Was the United States energy independent four months ago, before President Joe Biden came into office? Has it lost ground in terms of energy independence, and has this resulted in gas shortages in May 2021? No, none of those things are tr
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Top Fact Checks→ President Joe Biden said the COVID-19 vaccine will be mandatory in the U.S.
Biden asked state and local governments to urge their citizens to take the vaccine, but he did not mandate it.
Top Fact Checks→ India received emergency COVID-19 relief shipments from the U.S.
Biden administration sent emergency COVID-19 relief assistance to India to fight the second wave of COVID-19. The first shipment has reached India.
Top Fact Checks→ The Indian government did not specifically request vaccines from the U.S.
India had made a general request for help to the U.S and other countries to fight against COVID-19, and not specifically for ready-to-use vaccines.
Snopes→ English Rockers Genesis Announce 1st U.S. Tour in 14 Years
Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford announced The Last Domino? Tour on Thursday, which will kick off in Chicago on Nov. 15.
Top Fact Checks→ The number of COVID-19 recovery cases is higher in India than in the U.S.
As of April 28, 2021, India has a higher rate of recovery from COVID-19, but experts have warned that the data may not be accurate.
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. has reported 45 mass shootings in March 2021.
A report by Gun Violence Archive depicted that in March 2021, the U.S. recorded 45 cases of mass shootings & 150 incidents in 109 days in 2021.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ohio Child Was NOT Shot With ‘No Questions Asked,’ And NOT All U.S. Capitol Rioters Are Still Alive
Did a child get shot, "no questions asked"? And are all the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, still alive? No, that's not true: A post compares the death of a Black teenager, who was shot by police in Columbus, Ohio,
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. documentary Plandemic has the support of at least 27,000 medical doctors.
The documentary "Plandemic" spreads harmful misinformation on COVID-19. There is no evidence that doctors support it.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Burger Kings Do NOT Require ID To Dine-In
Does Burger King Corporation require its patrons to provide identification verifying a shared address in order to dine in at the same table? No, that's not true: While the Canadian province Manitoba implemented such a COVID-19 policy for
TruthOrFiction→ Was a U.S. Army Sergeant Caught On Video Harassing a Black Youth?
A white sergeant in the U.S. Army was arrested on April 14 2021, days after video spread online of him berating a Black youth in a subdivision near Columbia, South Carolina. The local Post & Courier newspaper confirmed that 42-year-old Jonathan Pen
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. has temporarily stopped administering the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
The U.S. has paused the use of the J&J vaccine as a precautionary measure following a small number of blood clot cases.
Top Fact Checks→ The U.S. physician Dr. Stanley Plotkin used hundreds of aborted human fetuses to develop the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fetal cell lines are used in the study of viruses and vaccines, but these are not the same as fetal tissue.
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ The current U.S. generation is healthier than previous ones partly because vaccines reduced infectious diseases; childhood immunization schedules are safe, contrary to chiropractor’s claims
REVIEW The claim that vaccines contain toxic ingredients and make people sick is recurrent among groups opposing vaccination. An iteration of this claim in a Facebook post from chiropractor Patrick Flynn went viral on Facebook in early April 2021, i
Snopes→ Was ‘The Madness of George III’ Retitled for U.S. Audiences?
The film 'The Madness of King George' deals with the political machinations that took place as the monarch's illness incapacitated him.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Special Forces Did NOT Arrest John Podesta and Huma Abedin
Did U.S. Special Forces arrest former Hillary Clinton campaign aides John Podesta and Huma Abedin? No, that's not true: There's no credible corroboration for an article that makes the claim, which rests on a purported single unnamed sourc
Snopes→ Map Shows Most Popular Pandemic Cocktails Across the U.S.
Apparently COVID-related restrictions on restaurants and bars didn't stop Americans from enjoying cocktails during the pandemic.
Top Fact Checks→ Economic forecasters have projected that the U.S. economy will exceed 6% growth in G.D.P.
On March 17, 2021, the Federal Reserve Officials' median estimate predicted that the U.S. economy would grow by 6.5% in 2021.
Top Fact Checks→ U.S. Political Consultant Neera Tanden has shown support for military intervention in Libya.
Leaked e-mails have shown that Tanden said that Libyans should pay for the U.S. invasion of the country, but she had not explicitly supported the war.
NYT > U.S. > Politics→ Fact-Checking Claims on the Migrant Surge at the U.S.-Mexico Border
As migrants arrive at the southwestern border in increasing numbers, lawmakers and officials are misleading about border policies, migrants, the coronavirus and immigration flows.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Turn Gates Foundation Into A Corporation To Carry Out U.S. Plot To Depopulate Developing Countries
Is the Gates Foundation a multinational corporation that profits from vaccines as part of a U.S. government plot hatched in the 1970s to depopulate developing countries? No, that's not true: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a re
Top Fact Checks→ An armed man was arrested near U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ official residence.
On March 17, 2021, Paul Michael Murray was initially detained by the U.S. Secret Service division for possessing illegal weapons and ammunition.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 9,000 ‘Illegals’ In 2020 And 108,000 In 2021 Are NOT Accurate Numbers Of Border Apprehensions And Entries Into The U.S.
Did 9,000 "illegals" enter the United States in all of 2020 versus 108,000 in the first three months of 2021? No, that's not true: The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed to Lead Stories the agenc
Top Fact Checks→ Robert Aaron Long said the U.S. must “fight back” against China on Facebook.
A screenshot of a Facebook status supposedly written by Robert Aaron Long, the suspected Atlanta gunman, is a hoax.
Snopes→ Did a Prague Newspaper Call U.S. a ‘Confederacy of Fools’ for Electing Joe Biden?
A Czech newspaper editorial purportedly claimed the U.S. was endangered by the people who elected Joe Biden as president.
Top Fact Checks→ U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
There is no evidence to show that Chief Justice John Roberts had visited Jeffrey Epstein's island.
Top Fact Checks→ Special intelligence told Donald Trump about COVID-19 spreading in the U.S.
U.S. intelligence reportedly warned Donald Trump about the existence of the virus in November 2019 and about its spread in January and February 2020.
TruthOrFiction→ Far-Right U.S. Legislators Using Disinformation to Gain, Strengthen Positions
Even as acolytes of former United States president Donald Trump consider running to replace retiring Republicans, his allies already in the U.S. government are trying to throw up barriers to passing broadly popular legislation — but all are leani
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: El Chapo Did NOT Testify In U.S. Court He Paid Off Nancy Pelosi To Keep The Mexican/U.S. Border Open For Drug Cartels
Did El Chapo testify in U.S. court that he paid off House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to keep the Mexican/U.S. border open for drug cartels? No, that's not true. Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was found guilty in 2019 of 10 counts o
Snopes→ Did Biden Say Indian Americans Are ‘Taking Over’ the U.S.?
Roughly 4 million people of Indian origin currently live in the U.S., representing about 1% of the total population.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nevada Voter Has NOT ‘Disappeared’ — She Cast Her Ballot As A U.S. Citizen Living Abroad
Did Nevada voter Christina Gupana "disappear"? Is the "Louder With Crowder" show correct in saying her vote in the 2020 general election was fraudulent? No, that's not true: Lead Stories located Gupana and spoke to her on several occasion
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ The U.S. leads the world in number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, but not in the proportion of the population vaccinated
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world since early 2020, causing more than 100 million confirmed cases and more than 2.5 million deaths worldwide to date, 500,000 of which happened in the U.S. Since the first COVID-19 vaccines were authori
Top Fact Checks→ The Federal minimum wages in the U.S. have remained at $7.25 since 2009, while the wealth of America’s 400 richest has doubled during the same period.
Federal minimum wages in the U.S have been $7.25 per hour since it was last revised in 2009 while the wealth of the top 1 percent has doubled.
FactCheck.org→ Pace of U.S. Vaccinations vs. the World
President Joe Biden boasts that the U.S. is on pace to be the first country in the world to vaccinate 100 million people. That’s true, but per capita the U.S. is not tops in the world in vaccinations. Israel has administered about four times as m
Top Fact Checks→ Over 15 states in the U.S. are debating legislatures to restrict transgender students’ participation in sports.
Bills aimed at preventing transgender youth from athletics are under debate in more than a dozen states in the US.
Top Fact Checks→ Sixteen U.S. states currently allow transgender high school athletes to compete without restrictions.
Currently, there are 16 states in the United States which allow transgender students in high school athletics without any restrictions.
Top Fact Checks→ The army is currently in charge of the U.S. government.
As Commander in Chief, President Biden has been in charge of the army since he took office.
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ The number of new COVID-19 cases fell and daily vaccination increased in early 2021, but no indication that it was due to U.S. president Biden taking office
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the U.S. since early 2020 has caused almost 28 million identified cases and 500,000 deaths in the country. In the midst of this major health crisis, the U.S. have seen an important political shift with
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Southern U.S. Snow Videos Do NOT Show Evidence Of Something Unnatural
Was the snow that recently fell across a large portion of the world, notably in Texas and Louisiana in mid-February 2021, an unnatural substance that was made in a lab or by the government? Did it not melt away into water the way that nor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The U.S.A. Is NOT A Corporation And African Americans Are NOT Still Owned By Anyone
Is the United States a corporation in the way General Motors is? Is the president the head of a corporation called the United States of America? And are African Americans emancipated but not free? No, none of that is true: this conspiracy