Did the International Olympic Committee issue a lifetime ban against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas? No, that's not true: This claim is from a satirical website, The Dunning-Kruger Times. There is no evidence the Committee has ruled that
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NCAA Did NOT Revoke Swimmer Lia Thomas’ National Championship — Story Is From A Satirical Site
Did the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) strip former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas of her NCAA National Championship record and refer her case to the Indiana state attorney for "possible fraud charges"? No
AllSides→ No, NCAA Didn’t Strip Lia Thomas of National Championship After Test Results
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ncaa-strip-lia-thomas-national-championship/ Claim: The NCAA stripped
AllSides→ No, NCAA Didn’t Strip Lia Thomas of National Championship After Test Results
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ncaa-strip-lia-thomas-national-championship/ Claim: The NCAA stripped
PolitiFact→ Tweets – Lia Thomas was not stripped of her title. This claim comes from a satire site.
“NCAA strips Lia Thomas of National Championship After ‘Unfavorable’ Test Results.”
Truth or Fiction?→ Clarence Thomas ‘Defunct Real Estate Firm’ Controversy
On April 16 2023, a Twitter screenshot was shared to r/WhitePeopleTwitter, claiming that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claimed income from “a defunct real estate firm” for almost two decades: Resign! by u/monaleepari
Truth or Fiction?→ Clarence Thomas’ Right-Wing Benefactor Helped Ginni Thomas Become a Lobbyist
The right-wing real estate mogul who reportedly lavished Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with undisclosed vacations also financed Virginia “Ginni” Thomas’ foray into becoming a lobbyist fighting what was described as a “cu
Washington Post→ Parsing Clarence Thomas’s statements on the gifts he didn’t disclose
We take a line-by-line look at Thomas's rare public comment.
Snopes→ Did Thomas Edison Say, ‘Our Greatest Weakness Lies in Giving Up’?
There's no shortage of fake quotes on the internet. However, this one is real.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fox News Did NOT Revisit ‘Whitehat Military Sting Operation’ Theory — Just Reported On Ginni Thomas’ Texts
Did Fox News revisit a "theory" about a "huge Trump and military white hat sting operation" in 12 states about the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Did this include a statement that the Biden family, elected officials, bureaucrats, social
Poynter→ Why does the Jan. 6 committee want to talk to Ginni Thomas?
Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas will speak to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol about her involvement in efforts to overturn the […] The post Why does the Jan. 6 commit
PolitiFact→ Who is Ginni Thomas, and why does the Jan. 6 committee want to talk to her?
Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist married to a Supreme Court justice, agreed to speak to the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Her role in state lawmakers’ and Trump administration officials’ efforts to overturn the 2020
Snopes→ Did Thomas Paine Write, ‘The Duty of a True Patriot Is to Protect His Country from Its Government’?
We recommend taking a few seconds to search Google for reliable sources before blindly sharing quote memes on social media.
AllSides→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Misquotes Clarence Thomas in Dobbs Decision
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/08/fact-check-joe-biden-misquotes-clarence-thomas-in-dobbs-decision/
Snopes→ Did Rosa Parks Say Thomas’ Confirmation Would Be ‘U-Turn’ on Road to Racial Progress?
The civil rights activist expressed her disapproval of the judge decades before the overturning of Roe v Wade.
PolitiFact→ What Clarence Thomas said about fetal cell lines and COVID-19 vaccines
Fetal cell lines are derived from aborted fetuses and have been used to test and develop vaccines since the 1960s. That includes the COVID-19 vaccines, but some vaccines have closer connections to fetal tissue than others.
Snopes→ Former NFL Receiver Demaryius Thomas’ Family Says He Had CTE
Former NFL Pro Bowl wide receiver Demaryius Thomas is the latest in a growing list of football players diagnosed with CTE.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Thomas Jefferson Say Americans Should Rewrite the Constitution to Account for Modern Society?
On July 4 2022, a viral tweet claimed that Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father of the United States, said that “we should rewrite the constitution every 20 years so that dead people wouldn’t rule over modern society”: Reminder that Thom
Truth or Fiction?→ Rosa Parks on Clarence Thomas: ‘His Confirmation to the Highest Court in the Land …’”
On July 4 2022, a pair of tweets purportedly quoting civil rights activist Rosa Parks on Clarence Thomas began circulating as part of ongoing discourse about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade just before the Fourth of July:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Clarence Thomas Did NOT Claim ‘Aborted Fetus Cells’ Are In COVID Vaccines In Decision Not To Take Up Challenge To NY Vaccine Mandate
Did Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claim "aborted fetus cells" are in COVID vaccines in writing a decision by the Court to not take up a legal challenge by New York health care workers who opposed the state's vaccine mandate on rel
Snopes→ Did Clarence Thomas Incorrectly Claim Vaccines Contain Cells of Aborted Fetuses?
Some mainstream news outlets misrepresented a statement the Supreme Court justice made in a dissenting opinion.
Snopes→ Was Clarence Thomas’ Credit Card Number Leaked on TikTok?
This story doesn't check out.
Snopes→ Did Thomas Jefferson Say Religious Institutions ‘Undermine All Our Civil Rights’?
We looked into the history of a quote attributed to Jefferson on the subjects of religious institutions, civil rights, and the separation between church and state.
PolitiFact→ Tweets – Image of Clarence and Ginni Thomas enjoying bottle of wine predates Roe v. Wade draft opinion leak
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni posted a photo of themselves enjoying a $5,135 bottle of wine “as American women despair about abortion rights being taken away from them.”
Poynter→ Viral photo does not show opponents protesting transgender swimmer Lia Thomas
When University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle event at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming Championship, she made history as the first known transgender […] The post Viral photo does not show op
Washington Post→ Klobuchar claims Ginni Thomas advocated ‘for an insurrection’
The texts from Virginia Thomas are filled with falsehoods, and she wanted the election overturned, but she was not happy with the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Clarence Thomas Was Poisoned — He Was Diagnosed With An Infection
Was Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poisoned? Is that why Thomas was admitted to the hospital on March 18, 2022? No, neither are true: There is no evidence that Thomas was poisoned. A press release from the Supreme Court stated that
Truth or Fiction?→ Virginia Thomas Embraced Conspiracy Theories Long Before ‘Big Lie’ Texts Came to Light
Long before she was revealed to have been pushing for the overturning of the 2020 presidential election, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas — the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — trafficked in conspiracy theories in disinfor
Poynter→ Fact-checking Ginni Thomas’ texts to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows about the 2020 election
Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, made a series of false and conspiratorial claims shortly after the 2020 election in text messages […] The post Fact-checking Ginni Thomas’ texts
PolitiFact→ A fact-checker’s guide to Ginni Thomas’ texts to Trump’s chief of staff
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, made a series of false claims about the 2020 election in texts to Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff.
Snopes→ Was Reka Gyorgy Banned by Twitter for Criticizing Lia Thomas?
A number of misleading and false claims were circulated after Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship.
Snopes→ Justice Thomas Hospitalized with Infection, High Court Says
Thomas, 73, has reportedly been at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since Friday.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Thomas Jefferson did not say this about career politicians and corruption
Says Thomas Jefferson said, “If serving in an elected office ever becomes a career, corruption will surely follow.”
PolitiFact→ Thomas Massie – Neo-Nazi, not Voltaire, originated quote about 'who rules over you'
Says Voltaire said, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Rep. Thomas Massie Tweet a Quote by a Neo-Nazi?
Right-wing Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, in attempting to paint Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “tyrant,” spread a remark first made by a neo-Nazi pedophile that has been misattributed to an actual philosopher. “You mustn’t question Fa
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking a Claim That Ginni Thomas Was ‘One of the Organizers’ of January 6
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PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – There’s no evidence Ginni Thomas organized Jan. 6 events
"Clarence Thomas’s wife was one of the organizers of Jan 6th"
Logically→ Thomas Hughes, the killer of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, has been attacked in prison.
The Ministry of Justice denied all reports of a physical assault on Thomas Hughes behind bars.
Logically→ German doctor Thomas Jendges died by suicide and wrote, “he could no longer be part of the genocide” linked to COVID-19 vaccines in his death note.
Speculation of a note left by Dr. Thomas Jendges is unconfirmed. Additionally, he had publicly spoken in favor of getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
Snopes→ ‘Hooked on a Feeling’ Singer B.J. Thomas Dies at 78
Thomas, who announced in March that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, died from complications of the disease.