Quick Take Online posts claim that vitamin C can “stop” the new coronavirus. While it’s true that vitamin C can have a marginal effect on warding off a cold, there’s no evidence that it can stop or treat the new coronavirus. Fu
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FactCheck.org→ Trump Attacks Romney with Baseless Viral Claims
Several days after Sen. Mitt Romney was the lone Republican vote to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power in the impeachment trial, the president used his Twitter account to spread dubious and unfounded viral claims about the Utah senator. W
FactCheck.org→ Fake Coronavirus Cures, Part 2: Garlic Isn’t a ‘Cure’
Quick Take Online posts have claimed to reveal various “cures” for the new coronavirus. Some are benign, like eating boiled garlic, while others are potentially dangerous, like drinking chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleach. Neither will cure the
Snopes→ In 2015 Audio, Bloomberg Advocates Targeting Minorities
Billionaire and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg made the comments as part of an overall defense of his support for the controversial “stop and frisk” policing tactic.
Snopes→ Oil From Federal Lands Tops 1B Barrels as Trump Eases Rules
Oil production from U.S.- managed lands and waters topped a record 1 billion barrels last year, as technological advances helped drive development in new areas and the Trump administration eases rules on the industry..
FactCheck.org→ Fake Coronavirus Cures, Part 1: MMS is Industrial Bleach
Quick Take Online posts have claimed to reveal various “cures” for the new coronavirus. Some are benign, like eating boiled garlic, while others are potentially dangerous, like drinking chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleach. Neither will c
Snopes→ UN Warns of ‘Major Shock’ as Africa Locust Outbreak Spreads
The swarms of billions of locusts have been destroying crops in Kenya, which hasn’t seen such an outbreak in 70 years, as well as Somalia and Ethiopia, which haven’t seen this in a quarter-century.
Truth or Fiction?→ Are Americans Getting Jailed for Unpaid Medical Debt?
On February 10 2020, a story about people in Kansas being jailed over medical debt spread on Facebook and Reddit: "You wouldn’t think you’d go to jail over medical bills": County in rural Kansas is jailing people over
Lead Stories→ Fake News: IG Report Did NOT Say Hillary Clinton Committed ‘Sexual Crimes Against Children’ And That Barack Obama Covered Up Those Crimes
Did an Inspector General's Report say Hillary Clinton committed 'sexual crimes against children'? And did Barack Obama lie to cover up Clinton's supposed crimes? No, neither are true: The IG report did not refer to any sexual crimes against ch
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Obama Did NOT Award Medal Of Freedom To Harvey Weinstein
Did former President Obama award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor bestowed on an American civilian, to Harvey Weinstein, the famous producer on trial for sex crimes against scores of women? No, that's not true: The image on
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking the New Hampshire Democratic Debate
Summary Four days before the New Hampshire primary, seven Democratic presidential candidates debated. We found factual distortions on several issues: Former Vice President Joe Biden said Sen. Bernie Sanders “voted to give the gun manufacturers … a
Truth or Fiction?→ Angelika Greg-Delany #WalkAway Campaign: ‘I Came From the Soviet Socialist Part of the Ukraine, I Barely Survived’
Late on February 6 or early February 7 2020, Facebook user “Angelika Greg-Delany” shared a purportedly true account to the group #WalkAway Campaign — purportedly first about her encounter with a Russia-bashing “Bernie Sanders s
Lead Stories→ Fake News: DeWalt Has NOT Created Semi-Automatic Nail Gun
Did DeWalt, an American power- and hand-tool company, create a new semi-automatic nail gun? No, that's not true: The meme shows a fake product, and while most people are in on the joke, some Internet users have thought it was real and wondered
FactCheck.org→ Trump Repeats Falsehoods in Celebrating Acquittal
A day after his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, President Donald Trump made celebratory remarks in the White House on Feb. 6, thanking many Republican politicians and repeating several false and misleading claims, many of which we’ve c
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Pelosi Does NOT Face 3 Years In Prison For Ripping Up State of Union Speech Copy
Could U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi face up to three years in prison for tearing up a copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address? No, that's not true: The law in question applies only to documents that are considered officia
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Bernie Sanders Is NOT Seeking Medical Release From Life Sentence In Prison
Is U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, seeking medical release from a life sentence in prison because he's in the final stages of terminal kidney disease? No, that's not true: The tweet suggesting this mentioned the
Snopes→ Facebook and YouTube Say AI Firm Must Stop Scraping Faces from Sites
Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That told CBS in an interview that it has a First Amendment right to the roughly 3 billion images it has collected.
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking the State of the Union
Summary In his 2020 address to Congress, President Donald Trump stretched and distorted the facts: Trump claimed the economy is “the best it has ever been.” But GDP growth fell to 2.3% last year and economists predict further slowing this year. He
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Video From China Does NOT Show People Trying To Escape Coronavirus Quarantine
Does video from China show people "feeling the heat" of the Wuhan coronavirus as they try to escape the quarantine? No, that's not true: The video is actually from an anti-government protest and was posted on December 18, 2019, well before aut
FactCheck.org→ Omar’s State of the Union Trivia Tweet
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar asked on Twitter: “Have we ever had an impeached President, deliver the State of the Union address while he is on trial in the Senate?” Answer: Yes. President Bill Clinton in 1999. Omar tweeted the inquiry on Feb.
FactCheck.org→ Viral Photo Doesn’t Show Schiff With Whistleblower
Quick Take Viral posts are spreading a false claim that a photograph shows Rep. Adam Schiff with the “whistleblower.” The photo was posted by Schiff and shows his family and his daughter’s boyfriend — who is a college student, n
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Kobe Bryant NOT Assassinated By NBA, Big Pharma
Was Kobe Bryant assassinated by the NBA or Big Pharma? No, that's not true: This is a tasteless hoax being perpetrated by a conspiracy theorist who offered no evidence to support his accusations. The claims originated from a series of videos p
FactCheck.org→ Club for Growth Action
Political leanings: Conservative 2018 total spending: $19.6 million Club for Growth Action, the super PAC of the conservative Club for Growth, was launched in August 2010. On its website, the organization declares its mission is to “take on any
FactCheck.org→ Trump Exaggerates China Trade Impact on Farmers
At his rally in Iowa, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the new trade agreement with China “will boost American agriculture by $50 billion every year.” China agreed to increase agricultural purchases by $12.5 billion this year and
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Malcolm Gladwell Say Penn State Should Restore a Statue of Joe Paterno?
Author Malcolm Gladwell’s latest defense of deceased Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno drew attention on January 29 2020. During a speech at the campus in State College, Pennsylvania, Gladwell once again said that a statue of Pate
Lead Stories→ Fake News: TMZ Informant NOT Charged With Murder of Kobe Bryant and Others
Has a TMZ informant been charged with murder of Kobe Bryant and others? No, that's not true: That is a fake report from a website with a history of publishing unfounded claims. There has been no arrest in the crash of the NBA star's helicopter
FactCheck.org→ Buttigieg Gives Trump Too Much Blame for Debt
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg blamed tax cuts backed by President Donald Trump for creating the nation’s debt problem. But while the Congressional Budget Office says those tax cuts are worsening the nation’s debt, spirali
Snopes→ Warren Buffett Gets Out of the Newspaper Business
Billionaire Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, is selling 31 daily newspapers and 81 other publications.
FactCheck.org→ New Coronavirus Wasn’t ‘Predicted’ In Simulation
Quick Take A conspiracy theory website distorted the facts about an emergency preparedness exercise to suggest that the “GATES FOUNDATION & OTHERS PREDICTED UP TO 65 MILLION DEATHS” from the coronavirus now spreading. The event dealt wi
Snopes→ San Francisco Official Charged with Corruption in FBI Probe
A top San Francisco official tasked with keeping the streets clean was charged with public corruption in schemes that include offering a bribe for space at San Francisco International Airport, providing inside information to a friend seeking permits to
Snopes→ Trump Defense Counsel Ken Starr Says Impeachment Is ‘Hell’
Starr, with a nod to his own role in the impeachment of Bill Clinton, argued that it's time to bring an end to “the age of impeachment.”
Truth or Fiction?→ Can You Get Coronavirus from Wish.com Products?
As concern over coronavirus spread in late January 2020, Facebook users began to share memes claiming that all products from ubiquitous seller Wish.com shipped from Wuhan, China — thought to be the region from which a massive outbreak of what
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Nancy Pelosi Did NOT Use $15,000 Worth Of Bullet Pens To Sign Articles Of Impeachment
Did Nancy Pelosi use $15,000 worth of bullet pens to ink the articles of impeachment against President Trump? No, that's not true: This was a made-up claim that took on a life of its own after many conservatives were outraged that the House Sp
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Attorney General William Barr Is NOT About To Announce Federal Regulations Banning Sharia Law In USA
Is U.S. Attorney General William Barr about to announce federal regulations banning Sharia Law in the United States? No, that's not true: The story was posted on a satirical site that trolls conservatives and bills itself as "satire for Islamp
Lead Stories→ Fake News: ‘High-Level Exercise’ Conducted 3 Months Ago Did NOT Show That A Coronavirus Pandemic Could Kill 65 Million People
Did a "high-level exercise" conducted three months ago show that a coronavirus pandemic could kill 65 million people? No, that's not true: The organizers of the event, which was held in October 2019, have issued a statement saying that they ma
FactCheck.org→ Misleading Posts Target Nine Republicans on Impeachment
Quick Take Posts circulating amid the Senate impeachment trial misleadingly accuse nine Republican senators of having “joined Democrats on impeachment.” The claim originated in October as a list of senators who had not yet co-sponsored an impeachme
FactCheck.org→ False Claim Ukraine Got Aid ‘Before Schedule’
President Donald Trump, who last year froze hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid for Ukraine, claimed “they got all” of it “long before schedule.” That’s false. The freeze that Trump directed lasted about two months last summer
FactCheck.org→ Biden vs. Sanders on Social Security and Medicare
Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden have been trading barbs over Biden’s record on Social Security and Medicare. Sanders accuses Biden of saying “on many occasions we should cut Social Security,” and Biden accuses
Truth or Fiction?→ Alabama Senate Blocks Attempts to Raise Minimum Wage in Birmingham
In Janaury 2020, a number of Facebook users shared an article headlined “Alabama senate blocks attempts to raise minimum wage in Birmingham,” a piece which spread against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential elections and a national discu