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AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ International fact-checkers aren’t quite celebrating Zuckerberg’s decision to block Trump

2021-01-08 https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/international-fact-checkers-arent-quite-celebrating-zuckerbergs-decision-to-block-trump/ Go to site post…»

Fact-Checking – Poynter→ International fact-checkers aren’t quite celebrating Zuckerberg’s decision to block Trump

2021-01-07 The minute Mark Zuckerberg announced President Donald Trump’s account had been blocked from the social media platform for an indefinite time, fact-checkers outside the United States shook their heads and began a discussion. Is this policy going to be Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fulton County Did NOT Defy Court Order Against Blocking Credentialed Republican Poll Monitors From Viewing Absentee Ballots In Georgia U.S. Senate Runoff

2021-01-07 Did the Fulton County Board of Elections defy a judge's order to remove barriers that prevented credentialed Republican poll monitors from viewing absentee ballots in the Senate runoff election in Georgia? No, that's not true: In a Januar Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Did Apple Block Directions to US Capitol?

2021-01-07 The theory is belied by the fact that Apple Maps provides directions to Washington, D.C. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Is Bill Gates Funding Efforts To Block The Sun?

2021-01-05 Sensationalized headlines mischaracterize the efforts of Harvard's SCoPEx project. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Senate GOP Blocks Swift Vote on Trump’s $2K Checks

2020-12-29 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked Democrats' push to immediately bring President Donald Trump's demand for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks up for a vote, saying the chamber would “begin a process” to address the issue. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Republicans Block $2,000 Virus Checks Despite Trump Demand

2020-12-24 House Republicans shot down a Democratic bid to pass President Donald Trump's longshot, end-of-session demand for $2,000 direct payments to most Americans as he ponders whether to sign a long-overdue COVID-19 relief bill. Go to site post…»

TruthOrFiction→ Did Michigan State Police Block ‘Republican Electors’ From Entering the Courthouse?

2020-12-14 As the U.S. Electoral College made it official — again — that outgoing United States President Donald Trump had lost his bid for re-election on December 14 2020, footage posted online showed an attempt to overturn the results with a group Go to site post…»

Snopes→ US Supreme Court Asked to Block Biden Win in Pennsylvania

2020-12-02 Republicans attempting to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by the highest court in the battleground state. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ High Court Blocks NY Coronavirus Limits on Houses of Worship

2020-11-26 As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Detroit-Area County Certifies Vote After First Blocking It

2020-11-18 Michigan's largest county reversed course and unanimously certified its presidential election results after Republicans first blocked the move. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Did Mail-in Ballots Secretly Contain Quantum Blockchain Watermarks?

2020-11-13 Don't feel bad if you've never heard of quantum blockchain systems. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Biden Pushes Forward on Transition Despite Trump’s Blocking

2020-11-11 President-elect Joe Biden quietly pushed forward with the business of preparing to become America's next commander in chief, ignoring President Donald Trump's unprecedented push to block his Democratic rival's transition. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Judicial Watch Did NOT Publish Bogus Quantum Blockchain System Recount of Votes Story

2020-11-11 Did Judicial Watch publish a story titled "Quantum Blockchain System Recount of Votes" that claimed with no evidence elite National Guard units were recounting votes in several states? No, that's not true: there is no trace of the article Go to site post…»

Top Fact Checks→ Workers blocked windows and barred Republican observers during absentee ballot counting in Detroit.

2020-11-05 Observers were barred from entering the counting room as both political parties had surpassed the limit of 134 challenges with more than 200 each. Go to site post…»

The Dispatch Fact Check→ Did a Caravan of Trump Supporters Block Access to a Polling Location?

2020-11-04 a.image2.image-link.image2-924-1456 { padding-bottom: 63.46153846153846%; padding-bottom: min(63.46153846153846%, 924px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.image Go to site post…»

Liste→ Photo does not show Trump supporter blocking polling site on Election Day

2020-11-03 As Americans vote on Election Day, a photo purporting to show a supporter of President Donald Trump blocking access to a polling place is circulating online. This is misleading; police said the man in the picture, taken on November 1, 2020, did not sto Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Supporters Are NOT Blocking Access To Polling Stations In Clifton, New Jersey And Doing So Is NOT A ‘Class A’ Felony In The State

2020-11-03 Is this Trump supporter blocking a polling site at City Hall in Clifton, New Jersey, and would doing so be a "Class A Felony"? No, neither claim is true: The voter holding the Trump flag up was not blocking any polling site. And if he wer Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Are Penn. Officials Blocking Observation of Absentee-Ballot Processing?

2020-11-03 "No one is being blocked from anything," according to officials in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ ‘#OperationBlockTheBus’: Inside the Pro-Trump FB Group Where Biden Bus Convoy Was Organized

2020-11-03 Activity in the private Facebook Group included pro-QAnon messages, cheering on the idea to "block" a Biden-Harris campaign bus, and talk of being armed with guns. Go to site post…»

Liste→ US Democrats did not block bill on tuition for children of vets killed in action

2020-10-27 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, Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Twitter CEO Says It Was Wrong to Block Links to Biden Story

2020-10-16 Twitter and Facebook had moved quickly to limit the spread of a story published by the conservative-leaning New York Post, which cited unverified emails from Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son that were reportedly discovered by President Go to site post…»

Hoax-Slayer→ ‘Blocked From Receiving Emails’ Phishing Scam

2020-10-14 According to this email, which claims to be from the "Mail Administrator",  you will be blocked from receiving email within the next 24 hours. The post ‘Blocked From Receiving Emails’ Phishing Scam appeared first on Hoax-Slayer. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Texas Legal Filing To Block Early Voting Offers Little Evidence of ‘Illegal Ballot Harvesting’ Scheme

2020-10-05 The writ, filed by Republicans, accuses Democratic officials of violating the state's election laws. Go to site post…»

TFCN Feature – Poynter→ Fact-check: Did the White House block access to face masks in April 2020?

2020-10-02 The post Fact-check: Did the White House block access to face masks in April 2020? appeared first on Poynter. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nevada Did NOT ‘Quietly Reverse’ Its Decision To ‘Block’ Hydroxychloroquine Prescriptions For COVID-19

2020-09-21 Did Nevada 'quietly reverse' its decision to 'block' hydroxychloroquine prescriptions for COVID-19? No, that's not true: The emergency regulation simply expired. Also, although the order did put some limits on hydroxychloroquine, it did n Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Ohio Limit of 1 Ballot Drop Box Per County Blocked, Appealed

2020-09-18 An Ohio judge has temporarily blocked the Republican secretary of state’s order limiting counties to one ballot drop box, and both the state and the Republican Party have appealed. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Protesters Did NOT Block Hospital Entrance Before Arrival Of Ambulances Transporting Wounded Officers

2020-09-15 Did protesters block the entrance to Saint Francis Medical Center before the arrival of ambulances transporting the two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies who had been shot in Compton on the evening of September 12, 2020? No, that's no Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show A ‘Fire Drone’ And Has NOT Been Blocked By Social Media Platforms

2020-09-15 Did Twitter, Google and YouTube block users from seeing video of an aerial flame-thrower starting wildland fires? No, that's not true: the video has been available on several social media feeds since Aug. 21, 2020. Also, the video shows a Go to site post…»

Top Fact Checks→ Judge grants Trump campaign’s request to block thousands of Iowa absentee ballot requests.

2020-09-01 A state judge in Iowa county ordered to invalidate more than 50000 applications for absentee ballots because of problems with the original forms. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Trump Admits He’s Blocking Postal Cash to Stop Mail-In Votes

2020-08-14 President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged that he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Lawsuit: Trump Still Blocks Twitter Critics After Court Loss

2020-08-01 An organization that successfully proved President Donald Trump violated the law when he blocked Twitter critics has sued him anew, saying he continues to reject some accounts two years after losing in court. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Is Trump Blocking COVID-19 Aid in Favor of Tax Cuts That Would Drain Social Security?

2020-07-28 It wasn't the first time the president pushed to add the payroll tax cut to a coronavirus relief package. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Why Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Don’t Block SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Human Lung Cells

2020-07-23 HQC can block the coronavirus from infecting kidney cells from the African green monkey. But it does not inhibit the virus in human lung cells – the primary site of infection for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Trump’s ‘Strong Wall’ to Block COVID-19 from China Had Holes

2020-07-04 Nearly 8,000 Chinese nationals and foreign residents of Hong Kong and Macao entered the U.S. on more than 600 commercial and private flights in the first three months after the travel "ban" was imposed. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ 2 Dead, 7 Wounded in Shooting at Charlotte Block Party

2020-06-22 Two people were killed and seven others were wounded when multiple people fired into a crowd at an impromptu celebration in North Carolina. Go to site post…»

TruthOrFiction→ ‘A Post from Many Other Truckers’ on Protests Blocking Roads

2020-06-03 On May 31 2020, an open letter was shared by the Facebook page “Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children” (archived here), purportedly speaking for all or most American truckers in the midst of ongoing protests in all fifty states:   W Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: You CANNOT Legally Hit A Protester If They’re Blocking A Road

2020-06-03 Can you legally hit a protester if they're blocking a road? No, that's not true: While some states considered legislation to provide legal protection in some cases when a driver hits a protester on a road, the proposals did not pass. A screens Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Man Blocks Black Delivery Driver in an Oklahoma Neighborhood

2020-05-14 A black delivery driver says he was overcome with emotion while recording himself and a black co-worker being blocked into a gated Oklahoma City neighborhood for more than an hour by a white resident who demanded to know why they were there. Go to site post…»

Snopes→ White House Blocking Fauci Testimony, Panel Spokesman Says

2020-05-01 A spokesman for a key House panel said that the White House has blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying at a hearing on the coronavirus outbreak. Go to site post…»

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