican hours before the death of Pope Francis? No, that's not true: The original sound was digitally repl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Unveil ‘Trump 2028’ Hat Framed To Be Displayed In The Oval Office
Did U.S. President Donald Trump show a Fox News host a Trump 2028 hat placed on the wall in the Oval Office? No, that's not true: The viral video was digitally altered. The original Fox News segment showed Trump unveiling the Declaration
Full Fact→ Posts claiming police need help to identify stabbing victim are false
The same picture has been posted in Facebook community groups for different locations across the UK.
Full Fact→ Video of police officers being assaulted is from Australia, not England
Misleading claims that the footage showed an incident in the UK have been circulating on social media.
Lead Stories→ A Pope’s Death Fosters Conspiracy Theories… Again
My first memory of the passing of a pope is a traumatic one: someone murdered him. Or at least, that's what everyone around me seemed to believe. I was just 13, but I had a sense that something was amiss: Albino Luciani had been Pope Jo
Full Fact→ David Lammy has not personally spent half a million pounds on food and drink expenses as foreign secretary
The £521,525 referenced in social media posts is the amount of food and drinks spending over £500 expensed by the entire Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office over a four month period.
Full Fact→ Video of Pope’s ‘final public address’ is actually from 2023
Misleading claims that a clip of Pope Francis speaking about the conflict in Gaza is from his final speech before his death on 21 April have been circulating on social media.
Full Fact→ Teaching on conspiracy theories should start in primary schools
Early intervention is crucial to breaking a cycle where one in four UK adults struggle to distinguish between true and false information.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cardinal Robert Sarah Did NOT Say ‘The Jewish People Have Slain Our Messiah’
Did Cardinal Robert Sarah once say "The Jewish people have slain our messiah -- I shall never forget that"? No, that's not true: Contrary to a meme that was shared widely in April 2025, we could find no record of the Guinean cardinal havi
The Dispatch→ Unpacking the State Department Overhaul
America’s overseas arm is getting a MAGA makeover.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New York Times Article Did NOT Fail to Mention Nascimento Blair’s Kidnapping Conviction and Prison Sentence
Did the New York Times fail to mention Nascimento Blair's kidnapping conviction and prison sentence in an April 2025 article about his deportation from the United States to Jamaica? No, that's not true: the authors mentioned the convictio
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Video About Sale of Princess Diana’s Dress To Zelenskyy’s Wife Was NOT Published By The Sun
Did The Sun publish a video claiming Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle sold Princess Diana's iconic revenge dress to Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska for $2.9 million in April 2025? No, that's not true: There is no such story or video on
The Dispatch→ They Never Believed Any Of It
‘A lot of people in politics don’t believe in anything.’
The Dispatch→ Hard Choices on Medicaid Loom for Lawmakers
To reach its spending cut requirements, the GOP must target a popular social program.
The Dispatch→ My Presidential Candidacy
If nominated, I will consent to be elected, but don’t expect me to do much else.
The Dispatch→ Carpe Diem, Harvard
This moment is what all that money is for.
The Dispatch→ Trump’s Team of Losers
The president has hired lots of people who couldn’t win their own elections.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s False Claims about Gas, Egg Prices
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Several times over the last week, President Donald Trump has assured Americans that the prices of eggs and gasoline are down significantly. But he has made false claims about the co
The Dispatch→ Déjà Vu
How Trump’s Ukraine peace plan resembles his trade war.
PolitiFact→ RFK Jr.’s statements about autism and environmental toxins conflict with ample research
RFK Jr.’s explanation for autism rates clashes with science
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post On Truth Social He’s Renaming New Mexico As New America
Did President Trump say in a Truth Social post on April 23, 2025 that he would sign an order to change the name of New Mexico to New America? No, that's not true: The post does not exist on Trump's Truth Social timeline and there is no ev
The Dispatch→ Claims That the FDA Has Approved Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19 Are False
The drug is approved only for treating parasitic diseases.
Health Feedback→ Journalist Alex Berenson misrepresents German study on COVID-19 mRNA vaccination
REVIEW At the end of March 2025, journalist Alex Berenson published a Substack post claiming that a German study showed COVID-19 mRNA vaccines changed “a crucial part of the macrophage chromosome called the histone” and that these changes are
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Post "JD KILL POPE" Acrostic To His Truth Social Account — @TrumpDailyPosts X.com Screenshot Is Phony
Did President Donald Trump hide an acrostic message - spelling out "JD KILL POPE" - in an April 18, 2025 post to his Truth Social account three days before the death of Pope Francis? No, that's not true: The paragraph, marked in red to sh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Africans Were Denied Entry Into St. Peter’s Basilica To View Pope’s Body
Does a video of a Black man being escorted from St. Peter's Basilica show that Africans were banned from viewing the body of Pope Francis? No, that's not true: The man seen in the video was ejected after he jumped the long line of people
PolitiFact→ Brian Tyler Cohen – Claim about Trump rejecting Helene relief for North Carolina lacks context
Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.”
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Is gas $1.98 a gallon in a few U.S. states, as Donald Trump said? That’s False
“We had a couple of states where gasoline was at $1.98 a gallon.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pam Bondi Did NOT Promise To Send People To El Salvador For 15 Years For Saying ‘Fuck Trump’
Did U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi threaten that anyone saying "Fuck Trump" may get "15 years in El Salvador" for doing that? No, that's not true: The viral image with the supposed quote was not an authentic screenshot of Bondi's intervi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Trump Organization DID Start Selling ‘Trump 2028’ Hats in April 2025
Did the Trump Organization begin selling "Trump 2028" baseball hats in April 2025? Yes, that's true: social media posts and photographs accurately depicted a real listing on the website trumpstore.com, which is the the official retail web
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Inverted Cross In St. Peter’s Basilica Does NOT Offer Evidence Of Satanism In Vatican — It’s Traditional Christian Symbol
Does an inverted cross in a viral video from St. Peter's Basilica offer evidence of satanism in the Vatican? No, that's not true: The upside-down cross, also known as the Petrine cross, has a distinctive theological meaning in the religio
FactCheck.org→ Graphic Cites FactCheck.org in Misleading Biden, Trump Economy Comparison
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. A graphic circulating on social media compares Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s economic records as president and cites FactCheck.org as the source. But two of its figures are way
Full Fact→ Posts about ‘evil’ babysitter on the run in the UK are fake
The mugshot used is taken from a US case dating back to 2015.
PolitiFact→ Pope Francis defended truth as misinformation trailed him
How misinformation trailed Pope Francis
Full Fact→ Has Reform UK ‘gained’ more seats than any other party in council by-elections since November?
It depends on how you count seats “gained”.
Full Fact→ No, Pope Francis was not filmed swatting away Donald Trump’s hand
A video circulating online originated as part of a comedy skit on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Space Force, SpaceX Did NOT Release Statement That Will ‘Change Your Entire Life’
Did the United States Space Force and Elon Musk's SpaceX release a joint statement in April 2025, warning that an imminent revelation would "change your entire life"? No, that's not true: Contrary to social media posts, which also referre
The Dispatch→ Pressure on Ukraine Mounts
The U.S. threatens Kyiv with ultimatums as Russian attacks continue.