Does an authentic video show Taylor Swift saying that the 2025 Los Angeles fires are divine retribution for American actions in Gaza? No, that's not true: The original footage dates back to a 2021 appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Supporting Georgia Sen. Colton Moore After 2025 Arrest — It’s From 2023
Does a video show President-elect Donald Trump supporting Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore after his arrest on January 16, 2025? No, that's not true: The video where Trump praises Moore was originally posted on Trump's official Facebook ac
The Dispatch→ It’s the Culture, Stupid
The Democratic Party’s problem with working class voters is bigger than policy.
Full Fact→ Image of supercar surrounded by flames in Los Angeles is digital creation
The picture has been circulating on social media, alongside captions that imply it’s a real scene from the US wildfires.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, 60 Oregon fire trucks aren’t ‘being held up in Sacramento for emissions testing’
“Oregon sent 60 fire trucks to California to help with the fires, but they’re being held in Sacramento for emissions testing.”
PolitiFact→ More Perfect Union – Does a billionaire couple own almost all the water in California? Here’s why that’s False.
“One billionaire couple owns almost all the water in California."
The Dispatch→ Trump Sentencing at the Supreme Court: Live at GWU
Live at George Washington University.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Melania Trump Holding President Jimmy Carter Funeral Program Upside Down
Is a photo that shows Melania Trump holding the President Jimmy Carter funeral program upside down authentic? No, that's not true: The image of President-elect Donald Trump's wife at the January 2025 funeral for Carter holding a program u
PolitiFact→ What do we know about a smuggling network affiliated with the Islamic State group?
Politicians have tied a New Orleans terror attack to immigration, although the suspect was U.S.-born. Sen. Jim Banks discussed it in connection with a human smuggling network affiliated with the Islamic State group.
PolitiFact→ Meta breaks up with fact-checkers. Here’s how it affects PolitiFact.
PolitiFact and other fact-checkers work independently on the project Meta designed to investigate false claims and hoaxes on its platforms, while continuing to fact-check claims by politicians and pundits and on other platforms.
Full Fact→ Full Fact responds to Meta ending support for US fact checkers
Fact checkers refute allegations of bias in Meta’s ‘disappointing backwards step’ to end fact checking partnerships
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Posts about unidentified child supposedly “found” in several cities aren’t authentic
Photo shows a child “found” in several cities.
PolitiFact→ Social Media – Did a Temu warehouse go up in flames in China? No, a photo shared as evidence is AI-generated
Photo shows a large Temu warehouse in China “went up in flames.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Video of Fort Worth, Texas, car pileup is from 2021, not New Year’s Day 2025
Video shows “Fort Worth, Texas pileup, January (1st), 2025.”
Full Fact→ New Orleans police chief’s upside down badge is tradition
Posts on social media in the wake of an attack on the US city have suggested the superintendent was pictured mistakenly wearing her badge upside down.
Health Feedback→ More evidence needed to confirm association between Alzheimer’s prevention and supplements like curcumin, green tea, or lion’s mane
A reel shared on Facebook in late November 2024 claimed that three supplements—curcumin, green tea, and lion’s mane—could “stop Alzheimer’s disease before it starts”. At the time of writing, it had received more than 63,000 interactions. Th
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Photo falsely tied to Wisconsin school shooting suspect Natalie Rupnow
Photo of a young man in a tie shows Wisconsin school shooter Natalie Rupnow.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – A video doesn’t show Yellowstone supervolcano erupting. It’s an old clip taken in Indonesia
Video shows “Yellowstone’s super volcano is now really, really exploding.”
The Dispatch→ The ‘Yes, But’ Takes on Political Violence Are Piling Up
The response from some Democrats to the killing of Brian Thompson is part of a bigger problem.
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – No, pride flags aren’t banned from the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup
“Pride flags permanently prohibited at FIFA Club World Cup 2025.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Brian Thompson From UK Did NOT Die In Ambulance ‘Held Up By Anti Tax Activists’– He Never Existed
Did a man named Brian Thompson from Romford, U.K., die in an ambulance after "anti tax activists" blocked the roads with "Lamborghini tractors"? No, that's not true: The image of the supposedly deceased man on social media was AI generate
Full Fact→ Health secretary’s claims on smoking aren’t supported by the evidence
The health secretary is wrong to say most smokers will never be able to quit.
Full Fact→ Full Fact AI supports African fact checkers in year of elections
Half the world’s population lives in a country that held an election in 2024. Over 70 countries went to the polls, making it a busy year for fact checkers.
PolitiFact→ Charlie Kirk – In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to people born in the US
The 14th Amendment “has never been challenged at SCOTUS.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – This drug helps manage infections and prevent AIDS, but claims it’s a ‘cure’ are not supported
“New $40K AIDS cure is nearly 100% effective and requires two shots yearly.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UnitedHealth Group Did NOT Continue Investor Meeting After Learning UnitedHeathcare CEO Was Killed
Did UnitedHealth Group continue with its annual Investor Conference presentations even after learning a key executive had been shot to death outside the conference hotel? No, that's not true: A Threads post provided no documentary or witn
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Of Ballot Cheating During Orange County, California, Bomb Threat Livestream Interruption Or Any Other Time In November 2024
Was there ballot cheating during a bomb threat search when the vote-counting livestream went offline in Orange County, California, in November 2024? No, that's not true: The Orange County registrar of voters told Lead Stories that "the ba
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE ‘Manifesto’ Supposedly By Luigi Mangione Posted On Substack — Taken Down For ‘Impersonation’
Was a post on Substack the real letter of explanation by Luigi Mangione, the man who has been arrested in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson? No, that's not true: A Substack spokesperson told Lead Stories the post was remov
PolitiFact→ Transgender youth health care: A fact-checker’s look at Supreme Court oral arguments in Tenn. case
During Supreme Court oral arguments in the gender-affirming care ban case, U.S. v Skrmetti, justices and lawyers sparred over study findings and European regulations. Here’s our fact-checkers’ take.
The Dispatch→ Syria: Proxy War or Local Uprising?
Outside forces made the Assad regime vulnerable to the rebels’ advances.
The Dispatch→ Why Breaking Up Google Is Hard to Do
Antitrust remedies would close a window on innovation.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Elon Musk didn’t threaten to withdraw support of boxing organization over Imane Khelif’s win
“Elon Musk decides to withdraw support” for World Boxing Organization unless Imane Khelif’s “medal and $25 million bonus are revoked.”
The Dispatch→ With an Eye on 2026, Republicans Weigh Support for Patel
Trump’s controversial choice to take over as FBI director puts swing-state legislators in a bind.
The Dispatch→ The Age of Corruption Roars On
Joe Biden’s pardon of his son lays the groundwork for more abuses by the incoming Trump administration.
PolitiFact→ The Supreme Court is weighing trans health bans. Here’s what to expect.
On Dec. 4, Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments challenging Tennessee’s youth gender-affirming care ban. Will the court extend existing constitutional protections against sex discrimination to trans patients or let the ban stand?
Full Fact→ Major League Soccer has not banned Pride flags from 2025 FIFA Club World Cup
A claim being shared on social media that MLS has banned Pride flags ahead of next year’s Club World Cup in the United States is untrue, and originates from satirical online articles.
Lead Stories→ Lead Stories is on Bluesky — Come For the Updates, Stay for the Starter Pack
What's that blue butterfly in the row of social media icons in the sidebar and footer of our website? Lead Stories is happy to announce we are now also present on the Bluesky social media network. Follow our accounts if you want to get im
Health Feedback→ No evidence that John D. Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing” or had practitioners arrested and jailed
REVIEW In November 2024, a video went viral on Facebook claiming that industrialist John D. Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing modalities” in order to profit from selling petroleum-based medicine and had practitioners of “natural” medic
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, abortion clinics haven’t warned of bankruptcy because of a Democratic ‘sex strike’
“Abortion clinics warn they’ll go bankrupt if Democrat ‘sex strike’ continues.”
Full Fact→ List of organisations supposedly leaving X is mostly wrong
All but three of the organisations on the list are active on the platform and have posted within the last week.