A May 15 2020 Facebook post by user Joya Foster Follette (captioned simply “A Repost”) circulated virally after the killing of George Floyd, alongside the following image of text describing white indifference to racism: The text in the i
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FactCheck.org→ Minneapolis Police License Plate Doesn’t Raise a ‘False Flag’
Quick Take Social media posts incorrectly claim that Minneapolis police license plates “dont say POLICE,” and that proves the death of George Floyd was a planned event. Actually, many police vehicles in Minneapolis have that license plate.
Truth or Fiction?→ Twitter Adds ‘Glorifying Violence’ Label to Trump’s ‘Looting’ and ‘Shooting’ Tweet; White House Blames Fact Checkers
In the early morning hours of May 29 2020, President Trump published two tweets about unrest in Minneapolis over the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd; Twitter later appended a label to the second over its glorification of violence: I can’t st
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Say Children Should Be Raised By The State
Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say children should be raised by the state? No, that's not true. The fake quote originated on a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump supporters and Republicans into sharing made up stories that are cl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Sign An Order Making Flag-Burning A Hate Crime
Did President Donald Trump sign an executive order making flag-burning a hate crime? No, he did not. The story about the presidential order originated as satire on a website that publishes fake stories designed to trick and embarrass conservat
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Justice Will Not Be Served’ Ben Franklin Quote
After the May 25 2020 officer-involved killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, many social media users shared a quote attributed to Ben Franklin: “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are”:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Order Guantanamo Bay To Prepare For ‘High Level’ Prisoners
Did President Trump order the military prison at Guantanamo Bay to prepare for "high level" prisoners? No, that's not true: The original publisher of the story posted in 2018 determined it was an "unreliable conspiracy" theory and retracted it
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Does NOT Plan To Move Social Security Eligibility Age to 75
Does Joe Biden plan to move Social Security eligibility age to 75? No, that's not true: This story was originally published as satire by a network that trolls conservatives with false claims about liberals and Democrats. The content is often s
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s ‘Breakfast Club’ Interview
In a May 22 radio interview, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made a number of false, misleading or exaggerated claims. Biden falsely suggested that he called for implementing nationwide social distancing restrictions prior to Mar
FactCheck.org→ COVID-19 Isn’t Caused by Bacteria
Quick Take False information that claims COVID-19 is caused by a bacteria and can be easily treated started spreading by text message, and is now viral on social media. Actually, COVID-19 is caused by a virus and there is no treatment for it. Full Stor
Truth or Fiction?→ Obamagate, Explained
Chances are you saw at least a passing reference to “Obamagate” in May 2020, and chances are similar you (like many) struggled to understand what “Obamagate” might actually be. We’ll do our best to break it down. WhatR
AllSides→ The Folly of Twitter’s Fact-Check Policy
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/the-folly-of-twitters-fact-check/ No American, not even the pres
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Showing Dr. Anthony Fauci Saying, ‘No Reason To Be Walking Around With A Mask’ Is From Early March, NOT Recently
Did Dr. Anthony Fauci say "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask?" Yes, but he said it in early March 2020, and much had changed by May. Federal health experts, including Dr. Fauci began recommending that Americans wear a mask in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Judge Did NOT Rule Cliven Bundy And Co-Defendants Were ‘Justified In Their Actions,’ Bundy Case NOT Ignored In The News
Was cattleman Cliven Bundy unfairly forced off his own land by federal agents in 2014, and then vindicated in court because he was justified in his actions? No, that is not true. Bundy owed the government more than $1 million for 21 years of g
Snopes→ U.S. on Cusp of Marking at Least 100K Deaths from Coronavirus
The stark reality comes as only half of Americans said they would be willing to get vaccinated if scientists are successful in developing a vaccine, according to a new poll released Wednesday from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Res
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Man Wearing MAGA-Style Hat In Photo Or Onstage At Trump Rally Is NOT Minneapolis Cop Derek Chauvin, Involved In Death Of George Floyd
Is a man wearing a MAGA-style red hat that reads "Make Whites Great Again" in a photo the Minneapolis police officer who had his knee on George Floyd's neck as Floyd died? No, that's not true: The photo shared widely on social media is of a no
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Amy Cooper Make Campaign Donations to Obama, Buttigieg, and John Kerry?
Amid the fallout of Amy Cooper’s firing for her racist harassment of Christian Cooper in May 2020, some social media users began trying to parse her political leanings as an evidence-free opinion piece in a British publication added fuel to the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It Is NOT Illegal For Businesses To Require Customers To Wear Masks, Masks Are Not A Health Hazard, And COVID-19 Is Not A Plot To Kill Everyone
Is it against the law for a business to require people to wear masks, do masks make you sick, and is COVID-19 no more deadly than the flu? No, none of that is true: The claims of a woman ranting outside a grocery store about the illegality of
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Major Events in USA History that Cause Major Death Tolls’ COVID-19 Chart
In late May 2020, the following chart (attributed to a user named Mario Hardy) began circulating on Facebook, awkwardly titled “Major Events in USA History that Cause Major Death Tolls and 2019 Data”: “Major Events in USA History th
FactCheck.org→ Trump Wrong About Conor Lamb’s Vote on Pelosi
President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a House Democrat from Pennsylvania voted for Nancy Pelosi as House speaker after promising that he would not vote for her. In fact, Rep. Conor Lamb kept his promise. Lamb voted for Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Mas
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Tweet ‘America Is Now GREAT Do To My Sacrifices’
Did President Trump tweet on Memorial Day weekend that "American is now GREAT do to my sacrifices," and that "only losers and haters don't see that"? No, this is not true. A search through the president's Twitter timeline, as well as archives
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci & Big Pharma Did NOT Lose A Massive Supreme Court Case
Did Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Big Pharma lose a massive U.S. Supreme Court case? No, that's not true: The billionaire philanthropist Gates, the immunologist Fauci, and the major pharmaceutical companies have not lost a major high court
Truth or Fiction?→ Social Media Users Reveal White Woman Calling Police on Black Man Filming Her
A white woman caught on video threatening to use a man’s ethnicity against him by calling New York City police to report “an African-American man threatening my life” has offered a public apology after her identity was swiftly expose
Health Feedback→ The main cause of death in COVID-19 patients is respiratory insufficiency arising from viral pneumonia, not clotting disorder as claimed in viral social media posts
REVIEW The claim that autopsies in Italy prove that COVID-19 is not pneumonia but disseminated intravascular coagulation began circulating from mid-April 2020 onwards on various platforms such as Whatsapp, YouTube and Facebook in several languages s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show How The Media Orchestrates A COVID-19 Pandemic
Does a video showing a man standing up after being rolled on a gurney from an ambulance show how the media orchestrates a pandemic? No, that's not true: The video, which apparently was recorded in Russia, has not appeared in any media reports,
Truth or Fiction?→ Was a California Woman Caught Posting a Racist Letter on Neighbors’ Doors?
On May 24 2020, police in San Leandro, California arrested — and then released — a woman revealed on social media as the person behind a string of racist letters harassing Asian-American residents. According to authorities, 52-year-old Nan
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FEMA ‘Smart’ Guillotines NOT Placed In FEMA Internment Camps
Have FEMA "smart" guillotines been placed in FEMA internment camps? No, that's not true: it is a re-cycled conspiracy hoax published by a website known to published bizarre fiction submitted by the general public as news. The claim that intern
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sheryl Crow Did NOT Say, ‘I Forbid My Kids To Watch TV When Trump Is On, I Prefer Classy People Like Hillary Clinton.’
Did Sheryl Crow say on television that she won't let her kids watch TV when President Trump is on, and that she prefers "classy people like Hillary Clinton"? No, that's not true: This clickbait headline has been circulating since 2017. And whi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Win $500 Million Libel Lawsuit Against CNN
Did President Trump win a $500 million libel lawsuit against CNN? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump supporters and Republicans into sharing made up stories that are clearly mar
Snopes→ Biden Says He Was Too ‘Cavalier’ About Black Trump Backers
Joe Biden said he “should not have been so cavalier” in comments in which he suggested African Americans who back President Donald Trump “ain’t black.”
Snopes→ Biden: If You Can’t Choose Me Over Trump, ‘You Ain’t Black’
Joe Biden suggested that African Americans who back President Donald Trump “ain’t black,” comments that stirred controversy over whether he was being condescending to voters.
FactCheck.org→ Dueling Ads in the Kentucky Senate Race
The Kentucky Senate race — likely pitting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell against Democratic challenger, and former Marine fighter pilot, Amy McGrath — is playing out on the airwaves. But the recent TV ads don’t always square w
FactCheck.org→ Facebook Posts Distort Facts on Trump Actions
Quick Take Facebook posts credit President Donald Trump with accomplishing a list of things that haven’t happened — claiming, for example, that he “cancelled” a proposed House bill on contact tracing and “expelled WHO.R
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Brad Pitt Did NOT Reveal Elite Hollywood Pedophiles Control America
Did Brad Pitt reveal "Elite Hollywood Pedophiles Control America?" No, that's not true. The big screen's hunkiest leading man did not drop the bombshell news that he believes Hollywood's elites are pedophiles that control America. The outrageo
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misleads on Hydroxychloroquine, Again
Summary In announcing that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19, President Donald Trump made a series of inaccurate, unsubstantiated or misleading statements related to the drug, which remains an unproven treatment against the coro
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Trump Say There Are ‘Many Per Capitas’ During a COVID-19 Discussion?
On May 20 2020, a number of people on social media referenced remarks by United States President Donald Trump about the meaning of the phrase “per capita”: Trump: "And, when you say per capita, there’s many per capitas. It’s li
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Survival Rate From COVID-19 Is NOT 99.983 Percent
Is the U.S. survival rate for COVID-19 cases 99.983 percent? No, that's not true. The math does not add up. There are at least 95,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 and 1,610,000 confirmed cases in the United States as of May 21, 2020. If onl
Truth or Fiction?→ In May 2020, Did Scientists Find Evidence of a Parallel Universe Where Time Runs Backwards?
If you spent any time on social media in the later days of May 2020, chances are you saw a New York Post article from May 19 2020 about scientists “discovering a parallel universe” circulating on social media, which is apparently a place
The Dispatch→ Did Nancy Pelosi Try to Overturn Trump’s Ban on Travel From China?
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Truth or Fiction?→ Did Michigan Send Absentee Ballots to 7.7 Million People?
On May 20 2020, United States President Donald Trump attempted to smear the Michigan secretary of state’s office in a tweet regurgitating one of his most thoroughly debunked claims. “Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ah