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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cole Tomas Allen’s Brother Or Family Did NOT Warn Police 48 Hours In Advance Of Shooting At White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Did Cole Tomas Allen's brother or family give the police a warning 48 hours in advance of his shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner? No, that's not true: Court documents filed in the case against Allen state that members of h
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE Image Of Man At Western Wall Shows Cole Tomas Allen
Does a viral image of a man at the Western Wall actually show Cole Tomas Allen, the man charged with the attempted assassination of the sitting U.S. president? No, that's not true: Lead Stories found no credible sources linking the image
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Usha Vance Did NOT Attend 2017 Event With White House Correspondents’ Dinner Suspect Cole Tomas Allen
Did Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, attend the same 2017 conference as White House Correspondents' Dinner suspect Cole Tomas Allen? No, that's not true: The communications office of the Office of the Second Lady at the Wh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fake Passport Image For ‘Priyanka Rao’ Mentions ‘Cole Thomas Allen’ As Her Nationality — Misspells ‘Tomas’ Too
Does a viral social media post show a real passport for someone from India named "Priyanka Rao" who is supposedly the wife of Cole Tomas Allen? No, that's not true: There have been no news reports mentioning that name in connection with t
Full Fact→ Fake picture of Tommy Robinson with White House Correspondents’ dinner shooting suspect shared online
A fake image which appears to show shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen with the British political activist Tommy Robinson has been shared online.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Iconic Raised-Fist Scene From Butler Assassination Attempt Is NOT Hidden Within An Abstract Digital Picture
Does an abstract digital image from 2021 contain a hidden image showing the famous raised fist photo from the 2024 assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa.? No, that's not true: The digital image was presented i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE MSNBC Report Identifies White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Suspect As ‘Kohl Jackson’ With Photo
Does a real MSNBC report identify the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting as "Kohl Jackson" with a picture? No, that's not true: The post is not authentic. MSNBC no longer exists; it was officially rebranded as MS N
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nancy Guthrie’s Daughter Annie Guthrie Was NOT Taken Into Police Custody In The Disappearance Of Her Mother — It’s Viet Spam
Did police arrest Annie Guthrie and seize her vehicle after finding something "deeply disturbing" in the investigation of her mother Nancy Guthrie's disappearance? No, that's not true: At the time of writing, there was no evidence that An
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Viral Video Does NOT Show Caracas, Venezuela Under Missile Bombardment — 2025 Israel Footage
Does a viral video show missiles raining down from the clouds on Caracas, Venezuela on January 3, 2026? No, that's not true: A viral video making the rounds does not show the actual attacks that took place on that date. It is an old video
Lead Stories→ Posts About Removal Of Ruby Bradley’s Service History: What We Know
Was the service history of Colonel Ruby Bradley, an American nurse captured in the Philippines during World War II, removed from official military websites on orders of U.S. President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or DOGE?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Haltbakk Bunkers Facebook Post Saying They Would Stop Fueling American Warships — What We Know
Is a viral Facebook post from Norwegian fuel company Haltbakk Bunkers announcing they will no longer deliver fuel to American military ships real? Here's what we know: Several screenshots of the post calling Friday's Trump - Zelenskyy mee
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Edited Photo Of Javier Milei’s Sister Shows Different Eyes, Nose, Mouth — Original Taken In 2023
Does a viral photo accurately portray Argentinian President Javier Milei's sister Karina Milei? No, that's not true: The image has been heavily edited to completely change her face. The original image was taken in 2023 and shows completel
FactCheck.org→ Fox News Commentator Had Aggressive Cancer Before COVID-19 Vaccines Were Available
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. SciCheck Digest Fox News health commentator Dr. Kelly Powers was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in July 2020, months before COVID-19 vaccines we
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show EU Parliament Standing Ovation For US Decision To Allow Ukraine To Strike Deep Into Russia
Does a video show members of the European Parliament giving a standing ovation to the U.S. decision to permit Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia with U.S.-supplied weapons? No, that's not true: The post's caption mislabels the content o
FactCheck.org→ Crime Stats Still Show a Decline Since 2020
Quick Take Crime statistics compiled by the FBI and other sources show an increase in violent crime, notably murders, in 2020 and a decline since. A revision to the FBI data this year doesn’t change that overall trend, despite claims made on
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Public Records Do NOT Confirm Zelenskyy Bought Italian Villa From Sting For 75 Million Euros
Did a viral video show authentic property records proving that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife bought an Italian villa from singer Sting for 75 million euros? No, that's not true: A screenshot of what looked like a do
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump’s Plane Doing High-Speed Pass Over Airport In June 2024 — It’s Flight Simulator Software
Does a video genuinely show former President Donald Trump's plane, Trump Force One, doing a high-speed pass over an airport after the first debate in the 2024 campaign in June 2024, as a post on TikTok claimed? No, that's not true: The vi
Health Feedback→ No cure for diabetes currently exists; Facebook posts claiming otherwise use manipulated videos of news to promote fake diabetes cure
REVIEW In October 2023, videos that appeared to show news reports about a new drug that cures diabetes and its complications spread on Facebook and TikTok. The videos featured popular anchors at major TV networks, including Wolf Blitzer at CNN and L
Truth or Fiction?→ The ‘Breaking Bad 2 Trailer,’ Explained
In late August 2023, a video purporting to be a trailer for the series Breaking Bad 2 began to appear on Reddit and Twitter — containing spoilers for the popular television series Breaking Bad and its prequel, Better Call Saul: Breaking Bad
FactCheck.org→ What the Cochrane Review Says About Masks For COVID-19 — and What It Doesn’t
SciCheck Digest People online are touting the results of a Cochrane review to incorrectly claim that it shows masks “don’t work” against the coronavirus. But the primary conclusion of the review is that it’s uncertain from randomized contro
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pennsylvania Is NOT Under Court Order To Count Ballots Only On Election Day
Is Pennsylvania under a court order to only count ballots on Election Day? No, that's not true: The post provided no evidence of such a court order. Under current election law, unofficial results will be available within a few days of the
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘This is Not a Renaissance Painting, This is a Picture Someone in Poland Took of the Window of a Train from Lviv’
On March 9 2022, an Imgur user shared a screenshot of a tweet, which contained a photograph with remarkably artistic qualities: This is not a renaissance painting. This is a picture someone in Poland took of the window of a train from Lviv… pic
Health Feedback→ Claim that previously infected people don’t transmit COVID-19 is unsupported, originates from misinterpretation of CDC’s FOIA response
REVIEW On 11 November 2021, Gateway Pundit published an article titled “CDC Admits It Has No Record of an Unvaccinated Person Spreading Covid After Recovering From Covid”. The article claimed that “natural immunity provides better protection a
Full Fact→ Post suggests American WW2 prisoners were British soldiers
A black and white photo of two emaciated men has been circulating in a post on Facebook that has been shared 22,000 times. The post strongly implies they were British soldiers. This is not true. The post states: “The idiots who hate everything Br
FactCheck.org→ Trump on the Stump
We reviewed all of President Donald Trump’s speeches at campaign rallies over five days, from Oct. 12 to Oct. 16. There were six speeches and combined, Trump spoke for more than eight hours, averaging about one hour and 20 minutes per speech. Bel
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Exaggerated Claims on Biden and Pharma in Puerto Rico
At a rally in Sanford, Florida, President Donald Trump made the exaggerated claim that his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, “voted to obliterate” Puerto Rico’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. And during a health care speech in Char
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Dr. Luke Die from COVID-19?
A pair of people on social media managed to create some online confusion around music producer Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald, a.k.a. “Dr. Luke,” on October 4 2020 — apparently independently of one another. The posts both claimed, falsel
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis
On Oct. 2, President Donald Trump revealed that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19. Here we answer common questions about the risks of the disease, treatments available and the shortcomings of testing. What do we know abou
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence ‘Panda Eyes’ Bruising Is A Pedophile Phenomenon or Slang Term
Is the term "panda eyes" a pedophile slang term for swollen, bruised eyes caused by sodomy? No, that's not true. There is no medical evidence sodomy causes these types of injuries in children and an image of a child often used in social m
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Coronavirus: Act Today or People Will Die
Did a story about the grave threat posed by the new coronavirus overstate the threat? No, it didn't. It may sound grim, but it's backed by science, according to medical experts. The story, which has gone viral on social media, appeared in an a
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Iranian Ballistic Missiles Did NOT Hit The Largest US Military Base In Iraq
Did Iranian ballistic missiles hit the largest U.S. military base in Iraq? No, that's not true: there was no strike on the U.S. and Iraqi airbase recently, and the images show the aftermath of explosions in different nations in past years. The