Is it true that the U.S. government has "never forced anyone to stop smoking" to save lives? No, that's not true: There are many places where smoking is prohibited to preserve the health of others. The claims appeared from a post (archive
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FactCheck.org→ U.S. Army Didn’t Seize Election Servers in Germany
Quick Take A congressman and conservative news outlets are spreading the baseless claim that the U.S. Army seized an election software company’s server in Frankfurt, Germany, that could supposedly prove there was fraud in the 2020 election. There
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Article claiming that “masks don’t work” misleads readers by inaccurately interpreting a withdrawn study and a published study conducted on U.S. Marine Corps recruits
REVIEW This article, written by Daniel Horowitz and published by The Blaze on 16 November 2020, claims that “masks don’t work.” To support its claim, it cites the withdrawal of a preprint (a study that has not yet been peer-reviewed or publish
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Pentagon And The State Department HAVE Issued Condolences After The Deaths of 5 U.S. Service Members In Egypt
Have President Trump, the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department not commented on the deaths of U.S. service members in a helicopter crash in Egypt on November 12, 2020? No, that's not true: Although Trump and the White House
Top Fact Checks→ U.S. Attorney General William Barr authorized an investigation into voter fraud.
Barr told federal prosecutors to examine allegations of voting irregularities in the 2020 elections.
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ The U.S. sees record numbers of daily new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in November 2020
REVIEW Scientists and news outlets sounded the alarm on the rising number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the U.S in the beginning of November 2020 (see here, here, and here). A 12 November 2020 tweet by NBC News journalist Ali Ve
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ U.S. Election Fraud is Real—And It Is Being Ignored
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-election-fraud-real%E2%80%94and-it-being-ignored-171188 Mark Ha
Snopes→ What Happens If U.S. Presidential Candidates Don’t Concede?
For starters, acknowledging defeat isn't a constitutional requirement.
Top Fact Checks→ Votes counted after the U.S. election day are not legitimate.
Voting laws vary from state to state and some laws permit the count of mail-in votes received after the election day.
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ U.S fact-checkers debunked at least 10 hoaxes involving Pennsylvania and Florida on Election Day
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2020/u-s-fact-checkers-debunked-at-least-10-hoaxes-involving-pennsylvania-and-florida-on-election-day/
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ U.S fact-checkers debunked at least 10 hoaxes involving Pennsylvania and Florida on Election Day
Fact-checking organizations based in the United States debunked at least 10 claims and photos regarding the electoral process in two states on Election Day. An overview of this work shows that Florida and Pennsylvania were heavily targeted by disinform
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Electronic ballots are effective, fast and used all over the world — so why aren’t they used in the U.S.?
People living in at least 25 countries might be reading the news today that the U.S. still hasn’t elected a president and asking themselves, “Why isn’t the United States using electronic ballots like us?” In those 25 countries, elec
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ The number of COVID-19 deaths over the entire pandemic is higher in the U.S. than Europe, even when controlling for population size
REVIEW This article, published by Issues and Insights at the end of October 2020, claims that “coronavirus cases are now exploding in Europe at rates far higher than the U.S.,” and, “the share of positive test results is higher in Europe, as i
Snopes→ Live Updates: Snopes Coverage of the Aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Election
When dawn rises on the morning of Nov. 4, there's bound to be misinformation. We'll be there.
Snopes→ Was the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Winner Announced Yet?
The world is watching to see if U.S. President Donald Trump wins a second term, or if Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States.
Snopes→ Live Updates: Snopes Coverage of 2020 U.S. Election Day
If the campaign season is any indication, misinformation is likely to fill social media feeds Tuesday. Get the facts here.
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ FactChat sent a half million messages in 46 days to fight electoral misinformation in the U.S
More than 500,000 messages were sent to 82,000 people in the last 46 days to help them sort facts from fiction using WhatsApp. The total number of messages shared by FactChat, the chatbot launched by the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter I
FactCheck.org→ Trump Spins ER Statistic to Claim U.S. Is in ‘Great Shape’ on COVID-19
At recent campaign rallies, President Donald Trump has made the misleading boast that the U.S. is in “great shape” because 97% of emergency room visits were for something other than COVID-19. But the number is not as impressive as it sounds
Snopes→ Walmart Removes Guns, Ammunition on Display at U.S. Stores
Walmart says it has removed ammunition and firearms from displays at its U.S. stores, citing “civil unrest" in some areas.
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ The percentage of excess deaths in the U.S. not directly caused by COVID-19 range from 14% to 33%; it remains unclear how lockdowns influenced excess mortality
REVIEW A claim that COVID-19 only caused two third of the excess mortality observed in the U.S. in 2020 and that lockdowns are in part responsible for the remaining third circulated in October 2020. One article containing this claim was published by
TruthOrFiction→ As U.S. Election Looms, Agitprop Floods Social Media Platforms
In the days leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the disinformation that has been a hallmark of the Trump campaign, then administration, then campaign again reached new heights with political smears, Soviet-style weaponized conspiracy t
TruthOrFiction→ ‘If You Ever Wonder What Food Is Like on a U.S. Navy Ship, Here It Is, the USS Nimitz (Cvn 68)’
On October 3 2020, Facebook user Kevin Selfaison shared the following image set, which purportedly showed rations aboard the Navy ship USS Nimitz (archived here): Alongside a gallery of 25 images, Selfaison wrote: If you ever wonder what food is li
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Coyotes’ Is NOT A Xenophobic Term For Parents Illegally Bringing Children Into The U.S.
When President Trump said some undocumented children were brought across the southern border into the U.S. by "coyotes" was he using a xenophobic term for the parents of those children? No, that's not true: Trump was using the border regi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The U.S. Government Has NOT ‘Finally Admitted’ Marijuana Kills Cancer Cells
Has the U.S. government "finally" admitted that marijuana kills cancer cells? No, that's not true. A paper published by the government's National Institutes of Health concluded that while "cannabis and its derivatives may help to alleviat
Snopes→ Snopes Coverage of the Final 2020 U.S. Presidential Debate
U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will meet in Nashville for the final debate of the election season, and Snopes will be fact checking it live.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hundreds of Hillary Clinton’s Emails Were NOT Published On The U.S. State Department’s Website In Recent Days
Were hundreds of new Hillary Clinton emails published on the U.S. State Department's website in recent days? No, that's not true: Although Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has pledged to release additional emails Clinton sent when she was S
TruthOrFiction→ ‘For the First Time Ever in U.S. History, a Sitting President Seeking Re-Election Will Not Receive Any Previous President’s Endorsement’
In the days before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, myriad posts and tweets made some version of the following statement: For the first time ever in U.S. history, a sitting President seeking re-election will not receive any previous President’s
Snopes→ Did Trump Add 11.6M Jobs to U.S. Economy During Pandemic?
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence made the claim during a debate with Democratic rival U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Certainty 2020 Will End With Fewer Total U.S. Deaths Than 2018 And 2019
Is it true that, even with the coronavirus pandemic, the United States is on pace to have fewer total deaths this year than in both 2018 and 2019? No, a rough estimate doesn't account for the complexity of seasonal changes in death rates.
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Has the U.S. Reduced Carbon Dioxide Emissions More Than Countries Who Are in the Paris Climate Agreement?
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The Dispatch Fact Check→ Has the U.S. Reduced Carbon Dioxide Emissions More Than Countries Who Are in the Paris Climate Agreement?
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Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Mortality in the U.S. was more than 280,000 higher during the first eight months of 2020 than any of the previous five years over the same period
REVIEW A recurring claim during the COVID-19 pandemic is that the mortality in 2020 is similar to that of previous years. Such allegations downplay the extent and seriousness of the pandemic by suggesting that COVID-19 has no impact on the overall n
Top Fact Checks→ U.S. allies respect Xi Jinping over Donald Trump, according to Pew Research Center.
Although Xi Jinping's ratings are low, U.S. allies have more confidence in him than Donald Trump, a Pew Research Center study found
Snopes→ Snopes Coverage of the 2020 U.S. VP Debate
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris will debate from Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Top Fact Checks→ Joe Biden disclosed the names of the U.S. Navy SEAL team members.
Former Vice President, Joe Biden did not leak the Navy SEAL team's identities, who were responsible for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Top Fact Checks→ Over 6,000 U.S. military servicemen have died due to COVID-19.
The U.S. Defense Department has announced that so far eight military service members have died due to the COVID-19, and 46,346 have been infected.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Trump COVID Vaccine Plan for the U.S. Does NOT Rely On Forced Inoculation
Is forced vaccination of the unwilling part of the COVID-19 vaccination plan released by the Trump administration? No, that's not true: Both the vaccination plan itself and public statements by U.S. health officials emphasize free vaccine
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Other Countries Have NOT Proved U.S. FDA Was Wrong to Withdraw Approval Of Hydroxychloroquine as COVID Drug
Have other countries proved the U.S. Food and Drug Administration endangered thousands of lives by withdrawing approval of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19? No, that's not true: The findings of clinical studies in the U.S. a
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Non-debates have landed in the U.S. — and the country should get over its surprise
As a foreigner and as a fact-checker, I’ve been trying to understand why the American press and voters in the United States were so astonished by the first presidential debate Tuesday between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. I am also interested to se
Snopes→ Snopes Coverage of the First 2020 U.S. Presidential Debate
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are scheduled to debate three times ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. One debate will be held for just the veeps, too.