Did Vice President Kamala Harris "admit" that COVID-19 vaccines don't work? No, that's not true: Her tweet that is the basis for the claim is a summary of public health recommendations that reflect reality: No vaccine is 100% effective an
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video With Clickbait Title Does NOT Show Biden Crying And Leaving Briefing — It Doesn’t Show Him At All
Does a Facebook video show President Joe Biden crying and leaving a press briefing, only to come back and ask former President Donald Trump to return? No, that's not true: the video is clickbait and shows footage of a Pentagon press brief
Full Fact - All content→ Samaritans doesn’t have a text number anymore
A post on Facebook which has been shared more than 20,000 times claims that anyone who is feeling depressed or suicidal can text a number and receive a response from a crisis counsellor connected to Samaritans. This information is out of date and
Top Fact Checks→ COVID-19 doesn’t require any symptoms for diagnosis
Asymptomatic presentation occurs in many diseases. The majority of COVID-19 patients (estimated at 80 percent) show symptoms of the disease.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘The Final Refutation of Virology’ Claims By Stefan Lanka Do NOT Prove COVID-19 Virus Doesn’t Exist
Does microbiologist Stefan Lanka prove that virology is not based on scientific methods? No, that's not true: The known conspiracy theorist and debunked anti-vaccination activist gives no evidence that an experiment "refutes the theory on
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Car Hack Can NOT Save Your Life — Secret Button In Gas Tank To Open Doors Doesn’t Exist
Is there a car hack that can save your life -- a secret button behind the flap covering the gas tank that can unlock the doors? No, that's not true: A video posted to a satire website claims to show a trick to help a woman who locked her
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Clip From 1993 Speech Does NOT Prove ‘What Biden Really Thinks About Black Americans’ — He Doesn’t Mention Race
Does a video of then-Sen. Joe Biden saying that the upbringing and background of future criminals does not matter show "what Biden really thinks about Black Americans"? No, that's not true: Biden did not mention race when he made a Senate
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Evidence Does NOT Support ‘Three Big Lies’ Theory: That COVID Virus Doesn’t Exist, PCR Test Is A Failure And That 5G Towers Cause COVID
Is it true that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not been positively identified, that the PCR test is not accurate after a certain point and that there are major ways to become ill other than through airborne transmission of the virus, such as by
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Irish Health Service Did NOT ‘Admit’ Novel Coronavirus Doesn’t Exist, Nor That Masks, Distancing and Lockdowns Don’t Work
Did Irish Health Service officials "admit" COVID-19 does not exist? No, that's not true: The claim rests on a purported Irish Health Service (HSE) letter the agency says does not exist. The person based her claim on a bit of sophistry: Sh
Top Fact Checks→ With COVID-19, vaccine manufacturers have zero liability for any harm done. If people are killed, hurt, paralyzed, or maimed for life—it doesn’t matter.
COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are exempt from future product liability claims, but the vaccines authorized for use have undergone rigorous trials.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Mask Study Did NOT Prove ‘Mask Wearing Basically Doesn’t Do A Damn Thing’
Did a Danish study show mask-wearing has a statistically insignificant impact on COVID-19 infection and "basically doesn't do a damn thing"? No, that's not true: Both the study authors and an editorial in the journal where it was publishe
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: What ‘DKIM’ Verification Of Hunter Biden Email Proves — And What It Doesn’t
Does the DomainKeys Identified Mail signature within metadata of the New York Post's "smoking gun" Hunter Biden email prove the correspondence is "unquestionably authentic"? That's a stretch: DKIM can validate who sent an email and what t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Tweet ‘Obama Should Wait Until He Leaves Office To Pick Another Justice! If He Doesn’t, He Should Be Fired!’
Did Donald Trump tweet "Obama should wait until he leaves office to pick another Justice! If he doesn't, he should be fired!" in April 2016 about an election year Supreme Court vacancy? No, that's not true. This is a fake tweet that Trump
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jarrett Stepman Did NOT Receive A Ballot To A Home Where He Doesn’t Live – He Received A Voter Information Packet
Did a man who no longer lives in California receive an election ballot at his parents' house? No, that's not true. Jarrett Stepman, who is employed by The Daily Signal, a conservative news outlet, claimed on Twitter his parents received h
Top Fact Checks→ Kamala Harris doesn’t qualify to serve as the U.S. vice-president.
Kamala Harris is a United States citizen from birth and is qualified to serve as the U.S. vice-president.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NEW Starbucks CEO Did NOT Admit She Doesn’t Like White Peope
Did "New Starbucks CEO" Rosalind Brewer admit she doesn't like white people? No, there are several things that are not true in that statement, the most obvious one being that Brewer isn't actually the CEO of Starbucks (who happens to be a whit
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NO New Man Appears In Window On Cover Of ‘Daddy Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: A Book About Divorce’
Does another man appear in the window of a broken home on the cover of the children's book "Daddy Doesn't Live Here Anymore"? No, that's not true: An image of the "book about divorce" being shared widely on social media is a photo-shopped hoax
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NO Bombshell Claim: Scientists Do NOT Find ‘Man-made Climate Change Doesn’t Exist In Practice’
Did a peer-reviewed and published scientific study in Finland conclude that "man-made climate change doesn't exist in practice"? No, that's not true: A draft of a short research paper that has not been reviewed by scientific peers or published
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Pelosi Did NOT Say Trump Can Have Wall If He Doesn’t Run In 2020
Did Nancy Pelosi offer to trade building a border wall in exchange for Donald Trump not running for president in 2020? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ White House doesn’t apologize for aide’s comment mocking McCain
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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Facebook doesn’t sell data but profits off it
AP FACT CHECK: A look at the veracity of Facebook's claim that it doesn't sell user data
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s visa lottery system doesn’t exist
AP FACT CHECK: Trump describes _ and criticizes _ a visa lottery system that doesn't exist
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s speech doesn’t skimp on exaggerations
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's State of the Union speech doesn't skimp on exaggerations
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Trump doesn’t wait for facts in Amtrak crash
AP FACT CHECK: Trump doesn't wait for facts to emerge in deadly Amtrak crash before using it to plug infrastructure plan
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Viral photo doesn’t show ‘antifa’ beating cop
A widely spread photo that appears to show an anti-fascist activist beating a police officer is a doctored image
ABC News→ The Latest: Trump’s praise of leader doesn’t match US facts
The Latest: Trump's praise of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's aggressive war on drugs doesn't match facts provided by his own State Department
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Carbon Footprint Of Electric Car Battery Production Is NOT Worse Than Air Travel And Traditional Vehicles
Is the carbon footprint of mining the materials for electric car batteries greater than the carbon footprint of one year's U.S. air travel, are those batteries impossible to recycle and is this proof electric vehicles are worse for the pl
Top Fact Checks→ Vaccines are unsafe – more than 30,000 women in the U.K. have reported disrupted periods after their COVID-19 vaccine.
Reports about changes in women's menstrual cycles are being used to falsely claim that vaccines negatively affect fertility. An article published by the Daily Mail is doing the rounds on Facebook. It concerns reports that 35,000 women in Bri
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence FDA, CDC & WHO Hid Ivermectin Efficacy Data, And Natural Immunity NOT Superior To COVID Vaccine
Is this video correct in saying ivermectin is a successful treatment for COVID-19, and that is being covered up by the media and the FDA, CDC and WHO; and is natural immunity through infection better than a COVID-19 vaccine? No, none of t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Australian Health Organization Did NOT Use Actors To Portray COVID-19 Patients In Video — They Are Real Patients
Did New South Wales Health, an Australian government health organization, use actors to portray COVID-19 patients in a public health video? No, that's not true: The people featured in the video are real COVID-19 patients. The shortened ne
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Prayer Request For Olivia Is NOT Current
Did the aunt of a 7-month-old baby recently post a prayer request after the baby, Olivia, had open-heart surgery? No, that's not true: While this prayer request was originally posted by Olivia's aunt on October 11, 2017, this post is no l
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cameras Did NOT Shut Off Or Go Black During Biden Press Conference When He Was Asked About ‘Hit List’ In Afghanistan
Did cameras shut off or go black during a President Joe Biden press conference when he was asked about a "hit list" of people in Afghanistan? No, that's not true: The cameras did not shut off during Biden's press conference. He was not as
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Farmers Are NOT Being Told They Must Destroy Their Crops
Has the government sent letters to farmers telling them that they must destroy their crops and be paid one-and-a-half times the value of the crop or lose all government farm subsidies? No, that's not true: A collection of hoax TikTok vide
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘The Shot’ Is NOT Failing — It Prevents Most Infections And Reduces Symptoms Of Breakthrough Infections
Is a meme correct in implying vaccination ("the shot") is not working to prevent COVID-19? No, that's not true: Since it uses an image of a comedian's fictional rapper character, "Ali G," it may be satire. But the apparent reference to va
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Scientifically Speaking,’ The Vaccinated Are NOT The Disease Vectors ‘Spreading The Mutant Variants’ of COVID-19
Are people vaccinated against COVID-19 "superspreaders," serving as the transmitting vectors for the virus that caused the midsummer 2021 increase in hospitalizations, and did the delta variant and other new forms of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: PEZ Candy Dispensers CANNOT Be Loaded From The Bottom
Can PEZ candy dispensers be loaded from the bottom with a wrapped candy roll? No, that's not true: The PEZ Twitter account tweeted that "you can't load a wrapped #PEZ candy roll from the bottom." Why? Because there's a spring and a piece
Full Fact - All content→ How media reporting of modelling has shaped our understanding of the pandemic
Over the course of the past 18 months, it’s overwhelmingly likely that you’ve seen a scientific model about Covid-19 reported in traditional media like newspapers and television, or on social media—and they’re informing policies
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Marine Gen. Berger Did NOT Rebuke Defense Secretary, Did NOT Say ‘No Mandatory Vaccinations for My Marines’
Did the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David H. Berger, reject Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin's announcement that COVID-19 vaccinations will soon be a requirement for all service members, saying, "There will be no mandatory va
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mike Lindell Cyber Symposium Final Wrap-Up, August 12, 2021 — No PCAP Evidence, Questions Remain
Did the materials released by Mike Lindell at his Cyber Symposium meet evidentiary standards of relevance, proof of origin, chain-of-secure-custody and reproducibility that online security experts say would be needed to take seriously his
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Several New Pieces of Evidence Link Mike Lindell’s Election Data and Videos To Accused Con Man Dennis L. Montgomery
After Mike Lindell's appearance on the April 28, 2021, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show, Lead Stories published a story titled "Attention Mike Lindell: What You May Want To Know About The 'Data' Used In Your Stolen Election Claims" that traced s