Was the Parler social network hacked? No, there is no evidence for that. The original news came from a now deleted tweet by a conceptual artist known for high-tech art projects. A configuration file that was supposedly part of the hack ha
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Liste→ No evidence for lawyer’s claim that ‘rigged’ election cost Trump victory
Videos viewed hundreds of thousands of times claim President Donald Trump won the election in a landslide but it was rigged so that he lost by millions of votes. This is false; Democrat Joe Biden is projected to have won the Electoral College and the p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Georgia Governor And Secretary Of State Took Money From China To Steal Election From Trump
Did the governor and secretary of state in Georgia take money from China to steal the election from Donald Trump? No, there's zero proof that's true. Lead Stories reached out to the person making the accusation, radio host Hal Turner, to
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: No Evidence Dead People, Animals, Children Voted For Biden In Georgia In The 2020 Election
Did Joe Biden benefit from dead people, animals, and children voting illegally in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election? No, there's no evidence of such voter fraud. Although President Trump warned in July 2020 that he worried about p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Was NO Evidence Of ‘Ballot-Dumping’ Found In Wisconsin And Michigan
Is there evidence of ballot dumping found to help Joe Biden in Wisconsin and Michigan? No, that's not true. An article published by OAN claimed there were instances of ballot dumps in both states from the November 3, 2020 presidential ele
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dead People Cited As Evidence Of Fraud In Georgia Did NOT Vote
Did dead people vote in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election, providing evidence of fraud? No, that's not true: Of the four main cases mentioned, just one looks like an instance of potential fraud. Officials in the three other cases
Snopes→ Trump Conclusively Lost, Denies the Evidence
In the face of conclusive evidence that he lost, President Donald Trump is claiming “I won.”
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Evidence undermines Trump campaign’s claims of dead people voting in Georgia
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/trump-campaign-georgia-dead-voters-fact-check/index.html With C
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Provided To Show Six People In Pennsylvania Died, Then Registered, Then Voted
Did six people in Pennsylvania die and then register and vote in the 2020 election? No evidence has been provided to back up that claim: Neither the Western Journal, which published the claim, nor Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was quot
Full Fact - All content→ There’s no evidence that mercury-based chemicals in a Covid-19 vaccine would cause harm
Our readers have asked us to check claims that new Covid-19 vaccines contain enough mercury to cause brain damage.It is likely this question refers to thiomersal, a mercury-based chemical, but this is no longer used in most standard vaccines in the UK,
Full Fact - All content→ No evidence aluminium in vaccines causes Alzheimer’s disease
Our readers have asked us to check claims that aluminium used in a new Covid-19 vaccine—or any other vaccine—can cause Alzheimer’s disease. This is not correct. Small amounts of aluminium have been used in vaccines for almost 100 year
Top Fact Checks→ There is evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania.
No major findings of fraud or irregularities have been found in the 2020 presidential elections in Pennsylvania.
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Fox News cuts away from Kayleigh McEnany news conference after she alleges vote fraud with no evidence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/11/09/fox-news-kayleigh-mcenany-cut-away-fraud/ Fox News cut
Full Fact - All content→ Express opinion piece wrong to allege evidence of widespread voter fraud in US elections
“If you count the ballot fraud, most pollsters clearly failed. If you don’t include the fraudulent ballots, most pollsters failed on a spectacular scale [...] It therefore defies logic Biden secured more votes than Barack Obama. If only va
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Corrupted Software Was Used In Michigan; 6,000 Votes NOT ‘Stolen’ From Trump
Was corrupted voting system software used in Michigan to steal 6,000 votes from President Donald Trump and was that software also used in seven U.S. swing states? No, there is no evidence for the first claim, the second claim is false, wh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Deleted Tweets In Aftermath of Election
Did White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany start deleting tweets from the days leading up to and following the November 3, 2020, presidential election? No, that's not true: A review of the @PressSec Twitter account shows no evidence
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ There is no evidence supporting the claim that preexisting T cell immunity reduces COVID-19 mortality and infection rate; such cross-reactive T cells predate the pandemic
REVIEW Claims questioning the mortality or death toll from COVID-19 have recurrently appeared since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020. A video published in October 2020 by chiropractor Eric Berg, who is not a medical doctor and has no backgrou
Snopes→ GOP Senator: No Evidence to Support Trump Vote-Fraud Claims
Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, whose state is a key battleground in the presidential election, said "There’s simply no evidence anyone has shown me of any widespread corruption or fraud."
FactCheck.org→ Pennsylvania TV Newscast Graphic Wasn’t Evidence of Voter Fraud
Quick Take An inaccurate graphic on a local TV station briefly showed one Pennsylvania county with more mail-in votes than the number of ballots it had received. The graphic was quickly corrected, but Facebook users are now sharing screenshots of it t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: What Appears To Be Detroit TV News Graphic Does NOT Show Evidence Of Thousands Of Dead Registered Voters In The 2020 Election; It’s From 2019
Does an apparent TV news graphic featuring a Detroit voter roll lawsuit indicate that there are thousands of duplicate voter registrations and dead registered voters? No, that's not true: The graphic contains figures from a lawsuit filed
Snopes→ Election Observer Says No Evidence for Trump’s Fraud Claims
The head of an international delegation monitoring the U.S. election says his team has no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claims about alleged fraud involving mail-in absentee ballots.
Liste→ No evidence behind claims that Putin vowed to back Ethiopia in Nile dam dispute
A Facebook post shared in Ethiopia claims to show comments from Russian President Vladimir Putin backing the African country in its dispute with neighbours over the mega-dam it has built on the Nile river. However, AFP Fact Check found no evidence that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Democrats Are Colluding With CIA To Alter Voting Machines
Are Democrats colluding with the CIA to alter voting machines in key swing states to help Joe Biden? No, there is no evidence to support this. The source of the claim is a retired U.S. Air Force general who, contrary to the claim, never s
Liste→ Experts say there is no evidence to support the claims
Claims that drinking water from a copper cup can help “kill bacteria, soothe arthritis pain, slow down aging” and “lower the risk of cancer and heart disease” have been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook. The claims are fal
Snopes→ Postal Worker Charged in Ballot Dumpster Incident, No Evidence of Political Motivation
The ballots, en route to the residents of a single Kentucky zip code, were discovered unopened in a dumpster in mid-October 2020.
Full Fact - All content→ Matt Hancock got the evidence about long Covid wrong
“We have two points of evidence; one is the evidence from King’s College London that shows that approximately one in 20 people with coronavirus is likely to have long-term symptoms, but the other evidence implies that in adults under 50, t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Hunter Biden Is Dead
Did Hunter Biden die of a crack overdose? No, that's not true: There is absolutely zero evidence to support the claim that the son of the Democratic presidential nominee is dead. Reporters closely watching the movements of his father Joe
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ No evidence that coronavirus genetic sequences were fabricated, contrary to preprint by Li-Meng Yan and colleagues
REVIEW Uncertainty surrounding the origin of the novel coronavirus has provided fertile ground for breeding conspiracy theories, some of which Health Feedback previously found to be inaccurate and unsubstantiated (see here and here). The recent clai
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Withhold Evidence In Two Death Row Cases; She Did NOT Jail 1,500 Black Men For Weed Possession
Did Kamala Harris withhold evidence on two Black men who were on death row, then release the evidence after they were executed? No, that's not true. And did Harris, former attorney general of California, jail over 1,500 Black men for poss
Liste→ No evidence behind claims Vladimir Putin made statement criticising rich Africans
A post shared hundreds of times on Facebook claims to include controversial quotes made by Russian President Vladimir Putin criticising the lifestyle of ‘rich Africans’. However, AFP Fact Check found no evidence that Putin ever uttered the words
Liste→ There is no evidence to show it rained blood in Nigeria
Photos and videos showing a busy street submerged by red water during a heavy downpour have been circulating in multiple social media posts claiming the footage shows “bloody rain” in Nigeria’s southern Ogun state. However, there is no evidence
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ No, evidence is not mounting that doctors are trying to kill President Trump
If your time is short President Donald Trump has received several medications and vitamins, including experimental drugs whose efficacy and safety haven’t been proven but that have been shown to help some COVID-19 patients. Some doctors have been cri
Snopes→ Texas Legal Filing To Block Early Voting Offers Little Evidence of ‘Illegal Ballot Harvesting’ Scheme
The writ, filed by Republicans, accuses Democratic officials of violating the state's election laws.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Mask-wearing Killed A German Schoolchild
Did a German schoolchild die as a result of wearing their required mask in school? No, there's no evidence: The person making the claim provided no evidence, not even the place, age or date of death. Police in the Lower Franconia region o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump’s COVID Announcement Connected to E6A or E6B Mercury "Doomsday Planes" Going Airborne
Was an airborne command center of the type Boeing E6A (or E6B) Mercury readying for any kind of invasion when it took off even before President Trump announced he and the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19? No, there is no current ev
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Grizzly Bear Killed By Alaska Hunter Was NOT The Largest On Record And There’s No Evidence It Had Killed Anyone Beforehand
Did a hunter in Alaska kill the largest grizzly bear on record? And did the grizzly kill two hunters beforehand? No, neither assertion is true: This meme is a still-circulating exaggeration of a real grizzly killing that occurred in 2001,
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Biden Was ‘Wearing a Wire’ in Debate
Quick Take Facebook posts baselessly accuse former Vice President Joe Biden of wearing a wire during the first presidential debate. The low-quality videos and photos being cited don’t support that claim. Full Story Unsubstantiated claims about
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Photos Show Donald Trump With A ‘Neural Stimulator Device’
Do photos show President Donald Trump with a "neural stimulator device" on his scalp under his hair? No, there's no evidence that's true: Even assuming the photographs are real, which we don't, the images are not suggestive of such a devi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Radio Host Provides NO Evidence Joe Biden Was Given Debate Questions Ahead of First Debate with Trump
Did Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News or someone on his team give former Vice President Joe Biden a crib sheet ahead of debate #1 with President Donald Trump? No evidence nor provenance was supplied by the Republican operative who made
Liste→ Health officials have found no evidence of fake eggs being served in Sri Lanka
A claim that a local eatery in Sri Lanka was serving plastic eggs has been shared in multiple posts on Facebook. The posts also include tips on how to identify fake eggs. However, the claim is false; local health officials investigated the matter and f