Quick Take A database that claims to show corporate contributions to the “BLM Movement & Related Causes” doesn’t show any contributions from Silicon Valley Bank to Black Lives Matter. But some conservative commenta
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The Dispatch→ SVB’s Political Fault Lines
Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters Tuesday about the government reaction to the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Plus: Trump steps up his retail politics game and House Republicans demand answer
The Dispatch→ SVB, DEI, and ESG
Silicon Valley Bank in Menlo Park, Calif. (Photo by John Brecher for The Washington Post via Getty Images)Did an alphabet soup of wokeness cause Silicon Valley Bank to fail?getContinue reading SVB, DEI, and ESG »
The Dispatch→ The SVB Scramble
A Silicon Valley Bank branch in Santa Monica, California. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)Plus: A Q&A with the freshman representative from Michigan’s 3rd District.Continue reading The SVB Scramble »
The Dispatch→ SVB Failed—and So Did the Feds
Security guards and FDIC representatives open a Silicon Valley Bank branch for customers at SVB headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on March 13, 2023. (Photo by Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images.)The bank’s collapse gave policymakers the chance to sh
The Dispatch→ The Politics of the SVB Bailout
A Brinks truck makes a stop at Silicon Valley Bank's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on March 13, 2023. (Photo by Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images.)Fear and loathing, but mostly fear.Continue reading The Politics of the SVB Bailout »
Truth or Fiction?→ Etsy Sellers Affected by SVB Collapse
After the collapse of tech-industry favorite Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 2023 (quickly followed by the collapses of Signature Bank and Silvergate), several popular social media posts indicated that sellers on the popular platform Etsy were ex
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk, Joanna Gaines Did NOT Endorse ‘Watt Saver’
Did tech entrepreneur Elon Musk join forces with interior designer Joanna Gaines to promote a product called "Watt Saver" that was claimed to help people save on electricity bills? No, that's not true: It's a long-running scam that uses m
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Numbers, January 2024 Update
Summary Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Here’s how the United States has fared since President Joe Biden took office three years ago: The economy added more than 14 million jobs. The number is now nearly 4.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk, Kelly Clarkson Did NOT Promote Weight Loss Gummies In A 2023 Interview
Did music artist Kelly Clarkson and Tesla CEO Elon Musk promote weight-loss gummies in a 2023 televised interview? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Musk and Clarkson promoted such a product. Lead Stories has previously repor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Audio Clip NOT A Recording Of Biden Talking About Bank Collapse — It’s A Fake
Is a social media post featuring an audio recording of President Joe Biden talking about the banks collapsing real? No, that's not true: Experts in digital forensics and deepfakes told Lead Stories that the recording is not authentic. The
Truth or Fiction?→ Researchers: Nazi-Quoting ‘Moms’ Have Forged Ties to Other Right-Wing Groups
As the right-wing group “Moms for Liberty” was caught quoting Adolf Hitler in its material in June 2023, it was also revealed as both an ally to other far-right extremists and a major player in anti-government efforts targeting Black and LG
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Explosion Was NOT Caused By ‘Direct Energy Weapon’ — It’s A Rolling Shutter Artifact In Video
Was an explosion caused by a Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) caught on tape -- showing a beam of light coming down from the sky in the split-second before the enormous blast? No, that's not true: Although this footage of an explosion is real
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Real Experience Of Implanted Microchip In Use — It’s Science Fiction Production
Does a video show a real situation where a person has an implanted microchip in her arm that allows her to buy goods and open her home door lock, then the implant stops working and she is stuck without money or access to her apartment? No
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Typical Tesla Supercharger Station Line — Queue Reportedly Happened Over Thanksgiving 2019
Does a video that shows a long queue for charging Tesla vehicles indicate some sort of government failure? No, that's misleading: The earliest version of this video was reportedly shot over Thanksgiving in 2019. Charging station locations
The Dispatch→ Good Regulator, Bad Regulator
An SVB ATM outside a Silicon Valley Bank branch in Santa Monica, California on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images) It’s important to distinguish between regulation and oversight.Continue reading Good Regulator, Bad Regulator »
The Dispatch→ Silicon Valley Bank’s New Ownership, Explained
(Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)The new deal won’t end the federal government’s involvement in the SVB failure. Continue reading Silicon Valley Bank’s New Ownership, Explained »
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Silicon Valley Bank Donate More Than $73 Million to Black Lives Matter?
A Silicon Valley Bank logo in Tempe, Arizona, on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/AFP/Getty Images) Claims are circulating online that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) donated more than $73 million to the Black Lives Matter nonprofit organization befo
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking a Graphic Comparing Bank Bailouts to Proposed Federal Spending Programs
A Silicon Valley Bank branch in Santa Monica, California, on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images) A graphic circulating online purports to compare the amount of money the federal government spent making the uninsured depositors
The Dispatch→ Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank?
A digitally altered clip circulating online claims to show a scene from an old episode of The Simpsons featuring a run on Silicon Valley Bank. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed earlier this month and social media users are pointing to the clip as evidence
AllSides→ ‘The Simpsons’ did not predict collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-the-simpsons-silicon-valley-ba/fact-check-the-simpsons-did-not-predict-collapse-of-silicon-valley-bank-idUSL1N35N2CO
FactCheck.org→ What to Know About Trump-Era Bank Deregulation and Bank Failures
With the recent failure of two midsize banks, some Democrats have blamed deregulation championed by then-President Donald Trump in 2018. While the law did reduce oversight of small and midsize banks, experts are divided over whether deregulation in 20
The Dispatch→ The High Cost of Cheap Money
A Silicon Valley Bank office in Tempe, Arizona, on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/AFP/Getty Images)SVB relied too much and for too long on low-risk, low-interest investments. Continue reading The High Cost of Cheap Money »
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Silicon Valley Bank Failure NOT ‘First Massive Bank Collapse This Century’
Was the $209 billion Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure in March 2023 the "first massive bank collapse this century"? No, that's not true: "Washington Mutual is still larger, but SVB was the largest since the Great Recession," Julianne Bre
The Dispatch→ The Second-Largest Bank Failure In U.S. History
Employees walk outside of the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)The federal government tries to contain the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse.Continue reading
Truth or Fiction?→ Facebook, Google Supplied User Data to Help Police Locate ‘Abortion Seekers’ in the United States?
On March 5 2023, popular posts on Reddit’s r/technology and r/politics featured an article claiming that Google and Facebook (Meta) supplied user data to police prosecuting “abortion seekers”: Facebook and Google are handin
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Twitter Files’ Hearing Further Exposes How It ‘Bent and Broke’ Rules for the Trump Administration
A House Oversight Committee ostensibly geared toward showing “suppression” of information regarding the laptop of Hunter Biden — the son of United States President Joe Biden and a frequent target of far-right conspiracist fantasies
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk NOT Endorsing Quantum Ai Crypto Platform Despite Falsified CBC Report
Did business mogul Elon Musk and Canadian celebrities endorse the "new" cryptocurrency platform Quantum Ai, according to a video supposedly from the CBC? No, that's not true: CBC News told Lead Stories that they did not publish the video
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence A ‘Tractor Trailer Worth’ Of Classified Biden Documents Found At University Of Delaware — Collection Is Closed
Has a "tractor trailer worth" of classified documents from President Joe Biden been found at the University of Delaware? No, there's no evidence that's true: Although the school has a vast collection of Biden's papers from his 36 years in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lack Of Heart Monitor In Damar Hamlin Hospital Photo Does NOT Prove Illness Was Staged — Monitor May Be Underneath His Clothes
Does a photo showing hospitalized Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin without a clearly visible heart monitor prove that he did not undergo cardiac arrest during a January 2, 2023, football game? No, that's not true: A visible hear
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: No, There Are No U.S.-Funded Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine
(Stock photo from Getty Images.)Several viral social Facebook posts are falsely claiming that the United States has biological weapon laboratories in Ukraine. Examples of widely shared Facebook posts can be seen here, here, and here.But the rumor hasn&
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Eucalyptus Oil Does NOT Cure Hallucinations
Does eucalyptus oil help cure hallucinations or take away symptoms of autism? No, that's not true: Eucalyptus oil does have destressing properties, according to a psychiatry professor, but there are no credible scientific publications pro
Full Fact→ Downing Street quiz picture doesn’t show bin bag over CCTV
Following the emergence of a picture of Boris Johnson appearing to host a Christmas quiz from Downing Street last year, some have suggested that it also shows a security camera in the room covered by a bin bag. The photo seems to have been taken in the
Truth or Fiction?→ Why is OnlyFans Banning Content?
On August 20 2021, an Imgur user shared screenshots of a Twitter thread about the news that OnlyFans was banning sexually explicit content: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concer
Truth or Fiction?→ Kaitlin Bennett ‘WAP’ Tweet
In March 2021, screenshots of a tweet attributed to “Kent State gun girl” Kaitlin Bennett began circulating in which Bennett interpreted the song “WAP,” an explicit and sexually provocative song that has become grist for the far
Truth or Fiction?→ Tom Norton, ‘The Republican Party in Two Tweets’
One of the most popular Imgur posts on March 4 2021 involved a screenshot of three tweets, two of which were from Michigan Republican Tom Norton, pertaining to “cancel culture” in general: Why some Americans allow these nuts to form a gove
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: mRNA Vaccines Are NOT Gene Therapy, Have NOT Killed ‘Thousands’ and Vaccinators Are NOT Violating The Nuremberg Code If They Don’t Call It Human Experimentation
Are the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines gene therapy that alters recipients' immune systems, a potential Nuremberg Code violation for doctors and nurses to administer them without telling patients they are part of a drug tri
Truth or Fiction?→ Were Illinois Police Filmed Arresting Another Law Enforcement Officer?
Footage of police officers seemingly arresting one of their own drew attention — and some cheers — online in December 2020, but authorities have not elaborated on the incident. As the Daily Dot reported, the incident was captured in Harvey
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Department Of Homeland Security Did NOT Craft An Election Fraud Sting With Watermarked Ballots — This Is A Hoax
Did The Department Of Homeland Security craft an election fraud sting by printing watermarked ballots? No, that's not true: The design, printing and auditing of ballots are processes managed by state and local election officials. One of m
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Dave Ramsey Warn Facebook Users About Biden’s Tax Plan?
In late October 2020, a number of Facebook users attributed a post about Joe Biden’s tax plan to money guru Dave Ramsey, instantly imparting far more weight and authority to its claims (archived): In the screenshot, an October 21 2020 post by