At issue are claims Giuliani made in supporting a Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania.
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 58% Of SIDS Cases Reported To VAERS Do NOT Happen Within 3 Days Of Vaccination, Nor 78% Within 7 Days
Did 58 percent of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) happen within three days of vaccination and 78.3 percent within seven days? No, that's not true: Since the VAERS sy
FactCheck.org→ Evidence Gaps in ‘2000 Mules’
A conservative film now playing in select theaters around the country isn’t “determinative, definitive” proof of widespread voter fraud, as former President Donald Trump has claimed. “It’s called ‘2000 Mules,'” Tru
FactCheck.org→ Vaccinated People Not More Susceptible to COVID-19 Than Unvaccinated
Q. Are vaccinated and boosted people more susceptible to infection or disease with the omicron variant than unvaccinated people? A. No. Getting vaccinated increases your protection against COVID-19. Sometimes, certain raw data can suggest otherwise, bu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ted Gunderson Did NOT Provide Evidence Of Chemtrail ‘Death Dumps’
Did a retired FBI agent provide evidence that the United Nations and U.S. Congress is conducting genocide against the people of the world, the United States and even their own families by dumping poison chemicals on them from airplanes? N
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Geotracking NOT Only Evidence Used By Justice Department To Place January 6 Defendants Inside Capitol
Is geotracking the only evidence being used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to place January 6, 2021, defendants inside the U.S. Capitol? No, that's not true: FBI investigators and the DOJ are using the tracking data, along with Wi-Fi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cop At Parkland School Was NOT ‘Stealing Hundreds Of Dollars From Backpacks Of Students’ Before 2018 Shooting
Was the school resource officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, "literally stealing hundreds of dollars from the backpacks of students" just before the 2018 shooting? No, that's not true: The Instagr
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did the Military Arrest the White House Deputy Chief of Staff?
(Screenshot from CSPAN.)A widely shared article from Real Raw News, which describes itself as trying “to bring light to topics often ignored by others,” claims that the military arrested President Joe Biden’s campaign manager and Whit
FactCheck.org→ Republican TV Ad Makes False Claim About ‘Dead’ Voters
An illegal ballot cast on behalf of a deceased voter is rare, and we could find no examples of it occurring in Michigan in 2020 or 2016. Yet, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan falsely claims in a TV ad that “dead people always vote
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent Status of Paul Pelosi’s DUI Charges
Quick Take Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was arrested for alleged drunken driving on May 28. Posts on social media falsely claim that the DUI charges against Pelosi have been dropped. But the Napa County District Attorney’s
Truth or Fiction?→ Supreme Court ‘100 Miles’ Border Ruling
On June 8 2022, a popular tweet claimed that the Supreme Court had recently established a zone within a hundred miles of the border in which border agencies agents could execute searches of homes with impunity: The Supreme Court just ruled that Bor
Full Fact→ Survey of GPs’ retirement plans is not reliable
Half of existing GP workforce intends to retire at or before 60 Pulse, 7 June 2022. Almost half of family doctors plan to retire by 60, poll shows The Times, 7 June 2022. The GP magazine Pulse, claims that about half of the GP workforce intends to re
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Australian Police Officer’ Does NOT Detail Increase In Homicide Rate A Year After New Gun Control Laws Were Introduced
Did an Australian police officer named "Ed Chenel" detail an increase in that country's homicide rate a year after new gun control laws were introduced? No, that's not true: It's unclear whether Chenel ever existed but statistics from the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Of Arson In Minnesota Egg Farm Fire On May 28, 2022 — Investigation Closed, Cause Undetermined
Did someone "torch" one of the largest egg factories in the United States on May 28, 2022? And is this incident connected to an "outbreak" of fires at similar facilities across the country in the past six months? No, those rumors are not
FactCheck.org→ Illinois School District’s Shift to Equitable Grading Is Misrepresented Online
Quick Take A school district in Illinois is considering implementing “equitable grading,” which would focus more on evaluating student learning than class participation or homework. A conservative website misrepresented the idea as a “
Full Fact→ The Spanish Meteorological Agency has not ‘confessed’ to using chemtrails
An image on Facebook of a screenshot says: “The Spanish Meteorological Agency has confessed that Spain is being sprayed with lead dioxide, silver iodide and diatomite.” Other images accompanying some posts claim Spain is being sprayed by &l
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Resign, Trump Is NOT New President As Of June 7, 2022
Did President Joe Biden resign, with former President Donald Trump becoming the new president as of June 7, 2022? No, that's not true: Biden remained president, and the page making the claim that Trump was reinstated is likely part of a s
FactCheck.org→ Ad Misleads on Percentage Increase in Fentanyl Seizures Under Biden
The overall increase in fentanyl seized at the southwest border under President Joe Biden is nowhere near as high as a Republican ad misleadingly claims. U.S. border officials seized 13,021 pounds of the drug in Biden’s first full 15 months in office
Logically→ People in Zimbabwe are selling their toes to make ends meet.
According to the Zimbabwean government, the claims are a hoax and are being spread to tarnish the country's image.
Truth or Fiction?→ Book Lovers Fight Back Against Banning Attempts
As the far right’s attempts to ban books continues throughout the country, book lovers are fighting back. The latest attempt to ban Kurt Vonnegut’s works for “obscenity” has been challenged by both a Florida English teacher and a gr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dominion Machine ‘Manipulation’ Was NOT Responsible For 2022 Primary Election Problems In DeKalb County, Georgia — It Was Computer Programming Error By State
Was Dominion voting machine "manipulation" responsible for 2022 primary election problems In DeKalb County, Georgia? No, that's not true: The Georgia secretary of state's office says it was a mistake in programming the machines for a sing
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Alien Craft Crashed In Ocean — It’s Model Or Animation Of The Millennium Falcon From ‘Star Wars’
Does this brief video show an alien spaceship that crashed into the ocean? No, that's not true: This video shows a model or animation of the fictional starship from "Star Wars," the Millennium Falcon. The audio featured in this video clip
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 84 Members Of Congress Were NOT Arrested For Drunk Driving Throughout 2018
Were 84 members of U.S. Congress arrested for drunk driving throughout 2018? No, that's not true: There is no publicly available evidence suggesting that 84 members of Congress were arrested in 2018, let alone arrested for drunk driving.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Mark Cuban Start an Online Pharmacy?
On June 7 2022, an Imgur account shared a screenshot of a Facebook post about billionaire Mark Cuban starting an online pharmacy offering necessary prescription medications at a low cost: A similar Imgur post was shared on June 6 2022. On Reddit, a us
Full Fact→ BBC didn’t replace boos for Boris Johnson with ‘generic audio’
A post on Facebook, viewed more than 73,000 times, claims that the BBC edited footage of Boris and Carrie Johnson arriving at St Paul’s Cathedral for part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations to replace the sound of booing crowds wi
Health Feedback→ Large-scale studies have found that COVID-19 vaccination doesn’t increase the risk of negative pregnancy outcomes, contrary to claim by Naomi Wolf
REVIEW On 25 May 2022, Steve Bannon, former White House strategist, hosted author Naomi Wolf on his podcast War Room Battleground. During the podcast, Wolf claimed that the babies of vaccinated mothers were dying in disproportionately higher numbers
Full Fact→ Reports that ‘Bernie Gores’ died in both Uvalde school shooting and Afghanistan are fake
A number of posts spreading false reports of a man’s death are circulating on Facebook. The posts share two side-by-side images of a man supposedly named Bernie Gores, one of which claims that he was a teacher killed in the Robb Elementary School
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Murders Are NOT Only 17% Of Gun-Related Deaths In US; The Number Is More Than Double That
Do murders make up only 17% of gun-related deaths in the United States? No, that's not true: In 2020, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 45,222 people died from gun-related injuries in the United States, according
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Dr. Sebi’ Did NOT Cure AIDS
Did "Dr. Sebi" cure AIDS? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Alfredo Bowman -- a self-described herbalist who referred to himself as Dr. Sebi even though he received no formal education -- cured AIDS. Although Sebi claimed his
Truth or Fiction?→ Food Processing Plant Fires in 2022, Explained
A June 4 2022 tweet about the latest in a purported string of food processing plant fires (or “food factory” fires) built on other, similar narratives in order to go viral: The tweet addressed others who might be “not paying attention
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘BP Oil Executive Brice Cromwell’ Does NOT Exist, NO One At BP Wrote Social Media Commentary On High Oil, Gas Prices
Did a BP executive named "Brice Cromwell" write a commentary being shared on social media that blames the high cost of oil and gasoline on the United States not producing enough of "our very own American made product"? No, that's not true
Full Fact→ BBC didn’t ‘censor’ audio of crowd booing over Boris Johnson clip
Claims that the BBC “censored” footage of Boris and Carrie Johnson arriving at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee thanksgiving service to remove audio of the crowd booing have been shared widely on social media. The claim is based on
AllSides→ FACT CHECK: WAS PAUL PELOSI ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD PORN?
https://checkyourfact.com/2022/06/02/fact-check-paul-pelosi-child-porn-arrest/ A video shared on Insta
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Arizona Woman Did NOT Plead Guilty To Role In Supposed Ballot Trafficking Ring From 2020 Presidential Election
Did a Yuma County, Arizona, woman plead guilty to a role in a sophisticated ballot trafficking ring that supposedly stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump? No, that's not true: Guillermina Fuentes did plead guilty on June
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 19,000 Late, Invalid Ballots Were NOT Counted in 2020 Arizona Election
Were 19,000 late, invalid ballots counted in the 2020 Arizona election? No, that's not true: An article making the claim relies on a report that appears to misconstrue what a particular type of receipt shows. It's a record of when electio
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Impeachment NOT ‘In Progress’; Ted Cruz, GOP Lawmakers Did NOT File New Lawsuit
Is the impeachment of President Joe Biden "in progress" as Sen. Ted Cruz and GOP lawmakers file a lawsuit? No, that's not true: The video in the Facebook post does not show Cruz and other GOP lawmakers announcing the impeachment of Biden
Health Feedback→ Published research from the Wuhan Institute of Virology didn’t describe artificially created monkeypox strains; the research is unrelated to the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
REVIEW Reports of unusual monkeypox cases hit the headlines in May 2022, with at least 257 cases and zero deaths in 23 countries as of 30 May 2022. Monkeypox is a viral disease caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus, whic
AllSides→ North Korea: The mystery of its Covid outbreak
https://www.bbc.com/news/61651016 It's been three weeks since North Korea announced its first ever Covi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pfizer Vaccine Data Given To FDA Does NOT Show Up To 97% Of Vaccinated Pregnant Women Lost Their Babies
Does data given to the Food and Drug Administration before Pfizer COVID-19 shots were officially approved show up to 97 percent of vaccinated pregnant women lost their babies? No, that's not true: The Pfizer document that was released as
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Just Destroy A Chinese Spy Satellite With a SpaceX Rocket
Did Elon Musk "just save us" by destroying a Chinese spy satellite with a SpaceX rocket? No, that's not true: This is a baseless clickbait video manufactured for views. There are news stories from late 2021 about close calls between two S