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PolitiFact→ Bernie Sanders – Do CEOs today earn 400 times more than their typical workers, as Bernie Sanders said?
“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Eglin Air Force Base Is NOT Making COVID-19 Testing, Boosters or Masking Mandatory After Labor Day 2023
Did Eglin Air Force Base make masks, COVID-19 testing, and booster shots mandatory after Labor Day 2023? No, that's not true: In a brief statement, the deputy chief of media operations with the Department of the Air Force at the Pentagon
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Will NOT Start Charging $4.99 A Month ‘On Monday’ — As Of September 14, 2023, Basic Access To The Platform Remains Free
Did Facebook or its parent company Meta announce a plan to charge all of the platform's users $4.99 a month for access? Will copying and pasting a post about the change allow people to "opt out" or "bypass the system"? No, none of that is
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Brazil’s Independence Day In 2023
Does a collage from social media prove that nobody showed up to celebrate Brazil's Independence Day in the country's capital in 2023? No, that's not true: The composite image shared on social media does not contain any photos from 2023. T
Logically→ Donald Rumsfeld didn’t report $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentagon the day before 9/11
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Joe Biden visited Ground Zero nine days after 9/11, not ‘the next day’
“Ground Zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day.”
FactCheck.org→ Biden Wrongly Claims to Have Visited New York City a Day After 9/11
Speaking at a military base in Alaska on the anniversary of 9/11, President Joe Biden wrongly said that he visited ground zero in New York City the day after the attack. Biden first visited the site nine days after terrorists flew planes into the twin
Logically→ Edited image passed off as police arrests 30 days after Maui fires
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: BBC Video Does NOT Prove 9/11 WTC 7 Conspiracy — A Reporting Error On A Chaotic, Confusing Day Was Corrected ASAP
Does a BBC report from September 11, 2001, saying World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) fell more than 20 minutes before it actually did prove a conspiracy? No, that's not true: There's no evidence of a WTC 7 conspiracy. The discrepancy i
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, the US government didn’t ‘mysteriously lose’ trillions of dollars the day before 9/11
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ From farming to doomsday prepping: How one YouTube channel changed to fuel misinformation
A YouTube channel with a rapidly growing audience regularly publishes misleading videos that stoke people’s fear of disaster. Experts say this content goes viral because it elicits an emotional response from viewers.
Logically→ Video shows NYC’s Union Square in disarray after messy giveaway, not everyday scenes
Logically→ Video of burqa-clad officer at Independence Day celebrations shared as from Karnataka
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff From the Dog Days of Summer
Plus, why are schools going remote, and what the heck was Vivek Ramaswamy suggesting?
Full Fact→ A patient did not wait in A&E for 36 days
FOI information obtained by Labour contained errors, which made it appear that a patient had waited continuously in A&E when in fact they left the hospital and returned the following month.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Millions weren’t ‘under emergency travel restrictions’ on air quality alert days
“We have over a million people right now that are under emergency travel restrictions … and this is due to poison being released into the air.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Single Man In China Splitting Up Seats In Movie Theater On Valentine’s Day
Does an image show a single man in China breaking up couples' seating arrangements in a movie theater on Valentine's Day? No, there's no evidence of that: The image actually shows the reopening of a movie theater in Beijing amid the coron
Full Fact→ The government is spending £6 million a day on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers
Lee Anderson appeared to suggest the government is spending £7 million a day on hotels for asylum seekers.
Logically→ Old protest video shared as Baloch people ‘celebrating’ Pakistan’s Independence Day
The Dispatch→ It’s Republican Debate Day in America
Plus: Democrats discuss their voter turnout strategy for 2024.
PolitiFact→ Happy 16th birthday, PolitiFact! Here's how we're covering the 2024 election
At 16, PolitiFact is proud of our history and how we've grown
PolitiFact→ Was Trump indicted for everyday actions, as allies claimed? Not according to Georgia indictment
Trump-aligned pundits have taken to social media to say Georgia defendants were indicted for everyday actions such as tweeting about watching TV or asking for a phone number. This ignores the full context of their actions; prosecutors say these are par
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Periods Longer Than Three Days ARE Normal
Is it true that menstrual cycles, or periods, lasting longer than three days are abnormal? No, that's not true: There is no scientific evidence that a period lasting longer than three days is not normal. Two gynecologists and an expert on
The Dispatch→ Judgment Day
Not just for Donald Trump, but for the Republican Party as a whole.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ ‘Barbie’ is a hit. But it didn’t make more money in a day than Ron DeSantis has ever raised
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Truth or Fiction?→ Sinéad O’Connor’s Saturday Night Live Rehearsal
Sinead O’Connor had a short but storied life. When the Irish musician and performer (who since 2018 had called herself Shuhada’ Sadaqat after converting to Islam) — died on July 26 2023, her groundbreaking Saturday Night Live per
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Hell of a school day: Photos don’t show kids in a satanic club. They were made with AI
Photos show children wearing satanic clothing and participating in a satanic club.
Logically→ Rule to prohibit mid-day meal cooks from wearing bangles laid down by centre, not Karnataka
The Dispatch→ The 18 Days That Will Decide the GOP Nomination
Mark your calendars for February 2024.
Truth or Fiction?→ When Fats Waller Was ‘Kidnapped’ for Al Capone’s Birthday
On July 11 2023, a meme about jazz pianist Thomas “Fats” Waller attending a birthday party for crime boss Al Capone was popular on Imgur: The post (“Imagine being such a talented musician that the mafia kidnaps you to perform at a b
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Fourth of July video featuring Hunter Biden wasn’t taken same day cocaine discovered at White House
Video of Hunter Biden at the White House was taken on the “same day they found cocaine.”
Truth or Fiction?→ Amazon ‘Prime Day’ Price Controversy
As the heavily promoted Amazon Prime Day (although the annual sitewide sale actually lasts for 48 hours) rolled around again on July 11 2023, a Reddit account’s post about misleading prices received heavy attention on the popular subreddit r/mild
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Good Enough to Be True: Man’s 100th birthday dog parade draws 200 canine friends
More than “200 dogs showed up and lined up around the block” for a man’s 100th birthday celebration.
Truth or Fiction?→ U.S. Navy Twitter Account Features Russian Ship on Independence Day Post
The U.S. Pacific Fleet — which calls itself the largest naval force of its type in the world — tweeted, then deleted a tweet marking the July 4th Independence Day holiday after a researcher pointed out that it used a photo depicting Russian
The Dispatch→ Happy Birthday, America
A sledgehammer to the soapbox.
Full Fact→ A grapefruit a day is no substitute for blood pressure medicine
A Facebook post claims eating one grapefruit a day can replace high blood pressure medication. While the fruit might contribute to a healthy diet, it’s much less effective than conventional drugs.
Logically→ No, new Congress government in Karnataka didn’t just add eggs to midday meals
Full Fact→ Post comparing the UK today to 2010 has a number of errors
A Facebook post lists 53 claims that compare the UK today to 2010. Several of the comparisons we looked at were incorrect or misleading.
Logically→ The newly-elected Congress government did not introduce eggs in midday meals in Karnataka