Is it illegal to scream an expletive about U.S. President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: According to First Amendment law experts, such an action would most likely not result in legal consequences and Supreme Court precedent protects mos
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Snopes→ Boxer Manny Pacquiao Running for President of the Philippines
The boxer is currently a senator in the Philippines' parliament.
WaPo Fact Checker→ President Biden’s claim of an interview for a job in Idaho
Whether Biden ever got a job offer from Boise Cascade is unclear, but in the past he has spoken of nearly practicing law in Idaho.
Top Fact Checks→ The Taliban found 6.5M dollars stored in Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh’s home.
Islamic Emirate officials alleged that 6.5 M dollars were found from Amrullah Saleh's residence during a raid. This has not been confirmed.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The President Did NOT Refuse To Pay To Fly Remains Of Sgt. Ryan Knauss To Arlington Cemetery
Did the president of the United States refuse to pay to fly the body of Sgt. Ryan Knauss, killed in the August 2021 Kabul airport bombing, to Arlington National Cemetery? No, that's not true: The president is not responsible for decisions
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Return As President And Remove Biden And Harris — This Headline Is Clickbait
Did Donald Trump return to the presidency, removing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris? No, that's not true: This is a clickbait headline that is not supported by the video connected to it. The purpose of the misleading
Top Fact Checks→ Vice President Kamala Harris laid flowers at the wrong memorial for late Senator John McCain.
Vice President Kamala Harris laid flowers at the Hanoi memorial site where late Sen. John McCain was shot down in 1967.
Top Fact Checks→ Vice President Kamala Harris laid flowers at the wrong memorial for late Senator John McCain.
Vice President Kamala Harris laid flowers at the Hanoi memorial site where late Sen. John McCain was shot down in 1967.
Top Fact Checks→ Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is in military custody.
The news regarding Hunter Biden's arrest by the military is false and was originally published by an unreliable website.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden DID Attend The Dignified Transfer Of Slain Service Members At Dover AFB
Did President Joe Biden not go to Dover Air Force Base (AFB) on August 29, 2021, to attend the dignified transfer of the remains of service members killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport in Afghanistan? No, that's not true: A spokes
Top Fact Checks→ A video purportedly shows the Taliban in control of the presidential palace in Kabul.
An old video of Syrian rebels capturing the city of Idlib in March 2015 is falsely claimed to be of the current situation in Afghanistan.
Snopes→ Vid Shows Lincoln Animatronic Partially Collapsed at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents
We also found a second video of Lincoln falling at the Hall of Presidents attraction in 1992.
Top Fact Checks→ When President Biden took office, U.S. forces had already drawn down from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
Under the agreement signed between the Trump administration and the Taliban a large portion of the troops had left the country by early 2021.
Top Fact Checks→ President Biden: “Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation building. It was never supposed to be creating a unified democracy.”
The U.S. initially sought to fight terrorism in its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, but later switched focused to "restoring democracy."
Top Fact Checks→ The Afghan Embassy in India tweeted that the former president of Afghanistan’s chief of staff was sexually exploiting women.
An embassy official said the Twitter account had been hacked. The findings of the investigation into the 2019 sex scandal cannot be found.
Top Fact Checks→ President Joe Biden said that there would be “no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the US Embassy from Afghanistan.”
Biden made the comments during a press conference on July 8, 2021.
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Could President Biden challenge Florida and Texas on mask policies? Probably not.
Amid a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the United States, the White House has expressed concern about efforts by some Republican-led states to prevent school districts from requiring masks. But the question is: Can they turn that concern into some t
Top Fact Checks→ President Biden is in cognitive decline.
President Joe Biden will have a physical examination in 2021, which will be made public, but it is unclear whether a cognitive test will be included.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Of A Teachers’ Union Does NOT Live In This L.A. Mansion
Does the president of a teachers' union live in a lavish Los Angeles mansion? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that a president of a teachers' union lives in the mansion, which at one time may have been the most expensive residen
Snopes→ Trump Absent from Highlight Reel at Disney World’s Reopened Hall of Presidents
Video from Joe Biden's animatronic debut at the reopened Magic Kingdom attraction showed a film that ended with Obama, not Trump.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Win And Audits Do NOT Prove That He Is The President
Did Trump win and do the audits prove that he is the president? No, that's not true: Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. Trump received 74 million votes to Biden's 81 million votes, and Biden received 306 ele
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Was President Macron Covered in Garlands in French Polynesia?
A viral tweet claims to show French President Emmanuel Macron covered in floral garlands that he received upon his arrival in French Polynesia. Noga Tarnopolsky @NTarnopolskyPresident Macron is turned into a human wreath during his official
Snopes→ No, French President Macron’s Security Detail Did Not Quit Over COVID-19 Rules
Right-wing American sources seized upon baseless claims made by a French politician, in July 2021.
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ President Biden exaggerated the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines during a CNN town hall
President Joe Biden exaggerated when he spoke about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine during a CNN town hall. “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” Biden said. It is rare for people who are fully vac
Top Fact Checks→ Joe Biden was never elected president.
Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election with 306 Electoral votes to Donald Trump's 232. A joint session by Congress certified Biden's victory.
Top Fact Checks→ During the Arizona audit of the 2020 Presidential election, 74,243 mail-in ballots were found with no record of them being sent.
This claim misrepresents a normal feature of elections - some early ballots are not returned by post because people choose to vote in person instead.
Full Fact - All content→ No evidence three presidents died because they refused vaccines for their nations
A meme shared on Facebook features actor John Krasinski in The Office with a whiteboard with edited text, which says: “3 countries refused the covid vaccine”, followed by: “Now all 3 of their presidents have died unexpectedly”.
Snopes→ Is This 1961 Pro-Segregation Letter from LSU’s President Real?
The legacy of former Louisiana State University President Troy Middleton is clouded with accusations that his policies were pro-segregation.
FactCheck.org→ Baseless Conspiracy Theory Follows Deaths of Haitian President, Other National Leaders
SciCheck Digest Following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, social media posts baselessly suggest that he and other world leaders were killed or died because they opposed COVID-19 vaccination in their countries. All the leaders nam
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ CNN did not report that President Biden authorized U.S. intervention in Haiti after assassination
An image of what looks like a screenshot of a CNN news story is being shared on social media with this headline: “Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in attack on his residence. U.S Troops on their way.” The image makes it look li
Snopes→ More Suspects Arrested in Assassination of Haitian President
In all, 17 suspects have been detained and another eight are being sought.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden Did NOT Order U.S. Troops To Haiti After President Moise Assassination
Did President Biden order U.S. troops to move into Haiti after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise? No, that's not true: A screenshot of a purported July 7, 2021 CNN article reporting that Biden ordered an American interv
Snopes→ 2 Haitian Americans Detained in Slaying of Haiti President
One of them purportedly is a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince.
Snopes→ Are Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter the Longest-Married Couple in Presidential History?
The couple celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in 2021.
Snopes→ Official: Haiti President Jovenel Moïse Assassinated at Home
Moïse’s wife, First Lady Martine Moïse, is hospitalized, interim Premier Claude Joseph said.
Top Fact Checks→ Kamala Harris has not visited the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming the U.S. Vice President.
Kamala Harris made her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border as the Vice President on June 25, 2021, to deal with immigration issues.
Top Fact Checks→ Former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, has died of COVID-19.
The Thabo Mbeki Foundation slammed the death rumors of Thabo Mbeki, claiming that the reports are false. The former president is alive.
WaPo Fact Checker→ The continuing GOP fiction that President Biden supports defunding police
The Trump campaign kept falsely saying that Biden wanted to defund police. Now that he's proposed to boost funding, GOP lawmakers keep repeating this falsehood.
Snopes→ Did Harry von Zell Introduce the President as ‘Hoobert Heever’?
A notorious radio flub became even more infamous through an exaggerated "re-creation" of it long after the fact.
FactCheck.org→ Presidential Vetoes Rare in Unified Government
When presidents enjoy a unified government, meaning the same party controls the House, Senate and White House, they rarely veto legislation. But Republican Sen. John Barrasso left the misleading impression that it would be some sort of historic anomal