Is the Colorado shooting suspect an "Islamic extremist"? Did Democratic senators demand a "ban on further cabinet appointments for white people" one day after that mass killing? No, that's not true: There is no publicly available evidence
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Snopes→ Photos of Migrant Detention Highlight Biden’s Border Secrecy
President Joe Biden's administration has tried for weeks to keep the public from seeing images showing immigrant children in U.S. custody at the border sleeping on mats under foil blankets, separated in groups by plastic partitions.
Snopes→ Trump Endorses Challenger Against Georgia Elections Chief
Current Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified Joe Biden's narrow win in the state.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden Did NOT Cause the Price of Gasoline to Increase
Did President Biden cause the early 2021 increase in the price of gasoline? No, that's not true: petroleum industry analysts agree that prices nearly doubled in less than a year for several reasons not under the control of any president:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video of Joe Biden Talking To Press on W.H. Lawn Does NOT Reveal A ‘Green Screen Fail’
Does this video show a "green screen fail" that proves Joe Biden was deceptively edited into video of a quick exchange with reporters at the White House? No, that's not true. The 46th president was live and in person at the presidential h
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Clip From 1993 Speech Does NOT Prove ‘What Biden Really Thinks About Black Americans’ — He Doesn’t Mention Race
Does a video of then-Sen. Joe Biden saying that the upbringing and background of future criminals does not matter show "what Biden really thinks about Black Americans"? No, that's not true: Biden did not mention race when he made a Senate
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Poll Did NOT Show 70% of Georgians Would Vote For Trump In 2024
Did a March 2021 poll show that 70% of Georgians said they would vote for former President Donald Trump in 2024? No, that's not true: The March 7-9, 2021 poll by Trafalgar Group/InsiderAdvantage notes that only likely GOP primary voters w
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Proves No Conspiracies — Trump Is NOT ‘Real President,’ Biden DOES Fly On Air Force One, Hydroxychloroquine Does NOT ‘Fix’ COVID-19
Is Donald Trump the "real" president, does Joe Biden not fly on Air Force One, does hydroxychloroquine "fix" COVID-19 and do masks not stop the spread of coronavirus? No, that's not true: Biden won the election and became President of the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The ‘Keystone’ Pipeline Was NOT ‘Just About Completed’ When Biden Stopped It
Was the "Keystone" pipeline "just about completed" when President Joe Biden stopped it? No, that's not true: Less than one tenth of the Keystone XL segment of the Keystone system was complete when Biden revoked the permit for Keystone XL
FactCheck.org→ Mailbag: Minimum Wage Increase
A reader sent us comments on our article on President Joe Biden’s statements about increasing the federal minimum wage. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the email we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Schools Are NOT Banning Dr. Seuss Books, Seuss Enterprises Has Withdrawn Six Titles From Publication
Did schools ban Dr. Seuss books? No, that's not true: Lead Stories has not found any recent reports of schools which have banned all Dr. Seuss books in the wake of Seuss Enterprises' decision to cancel six titles of dozens because of "hur
Washington Post→ A viral misfire: A White House video feed ended but Biden took questions
Republicans make a mountain out of molehill to highlight Biden's limited exchanges with reporters
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Donald Trump Will Be Inaugurated On March 4
Will Donald Trump be inaugurated on March 4, 2021? No, that's not true: The "five pieces of evidence" held up to support such a claim have been debunked before or are speculative, assigning significance to otherwise neutral facts. Joe Bid
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Is NOT In Control Of The Military After January 20, 2021
Is Donald Trump in control of the military? No, that's not true: At the time of writing, March 2, 2021, Joe Biden is commander in chief, a position he assumed when he was sworn in as president of the United States on January 20, 2021 on t
Snopes→ Did Lloyd Austin’s DOD Approve Contracts for a Company He Owns Stocks in?
A popular meme regarding the financial entanglements of Biden's secretary of defense used flawed numbers but described a factual conflict of interest.
Logically→ Joe Biden: Uyghur genocide is a “cultural norm” in China.
At no point did Biden say that the genocide is a cultural norm in China. Biden's words have been misconstrued.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Details Of Inaugural Wreath Ceremony Do NOT Mean Biden Isn’t Official President
Is Joe Biden not the official president because soldiers at a wreath ceremony did not wear their decorations on their coats and the 21-gun salute was moved to Arlington Cemetery on January 20, 2021? No, that's not true: Biden is the offic
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Details Of Inaugural Wreath Ceremony Do NOT Mean Biden Isn’t Official President
Is Joe Biden not the official president because soldiers at a wreath ceremony did not wear their decorations on their coats and the 21-gun salute was moved to Arlington Cemetery on January 20, 2021? No, that's not true: Biden is the offic
Snopes→ Did Merrick Garland Call Bill Barr a ‘Liar’ During Confirmation Hearing?
A viral tweet purported to quote a tense exchange between Biden's attorney general nominee and Republican Sen. Tom Cotton.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Communist China’ Does NOT Own DreamWorks Animation
Does "Communist China" own DreamWorks Animation? No, that's not true: In 2016, DreamWorks was acquired by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast Corporation. Both NBCUniversal and Comcast are American companies. The claim appeared in a Faceb
Snopes→ Snubbed as Obama High Court Pick, Garland in Line to be AG
Once-snubbed Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland will finally come before the Senate, this time as President Joe Biden's choice for attorney general.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Send National Guard To Texas – He Can Only Send Homeland Security & FEMA
Did Joe Biden send the National Guard to Texas with food, water and temporary shelter? No, he did not: Each state's National Guard unit is under the command and control of the governor, not the president, and Governor Abbott of Texas has
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Michigan’s Removal of 177,000 Voters From Its Rolls Is NOT Proof Of Fraud
Does the fact that Michigan is removing some 177,000 voters from its rolls after the 2020 election prove fraud? No, that's not true: The cancellations are part of routine voter registration list maintenance, according to the secretary of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Was NOT Silent On The 4 Million People Without Power Due To The Winter Storm
Was Joe Biden silent on the 4 million people without power due to a February 2021 winter storm? No, that's not true. The president did not appear on camera to address the situation, but he made several public statements about the storm an
AllSides→ FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/02/factchecking-bidens-town-hall-3/ President Joe Biden got some facts w
AllSides→ Biden makes at least four false statistical claims at CNN town hall
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/fact-check-biden-cnn-town-hall-anderson-cooper-milwaukee/index.html
Snopes→ Biden Backs Studying Reparations as Congress Considers Bill
President Joe Biden's White House is giving its support to studying reparations for Black Americans, boosting Democratic lawmakers who are renewing efforts to create a commission on the issue.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Joe Biden Did NOT Sign a ‘45% Capital Gains Tax’
Did President Joe Biden sign a bill creating a 45% capital gains tax? No, that's not true: In order for the president to sign such a bill, both houses of Congress would have first have to have passed it. Lead Stories searched for such a b
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden White House Freeze of Trump Executive Order Did NOT Cause Insulin Prices To Increase
Did a regulatory freeze on "any new and pending rules" put in place by the Biden Administration on January 20, 2021 cause the price of insulin to increase? No, that's not true: Among Trump's executive orders President Biden froze for 90 d
AllSides→ Did Trump Tell Supporters To Storm US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-tell-supporters-storm/ What's True: U.S. President Donald Trump
Snopes→ Dems Propose $1,400 Payments as Part of Biden Virus Relief
Democrats on a pivotal House panel proposed an additional $1,400 in direct payments to individuals as Congress began piecing together a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that largely follows President Joe Biden's proposal for battling the pandemic
Snopes→ Does CNN Correspondent Kaitlan Collins Live in an ‘Insane Mansion’?
Journalist Kaitlan Collins was promoted to the position of CNN's chief White House correspondent during President Joe Biden's first term in office.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Corner Wall Is NOT Coming Apart On The Oval Office ‘Film Set’ – Photo Shows A Door In The Round Room
Does a photograph of the Oval Office show a corner wall coming apart in the room, proving that it is a "film set" and not in the White House? No, that's not true. A picture of President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi show
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It Is NOT True That Biden And Trump Have Different Air Force Ones
Does President Biden fly in a different Air Force One than Donald Trump did when he held office? No, that's not true: Biden rides in the same official aircraft as the former president. The sitting president usually uses two main aircraft
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden is NOT Defunding The Department Of Veterans Affairs
Is President Joe Biden defunding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs? No, that's not true: This is a false claim made by a satire website. There is no publicly available evidence that President Biden plans to defund the VA. The claim
Logically→ Biden is a communist.
Biden's policies do not align with the tenets of communism or socialism.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden NOT to Send $3 Trillion on Plane to Iran as Apology for Soleimani Assassination
Is President Biden about to send $3 trillion to Iran by plane to apologize for the drone strike that killed General Soleimaini last year? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump
FactCheck.org→ Buffett Didn’t Donate to Biden or Cause Pipeline to be ‘Cancelled’
Quick Take Social media pages are spreading a false claim that President Joe Biden revoked the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline because of a campaign donation from Warren Buffett. Buffett did not donate to Biden’s campaign. Full Story A viral
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Say, ‘Poor Kids Are Just As Bright And Talented As White Kids’
Did former President Donald Trump say, "Poor Kids are just as bright and talented as White kids"? No, that's not true:Then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made the comment in 2019 while campaigning in Iowa. The claim appeared
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mike Lindell’s ‘Absolute Proof’ Video, Promising To Expose Election Fraud, Relies On False And Unsubstantiated Claims
By Dana Ford and Alexis Tereszcuk Does Mike Lindell's "Absolute Proof" video, which promises to expose election fraud, contain only factual and proven statements about the 2020 election? No, that's not true: The nearly two-hour video recy