Says Cleveland Clinic said, “Millions of COVID-vaxxed will die within ‘5 years.’”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Website that regularly publishes false information goes after Democrats’ Wisconsin Supreme Court win
“White hats to investigate Wisconsin Supreme Court election.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Fabricated image of Pope Francis greeting a purported Church of Satan priest spreads online
Photo shows “Pope Francis, shaking the hand of the priest of the Church of Satan.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Elon Musk didn’t target Trump’s golf trips in an X post about DOGE
Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Elon Musk didn’t offer $15 million to WNBA star Caitlin Clark
“Caitlin Clark stuns the globe, rejects Elon Musk’s $15 million offer.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – This video does not prove ‘weather modification’ caused northern Michigan ice storm
Video of gray skies in northern Michigan is proof of weather modification.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, AOC is not cashing grandmother’s Social Security checks, this is satire
Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s family “must have just overlooked” “cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for a decade and a half.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Laura Loomer’s X posts don’t prove that national security official added journalist to Signal chat
Conservative activist Laura Loomer’s reporting proves “Alex Wong is the individual who added (journalist) Jeffrey Goldberg” to the Trump administration Signal group text about bombing Yemen.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Posts About Police Searching For ‘Jamie Hodges’ And ‘Kaitlyn Moore’ After Infant’s Death Were NOT Authentic Warnings
Did viral posts spread an authentic warning about two suspects at large in connection with "the death of 10-month-old baby girl Diana Tyler" in March 2025? No, that's not true: Those posts were an example of the bait-and-switch scam. Thei
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Video shows Danish lawmakers laughing at prime minister, not at Trump’s Greenland remarks
Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Retired boxer Laila Ali didn’t die giving birth. She wasn’t pregnant, and she’s alive
“Daughter of boxing legend, Muhammed Ali, Laila Ali, has lost her life while giving birth in a Canadian hospital.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – This isn’t a real Truth Social post from Trump about ending dual citizenship
Says President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am ending dual citizenship under the Espionage Act and all these traitors will be ‘denaturalized and deported.’”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – This police officer isn’t in danger, but your personal information might be; these posts are scams
Photo shows a missing police officer in “extreme danger.”
Full Fact→ From true crime author to fact checking PMQs: Why I became a fact checker
As part of our #FactsMatter campaign, specialist journalist Tony Thompson explains how he came to work at Full Fact, having previously been a crime journalist and author.
Full Fact→ No, cinnamon is not ‘the best remedy in the world’ to treat diabetes
An Instagram video claims that a “cinnamon ritual” can be used instead of conventional medicine to control blood sugar.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump touted a 50% drop in egg prices. Wholesales prices have plunged, but retail prices lag behind
“Egg prices came down 50%”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Posts About a ‘Heavily Stabbed’ Woman Found In An Audi A7 Are SCAMS
Did a series of Facebook posts in late March and early April 2025 offer genuine concern over an unidentified woman supposedly found "heavily stabbed" in a black Audi A7, in various locations in the United States? No, that's not true: Such
The Dispatch→ The Tariff Storm Hits
‘It’s just a massive gift to America’s adversaries.’
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: SABC News Did NOT Report Zelenskyy Bought Northam Platinum Mine Stake — Fake Video With AI Sound
Did the South African Broadcasting Corporation air a news segment saying Ukrainian President Zelenskyy bought a 51% stake in mining company Northam Platinum? No, that's not true: No such video appears on the website or social media accoun
Full Fact→ Podcaster and former politician Rory Stewart digs into why #FactsMatter.
The Dispatch→ Are We Liberated Yet?
Tariff like it’s 1889.
The Dispatch→ Supreme Court Ruling Shows Guns Not a Priority Under Trump 2.0
The high court upheld a Biden-era ban on ‘ghost guns.’
The Dispatch→ Senate Stammers Toward Reining In Trump’s Tariffs
But most Republicans seem to be in his corner.
The Dispatch→ Malevolent Laziness
Trump’s tariff plan is slapdash even by his standards
The Dispatch→ Tariffs, Through the Grapevine
A taste of how Trump's new economic scheme might affect the wine industry.
The Dispatch→ Elon Musk’s Whale of a Tale
His claim on Fox News about a survey that costs $1 billion doesn’t hold up.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading Tariff Chart
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In his Rose Garden announcement of sweeping new “reciprocal tariffs,” President Donald Trump held aloft a misleading chart that claimed to give a breakdown of the tariff
The Dispatch→ Taxation Without Representation
Without meaningful representation, anyway.
PolitiFact→ Cory Booker – Has consumer confidence fallen, as Sen. Cory Booker said? Two key surveys say yes
"The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down."
FactCheck.org→ Legal Scholars Dispute Constitutional ‘Loophole’ for a Third Trump Term
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take President Donald Trump said in a March 30 interview that “there are methods” for him to serve a third term in the White House, and a Daily Mail article ref
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking misleading statements by Trump and his allies about Judge James Boasberg
With more than 150 lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration, Trump and his allies are lashing out at judges — and federal Judge James Boasberg in particular. These attacks need fact-checking.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Myanmar quake affected Thailand, but these photos predate that
Images show damage from an “earthquake in Thailand.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Posts Do NOT Offer Genuine Concern About A 3-Year-Old Boy Found In The Bronx
Do posts about a "young boy, around 3 years old," found in The Bronx express authentic concern about the child said to have been found unattended "an hour ago"? No, that's not true: The content of these posts was later replaced with real
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Posts About Baby Boy ‘Found Abandoned By The Roadside Roughly An Hour Ago’ Are A Scam
Are Facebook posts reporting a baby boy was found "abandoned by the roadside roughly an hour ago" in March and April 2025 genuine? No, that's not true: The posts are part of a bait-and-switch scam designed to lure social media users into
Full Fact→ ONS fixes error on its deaths dashboard
Full Fact→ Lidl is not offering garden tool kits to over-50s for £3
Posts on Facebook asking people to fill out a survey to access the deal are not associated with the retailer, and are not legitimate offers.
Full Fact→ No, mRNA vaccines don’t ‘genetically alter humanity’
Familiar vaccine misinformation resurfaces in a Facebook video, which claims that mRNA vaccines change people’s genes. There is no factual basis for this claim.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Say DOGE Had Found ‘Millions Spent on Golf by One Official’ — Post is Fake
Did Elon Musk say in a post on X that DOGE had uncovered "tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official"? No, that's not true: What appeared to be screenshots of a March 16, 2025, post by Musk to that effect we
Full Fact→ How does the Full Fact team choose what to fact check?
As part of our #FactsMatter campaign, senior politics journalist Nasim Asl answers the question we’re regularly asked as fact checkers.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Say the Late Lee Iacocca Endorsed His 2025 Tariff Plans
Did U.S. President Donald Trump claim that automobile executive Lee Iacocca had endorsed his tariff plans in April 2025, even though Iacocca died in 2019? No, that's not true: In remarks on April 2, 2025, Trump cited praise of his plan fr