A California lawmaker is trying again to ban some medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children until they are at least 6 years old.
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TruthOrFiction→ Did Twitter Lose $5 Billion in Value After ‘Banning’ Donald Trump?
Twitter’s permanent removal of outgoing United States President Donald Trump on January 8 2021 created extensive discourse and discussions about the limit of speech in the country; among sub-threads was a claim that his favorite social media pl
Liste→ Domestic terrorism bill does not target MAGA rallies
Social media posts say Democrats are trying to pass legislation to classify Make America Great Again rallies as “domestic terrorist activities.” This is false; the “Domestic Terrorism Act,” an effort led jointly by Senator Richard Durbin and Re
Top Fact Checks→ A consortium of 190 countries has booked 2 billion doses of Covaxin.
Covaxin, India's first indigenous COVID vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech, a Biotechnology company, did not receive any pre-booking orders.
Liste→ Controversial Austrian bill does not involve banning Muslims from politics
Facebook posts circulating in Sri Lanka claim Austria has banned Muslims from engaging in politics. This is misleading; although Austrian lawmakers attempted to curb "political Islam" with a bill due to be voted on shortly, the controversial term was
Snopes→ Boeing Will Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle Charge Over 737 Max
Boeing will pay $2.5 billion to settle a Justice Department investigation and admit that employees misled regulators about the safety of its 737 Max aircraft.
Snopes→ Did Bill Gates’ Father ‘Run’ Planned Parenthood and Teach His Son to Spread the ‘Gospel’ of Eugenics?
Conspiratorial social media posts baselessly linked the philanthropist to eugenics.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NOT A New York Bill Intended To Round Up COVID Patients, Put Them In Camps, Or Forcibly Vaccinate, Projected To Pass On January 6
Is there a bill projected to pass on January 6, 2021, that will allow the state of New York to round up COVID patients and put them in camps? No, that's not true: The hype surrounding this bill is not supported by evidence. The New York S
Snopes→ Did 180-Day Countdown to UFO Disclosures Begin With COVID-19 Relief Bill?
The Intelligence Authorization Act included in the same omnibus spending bill as COVID-19 relief called for an unclassified report on UFOs.
Snopes→ Is Bill Gates Funding Efforts To Block The Sun?
Sensationalized headlines mischaracterize the efforts of Harvard's SCoPEx project.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The U.S. Is NOT Giving $700 Billion ‘To Other Countries’
Is the United States giving $700 billion to other countries? No, that's not true: The entire U.S. State Department and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) budget was estimated at about $52.5 billion, or $52,505,402
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The U.S. Is NOT Giving $700 Billion ‘To Other Countries’
Is the United States giving $700 billion to other countries? No, that's not true: The entire U.S. State Department and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) budget was estimated at about $52.5 billion, or $52,505,402
Top Fact Checks→ Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has been missing since October 2020.
Jack Ma has not been seen in public since October. Neither Alibaba nor the Chinese government has made a statement about his whereabouts.
Snopes→ Did a Bill Pass That Lets US Kids Get Vaccinated Without Parental Consent?
Some have advocated for young people to be able to get vaccinated without their parents' knowledge.
Snopes→ In a First, Congress Overrides Trump Veto of Defense Bill
In a New Year's Day session, the Republican-controlled Senate overrode Trump's veto of a defense policy bill.
Snopes→ Bill Legalizing Abortion Passed in Pope’s Native Argentina
Argentina’s Senate passed the law after a marathon 12-hour session, a victory for the women’s movement.
Snopes→ Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch Sold to Billionaire
The 2,700-acre Neverland Ranch property is located in Los Olivos, near Santa Barbara, California.
Snopes→ Trump Vetoes Defense Bill, Setting Up Possible Override Vote
President Donald Trump vetoed the annual defense policy bill, following through on threats to veto a measure that has broad bipartisan support in Congress and potentially setting up the first override vote of his presidency.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Stimulus Bill Does NOT Strip President Trump Of His Insurrection Act Authority
Does the stimulus bill passed December 21, 2020 by Congress strip President Donald J. Trump of his Insurrection Act authority? No, that's not true: The claim is based on a House of Representatives amendment from July 2020 to the National
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Congress Did NOT Give Itself A Pay Raise In The Pandemic Relief/Stimulus Bill
Did the members of Congress give themselves a pay raise as part of the spending bills aimed at stimulating the economy and providing relief to those harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic? No, that's not true: The claim is posted without evidenc
Snopes→ Did 2021 U.S. Defense Bill Nullify the Insurrection Act?
A defense budget bill was surprisingly controversial during the final weeks of 2020.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘New Stimulus Bill’ Does NOT Include Funding For The Smithsonian, Kennedy Center And More — That Funding Is Part Of $1.4 Trillion Government Spending Deal
Does the "new stimulus bill" include funding for the Smithsonian, Kennedy Center and more? No, that's not true: Funds for the Smithsonian and other cultural institutions were not part of the $900 billion COVID stimulus and relief package.
Snopes→ Congress Seals Agreement on $900 Billion COVID Relief Bill
President-elect Joe Biden praised the bipartisan spirit that produced the measure, which he called “just the beginning."
Snopes→ Agreement Likely Sunday on Nearly $1 Trillion Virus Aid Bill
Top Washington negotiators, propelled by a late-night agreement on the last major obstacle to a COVID-19 economic relief package, said a Sunday agreement is all but inevitable to deliver long-overdue pandemic aid of almost $1 trillion.
Snopes→ No ‘Controversial Scene’ Took ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ Off the Air
"The Beverly Hillbillies" remained a popular TV series up to the end, but it drew the wrong type of viewers to carry on.
Snopes→ Has Bill Barr Been Appointed to the Board Of Dominion Voting Systems?
The election services company is one of several businesses that contain the word "Dominion."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Supreme Court Did NOT Signal It Would Reconsider Texas’ Bid To Overturn 2020 Election If Refiled As ‘Bill Of Complaint’
Did the U.S. Supreme Court signal it would reconsider the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, if refiled "with the correct terms"? No, that's not true: Election law experts consulted by Lead Stories agreed
Snopes→ Did Trump Tweet That He Was Pardoning Bill Cosby?
One famous person was not among the many people Trump indicated an intention to pardon.
Snopes→ Senate Sends Trump Defense Bill He Has Vowed to Veto
The Senate has approved a wide-ranging defense policy bill, sending it to President Donald Trump, despite his threat to veto the bill because it does not clamp down on big tech companies he claims were biased during the election.
TruthOrFiction→ Did Schumer and Pelosi ‘Shoot Down’ a COVID Relief Bill and $600 Checks for Americans?
As the global COVID-19 pandemic closed in on its first year, calls in the United States for second stimulus checks mounted in December 2020, the dubious right-wing blog DailyWire.com published an item (“Schumer, Pelosi Shoot Down Trump Covid Rel
Snopes→ Americans Can Pay Their Credit Card Bills, but for How Long?
The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t stopped Americans from keeping up with their credit card payments, thanks in large part to government relief programs passed by Congress in early 2020.
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Does Bill Barr Have Connections to Dominion Voting Systems?
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Snopes→ Did the Military Spend $1 Billion on This ‘New Vehicle’?
The vehicle's front end featured a giant ball, similar to the boulder from "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Snopes→ Pennsylvania Supreme Court Hears Bill Cosby’s Sex Assault Case
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court questioned whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or al
Liste→ Bill Gates was talking about side effects and did not say 700,000 people would be killed or permanently disabled by a Covid-19 vaccine
An article shared thousands of times on Facebook claimed that Microsoft founder Bill Gates said there will be 700,000 “victims” of death or disability from a Covid-19 vaccine. This claim is misleading; in an interview earlier this year, Gates said
Snopes→ Does Billionaire George Soros Own Parler?
The philanthropist has been falsely accused of funding a number of projects over the years.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Administration Did NOT Claim Songwriter Billie Eilish Is ‘Destroying Our Country’ In Leaked Documents
Did the Trump administration state that Billie Eilish, the acclaimed songwriter, is "destroying our country and everything we care about" in leaked documents? No, that is not true. Eilish was the one who said that Trump was ruining the na
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Covid-19 Pandemic Was NOT Planned By Bill Gates And 5G Does NOT Cause It
Was the COVID-19 pandemic pre-planned with help from billionaire Bill Gates and have the illnesses associated with it been spread by 5G technology? No, that's not true: The claims made in the "Covid-19 Genocide of 2020" video are a rehash
TruthOrFiction→ Did Democrats ‘Kill a Bill’ Helping Gold Star Families to Help Immigrants Instead?
A 2019 attack by United States President Donald Trump against Democratic lawmakers in New York state was regurgitated and repurposed online again in 2020 — this time, in order to attack the party on the national level. The issue unfolded in Apri
Liste→ US Democrats did not block bill on tuition for children of vets killed in action
Social media posts claim US Democrats blocked a bill offering college tuition assistance to the children of veterans killed in action. This is false; Democrats did not oppose such a bill, but they did oppose expanding these benefits in New York state,