Were Nancy Pelosi and "other Deep Staters" arrested at a President Joe Biden banquet in a faux White House owned by filmmaker Tyler Perry? No, that's not true: No branch of the U.S. military is allowed to arrest civilians, per the Posse C
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Logically→ Qatar included the “Syrian Revolution Flag” with other countries’ flags on the poster of the 2022 FIFA World Cup logo.
The image in question was created by a cartoonist and is not the official 2022 FIFA World Cup logo released by FIFA or Qatar Authorities.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 12-Year-Old Girl’s Grandmother Did NOT Kidnap The Child From Hospital At Gunpoint To Prevent Transgender Surgery
Did a 12-year-old girl's grandmother kidnap her from the hospital at gunpoint to prevent transgender surgery? No, that's not true: The grandmother's attorney told Lead Stories the claim was completely false. The woman was arrested and ple
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Arizona DOES Allow Dropping Off Mail-In Ballots For Other Voters
Does a video showing people dropping off multiple ballots at one time in a drop box prove election fraud and what "really happened" in Arizona? No, that's not true: Delivering more than one ballot for other voters is legal in Arizona. Ind
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Respect For Marriage Act Does NOT Revoke Tax-Exempt Status Of Churches Or Endanger Other Religious Liberties
Does the Respect for Marriage Act passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate remove the tax privileges of faith-based organizations, make it easier to sue them or jeopardize any other religious liberties? No, that's not true:
PolitiFact→ Trump says he left Biden a perfect economy, but the facts say otherwise
Donald Trump exaggerated his accomplishments and claimed Joe Biden squandered the gains in his 2024 presidential bid announcement. We fact-checked his remarks.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Florida midterm results came out fast. Why do other states need more time?
It’s proof of “voter fraud” that it takes some states days to count 2 million votes while Florida results were available on election night.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – DeSantis, Fauci and others are not in the diamond mining business together
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Ron DeSantis and others “are ALL in a diamond mining business in Oklahoma together!”
Health Feedback→ Multiple studies showed that COVID-19 increases the risk of heart inflammation more than vaccines do; study in Israel misleadingly used to claim otherwise
REVIEW Social media posts began circulating in September and November 2022, claiming that COVID-19 doesn’t increase the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, despite evidence showing otherwise. These are conditions in which the heart becomes infla
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump, the least accurate politician we've ever covered, eyes another White House run
PolitiFact has fact-checked Donald Trump 960 times since 2011. He has the worst record for accuracy of any politician we’ve covered.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CERN Did NOT Admit That ‘They are Communicating With Entities From The Other Side’ in 2022
Did the European Organization for Nuclear Research, most commonly known as CERN, admit in 2022 that it is "communicating with entities from the other side"? No, that's not true: Online speculations about the CERN-managed particle physics
Logically→ Bill Gates’s daughter Phoebe has not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and other diseases.
Bill Gates' daughters have both been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to their own public statements. Melinda Gates has also announced the same.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photos Of Baby Found Without Mother Are NOT Current — Recycled To Trick People To Share Posts
Was a baby found wandering alone behind someone's home without a parent or guardian, and did she say her mother's name is Wendy? No, that's not true: The child, who was only about 10 months old in the photos, was found at the Minneapolis-
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia Mother & Son Poll Workers Were NOT Fired For ‘Free & Fair Election’ Tweet — It Was Because Of A January 6th Post
Did Fulton County, Georgia, election officials fire a mother and son hired as poll workers because the mom posted a tweet on the morning of the election saying she was "working at the polls to ensure a free and fair election?" No, that's
PolitiFact→ Politifact Wisconsin’s top campaign season claims on abortion, other hot-button issues
Politifact Wisconsin’s top campaign season claims on abortion, other hot-button issues
Washington Post→ A Bottomless Pinocchio for Biden — and other recent gaffes
Here's a round-up of some recent flubs and misstatements by the president.
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines have enhanced reporting requirements for vaccine safety database, so death reports cannot be simply compared to other vaccines
REVIEW Even after vaccines have completed clinical trials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to monitor vaccine safety in the general public. One of the tools the CDC uses is called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporti
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Soursop Fruit Has NOT Been Proven To Be 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemotherapy And Is NOT In Use As Cancer Treatment
Is soursop fruit 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy? No, that's not true: Soursop has not been proven in any clinical trials to be stronger than chemotherapy to any degree. According to a cancer professor at Harvard, this is "not a p
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Courts did review Trump campaign ‘evidence’ of election fraud. Claims that say otherwise are wrong
“It’s not that there is no evidence the election was stolen, but that no court had the guts to HEAR the evidence. They dismissed the cases, NOT the evidence.”
The Dispatch→ Are We Witnessing Another Iranian Revolution?
Protests calling for regime change persist, but would-be revolutionaries face a long and perilous road ahead: A Dispatch Explainer.The post Are We Witnessing Another Iranian Revolution? appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pope Francis Is NOT Queen Elizabeth II’s Brother Or Joe Biden’s Cousin
Are Pope Francis, the late Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Joe Biden members of the same family? No, that's not true: There is no evidence supporting this online rumor, which recycles a 24-year-old conspiracy theory. The claim appea
PolitiFact→ Women’s issues and a few other fact checks in Iowa’s US Senate race
Women’s issues and a few other fact-checks in Iowa’s US Senate race
Snopes→ Is This a Real Philip Morris Ad Featuring Mother and Baby?
"Proud mothers, please forgive us if we too feel something of the pride of a new parent."
Logically→ Covid-19 vaccinations cause AIDs, weaken immune systems, and cause other forms of harm.
Previous fact checks by Logically show that there is no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines cause AIDs or weaken immune systems. The claims are false.
Logically→ A Muslim man stabbed another Muslim youth for attending a Ganesh Chaturthi procession in Delhi.
Delhi Police has ruled out a communal angle in the matter. The victim did attend the Hindu festival, but the attack was a result of a family dispute.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C Is NOT A Proven Alternative To Chemotherapy That ‘Will Kill Cancer Cells’
Can high-dose intravenous treatments of vitamin C kill cancer cells and act as an alternative to chemotherapy? No, that's not entirely true: Though preliminary evidence suggests that treatment by intravenous vitamin C (IVC), or ascorbic a
Health Feedback→ Water fluoridation hasn’t been associated with cognitive or other health problems so far, contrary to widespread claims
REVIEW Tooth decay is one of the most common preventable childhood diseases. A 2018 report from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics estimated that in 2015 and 2016, tooth decay affected 45.8% of the U.S. population, including 21.4% of the
Snopes→ Fed Attacks Inflation with Another Big Hike and Expects More
The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by a substantial three-quarters of a point for a third straight time and signaled more large rate hikes to come.
Snopes→ WNBA Players Skipping Russia, Choosing Other Places to Play
Brittney Griner's highly publicized legal woes in Russia and the country's invasion of Ukraine has the top WNBA players opting to take their talents elsewhere this offseason.
Snopes→ Biden, Other VIPs Lie Low As Spotlight Stays on Late Queen
World leaders used to people hanging on their every word checked their egos in the service of honoring the queen, Britain's longest-serving monarch, who died earlier this month at age 96 after 70 years on the throne.
Climate Feedback→ Different parts of the planet warm more quickly than others. That doesn’t mean climate change isn’t happening.
If you’re even a casual consumer of climate news, you probably know that some parts of the globe are warming more rapidly than others. Scientists have known for years, for instance, that the Arctic is heating up at a faster clip than the global avera
PolitiFact→ Viral image – The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, though unfounded theories claim otherwise
“The sun is not 93 million miles away … it is local and under a firmament dome.”
Full Fact→ Other funerals have not been banned on day of the Queen’s funeral
The government has not issued specific advice on funerals scheduled for the day of the Queen’s funeral. Funeral service providers say some services have been cancelled at the request of families.
Snopes→ Police Believe 3 Children Drowned by Mother at NYC Beach
Three children were found dead on the beach near Brooklyn's famed Coney Island boardwalk and police believe they may have been drowned by their mother.
Health Feedback→ No clinical evidence supports using cannabis to treat cancer or other conditions, although specific chemicals found in cannabis can be medically useful
REVIEW Cannabis has been proposed as an alternative therapy for various diseases, notably as a treatment for cancer. Such claims often go viral on social media, like this meme posted on the Facebook page Drug Possession Laws on 4 September 2022. The
Truth or Fiction?→ Irish Dancers at Buckingham Palace (to the Tune Of ‘Another One Bites the Dust’)
Queen Elizabeth II’s death on September 8 2022 led to significant social media discussions about history, colonization, monarchy, and the future; in the middle of that milieu, a clip of Irish dancers performing to Queen’s “Another One
Logically→ Joe Biden’s granddaughter says he is dead and was replaced with his twin brother.
The video being cited to push this claim was intended to be satirical and has been taken out of context.
Poynter→ Bank of America’s new home loan program does not exclude any race, despite claims that say otherwise
Bank of America unveiled a new loan program in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods to boost homeownership where it lags. Some of the news headlines made outlandish, unproven claims about the scope of […] The post Bank of America’s new home loan
PolitiFact→ The Gateway Pundit – Bank of America’s new home loan program does not exclude any race, despite claims that say otherwise
Bank of America “announced a new mortgage home loan program for first-time homebuyers. But only blacks and Hispanics will be eligible.”
Snopes→ Did Biden Say AR-15 Bullet Travels 5 Times Faster than Bullet of Any Other Gun?
The president made the remark while laying out his Safer America Plan in Pennsylvania.