"Lousy lies" are the types of lies or false truths that seem so obviously implausible that they don’t seem designed to deceive, but rather to signal something else.
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The CDC Website DOES Show Age And Other Conditions For People Who Died From COVID-19
Is it true ages and pre-existing medical conditions for U.S. residents who died from COVID-19 are not available? No, that's not true: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website shows ages, additional medical conditi
Liste→ This video shows people shouting support for a local politician in the Indian state of Assam
A video of a crowd outside an airport in the Indian state of Assam has been viewed thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows people shouting pro-Pakistan slogans at a local politician. The claim was widely amplified by
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
Snopes→ Were Millions of Mail-in Ballots Wrongly Sent to People Who Didn’t Request Them?
Some states automatically send mail-in ballots to all registered voters ... because they registered to vote.
TruthOrFiction→ Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Win Emmy for Use of Television to ‘Inform and Calm People Around the World’
On November 20 2020, “Emmy” trended on Twitter due to tweets asserting that New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the unlikely recipient of an Emmy award: NOT A JOKE: Andrew Cuomo to Receive International Emmy for ‘Masterful Use’ of T
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Were There ‘More Votes Than People’ in Detroit?
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Full Fact - All content→ The number of people dying right now is not the same as in any other year
“I’ll give you the absolute numbers today and people can then take that away and make their own decisions about how scared to be. So in terms of people actually infected today, it’s probably around 1% of the population. But the vast
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘DC Park Service’ Did NOT Put The Number Of People Attending The ‘Million MAGA March’ At 11,600
Did the "DC Park Service" put the number of people attending the "Million MAGA March" in Washington, D.C., at 11,600? No, that's not true. No agency released that number as an official crowd estimate. The National Park Service, not the "D
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→ Do Most People Struggle To Recognize the Lowercase Letter ‘G’?
The letter "G" is one of several English letters that has multiple lowercase versions.
Snopes→ Did ‘More Than One Million’ People Attend a Pro-Trump ‘MAGA March’ in D.C.?
Crowd sizes are notoriously difficult to estimate, but let's take a look.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Over A Million People at November 14, 2020 DC Trump Protests
Does this photo show over a million people at the protest that took place on November 14 in downtown Washington D.C. in support of Donald Trump? No, that's not true: The image is actually from a 2006 pro-immigration protest in Dallas, Tex
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
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 10,000 Dead People Did NOT Vote In The Presidential Election In Michigan, Officials Say
Did 10,000 dead people vote in Michigan in the November 3, 2020, presidential election? No, that's not true: Election officials in Michigan call it a baseless claim and say it is impossible for dead people to vote in their state. The clai
Full Fact - All content→ Group swab Covid-19 tests do not return positives to people without the virus
“Well in 30yrs of being a nurse, never seen anything quite like this. Pooling of tests. 5 different people's swabs sent off in one vial. So one positive will contaminate the other 4, giving 5 positives. What the hell is going on? Total madness #
FactCheck.org→ Thin Allegations of ‘Dead People’ Voting
Several of President Donald Trump’s supporters have claimed or suggested — without providing evidence — that a substantial number of votes were fraudulently cast by “dead people” in Pennsylvania. Election experts say that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: List Does NOT Show Over 14,000 Dead People Voted In Wayne County, Michigan
Does a list show over 14,000 dead people voted in the 2020 presidential election in Wayne County, Michigan? No, that's not true. A video on Facebook claims there is a list showing over 14,000 dead people that either voted or registered to
Top Fact Checks→ In Philadelphia, observers have been kept far away, very far away. So far, that people are using binoculars to try and see.
Poll watchers are now allowed to be within six feet of ballot counting at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online that US President Trump told people to vote for Myanmar’s NLD
A doctored picture of US President Donald Trump has been shared thousands of times on Facebook alongside a claim that he has just won the US presidential election and urges Myanmar to vote for the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) in their upc
Top Fact Checks→ Fraudulent votes were cast in Michigan using the identities of dead people
All three people who voted are alive and most likely relatives of people born in the early 1900s and inherited their relatives' names.
Top Fact Checks→ People’s ballots in Arizona are being labeled as ‘canceled.’
Voters can track their ballots on 'BallotTrax' and if they come across any issues with their ballots, they can easily resolve it over the phone.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Proof People Are Planning On Mass Murder Of POC And LGBTQ+ People If Biden Wins
If Joe Biden wins the election are there people planning on mass murdering POC and LGBTQ+ people? No, that's not true. A claim has gone viral that if the Democratic nominee beats Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, there are p
Top Fact Checks→ Robocalls made to people in Michigan urging them to stay home on Election Day.
Michigan officials warned voters of robocalls on Election Day urging voters to stay home because of long queues and vote the next day.
Top Fact Checks→ Trump said, that the deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics.
Trumps' accusation that the FDA was stalling enrollment in clinical trials was based on no evidence. The agency does not oversee trial enrollment.
Top Fact Checks→ Joe Biden stated in an interview that people did not need to know how he stands on court packing.
After commenting voters do not "deserve" to know his stance, Biden walked back on it saying voters have a right to know in another interview.
Snopes→ You Have Rights When You Go To Vote – And Many People Are There To Help
Here's an outline of your rights as a voter and an explanation of where to turn if you encounter trouble at the polls.
Snopes→ ‘I See Dead People’: Why So Many of Us Believe in Ghosts
Unlikely as it might seem in the cold light of day, ghosts and hauntings are a mainstream area of belief.
Top Fact Checks→ Kamala Harris put poor people in prison.
Kamala Harris supported a California law that was tough on low truancy rates and disproportionately affected the poor.
TruthOrFiction→ Were People Left Stranded After a Trump Rally in Omaha?
The aftermath of United States President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Omaha, Nebraska drew as much attention for potentially affecting his supporters’ health than the event itself. Social media posts following the October 27 2020 event
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trash Can Plastered With ‘Ballot Box’ Sign In Philadelphia Was NOT Intended To Get People To Toss Their Ballots In The Trash
Did a worker in Philadelphia disguise trash cans so that people would throw away their ballots? No, that's not true: The posters proclaiming "Ballot Box" on sidewalk solar-powered trash compactors were created to advertise "Ballot Box" an
Snopes→ Did a Church Close Its Food Bank ‘Because It Attracts Poor People’?
One would think poor people are most at risk around food insecurity.
Top Fact Checks→ Frankly, he ran the H1N1, swine flu, and it was a total disaster…700,000 people would be dead right now. But it was a far less lethal disease.
The kind of disaster which U.S. President Donald Trump is suggesting is with regards to the Obama administration's handling of H1N1 is not true. The swine flu is estimated to have killed 12,469 in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disea
Full Fact - All content→ This post telling healthy people to stop getting tested is full of inaccuracies
A Facebook graphic has urged “healthy” people to “stop being tested” and listed a number of reasons why, including claims that 400,000 people being are being paid to be tested every week, 90% have no symptoms, that the governmen
Top Fact Checks→ She’s lied hundreds of times to the people to Congress and to the to the FBI.
President Donald Trump claimed that Hillary Clinton “lied many times to the FBI and nothing happened to her.” He also left the false impression that the FBI deviated from its standard practice by not putting Clinton under oath. FBI polic
Top Fact Checks→ And so when I think about what we need to do, we have 33 thousand people a year who died from guns.
Black Lives Matter is responsible for a riot at a Los Angeles hospital. Two Sheriff's deputies, a 31-year-old female and a 24-year-old male were shot in a patrol car near the Compton sheriff's station south of downtown Los Angeles on Septemb
Snopes→ Did CDC Report ‘Majority’ of People Who Contracted COVID-19 Wore Masks?
U.S. President Donald Trump amplified misunderstanding when he claimed on live television that “85% of the people that wear masks catch [COVID-19].”
Top Fact Checks→ Trump administration has attacked the rights of transgender people – banning them from military service, weakening non-discrimination protection and even removing the word transgender from some govern
The Trump administration has rolled back several rights and measures against discrimination that protected the transgender community.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Zip Ties Are NOT Being Attached To Cars To Distract People Who Can Be Abducted By Human Traffickers
Are human traffickers putting zip ties on cars to distract the car owners and then abduct them? No, that's not true: There is no concrete evidence to substantiate these claims. Multiple police departments, fact checking sites, and nonprof