Does a 2025 poll say Germans think President Donald Trump is the greatest threat to world peace just weeks after taking office? No, that's not true: The poll being circulated in February 2025 was actually conducted in 2019, toward the end
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The Dispatch→ Democrats Are Down Bad
Practical progressives.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: January 6 Insurrectionist Did NOT Accidentally Burn Down His House While Torching Daughter’s Taylor Swift Merch — Satire Post
Did a January 6 "insurrectionist" who had been pardoned by President Donald Trump accidentally burn down his own house during the Super Bowl after he lit a pile of his teen daughter's Taylor Swift shirts on fire? No, that's not true: This
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum didn’t say this to Donald Trump about a border wall
Says Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told President Donald Trump, “They will beg us to tear down this ugly wall.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Post Does NOT Show Real CNN Video Of Yale Professors Protesting Student Use Of AI
Did a video on TikTok show an authentic CNN report on Yale University professors going on strike over student use of AI in classrooms? No, that's not true: There was no evidence at the time of writing on CNN.com or any other reputable med
Full Fact→ Just under 50% of London’s social housing occupied by those born outside the UK
Posts circulating on social media claim 76% of London’s social housing is used to house ‘foreign nationals’, but this isn’t representative of the entire city.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Sinkhole In Paris — AI Generated
Does a video being spread on social media show a real sinkhole that opened up in Paris? No, that's not true: The video originated on the Instagram account of an "AI video expert" and several details in the video reveal it is not real. A d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Melania Trump At 2025 Super Bowl
Does a video show President Donald Trump and Melania Trump walking out onto the field of Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on February 9, 2025? No, that's not true: Melania Trump was not at the 2025 Super Bowl. The video showing the two walki
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this isn’t footage of fans booing Donald Trump at the 2025 Super Bowl
Video shows President Donald Trump was “booed at the Super Bowl.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, Warren didn't say citizens don’t have the right to know what the government spends money on
Says U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said, “There is nothing in the Constitution that says ordinary citizens have a right to see what we spend our tax dollars on.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this isn’t a photo of someone giving President Donald Trump the finger at the 2025 Super Bowl
Photo shows someone raising two middle fingers at President Donald Trump at the 2025 Super Bowl.
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – No, Donald Trump did not post that Chiefs lost Super Bowl because of ‘DEI nonsense’
President Donald Trump posted that “the Chiefs’ Super Bowl performance was a disaster” and “too focused on DEI nonsense.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Unedited Kamala Harris interview on ‘60 Minutes’ doesn’t show host confronting Harris about lying
A ‘60 Minutes’ clip shows Kamala Harris lying while cameras roll. “
The Dispatch→ Nuking the Overton Window on Gaza
Trump plan weighs annihilation fantasies against prosperity.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Reporter Katherine Long Who Broke DOGE Employee Resignation Story Did NOT Work For USAID When Article Was Published
Did Katherine Long, the reporter who broke a news story about the resignation of a DOGE employee work for USAID when the story was published in February 2025? No, that's not true: The reporter in question was previously employed by an org
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Anderson Cooper Did NOT Endorse Supposed Elon Musk ‘Crypto Trading Secrets’
Did CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper appear on Canada's CBC News to endorse a set of "crypto trading secrets" supposedly launched by Elon Musk? No, that's not true: A CNN spokesperson told Lead Stories that a video which appeared to show t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Man Flipping Off Trump During 2025 Super Bowl — It Was Taken In 2023
Does a photo on social media show a man flipping off President Donald Trump during the 2025 Super Bowl game? No, that's not true: Lead Stories found evidence of the photo being posted online since 2023. Social media posts of the photo ind
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Edited Video Captioned ‘Boo The Bastard’ Does NOT Show Trump Being Booed At 2025 Super Bowl — Old Video, Audio Added
Did a video captioned "BOO THE BASTARD" authentically show President Donald Trump being booed at the Super Bowl in 2025? No, that's not true: The video was uploaded to TikTok days before the 2025 Super Bowl with a caption encouraging view
PolitiFact→ Fact-check: President Donald Trump’s Super Bowl LIX interview with Fox’s Bret Baier
In an interview that aired during the Super Bowl pregame coverage, Trump misled about the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and alluded to a list of “ridiculous” spending by USAID. We fact-checked the president’s comments.
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff From the DOGE Days of Winter
Elon Musk takes Washington.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Elizabeth Warren Quote About Constitutional Right to See What Happens With Tax Dollars Is Real
Is there evidence Senator Elizabeth Warren said "There is nothing in the constitution that says ordinary Americans have a right to see what we're spending tax dollars on." on January 30, 2025? No, that's not true: A review of news sites,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show USAID Money Found At Zelenskyy’s House — Shows 2007 Mexico Drug Bust
Does a photo of stacks of banknotes sitting in a room or basement show USAID money found in the house of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? No, that's not true: The photo has been online since 2007 and shows money discovered in a dr
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump claimed ‘60 Minutes’ replaced Harris’ interview answers. That’s not what the transcript shows.
CBS News and “60 Minutes” “replaced” former Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview answers “with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – You need to calm down. Taylor Swift has not been banned from attending this year’s Super Bowl
“Breaking news: Taylor Swift officially banned from Super Bowl 2025.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, USAID didn’t pay Hollywood actors millions of dollars to visit Ukraine
An E! News report said USAID paid millions of dollars to sponsor American celebrity visits to Ukraine.
PolitiFact→ Do Elon Musk and DOGE have power to cut spending, close agencies?
Is the Department of Government Efficiency a real government agency? Can it cut spending and close agencies? Legal experts told us they see little constitutional or legal support for the idea that the executive branch can act alone to overturn what Con
The Dispatch→ Bluffing with Bravado
‘America’s great now, thank you.’
The Dispatch→ The DOGE Hoax
An ideological project disguised as a fiscal one.
The Dispatch→ Leaving Free Trade Orthodoxy Behind
Whether or not a tariff war erupts, the global trading order is changing.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Did Donald Trump say Mexicans call him ‘peachy, cool arrow’? No, this clip is altered
Video shows President Donald Trump saying Mexicans call him “peachy cool arrow.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Graph Does NOT Show Chelsea Clinton ‘Taking Home $84 Million’ — Label Says Clinton Foundation ‘Gross Receipts’
Does a graph show Chelsea Clinton "taking home $84 million" as some social media posts claim? No, that's not true: The graph originated on a website named datarepublican.com. The amount was labeled as the "Gross receipts" of the "Bill Hil
New York Times→ Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims on China, Mexico, Condoms in Gaza and More
The president was wrong about birthright citizenship around the world, the Paris climate agreement and federal funding for condoms in Gaza, among other claims.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Younger Brigitte Macron, Who Did Not Transition From Male To Female — Image is Altered
Does a photo show a young Brigitte Macron with the implication that it shows her before she transitioned from male to female? No, that's not true: The image showing a topless person with French first lady Macron's face has been doctored.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ‘National Pillow Fluffing Initiative,’ Similar Government Expenses Found by DOGE — It’s A Comedy Skit
Is the U.S. government spending money on the "National Pillow Fluffing Initiative," the "Bureau of Elevator Music Standards," the "National Velcro Noise Study," the "Program of Ice Cube Uniformity," the "American Cloud Watching Fund," the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Sign Executive Order To ‘Purchase 2 Billion Doses Of Covid Shots’ — It Established Sovereign Wealth Fund
Did President Donald Trump sign an executive order on February 3, 2025, announcing the purchase of 2 billion doses of COVID shots from Moderna and Pfizer? No, that's not true: The order established a sovereign wealth fund, a government-ow
PolitiFact→ Brian Mast – Does as little as 10% of USAID go to help people in need? What that claim gets wrong
From the U.S. Agency for International Development funding, “10 to 30 cents on the dollar is what actually goes to aid.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum didn’t say this about US President Donald Trump
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said, “I’m confused. I keep hearing everyone from America saying that my country is sending felons and (rapists) into their country. We thought that was encouraged … considering that’s what they chose to b
Health Feedback→ No evidence of mass deaths among vaccinated people, contrary to 2022 prediction by Dolores Cahill
REVIEW A Facebook post from January 2025 featured immunologist Dolores Cahill predicting mass casualties of people who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. It received more than 319,000 views. The post is an excerpt from Pandamned, a 2022 film by Dutch
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Indian Nationals Handcuffed And Chained During Deportation — Guatemala Deportation Flight
Does a photo show handcuffed and chained Indians being deported from the U.S.? No, that's not true: The photo shows people from Guatemala sitting on a military aircraft at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas awaiting deportation to Guatemala. Th
The Dispatch→ Donald Trump Keeps Up His Fundraising Under a Reorganized PAC
Money raised will most certainly go toward 2026 contests—and perhaps beyond.