Are there news reports about FBI Director Kash Patel seizing phone and bank records for "everyone on Pelosi's staff on January 6th"? No, that's not true: A meme making that claim originated on a Facebook page with a satire disclaimer. The
The Dispatch→ The Guinness World Record of Self-Sabotage
Down goes the Dow.
The Dispatch→ Fake Calculations and Fake Economics
Trump’s tariffs are not about ‘reciprocity.’
The Dispatch→ Why Conservatives Should Love Chappell Roan
Risqué lyrics are mere window dressing for the Midwestern values of her music.
The Dispatch→ The Amnesiac Politics of American Leftists
To credibly critique the right, leftists need to critique themselves.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Ukraine President Zelenskyy didn’t buy a controlling stake in mining company, despite online claims
Video shows South African news outlet reporting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “purchased a controlling stake” in a mine.
The Dispatch→ Silver Linings Playbook
The upside of disaster.
The Dispatch→ How the White House Calculated Its ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs on Imports
The tariff rates are on trade deficits.
The Dispatch→ Tread and Trade Wars
Trump’s tariffs are a bad solution to a manufactured problem that will have real consequences.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Cleveland Clinic didn’t say millions of people with COVID-19 vaccines will die within 5 years
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.