Did Major League Soccer or FIFA publicly announce that LGBTQ+ flags will be prohibited at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup? No, that's not true: The rumor originated from websites with satire labels. As of November 20, 2024, Lead Stories foun
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: $1,000 Stimulus Check Was NOT Announced In November 2024
Was it reported in November 2024 that every American was eligible for a $1,000 stimulus check to help combat skyrocketing credit card debt? No, that's not true: The government made no such announcement. An AI detector found substantial ev
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sephora Did NOT Give To Trump’s 2024 Campaign
Was the Sephora company "a huge donor" to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign? No, that's not true: Neither the company nor any Sephora employee donated to the Trump campaign or Trump-favored political action committee, according to OpenSecrets.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Videos On Social Media Through Mid-November 2024 Do NOT Show Liam Payne’s Funeral
Do various videos posted online show the funeral of former One Direction singer Liam Payne? No, that's not true: Payne's funeral hadn't happened when these videos were published in early and mid-November 2024. The footage presented as bei
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Remove Pronouns From X Bio After 2024 Election — It Was Months Earlier
Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, commonly known as AOC, delete her pronouns from her account on X shortly after the 2024 election? No, that's not true: It happened months earlier. According to archived copies of the lawmaker's account,
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – No, President Joe Biden didn’t ‘agree’ to a recount in the 2024 presidential election
“Biden agreed to a recount” in the 2024 presidential election.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Prince Harry’s Son Archie Had NOT Died As Of Mid-November 2024
Did Prince Harry's son Archie die? No, that's not true: There has been no such announcement by the family or in the news media. The social media post implying this leads readers to an article that has nothing to do with Archie. The claim
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Has NOT Announced A Water-Powered Car Engine As Of November 14, 2024
Did Tesla CEO Elon Musk publicly announce plans to introduce a car with a water-powered engine in November 2024? No, that's not true: There is no record that Musk or Tesla formally introduced this concept, such as trustworthy media report
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Name Rep. Lauren Boebert To Be Secretary of Education — Position Open As Of November 14, 2024
Did Donald Trump name Rep. Lauren Boebert to be the next secretary of education? No, that's not true: Trump's pick for the secretary of education position had not yet been announced as of this writing on November 14, 2024. Posts on social
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Announce Tucker Carlson As White House Press Secretary As Of November 14, 2024
Did President-elect Donald Trump name former Fox News host Tucker Carlson as his White House press secretary? No, that's not true: The statement saying Carlson was Trump's pick for the role was fabricated. Trump had not announced his new
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this isn’t a video of a pro-Trump rally in the United Kingdom after Election Day 2024
Video shows a “massive rally in the UK for President Trump” after Election Day 2024.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ghislaine Maxwell Was NOT Dead As Of November 14, 2024
Was Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite associated with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, dead as of November 14, 2024? No, that's not true: She was listed as an inmate at a federal prison at the time of writing. There is no evidence that Maxwel
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Publicly Announce Plans To ‘Officially’ Buy McDonald’s As Of November 13, 2024
Did Elon Musk publicly announce plans to "officially" buy McDonald's in November 2024? No, that's not true: As of this publication, there is no record of Musk having formally announced plans to buy the food company, and McDonald's has not
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Unveil ‘UFO Fighter Jet’ In Mid-November 2024
Did tech billionaire Elon Musk unveil a "UFO fighter jet" named Ethereon in mid-November 2024? No, that's not true: Neither Musk, nor his company SpaceX, nor credible news organizations said anything about the development of such a spacec
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Taylor Swift Did NOT Break Down In Tears On TV After Trump’s 2024 Victory — Video Is From 2012
Did a viral image of Taylor Swift capture her crying "on live television the moment the race was called for President Trump" in November 2024? No, that's not true: The picture was a screenshot of a Swift interview aired 12 years earlier.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Taylor Swift Did NOT Cancel Concerts In States That Went For Trump In 2024
Did Taylor Swift cancel "red state shows" after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 general election? No, that's not true: This first appeared on social media in a post on Facebook with "satire" in the caption. Plus, the Facebook ac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk’s Starlink Did NOT Play Role In Counting Votes In 2024 Election
Did Elon Musk's satellite-based high-speed internet system Starlink play any role in counting or uploading votes in the U.S. election that could have allowed for potential vote manipulation or cheating? No, that's not true: Election secur
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – No, Elon Musk's Starlink wasn’t used to rig the 2024 presidential election for Donald Trump
Elon Musk’s Starlink technology manipulated votes in the 2024 election to benefit Donald Trump.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton Together NOT From November 2024 Post-Election
Does a viral image portray Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton together "after the election results" in 2024? No, that's not true: The image was online before that. Harris' and Clinton's outfits in the picture match what they wore for the N
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy CNN In November 2024
Did Elon Musk buy CNN in November 2024? No, that's not true: A CNN spokesperson told Lead Stories "there is no truth in rumors of a sale or change in ownership of CNN whatsoever." The assertion was made by Argentinian President Javier Mil
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence 2,000+ Suicides Were Reported in US — Or Globally — On November 6, 2024
Were over 2,000 suicides officially reported in the U.S. the day after the 2024 U.S. presidential election? No, that's not true: Lead Stories found no reports confirming that number. The figure widely shared online is more consistent with
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – No, 20 million Democratic votes didn’t 'disappear,' and there's no evidence 2024 election was stolen
20 million Democratic votes “disappeared” in 2024.
PolitiFact→ Dinesh D'Souza – 2024 election results don’t prove 2020 stolen election claims. Voters’ choices can change.
The 2024 election results show that Joe Biden’s 80 million votes in 2020 were a “lie.”
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump poised to win 2024 election for president
Four years after his 2020 defeat, former President Donald Trump declared victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, with the election on the verge of being called in his favor.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show ‘Trump Ballots’ About To Be Destroyed By North Carolina Poll Worker In 2024 — It’s Delivery Of 2020 Ballots
Does an authentic photo show Trump ballots for 2024 about to be destroyed by a poll worker in North Carolina? No, that's not true: The photo used for this post dates back to 2020 in Wallingford, Connecticut, and is not related to ballot d
FactCheck.org→ The 2024 FactCheck Awards
Summary We’ll know soon enough who won the 2024 general elections for president, Congress and other important positions. But we don’t have to wait a second longer to find out this year’s FactCheck Award winners. On Election Day
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Photo of Donald Trump looking toward Melania Trump as they voted in New York is from 2016, not 2024
Photo shows former President Donald Trump voting in the 2024 election in New York.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Crowd At Trump Campaign Rally In Salem, Virginia, In November 2024 — It’s Crowd For Chappell Roan Performance
Does a video on social media show a Trump rally crowd in Salem, Virginia, in November 2024? No, that's not true: The original video is taken from pop-music singer-songwriter Chappell Roan's performance on October 6, 2024, at the Austin Ci
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump has repeated immigration falsehoods throughout the 2024 campaign. Here are the facts
At every 2024 campaign rally, former President Donald Trump repeats a host of false and misleading immigration claims. Here are the facts behind 11 of his most repeated immigration falsehoods.
Full Fact→ Budget 2024: Was Labour’s manifesto clear with voters during the last general election?
The 2024 Autumn Budget has been and gone but the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Labour has faced criticism about how clear they were with voters in their manifesto about tax rises.
PolitiFact→ Don’t fall for these false claims as you await the 2024 election results
It’s common to hear false claims on Election Day, election night and as votes are counted. Here are some things to know so you don’t fall for the falsehoods.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE Joe Rogan Said Between October 25 and November 2, 2024, That ‘He Will Not Be Voting For Trump After Having Him On The Podcast’
Did Joe Rogan say "he will not be voting for Trump after having him on the podcast"? No, that's not true: Lead Stories reviewed Rogan's podcasts and public statements in the days after Donald Trump's appearance. Neither subsequent episode
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Liz Cheney Did NOT Tweet On November 1, 2024 That Trump ‘Is Now Literally Threatening To Have Me Killed’
Did former Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney post on X that Donald Trump "is now literally threatening" to kill her? No, that's not true: That post came from a self-described parody account. It attributed a fake screenshot of another, nonexi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO 180,000 New Amish Voters In Lancaster, Pennsylvania For 2024 General Election
Were 180,000 new Amish voters registered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, for the 2024 general election, with the implication being that these are Republicans? No, that's not true: This figure is "completely false," according to a colle
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pennsylvania’s ABC News Affiliate WNEP-TV Did NOT Air Authentic Results Before 2024 General Election — It Was A Test
Is an ABC News affiliate's airing of apparent Pennsylvania election results that declared Vice President Kamala Harris the winner proof of election interference? No, that's not true: The station, WNEP-TV, already stated online that the di
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: South Korea Did NOT Announce It Will Send Its Troops To Ukraine ‘To Fight’ North Korean Soldiers Supporting Russia, As Of October 30, 2024
Did South Korea announce it will deploy troops in Ukraine to engage in active combat against North Korean troops supporting Russia? No, that's not true: On October 30, 2024, neither U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin nor his South Kor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: James Carville Did NOT Say He Believes Kamala Harris Will Lose 2024 Presidential Election
Did Democratic political consultant James Carville say that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris will lose the 2024 U.S. presidential election? No, that's not true: Carville posted on X that he would donate $100 to the Donald Trump ca
FactCheck.org→ Florida’s 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance Misunderstands, Distorts Existing Science
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. An abundance of evidence indicates the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are remarkably safe and work well to protect against severe disease. But last month, the state of Florida issued update
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Trump Audio Called British Protesters To March On UK’s Parliament In October 2024
Did Donald Trump call British protesters to join a march on the U.K. parliament in October 2024? No, that's not true: A video that purported to have narration by Trump showed signs that it was not authentic, according to several AI detect
Full Fact→ Autumn Budget 2024: fact checked
Join us on Wednesday 30 October for impartial fact checks following Rachel Reeves’ first Budget.