States have begun certifying their results from the Nov. 3 presidential election in the run-up to the Electoral College meeting in mid-December.
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Top Fact Checks→ Several key states had more ballots cast than registered voters.
Updated data and individual state reporting show no state had more ballots cast than registered voters.
Snopes→ GOP Leaders in 4 States Quash Dubious Trump Bid on Electors
Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump.
Snopes→ GOP Leaders in 4 States Quash Dubious Trump Bid on Electors
Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump.
Snopes→ States Ramp Up for Biggest Vaccination Effort in US History
A monumental undertaking must distribute hundreds of millions of doses, prioritize who’s first in line and ensure that people who get the initial shot return for the necessary second one.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Comparative Maps Do NOT Prove Dominion Software Was Used In States Where Trump Lawsuits Challenge Vote-Counting
Does a map that highlights states using Dominion Voting Systems software correspond to a second map showing where President Donald Trump is contesting election results in court? No, that is misleading. The Trump campaign has not filed law
Snopes→ States Cite Smooth Election, Despite Trump’s Baseless Claims
The 2020 election unfolded smoothly across the country and without any widespread irregularities, according to state officials and election experts.
Top Fact Checks→ Every United States presidential election has been won either by the Republican or the Democratic party since 1852.
Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party was the last President (1850-1853) to not be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.
Snopes→ Trump’s Baseless Tweets About Vote in 4 States
President Donald Trump continued to tweet out baseless claims about vote counting, targeting four states that he has already lost or where he is trailing President-elect Joe Biden.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Was Not In Lead In Six States That Were Failing To Count And That Were Democrat Controlled On November 4th
Is it true that as of November 4, 2020, there were six Democratic-controlled states that showed President Trump in the lead over Joe Biden? No, this is not true. While Trump was ahead in seven (not six) uncalled states on Wednesday, Novem
Liste→ Hoax circulates online that CIA has granted Thai protest leaders political asylum in the United States
Multiple Facebook posts have shared a claim that Thai protest leaders have been granted political asylum in the United States by the CIA. The claim is false: the CIA does not grant political asylum as it falls under the US Department of Homeland Secur
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: States Did NOT Have More Votes Than Registered Voters
Did several states have more votes than registered voters in the 2020 presidential election? No, that's not true: A post making that claim contains inaccurate data on both the number of votes and the number of people registered to vote. L
Top Fact Checks→ States with over 100% eligible voter registration are likely to be committing fraud.
States with over 100% eligible voter registration is not unusual as many do not regularly update their voter rolls. This does not lead to voter fraud.
Snopes→ 7 States Did Not Count More Votes Than Voters
Outdated statistics were used to spread false claims about voter fraud in 2020.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NOT A ‘Suicide Challenge’ Trending On TikTok In The United States
Is there a "suicide challenge" on TikTok in which children post video in which they hang themselves with a belt and jump off a chair, then pull themselves up? No, that's not true. Lead Stories searched TikTok and found no such video trend
Snopes→ Trump Sues in 3 States, Laying Ground for Contesting Outcome
President Donald Trump's campaign put into action the legal strategy the president had signaled for weeks: attacking the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean his defeat.
Snopes→ Trump Sues in 3 States, Laying Ground for Contesting Outcome
President Donald Trump's campaign filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states as he slipped behind Democrat Joe Biden
Snopes→ Did Trump Warn Against Recounts in Battleground States in 2012?
A years-old tweet resurfaced in 2020 as the Trump campaign called for a recount in Wisconsin.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The National Guard Is NOT Only Being Activated In ‘Blue Cities’ — It’s Happening In Red States, Too
Is the National Guard only being activated in "blue (D) cities" to prepare for possible violence during the 2020 presidential election? No, that's not true: Activations have been reported in both blue and red states, for a total of some 3
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Partisan Spin on Reopening States
As President Donald Trump tells it, state COVID-19 restrictions are a partisan ploy, with Democratic governors purposely keeping their stated closed, while Republican governors are opening. In campaign speeches in states with Democratic governors, he i
Liste→ Ballots received after November 3 will be counted in 22 US states
Social media posts circulating ahead of Election Day advise Americans to drop off their ballots or cast it in person, warning they risk losing their vote if their mail-in ballot arrives after November 3. This is misleading; while some states will not b
Liste→ These photos show fires in the United States, not on South African farms
A picture montage of various wildfires has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook, with claims that it shows farms set on fire in South Africa. While the pictures are genuine, none of the fires happened in South Africa, but rather in the United Sta
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Did Kamala Harris’s Husband Say He’s ‘Married to the Next President of the United States’?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-kamala-harriss-husband-say-hes Viral tweets this week claimed t
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Did Kamala Harris’s Husband Say He’s ‘Married to the Next President of the United States’?
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Top Fact Checks→ Biden: “Look at the states having a spike, they are the red states, the states in the Midwest, in the upper Midwest, that is where the spike is occurring significantly.”
An analysis of coronavirus data by the Associated Press in July 2020 shows that in the first phase of the pandemic, Democrat-run states were harder hit by the virus but spread into Republican areas quickly, with their new cases eventually ac
TruthOrFiction→ Threatening Messages Sent to Democratic Party Voters in Battleground States
In a preview of more organized disinformation campaigns to come in the 2020 U.S. elections and subsequent interregnum period, Democratic Party voters in swing states received threatening emails the week of October 19 2020, ordering them to switch thei
Snopes→ Some States Allow Ballots if Voters Die Before Election Day
Questions over whether ballots will count if someone votes early but dies before Election Day are especially pressing this year, amid a coronavirus outbreak that has been especially perilous for older Americans.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tens-Of-Thousands Of Chinese Soldiers Are NOT Quietly Massing On The Canadian Border Readying For Invasion Of The United States
Is China using a treaty with Canada to mass tens-of-thousands of Chinese soldiers on the Canadian border in preparation for a military invasion of the United States? No, that's not true: Local and Canadian officials say there are no Chine
FactCheck.org→ Trump Overstates Status of COVID-19 Antibody Drugs
Calling investigational COVID-19 antibody drugs “cures” in a video posted to Twitter, President Donald Trump incorrectly said the therapies had been authorized and that “hundreds of thousands of doses” were nearly ready. He also suggested he ha
Top Fact Checks→ The first Indian restaurant in the United States was opened in the mid-1960s.
The first known Indian restaurant in the U.S. was 'Ceylon India Inn,' established in New York City in the 1910s.
FactCheck.org→ Viral Post Overstates Effect of Trump’s Order on Preexisting Conditions
Quick Take A popular Facebook post asks why an order by President Donald Trump “PROTECTING PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS got almost zero coverage,” and suggests it’s wrong to say he is “trying to eliminate that protection.” Trum
FactCheck.org→ Viral Posts Don’t Give Full Picture of Mask Mandates in States
Quick Take Viral Facebook posts misleadingly claim that Florida, Georgia, Idaho, South Dakota and Tennessee have become “mask free.” None has a statewide mask mandate — but individual cities and counties in each of those states do have orders
Top Fact Checks→ Joe Biden does not have any support from law enforcement officers for the 2020 United States presidential election.
Many former and current law enforcement officers have endorsed Joe Biden for President in the 2020 United States presidential election.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Did NOT Say ‘I Am Ready To Take My Rightful Place As President Of These United States’
Did Nancy Pelosi say "I am ready to take my rightful place as President of these United States?" No, that's not true. A website posted a story claiming that the Speaker of the House said she was "ready to take my rightful place as Preside
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The United States Has NOT Labeled Antifa A Terrorist Group
Did the United States label antifa a terrorist group? No, that's not true. President Donald Trump has vowed to designate antifa as a "Terrorist Organization," including via Twitter, but he has not officially done so and the Justice Depart
Snopes→ In Big States, Tiny Counties, Trump Attacking Voting Rules
Election experts and lawyers say GOP efforts demonstrate a new willingness to fight and amplify relatively minor, even legally dubious issues.
Top Fact Checks→ Biden was wearing a wire at the first 2020 United States presidential debates.
High-resolution images show that Biden was adjusting the crease on his shirt and was wearing a rosary on his wrist. The claim is false.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Posts Claiming States Are Issuing Large Numbers Of Unemployment Fraud Warrants Are A Joke
Has South Carolina (or some other state) issued 723,855 (or some other number) active warrants for unemployment fraud? No, that's not true: There is a joke-hoax trend circulating on social media since late July and the information in thes
FactCheck.org→ Trump Again Overstates Speed of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Contradicting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and other government officials, President Donald Trump incorrectly said in a press briefing that a coronavirus vaccine would be “immediately” available to the general public afte
Full Fact - All content→ This viral post understates the risk of Covid-19 infection
A post circulating on Facebook makes several claims about coronavirus, flu and cancer. The post starts: “There will never be an end to Covid. It will never go away. We have to get used to it and get used to living with it. Flu came along, k