Was a woman decapitated in Scandicci, Italy, in June 2026? No, that's not true: The case is not that recent. Italian media widely reported that both the murder and the arrest of the suspect happened in February 2026. The claim appeared in
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PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump wrong about rarity of Republicans winning in Nassau County, NY
“No Republican wins in Nassau.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.K. Prime Minister Starmer Did NOT Say He Will ‘Arrest Elon Musk And 336 Million Americans’
Did U.K.'s Prime Minister Keir Starmer publicly threaten to arrest X owner Elon Musk along with other "336 million Americans"? No, that's not true: Lead Stories reviewed Starmer's public comments about Musk and did not find anything remot
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Masked, Armed Anti-Immigrant ‘New Republican Movement’ Responding To Belfast Knife Attack In June 2026
Does a video show masked, armed members of the anti-immigrant "New Republican Movement" responding to a Belfast, Northern Ireland, knife attack in early June 2026? No, that's not true: The footage is from that group, but the video is from
PolitiFact→ X posts – Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman didn’t concede the race as of June 7
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman had conceded the race as of June 7.
FactCheck.org→ Ohio Senate Candidates Spar Over Donations Tied, Loosely or Not, to Epstein
Ohio voters are witnessing a battle of campaign television ads as each Senate candidate tries to tie the other to Jeffrey Epstein — by way of donations from those with some link to the late convicted sex offender. Democrat Sherrod Brown&
PolitiFact→ A clinical trial shows a pill almost doubled survival for pancreatic cancer patients. Now what?
Pill shows promise for treating pancreatic cancer. Now what?
PolitiFact→ John Kagia – Do New Yorkers consume cannabis and coffee at equal rates?
"The number of New Yorkers who consume cannabis daily or near daily is the same as the number of New Yorkers who buy coffee from a coffee shop daily or near daily — 1.2-plus million people."
Full Fact→ Melanoma is not the ‘most common cancer globally’
Articles published in the i paper and the Guardian wrongly claim that melanoma skin cancer is the most common cancer globally.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Illegal Cutout Windows’ In Maricopa County Ballot Envelopes Used To Easily Identify Republican Ballots For Election-Fraud Purposes
Does a video show "illegal cutout windows" in Maricopa County, Arizona, ballot envelopes in order to make it easy to identify Republican ballots for election-fraud purposes? No, that's not true: The window in the outgoing enveloppes is th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: James Woods Did Not Call President Trump The ‘Most Treacherous And Truly Worthless Republican Leader In The History Of The Party’ — He Was Referring To Senate Majority Leader John Thune
Did actor James Woods call President Donald Trump the "most treacherous and truly worthless Republican leader in the history of the party" in May 2026? No, that's not true: The quote never mentions Trump. King's caption adds that context
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Man In Video Saying He Would Cast Unclaimed Ballots For Spencer Pratt For Los Angeles Mayor Can’t — NOT LA Ballots
Could a man who claimed in a viral video that he had a stack of unclaimed ballots mailed to voters who had moved use them to vote for Spencer Pratt for mayor of Los Angeles as he claimed? No, that's not true: The ballots appeared to be fo
PolitiFact→ Trump's old taxes can't be audited as part of IRS deal. That's unprecedented — and hard to reverse
Can a ‘forever’ bar on auditing Trump be reversed?
PolitiFact→ Trump said Americans' finances don't motivate him in Iran talks. How are people doing economically?
How are Americans faring economically under Trump?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Posts Saying Your Favorite Celeb Publicly Claimed ‘Pro-Israel American Billionaires’ Are Working To Undermine Their Career Are NOT Real — Spam From Vietnam
Are social media posts claiming that a long list of celebrities have each said "powerful pro-Israel American billionaires" are working to undermine their careers real? No, that's not true: None of the celebrities named in the posts made a
FactCheck.org→ Republicans Repeat Problematic Estimate of Medication Abortion Harms
In the midst of a court battle over whether to continue to allow access by mail to the medication abortion pill mifepristone, Republican lawmakers have claimed that 10% or more of women who take the drug have serious side effects.
Full Fact→ No, Reform UK did not field a ‘fake’ candidate in Norfolk
Claims that one of Reform UK’s newly elected councillors in Norfolk, George Boyd, doesn’t actually exist have been circulating online. They are completely false.
Full Fact→ Revealed: what the Scottish and Welsh election candidates talked about on social media
Our AI-assisted analysis of over 19,000 posts shows that the economy was the topic most commonly discussed, with health not far behind.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John Fetterman Did NOT Switch To The Republican Party Saying ‘I’m Never Gonna Be A Communist Who Believes Men Should Use The Girls’ Bathroom’ — It Is Satire
Did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania switch to the Republican Party, saying, "I'm never gonna be a communist who believes men should use the girls' bathroom"? No, that's not true: The story originated on a Facebook page know
PolitiFact→ Realities of life on GLP-1s for weight loss: What doctors say you can expect
Realities of life on GLP-1s for weight loss
PolitiFact→ Marcy Kaptur – Are Republicans seeking $1 billion in taxpayer money to pay for Trump’s White House ballroom?
Republicans “want you to pay $1 Billion for a ballroom.”
PolitiFact→ Liz Krueger – Proposed data centers in New York would use significant energy, but not double households’ use
Proposed data centers in New York state would use “approximately double the energy usage of all households in the state combined.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CBC News Did NOT Publish Poll Saying ‘89% Of Canadians Blame Donald Trump’ For Canada’s Economy — AI Image From Satire Site
Does a viral image show a real Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news report about a poll showing "89% of Canadians believe Donald Trump is to blame for Canada's struggling economy"? No, that's not true: The picture was first published by
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bruce Springsteen’s Summer Tour Was NOT Canceled Over His Politics And Lack Of Ticket Sales
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Posts Saying You Can Stand Where Three States Meet Use FAKE Photos — Spam From Bangladesh
Are Facebook posts claiming to show "a simple stone marker" where three U.S. states converge real? No, that's not true: These images and text, which do not reflect real geography, are clickbait posts made with artificial intelligence tool
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Post An Image Of Himself Helping Lady Liberty Give Birth To A Mini-Trump Wrapped In An American Flag
Did Donald Trump post an image of himself helping Lady Liberty give birth to a mini-Trump wrapped in an American flag? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Trump posted the image on his Truth Social account. The image has a wate
PolitiFact→ The US government didn’t legalize marijuana: 4 cannabis misconceptions explained
4 marijuana misconceptions explained
PolitiFact→ Bernie Sanders – Bernie Sanders said the GOP bill removed 15 million Americans from healthcare. That’s premature.
“As a result of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' 15 million Americans have been thrown off the healthcare that they need."
PolitiFact→ Ron DeSantis – Florida redistricting: DeSantis overstates voters’ shift from Democrats to Republicans
Since the 2020 census, Florida has "moved from a Democrat majority to a 1.5 million Republican advantage."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Discuss Real-Life Media Scandal Involving Supposed BBC Host ‘James Whitmore’ Mocking His Filipino Guest
Does a viral video on YouTube discuss a real-life scandal involving BBC host "James Whitmore" mocking Filipino Doctor "Elena Reyes" for her accent? No, that's not true: The story was made up by AI. Multiple online tools detected AI across
PolitiFact→ DeSantis said Florida’s drought could bring a quieter hurricane season. Is that true?
What Florida’s drought means for hurricane season
Full Fact→ No evidence for online claims Reform edited its Harrow candidate announcement after ‘backlash’
Dr Savitha Prakash says an image circulating on social media of her wearing a headscarf is fake, and that neither she nor Reform UK ever published it.
Full Fact→ Glasgow candidate’s ‘illustrative’ AI campaign videos don’t show real events
An independent Scottish Parliament candidate has shared two videos on Facebook with AI-generated scenes of him speaking to voters and visiting a school and hospital.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Donald Trump Truth Social Post Claims Israel Is ‘A Far More Important Ally Than The American People’
Did President Donald Trump say Israel is "a far more important ally than the American people"? No, that is not true: The supposed post does not appear on the president's official Truth Social account, and there are no reliable reports tha
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post That He Had Access To ‘Vatican Files’ And Could Bring Down ‘The Entire Catholic Church Overnight’ — Fake Post
Did Donald Trump post on Truth Social that he has access to "the Vatican files", boasting he could "bring down the Papacy, the Vatican and the entire Catholic Church overnight"? No, that's not true: This is a fake post that never appeared
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Urge His Catholic Supporters To Start A ‘MAGA Reformation’ And Form A New ‘American Catholicism’
Did President Donald Trump urge his Catholic supporters to start a "MAGA Reformation" and form a new "American Catholicism"? No, that's not true: The account that started a rumor describes itself as satire. No news organizations reported
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pope Did NOT Say ‘Iran Can Have A Nuclear Weapon’ — He Has Argued Against Nuclear Weapons
Did Pope Leo XIV say, "Iran can have a nuclear weapon," as President Donald Trump suggested on the White House lawn in April 2026? No, that's not true: The pope has repeatedly argued against war and denounced nuclear weapons. In March 202
PolitiFact→ You can’t get vaccinated from food. But here’s how plant science is helping vaccine research
The truth behind ‘edible vaccines’
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Preprint Claiming 84.4% ‘Clinical Benefit’ of Ivermectin, Mebendazole In Cancer Treatment Is NOT A Proper Clinical Trial
Is a paper by Dr. Drew Pinsky, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Harvey Risch, and nine others claiming that ivermectin and mebendazole improve cancer outcomes in 84.4% of cases a proper medical study? No, that's not true: Research experts told L
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Saudi Minister Did NOT Say ‘How Can Trump Protect Us When He Cannot Even Protect His Own Country’ — Quote Was Fabricated In Transcript
Does a real video show the Saudi foreign minister stating that "the era of relying on the US has ended"? No, that's not true: According to three translation tools, the caption fabricated the content of the video it claimed to summarize. I