Is it illegal to scream an expletive about U.S. President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: According to First Amendment law experts, such an action would most likely not result in legal consequences and Supreme Court precedent protects mos
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Treasury Department Did NOT Declare IRS Will Monitor Transactions Of All U.S. Bank Accounts Over $600
Did the Treasury Department declare the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will monitor transactions of all U.S. bank accounts over $600? No, that's not true: The Department has made no such declaration. It has proposed a change to the curren
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Oldest Working Nurse In U.S. Did NOT Endorse Humidifiers As Wintertime COVID-19 Prevention Method For Seniors
Did the oldest working nurse in the U.S. recommend that seniors use a specific brand of humidifiers to ward off COVID-19 during the winter? No, that's not true: The video that made the claim used fictional quotes and unrelated footage of
Snopes→ Sotheby’s Puts Rare U.S. Constitution Copy for Auction
A very special birth certificate will be auctioned off later this year — a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution.
WaPo Fact Checker→ Murphy’s misfired claim that 8 out 10 U.S. drones miss their target
The Democratic senator from Connecticut made a startling statement that turns out to be wrong.
Top Fact Checks→ Top medical regulators in the U.S., EU and U.K. are resigning over the experimental mRNA COVID vaccines.
The claim stems from a conspiracy theory to discredit the vaccine's safety and efficacy.
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ No, the U.S. government isn’t telling farmers to destroy their crops
A collection of videos circulating on social media claim the U.S. government is forcing farmers in the U.S. to destroy their crops. Several of the videos say the intent is to cause food shortages and mass starvation in the country. The videos were edit
WaPo Fact Checker→ The claim that the U.S. government already has the power to lower drug prices
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and other lawmakers say President Biden has a tool to lower drug prices. But no administration or court has ever agreed.
Top Fact Checks→ Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is in military custody.
The news regarding Hunter Biden's arrest by the military is false and was originally published by an unreliable website.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That 27 U.S. Air Force Pilots Resigned Over COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate
Did 27 U.S. Air Force pilots resign their commissions after the announcement of the implementation of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all U.S. active duty and National Guard service members? No, that's not true: Lead Stories found no evide
FactCheck.org→ Republicans Inflate Cost of Taliban-Seized U.S. Military Equipment
The Taliban seized an arsenal of U.S.-made military equipment when it overran the Afghan army, but not nearly as much as numerous Republicans have claimed. Several Republican members of Congress and former President Donald Trump have cited a grossly ex
TruthOrFiction→ ‘More People Have Died of COVID in Florida in the Past Two Weeks Than U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan in 20 Years’
As COVID-19 continued its grim progress in the second half of 2021, a September 1 2021 Imgur text post simply titled “Perspective” claimed that more people died in Florida “in the past two weeks” than in the totality of the war
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Forces Did NOT Leave Behind $85 Billion Worth Of Weaponry And Equipment In Afghanistan
Did the U.S. leave $85 billion worth of weaponry and equipment in Afghanistan after U.S. forces left the country? No, that's not true: The figure more closely reflects the cost of total security funding -- ranging from training to counter
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Did NOT Leave Behind Military Working Dogs In Cages In Afghanistan
Did the United States leave behind military working dogs in cages in Afghanistan? No, that's not true: "No military working dogs were left behind," the Pentagon told Lead Stories. The photograph of dogs in cages at the Hamid Karzai Intern
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. military left dozens of service dogs at Kabul airport in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon clarified that the dogs at Kabul airport belonged to a group called 'Kabul Small Animal Rescue.'
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. military left dozens of service dogs at Kabul airport in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon clarified that the dogs at Kabul airport belonged to a group called 'Kabul Small Animal Rescue.'
WaPo Fact Checker→ No, the Taliban did not seize $83 billion of U.S. weapons
Former president Donald Trump and right-leaning social media accounts keep wrongly claiming that the Taliban seized more than $80 billion in U.S. military equipment.
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Cancer and heart disease remain the two leading causes of death in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic
REVIEW Several memes related to the COVID-19 pandemic have become popular on social media platforms since 2020. One such example can be seen in
FactCheck.org→ Instagram Post Wrong on U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan
Quick Take Eleven American military members were killed in Afghanistan in 2020, including four in combat. But, as the U.S. nears its Aug. 31 deadline for a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, a social media post falsely claims that there weren’
Snopes→ U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls Tests Positive for COVID-19
Nehls, a Republican from the Houston area, said that he is fully vaccinated and hopes the symptoms pass soon.
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong.
There is no consensus on the size of the Afghan military force.
Top Fact Checks→ When President Biden took office, U.S. forces had already drawn down from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
Under the agreement signed between the Trump administration and the Taliban a large portion of the troops had left the country by early 2021.
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/ The blame game has begun
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong.
There is no consensus on the size of the Afghan military force.On 16 August, President Joe Biden made a speech in the light of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the chaos that Afghanistan has plunged into since. He said, "We spent ov
Top Fact Checks→ Under Operation Allies Refuge, 2,000 Afghans eligible for special immigration visas and their families have moved to the U.S.
Since July, the U.S. has only evacuated about 2,000 Afghan allies and their families, a small fraction of the 88,000 who have applied for a visa.
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. did not start evacuating Afghan civilians sooner, as Afghan civilians did not want to leave the country.
Thousands of people have been waiting for months for their visa applications to be approved.
FactCheck.org→ Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The blame game has begun over who lost Afghanistan. The fact is, President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, were both eager to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and end what Biden referred to in his Aug. 16 speech as “America̵
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Military Equipment Is NOT Moving Around Country ‘Under Commander In Chief Donald J. Trump’
Is U.S. military equipment moving around the country "under Commander in Chief Donald J. Trump"? No, that's not true: Trump is no longer president per Article 20 of the U.S. Constitution, by which Joe Biden became president on January 20,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tweet That Parents Divorced Over Debt And U.S. Medical System Does NOT Exist
Did a Twitter user named "Becky Lynn Paige" tweet that their parents divorced over $288,000 in debt and "the American medical system"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that such a Twitter account ever existed, plus the counterfei
TruthOrFiction→ U.S. Military Dogs Being Evacuated From Afghanistan
On August 16 2021, CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand shared an image on Twitter which puportedly showed dogs with the United States military dogs as they were getting moved out of Afghanistan as its cities rapidly fell to the Taliban: U.S. military dogs
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ U.S. prison releases complemented other strategies to limit the spread of COVID-19 in jails and prisons, including face masks
REVIEW It’s been over a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began advising individuals to wear masks in public to help limit the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus respons
FactCheck.org→ Biden Leaves Misleading Impression on U.S. Debt
In promoting his own spending priorities, President Joe Biden blamed his predecessor’s “unpaid tax cuts and other spending” for increasing the national debt by nearly $8 trillion over four years. The total debt figure is correct, but
politifact.com/→ J.D. Scholten – About 70 percent of U.S. residents expected to live in the 15 largest states in 2040
“By 2040, 70% of the population is expected to live in just 15 states.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Schools Will NOT Be Closed From August 9 To August 13, 2021
Will schools in the United States be closed from August 9 to August 13, 2021? No, that's not true: The claim came from channel45news.com, a known prank website. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) published on August 4,
Top Fact Checks→ There are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 spreading outdoors in the U.S.
There is limited data on the exact number of people who got infected outdoors. It is still possible to contract the coronavirus in an outdoor setting.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Officer Michael Fanone Was NOT U.S. Capitol Rioter Carrying A Confederate Flag
Was Washington, D.C., Metropolitan police officer Michael Fanone the person carrying a Confederate flag during the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection? No, that's not true: Although photos of Fanone and the person carrying the flag
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. military has arrested Bill Gates.
Bill Gates' detention report originated from a satirical website that declares its content features parody. The military did not apprehend him.
Snopes→ Did U.S. Military Arrest Bill Gates?
A website dedicated almost solely to headlines about famous people being arrested and tried by military tribunals says the Microsoft co-founder has been arrested and will be tried by a military tribunal.
Snopes→ Kim’s Sister Warns South Korea-U.S. Drills Will Rekindle Tensions
“For some days I have been hearing an unpleasant story that joint military exercises between the South Korean army and the U.S. forces could go ahead as scheduled,” Kim Yo Jong said.
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. government is committing genocide, as at least 50,000 people have died within three days of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine has not caused 50,000 deaths in the U.S in three days and there is no evidence of a planned genocide through vaccination.