Does a video prove that a November 2026 investigation uncovered a massive voter registration fraud scheme in Pennsylvania? No, that's not true: The video showed a 2024 press conference. It concerned a case that ended more than six months
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove 2026 Massive Voter Registration Fraud Scheme in Pennsylvania
Does a video prove that a November 2026 investigation uncovered a massive voter registration fraud scheme in Pennsylvania? No, that's not true: The video showed a 2024 press conference. It concerned a case that ended more than six months
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NBC KornackiCam Result Does NOT Prove Fraud — Talarico Briefly Shown With 91.9% of Tarrant County Votes
Does a result briefly showing James Talarico with over 91.9% of the votes in the U.S. Senate race in Tarrant County, Texas, during KornackiCam on NBC prove fraud? No, that's not true: The discrepancy appears to be a data entry error invol
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NBC KornackiCam Result Does NOT Prove Fraud — Talarico Briefly Shown With 91.9% of Tarrant County Votes
Does a result briefly showing James Talarico with over 91.9% of the votes in the U.S. Senate race in Tarrant County, Texas, during KornackiCam on NBC prove fraud? No, that's not true: The discrepancy appears to be a data entry error that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Texas Governor’s X Account Was NOT Suspended After Midterm Elections — Account @GovAbbott Defunct Since 2025
Did X suspend the account of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after the 2026 midterm elections? No, that's not true: The X account in question, @GovAbbott, was suspended between Feb. 12 and March 8, 2025 -- not after the Nov. 3, 2026, midterm elect
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Texas Governor’s X Account Was NOT Suspended After Midterm Elections — Account @GovAbbott Defunct Since 2025
Did X suspend the account of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after the 2026 midterm elections? No, that's not true: The X account in question, @GovAbbott, was suspended between Feb. 12 and March 8, 2025 -- not after the Nov. 3, 2026, midterm elect
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Plane That Crashed In Palm Beach Was Registered To An Address Mentioned In Epstein Files, But Hundreds Of Thousands Of Companies Share It
Was the plane that crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Nov. 1, 2026, registered to an address mentioned in the Epstein files? Yes, but that is missing context: The address belongs to a corporate services center where hundreds of tho
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE 2026 Map Shows Democrats Won 64 Senate Seats — Their Total Will Be In The 50s
Does a real election map show Democrats won 64 Senate seats on Nov. 3, 2026? No, that's not true: The map is fabricated and does not represent the number of seats won by either party on Election Day 2026. At the time of publication, Democ
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post ‘Enemy Of The Greatest President’ Message Reacting To Democratic Wins
Does a viral image show a real Truth Social post in which President Donald Trump responded to Democratic wins in the 2026 midterms? No, that's not true: The supposed screenshot of his post on Truth Social was fabricated. Neither Trump's a
Full Fact→ Fake images of Donald Trump being carried after US midterm elections shared online
There are plenty of clues the pictures aren’t real but were generated with AI.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show People In Melbourne Celebrating 2026 Democratic Midterm Wins — It Is From 2022
Does a viral video show crowds celebrating the result of the 2026 U.S. midterms in Melbourne, Australia? No, that's not true: It is an old video from 2022. It showed Australian soccer fans celebrating a victory by their national team duri
Full Fact→ What’s the value of the UK’s trade with the US?
On LBC, environment secretary Dame Angela Eagle claimed the UK and US “do £2.5 billion of business together”—but the latest figures put the annual value of UK/US trade at over 100 times that.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Offer Canada ‘Associate Membership In The United States’ In Post On Truth Social
Did U.S. President Donald Trump offer Canada an "associate membership" in the U.S. in the early hours of Nov. 3, 2026, while posting on Truth Social? No, that's not true: The post attributed to him on social media didn't match anything pu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence There Was A Signal Connected To A Foreign Wi-Fi Device In A Michigan Vote Tabulator On Election Day In November 2026
Was any evidence provided so far there was a signal connected to a foreign Wi-Fi device in a vote tabulator in Michigan on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2026? No, that's not true: Patrick Colbeck, with the Election Crime Bureau, backed by MyPillo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Texas Text NOT Intended For Dead Man But Living Registered Voter With The Same First And Last Name
Did a man receive a voting text message from VoteReady directed to his dead grandfather who was somehow registered to vote in Humble, Texas? No, that's not true: The name and address mentioned in the text are associated with a living pers
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Senate Did NOT Just Confirm First Native American National Park Service Director in November 2026 — Charles F. ‘Chuck’ Sams III Already Served as Director
Did the U.S. Senate just confirm Charles F. "Chuck" Sams III as head of the National Park Service, the first Indigenous person from the U.S. to hold the role, in November 2026? No, that's not true: Sams was confirmed into that role in 202
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ken Paxton Did NOT Release Statement Saying He ‘Cannot Accept’ His Defeat to James Talarico Was ‘Free or Fair’
Did Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton release a statement saying he "cannot accept" that his defeat to James Talarico in the November 2026 U.S. Senate race was "free or fair"? No, that's not true: Paxton conceded the race in a speech on N
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Woman Kicking Cyclist Harassing Pedestrians — It Comes From AI Content Channel
Does a real video show a woman deliver a kick to an annoying "biker" who had been harassing pedestrians? No, that's not true: The video originated from a YouTube channel that says, "All videos on Beyond Reality AI are AI-generated and cre
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Canadian Park DENIES Image Shows Niagara Falls Turning Blue Because Of Nov. 3, 2026, Blue Wave In U.S.
Does a viral image show Niagara Falls lit up blue to celebrate Democrats winning control of Congress in the 2026 midterms? No, that's not true: According to the spokesperson for the body managing the falls on the Canadian side, political
Full Fact→ Government not removing need to show ID to vote in some elections
Social media posts claiming that Andy Burnham is changing the law so people will need ID to use social media, but not to vote in elections don’t give the full picture.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tate McRae Did NOT Post ‘Make America Great Again’ Photo on U.S. Election Day
Did Canadian performer Tate McRae post a photo of herself wearing a "Make America Great Again" red cap on Election Day in the U.S.? No, that's not true: Three online tools concluded that the image was digitally edited with AI. The origina
Full Fact→ Florida Learjet plane crash was real, not faked to cover up a missile strike
False claims that a private jet crash in Florida, which killed nine people, was faked and was actually a missile strike are circulating online.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Paper Thickness NOT Cause Of Westchester County Ballot Scanner Problems — Officials Clarified That Programming Update Caused Issue
Was paper thickness the cause of the Westchester County, New York, ballot scanner problems on election day, Nov. 3, 2026? No, that's not true: Westchester County election officials initially appeared to blame the problem of the voting mac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Image Shows Jeff Bezos After ‘Hair Transplant’ — It Is AI-Altered
Does an image show Amazon founder Jeff Bezos after getting a hair transplant in 2026? No, that's not true: The image appears to be a 2023 photo of Bezos altered with AI, with Hive Moderation rating it 99.9% likely to be AI-generated. Lead
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Pulling Match Between Volkswagen Beetle And Tesla Cybertruck — AI-Generated
Does a real video show a vintage Volkswagen Beetle outpulling a Tesla Cybertruck in a racetrack matchup? No, that's not true: This video contains many signs that it was made with AI. Aside from the unlikely outcome, the crowd in the backg
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fox News Did NOT Call Georgia Senate Race For Stacey Abrams, Who Is Not Running
Did Fox News call the Georgia Senate race for Stacey Abrams on Nov. 3, 2026? No, that's not true: "This is not a real image and did not air on FOX News," a spokesperson for the network told Lead Stories. Abrams is not running for Senate i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Alexandra Dudgeon Was NOT Named as Pilot of Plane That Crashed in Palm Beach County in November 2026
Was Alexandra Dudgeon named as the pilot of the plane that crashed in Palm Beach County, Fla., in November 2026? No, that's not true: Dudgeon said on her LinkedIn account that she was not involved in the accident, and her mother, Cara Mas
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mike Johnson Did NOT Warn Republicans Democrats Will Go After ‘The Rest of You Who Have Committed Crimes’
Did House Speaker Mike Johnson warn Republicans that if they lose the midterm elections that Democrats will go after "the rest of you who have committed crimes"? No, that's not true: Video from the event where he made the remarks shows he
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Make X Post Saying He’s Developing App For ‘Bored Billionaires’ to Pay Other People’s Bills
Did Elon Musk announce on his X account that he is making an app with which "bored billionaires" pay other people's bills? No, that's not true: Musk's account does not show that he ever made such a post. No established news outlets publis
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Old Video Does NOT Show Iranian Attack On U.S. Aircraft Carrier On Nov. 3, 2026 — It’s AI-Generated Clip
Does a viral video show an Iranian attack on a U.S. carrier on Nov. 3, 2026? No, that's not true: The claim recycled an AI video that had been online for months before that day. Lead Stories previously debunked another claim that used the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FBI Did NOT Find More Than 20,000 Fraudulent Ballots in Houston Storage Locker, ‘All For Democrats’
Did the FBI find more than 20,000 fraudulent ballots in a Houston storage locker, "all for Democrats"? No, that's not true: The FBI said, "no election-related operation occurred." The false story originated from social media accounts that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kanye West Did NOT Comment on Situation in Poland Standing Outside Constitutional Court in Warsaw
Did rapper Kanye West share his thoughts on the situation in Poland while being interviewed in front of the country's Constitutional Court by TV Republika? No, that's not true: Neither the website of the TV station nor its YouTube account
FactCheck.org→ The 2026 FactCheck Awards
As fact-checkers, we watch a lot of ads in the lead-up to elections, and we only write about a fraction of them. Some of them are downright bizarre. As we first started doing 20 years ago — just for fun — on Election Day, we’re givin
Full Fact→ Viral video does not show boy being arrested for fishing
Cumbria Police told Full Fact the video shows officers responding to a report of a child in possession of a knife, and the interaction had no connection to fishing. No knife was found and there were no arrests.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bad Bunny Was NOT on Plane That Crashed in South Florida — All 9 Victims Identified
Did the plane that crashed in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Nov. 1, 2026, have Bad Bunny on board? No, that's not true: Lead Stories found no matching reports from established news outlets that Bad Bunny was aboard the Learjet that went dow
Full Fact→ Smear test brushes sterilised with ethylene oxide are safe
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Midterm Election Is NOT On Wednesday — Despite What FBI New Haven Post Said
Is the U.S. Midterm Election held on a Wednesday in 2026, as the official account of the FBI's New Haven branch posted? No, that's not true: According to 2 U.S.C. 7, elections are to be held "the Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in Novem
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Elon Musk’s Helicopter Landing On A Road To Get Food — It’s A Medical Helicopter At The Scene Of An Accident
Does a video show Elon Musk's helicopter blocking traffic on a busy road just to get some food? No, that's not true: The video shows a medical helicopter at the scene of a traffic accident involving a concrete truck which tipped over on i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Sen. Chris Murphy In Hospital After A Stroke — It’s Someone Hospitalized In England
Does an image show Sen. Chris Murphy in the hospital following a stroke? No, that's not true: The account that posted the image describes itself as a parody account, and Lead Stories found no matching reports from established news outlets
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Brazil Did NOT Launch ‘Food Embargo’ On Europe — Its Exports Such As Beef Were Halted In September 2026 By EU Over Antimicrobial Drugs
Did Brazil enact a "food embargo" on Europe? No, that's not true: The website of the Brazilian government said nothing about it. No established media organizations published any reports about it, either: there were only stories related to