Does a video on social media show NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg faking a visit to the International Space Station (ISS) in front of a green screen? No, that's not true: In the original version of the clip, the narrator never identifies the
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The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Silicon Valley Bank Donate More Than $73 Million to Black Lives Matter?
A Silicon Valley Bank logo in Tempe, Arizona, on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/AFP/Getty Images) Claims are circulating online that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) donated more than $73 million to the Black Lives Matter nonprofit organization befo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photos Of John Fetterman Do NOT Show Evidence That He Has Been Replaced By Body Double
Do recently released photos show some inexplicable changes to John Fetterman's appearance -- evidence that a clone has been substituted for the real senator from Pennsylvania? No, that's not true: Fetterman has been out of the public eye
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Alvin Bragg didn’t say he would drop charges against Donald Trump; this video’s a deepfake
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that his office “has decided to drop all charges against Donald Trump.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, this photo doesn’t show a John Fetterman body double. Here’s why.
Photo shows Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has a body double.
PolitiFact→ US versus China: Which nation is doing more to address climate change?
Polls and U.S. politicians say China isn’t doing its fair share to combat climate change. Here’s how efforts by the U.S. and China, the world’s largest CO2 emitters, compare.
The Dispatch→ Will Donald Trump’s Attacks Sink Ron DeSantis?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to Iowa voters on March 10, 2023. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Plus: Two Democratic visions for Chicago’s future meet in next week’s mayoral runoff. Continue reading Will Donald Trump’s Attacks Sink Ron De
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff on Donald Trump, Joe Exotic, and the Xi-Putin Summit
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on March 4, 2023, in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Plus: Deepfakes are here and it’s going to get crazy.Continue reading Our Best Stuff on Donald Trump, Joe E
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: These Photos Do NOT Disprove Rising Sea Levels In New York Between 1898 And 2017
Do the photos in a post that purportedly depict the Statue of Liberty in 1898 and 2017 prove that sea levels aren't rising? No, that's not true: Without detailed information about tides and sea conditions at the moment each photo was take
Truth or Fiction?→ Donald Trump Holds Rally in Waco, 30 Years After Waco Siege
On March 24 2023, an Imgur account shared a tweet about former United States President Donald Trump staging a rally in Waco, Texas, from his niece Mary Trump: Donald has a rally in Waco this Saturday [March 25 2023]. It’s a ploy to remind his cu
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Photos of Donald Trump Being Arrested Are Fake
Images are circulating online that purport to show the arrest of former President Donald Trump by New York police officers. The images are not authentic. They were produced using Midjourney, an artificial text-to-image generator that has the capacity
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump exaggerates Manhattan crime levels in attacks on DA in Stormy Daniels case
Violent crime in Manhattan is "now at a record level."
Full Fact→ Photo doesn’t show police finding six skeletons in Wales
A Facebook post falsely claims that at least six skeletons have been found by police in Wales.
Full Fact→ Photo doesn’t show interior of ‘chemtrail plane’
Posts claiming that a photo shows the inside of a “chemtrail plane” have circulated online for many years. It’s actually a system for fighting forest fires.
Full Fact→ The government doesn’t spend £17 million a year subsidising food in Parliament
Thousands of people have shared a claim about cheap food in the House of Commons on social media.
The Dispatch→ McCaul Pushes for State Department’s Afghanistan Docs
Rep. Michael McCaul speaks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Plus: A researcher calls for Congress to sanction Xi Jinping.Continue reading Mc
AllSides→ Does School Book on Anal Sex, Masturbation Target 5-Year-Olds?
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Logically→ Phones in U.K. will only work at a limited capacity if users don’t reply to the emergency text alert on April 23.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pfizer Documents Do NOT Prove COVID Vaccines Contain Graphene Oxide
Do Pfizer documents show that the company's COVID-19 vaccines contain graphene oxide? No, that's not true: The section of the document in question describes a procedure for analyzing a protein sample from the virus under a sophisticated m
Poynter→ Tips for detecting doctored or out-of-context videos
False or misleading videos pop up a lot of ways online, like this one where an Instagram user posted a video of a woman revealing a hidden trap door leading […]
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Donald Trump and the January 6 Prison Choir Top the Billboard Hot 100?
Former President Donald Trump. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for The Washington Post via Getty Images) A March 21 article by The Gateway Pundit claimed that the song “Justice For All,” which features the January 6 Prison Choir and former President Donald Tru
Logically→ Photographs taken in Ukraine prove Vladimir Putin is deploying body doubles.
Poynter→ Claims that Silicon Valley Bank donated $73 million to Black Lives Matter are unsupported
Newsmax, Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters suggested without evidence that 'woke' investments contributed to the bank's collapse.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Corn Flakes Were NOT Created To ‘Kill The Libido’ Of Health Resort Patients
Were Corn Flakes, the cereal product that launched the Kellogg Company, invented to "kill the libido" of patients at a health resort? No, that's not true: Several versions of the Kellogg Company's website attribute the creation of the cer
FactCheck.org→ Diversity Programs Supported by SVB Wrongly Labeled as Donations to BLM
Quick Take A database that claims to show corporate contributions to the “BLM Movement & Related Causes” doesn’t show any contributions from Silicon Valley Bank to Black Lives Matter. But some conservative commenta
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: What Did Ron DeSantis Say About Donald Trump’s Potential Extradition?
Ron DeSantis. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Contradictory claims are circulating online regarding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ stated position on the potential indictment, arrest, and extradition of former President Donald Trump, a
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Claim that Silicon Valley Bank donated $73 million to Black Lives Matter is unsupported
Silicon Valley Bank “donated $73M to 'BLM Movement'”
Poynter→ Do rising fentanyl seizures at the border signal better detection or more drugs?
Experts say seizure data can definitively tell us only how many drugs were stopped from entering the US. Any other information is theoretical.
The Dispatch→ The (Possible) Charges Against Donald Trump, Explained
Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in March 2023. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)The Manhattan district attorney’s case likely would rely on tenuous legal reasoning. Continue reading The (Possible) Char
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about his possible arrest don’t include this one
Former President Donald Trump said “any indictment of me is an indictment of you.”
PolitiFact→ How Bill Clinton’s settlement with Paula Jones differs from Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels payment
Some are comparing Bill Clinton’s payment to Paula Jones with Trump’s payoff to Stormy Daniels, but there are key differences. Clinton paid Jones to settle a public lawsuit after being elected. Trump secretly paid Daniels before the 2016 election.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Donald Trump is a former U.S. president, not the current commander in chief
Former President Donald Trump is the “current sitting” commander in chief.
PolitiFact→ Timeline: What Donald Trump has said about Stormy Daniels and $130,000 payment
Trump has repeatedly denied an affair with Stormy Daniels and attacked his former lawyer Michael Cohen. Trump has also attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. We trace his explanations in a timeline.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: DirecTV Did NOT Announce It ‘Will Drop ABC, If They Don’t Cancel "The View"’
Did DirecTV, an American video programming distributor, say it "will drop ABC" if the TV channel continues to broadcast "The View," a talk show originally created by Barbara Walters and, of this writing, co-hosted by Whoopi Goldberg? No,
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Fake statement attributed to Donald Trump about Kevin McCarthy emerges amid flurry of arrest posts
Former President Donald Trump issued a statement threatening to leak “interesting videos” of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Donald Trump Claim That He Will Be Arrested?
Donald Trump. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images.) Claims are circulating online that former President Donald Trump has predicted his own arrest. These claims are true; Trump has indeed predicted via social media posts published on March 18 that he wo
Logically→ The U.K.’s digital identity program wants to destroy individual freedom and liberty.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Previously Censored Video’ Does NOT Show Antifa Members Dressing As Trump Supporters In Washington On January 6, 2021 — And Video Was NOT Censored
Does a "previously censored video" show antifa members dressing up as supporters of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021? No, that's not true: The video found on social media was not censored before and features a short cl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Genetically Modified Mosquito With Number Stamped On It
Does a video on social media show a genetically modified (GM) mosquito with a number stamped on it? No, that's not true: An insect expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the bug shown in the video "does not appear to be a mosq
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo doesn’t show Magic Johnson donating blood
Photo shows Magic Johnson donating blood “to help underprivileged communities help fight COVID-19.”