President Donald Trump and Project 2025 are in total agreement on the perceived need to increase natural gas, oil and coal production – while simultaneously dismantling government efforts to develop green energy and address climate change.
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PolitiFact→ Fact-checking political talking points about the 2025 government shutdown
Fact-check: GOP, Dem government shutdown talking points
PolitiFact→ Charlie Kirk tributes sounded like Adele and Bieber, but were AI. How to spot synthetic music
How creators used AI to make Charlie Kirk ‘tribute’ songs
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Blake Shelton Has NEVER Been On "The View" — No Real Video Exists
Does a video show something surprising that happened during Blake Shelton's appearance on "The View"? No, that's not true: Clickbait publishers on social media have put out many fake stories about clashes between Shelton and the hosts of
AllSides→ Evidence Behind Comey Indictment Is Unclear
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/09/evidence-behind-comey-indictment-is-unclear/ James Comey, a former di
Full Fact→ Is Keir Starmer right to claim immigration increased ‘four-fold’ under the Conservatives?
The Prime Minister’s claim that immigration quadrupled in five years under the Conservatives actually appears to refer to net migration.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Army Drill Sgt. Karina Martinez’s Video About Leaders Respecting People Was Posted Two Weeks Before Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Speech To Generals
Was U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Karina Martinez attacking Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for his speech to generals and admirals in a TikTok video in which she says leaders should not be disrespectful, malicious, or spiteful with people w
Full Fact→ The government isn’t introducing a £15 monthly ‘clean water levy’ for all UK households
A government spokesperson told Full Fact this claim, which has been shared on social media, is “completely false”.
PolitiFact→ Federal government shutdown: Live fact-checks as Democrats, GOP spar over health care, layoffs
US federal government shutdown: Live fact-checks, updates
The Dispatch→ The Shutdown Begins
Congress failed to pass a spending agreement. What happens next?
The Dispatch→ Parenting in the Modern Age | Interview: Emily Oster
Don’t screw up the first three years.
The Dispatch→ Unmined Diamonds
Botswana serves as an example of how not to use human resources.
The Dispatch→ Why America Is the World’s Corporate Headquarters
The U.S. offers access to capital and an appetite for risk found nowhere else in the world.
The Dispatch→ Hegseth’s Audience of One
The defense secretary gathered generals from across the globe for a speech aimed solely at the commander in chief.
The Dispatch→ What Does It Even Mean to Be an ‘Independent’?
More Americans are identifying as such, but the term tells very little about what they believe.
The Dispatch→ What We Got Wrong in September
A list of corrections issued by The Dispatch last month.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: California, New York Do NOT Issue CDLs With No Name Given — They Have Mononyms, Just Like Some U.S. Passports
Do California and New York issue commercial driver's licenses with no name given, and did Oklahoma arrest 125 "illegals" with such CDLs? No, that's not true: The so-called "No Name Given" commercial driver's licenses include a mononym, wh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Self-Driving Waymo Car Did NOT Drive Onto A Golf Course — Human Driver At The Wheel
Does a video show a self-driving Waymo car erratically driving on a golf course? Yes, but that is missing context: The Waymo car, equipped with self-driving technology, was nonetheless being operated by a human driver according to a state
PolitiFact→ What we do and don’t know about MI church shooting suspect Thomas Jacob Sanford’s politics
Fact-checking claims about Michigan shooter’s politics
The Dispatch→ Patton for Dummies
The military under nationalism.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump says FBI agents may have been Jan. 6 agitators. Investigations don’t support that.
On Jan. 6, 2021, 274 FBI agents were “probably acting as agitators and insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘law enforcement officials.’”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump 2020 Graphic Was NOT Edited Onto Shirt Of LDS Church Shooting Suspect Thomas J. Sanford — Digital Edit Took The Graphic Off
Was a Trump 2020 graphic digitally added to a family photo of Michigan LDS church shooting suspect Thomas J. Sanford? No, that's not true: The picture with the Trump 2020 graphic is the original, posted publicly on Facebook in 2019 and un
PolitiFact→ Amy Klobuchar – Would rural residents get hit twice as hard by expiring ACA subsidies?
People with insurance through the Affordable Care Act will see a “75% increase in premiums starting Nov. 1” if enhanced subsidies are not extended, including “twice as much in the rural areas.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: India’s Telemarketers Did NOT Threaten To Go On Strike To Protest Trump Tariffs
Did "all of India's telemarketers" threaten "to go on strike permanently" if the U.S. places increased tariffs on imports from that country? No, that's not true: No media organizations reported that. The viral post that resurfaced at the
FactCheck.org→ Evidence Behind Comey Indictment Is Unclear
James Comey, a former director of the FBI, was indicted on two criminal counts on Sept. 25 by a federal grand jury in Virginia. But the barely two-page indictment provides very little information about the underlying evidence for the charges of lying
The Dispatch→ Selective Prosecutions
‘Everything about this was reeking of politicized prosecution.’
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Music Lessons Have NOT Been Banned In Hamburg Because Muslims Consider Them Haram — The German News Report Is About A Joint Statement Against Intolerance and Exclusion
Did the public school system in Hamburg, Germany ban music lessons to avoid offending Muslims who view them to be forbidden or 'haram'? No, that's not true: The Hamburg public schools did no such thing. A German language news report has b
FactCheck.org→ Trump, Project 2025 and Immigration
Project 2025 and President Donald Trump are largely in sync on immigration. U.S. soldiers at the Mexican border on May 8. Photo by Can Hasasu/Anadolu via Getty Images. That’s hardly surprising. Ken Cuccinelli, who served as an acting dire
Full Fact→ Video of woman claiming her baby is transgender is satirical ‘rage bait’
A viral clip is recirculating on social media and once again being shared as though it is genuine - but it’s not.
Full Fact→ Baseless claim that Declan Rice donated millions to Tower Hamlets Council spreads on social media
Posts sharing the claim about the footballer have been shared thousands of times on social media, but the council has confirmed it isn’t true.
Full Fact→ No, the government is not introducing a £100 annual pet fee from October
A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs told Full Fact this is “completely false”.
Full Fact→ Miscaptioned video shows Turkish football fans, not the Gaza aid flotilla
The footage has been shared widely on social media with misleading captions claiming it depicts the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Full Fact→ Amazon is not giving away laptops for £3
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the offer being shared on social media is not legitimate.
Full Fact→ No, people who have more than £500 in the bank will not be placed on a national monitoring register
HMRC told us this is “completely false”.
PolitiFact→ Dan Koh – Congress gets paid during a government shutdown. What about the janitors?
“If the government shuts down, members of Congress still get paid. The janitors never get paid.”
Full Fact→ Thank you for the lasagne r/ukpolitics
Wembley lasagne, swans and AI fakes, just another day as a fact checker. Chris Morris (no, not that one) took r/ukpolitics inside the fight against bad information, the need for good stats and keeping an eye on government promises.
Full Fact→ No new £2,000 fine for unmarried couples who don’t declare their status
Videos circulating on social media claim you need to tell the government if you’ve been living with your partner for more than a year, or you’ll face a £2,000 fine. But this isn’t true.
AllSides→ Trump, Project 2025 and the ‘Dismantling’ of the ‘Administrative State’
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/09/trump-project-2025-and-the-dismantling-of-the-administrative-state/ D
Full Fact→ Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme?
Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.
Full Fact→ No, a Met Police video of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally didn’t show a 2020 protest
The AI chatbot Grok and some social media users wrongly claimed the footage was years old and from an anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square.