A clip of a large fire is circulating on social media with false claims it depicts recent disorder in Belfast—but the footage actually shows a gas pipeline explosion in Russia.
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Burning Fuel Tank Rolling Away After Explosion Is NOT From Iran — It Shows A 2024 Gas Station Explosion In Chechnya
Does a video featuring a burning fuel tank rolling away after an explosion show an event in Iran in June 2026? No, that's not true: The footage shows an explosion at a gas station in Chechnya, a republic within the Russian Federation, in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence ‘Skid Row’ Woman Voted For Karen Bass For $5 — Registered In Inglewood, Not Los Angeles
Did Shanekka Renee Johnson, who said in a video that she was paid $5 on "Skid Row" to vote for Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor, actually vote for Bass? No, that's not true: Information obtained from the Los Angeles County Registrar's off
PolitiFact→ X posts – No, Spencer Pratt didn’t get zero votes in a 24,000-vote Los Angeles mayor ballot update
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt “got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night (Los Angeles) ballot drop.”
PolitiFact→ X posts – Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman didn’t concede the race as of June 7
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman had conceded the race as of June 7.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Iranian Missile Strike On Israeli Or U.S. Assets — It Shows Malta Fireworks Factory Explosion
Does a video show an Iranian missile strike on Israeli or U.S. assets in early June 2026? No, that's not true: The explosion shown in the video occurred at a fireworks factory in Malta. The powerful blast injured two people at the Ta' Lou
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ballot Drop Did NOT Give Spencer Pratt ZERO Out Of 24,000 Votes In Los Angeles Mayor Race
Did a late-night ballot drop of 24,000 votes give Spencer Pratt no votes in the Los Angeles mayor race and is that evidence of fraud in the vote counting? No, that's not true: The Los Angeles Times explained there was a one-minute lag bet
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Asleep Or Unconscious In Oval Office Meeting — He Briefly Closes His Eyes
Does a video show President Donald Trump asleep, unconscious, or passed out during an Oval Office meeting in early June 2026? No, that's not true: There is no conclusive evidence that the president lost consciousness. He briefly closes hi
Full Fact→ Video doesn’t show ‘illegal migrant’ losing temper because he couldn’t get a free PlayStation from Oxford council
An old clip filmed in the US is being shared online with captions falsely claiming it shows an “illegal migrant” supposedly losing his temper because a store giving out free PlayStations on behalf of Oxford City Council ran out of the consoles.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Man In Video Saying He Would Cast Unclaimed Ballots For Spencer Pratt For Los Angeles Mayor Can’t — NOT LA Ballots
Could a man who claimed in a viral video that he had a stack of unclaimed ballots mailed to voters who had moved use them to vote for Spencer Pratt for mayor of Los Angeles as he claimed? No, that's not true: The ballots appeared to be fo
Full Fact→ Andy Burnham did not lose a Labour leadership contest to Keir Starmer
The Daily Mail has corrected an inaccurate claim made in a column by the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson about Andy Burnham, after Full Fact got in touch.
PolitiFact→ Florida's Alligator Alcatraz may close. Trump, DeSantis' statements about center clash with facts
Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz: Fact vs. fiction
PolitiFact→ Realities of life on GLP-1s for weight loss: What doctors say you can expect
Realities of life on GLP-1s for weight loss
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Trump Post Says ‘I Am Very Close To Deciding If I Will Run Again In 2028’
In a real social media post, did President Donald Trump say, "I am very close to deciding if I will run again in 2028"? No, that's not true: The supposed post does not appear on the president's official Truth Social account, and there are
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump DID Post Uno Meme Saying ‘I Have All The Cards’ — A Losing Hand In That Game
Did President Donald Trump really post a meme saying "I have all the cards" in which he is holding a hand of Uno cards, a game in which the goal is to get rid of your cards as quickly as possible? Yes, that's true: Trump posted the meme s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Tiger Escaping Enclosure While Keeper Cleans With Hose
Does a video show a real incident where a tiger escaped its cage while a keeper was cleaning the hall with a hose? No, that's not true: This video is AI-generated. It was originally published on Instagram by an account that almost exclusi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Is NOT Closing All Forest Service Regional Offices, Reorganization Moves Agency West With New Geographic Districts
Is Donald Trump closing all regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service? No, that's not true: Official terminology will change, but there will still be offices in many regions of the U.S. under the plan announced March 31, 2026. Fifteen n
PolitiFact→ How AI, an old video and road closures fueled Easter weekend rumors about President Trump’s health
How rumors about Trump’s health spread over Easter weekend
PolitiFact→ Marc Molinaro – Does New York lead the US in population loss? It depends on the measure
New York leads the nation in population loss.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Keir Starmer Did NOT Threaten To Close U.S. Bases At Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Or Elsewhere, Or Demand Rent If Trump Withdraws From NATO
Did U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer threaten to close U.S. bases at Lakenheath, Mildenhall and elsewhere, and demand rent if President Donald Trump withdraws from NATO? No, that's not true: Contrary to a viral screenshot claiming Starmer
Full Fact→ Video shows US warehouse explosion not delayed missile detonation in Israel
A video circulating online with false claims it depicts an Iranian missile exploding in Tel Aviv is actually old footage of a 2016 warehouse fire in California.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Vatican Did NOT Close Secret Archives Over Epstein Files
Did Pope Francis order the closure of the Vatican Secret Archives over a scandal revealed in the Epstein files in March 2026? No, that's not true: The post claimed Pope Francis ordered the sealing of the archives in March 2026, but he die
PolitiFact→ Has the US government found 145,000 ‘lost’ migrant children? Fact-checking Kristi Noem
Fact-checking Kristi Noem on migrant children
Full Fact→ Video shows 2015 explosions in China, not Tel Aviv
A miscaptioned video has been shared on social media with claims it shows explosions in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Photo Showed Pelosi Wore ‘Don’t Ban Insider Trading’ Badge For 2026 State Of The Union Address
Does a viral image of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi wearing "Don't ban insider trading" lapel sticker show what she wore to the 2026 State of the Union speech by President Donald Trump? No, that's not true: A picture of her was digitally edi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Decarlos Brown Jr., The Accused Killer Of Iryna Zarutska, Was NOT A Foreign National Who ‘Came In Through Open Borders’
Was Decarlos Brown Jr., accused of killing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, a foreign national who "came in through open borders," as Donald Trump said during the State of the Union address? No, that is not true: Brown was born in Charlo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Chelsea Clinton Did NOT Post "Close but no cigar Trump!!!" — It’s A Fake Screenshot
Did Chelsea Clinton tweet, "Close but no cigar Trump!!!" while claiming there was a conspiracy to disparage her father's name? No, that's not true: This is a fake screenshot. Chelsea Clinton never posted a tweet with this loaded satirical
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Orleans Flight Restrictions NOT Associated With "Special Security Reasons" That Closed El Paso Airspace
Was the airspace around New Orleans also shut down in early February, 2026, along with El Paso's closure due to alleged national security concerns? No, that's not true: The Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) over New Orleans during Mardi
The Dispatch→ When a Christian World Loses Christ
‘The Bone Temple’ shows a nightmarish earth with only vestiges of Christian morality.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Come Close to Funding Everything He’s Proposed
President Donald Trump has said over the last year that money brought in from his increased tariffs would pay for at least half a dozen initiatives — from reducing the national debt to providing dividend checks to “moderate income patriots
Full Fact→ Fake AI doctors endorse weight loss patches on social media
Posts claiming to show clinicians from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust using and endorsing weight loss patches are fake and were made with AI.
Full Fact→ Sky News corrects claim about asylum hotel closures under Labour
An article on Sky News’ website which claimed the government says it’s halved the number of hotels in use since it came to power has been corrected after Full Fact got in touch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Renee Good Lost Custody Of Her Children Because Her Wife Rebecca Put Cigarettes Out On Them
Did Renee Good, the woman who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minnesota, lose custody of her two older children because her partner Rebecca Good abused them by putting cigarettes out on them? No, that's not true: No credible evidence
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Erika Kirk Has NOT Lost Custody Of Her Kids — Congresswoman Says She Misspoke
Did Erika Kirk lose custody of her children, as indicated by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in an interview? No, that's not true: Rep. Luna said in a podcast interview that Kirk "lost her kids," but later said she "meant to say the kids lost thei
The Dispatch→ Life and Loss | Roundtable
Megan McArdle on abortion and the brother she lost.
The Dispatch→ A Closer Look at ‘Affordability’
Sometimes, the trend is not your friend.
The Dispatch→ The Brother I Lost
What a deathbed confession and a long-disappeared sibling taught me about a woman’s right to choose.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Phil Collins Did NOT Announce A 2026 World Tour With 32 Dates, Nor Have Trace Adkins, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana And Many Other Artists In Clickbait AI-Generated Tour Posters
Did Phil Collins "send the internet into orbit" when he announced the 32 dates of his 2026 World Tour? No, that's not true: Phil Collins has not announced a 2026 world tour. His name, and those of many other artists such as Trace Adkins,
The Dispatch→ Congress Closes the Book on Two Wars
Repealing the military force authorization for the Gulf and Iraq wars is not just symbolic.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of White Cherry Blossom Epoxy Floor Is NOT Real — Designer Says It’s AI-Made
Is a video of workers installing "incredible white cherry blossom epoxy flooring" in a home real? No, that's not true: The 12-second time-lapse clip showing five workers pouring liquid epoxy over a real tree branch to create a transparent