Quick Take Democrats tend to win in densely populated counties, while Republicans win more sparse, rural counties. In 2020, the counties won by President Joe Biden had 67 million more residents than counties won by&nbs
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show People Chanting ‘Fk (Fuck) Joe Biden’ in Maui — It Was Digitally Altered
Did the "entire population" of Hawaii chant "Fk (Fuck) Joe Biden" during the president's visit to Maui on August 21, 2023? No, that's not true: A short clip on social media did not show any supposed protesters, and footage of the same eve
The Dispatch→ The Whited Sepulcher
On the supposed heroism of Mike Pence.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Wagner Boss Prigozhin Jet On Fire Before Crashing’ — It Was Filmed Two Months Prior
Does a video shared to social media on August 23, 2023, show Russian oligarch Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin's jet "on fire before crashing"? No, that's not true: While the video itself is authentic, it documented an unrelated plane crash
Lead Stories→ Mike Lindell’s WMD Online Detection Viewer: Dennis Montgomery And A Cryptic Message
Mike & Dennis At Lead Stories we have a long history of looking at Mike Lindell's election fraud claims. Readers will remember our fact checks about Lindell's four conspiracy-filled election fraud "documentaries" here, here, here and
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fauci Did NOT Declare That All ‘Unvaccinated Citizens Must Be Locked Down This Winter’
Did Anthony Fauci state in August 2023 that "all unvaccinated citizens must be locked down this winter"? No, that's not true: Lead Stories watched the entire interview where this quote supposedly originated and found no such statement. Fu
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Interview with Carlson
In lieu of joining his fellow Republican presidential candidates in the Aug. 23 debate, former President Donald Trump granted an interview to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson — who posted it to X minutes before the debate began. Trump made se
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Amtrak Does NOT Offer $1 Card For All US Residents That Lets Them Ride Trains For A Year Without Extra Fees
Does Amtrak have a promotion for a $1 card that allows every U.S. resident to ride their trains with no extra charges for a year? No, that's not true: An Amtrak spokesperson told Lead Stories that the card is a scam offer. The claim appea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Federal Benefits Program Offering $5,600 ‘Health Spending Cards’
Is the federal government giving out health spending cards worth up to $5,600 that every American qualifies for? No, that's not true: The claim that the government is freely giving out health spending cards with thousands of dollars on th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cleveland Clinic Study Did NOT Prove ‘Absolute Linear Correlation’ Between COVID-19 Vaccines And Infection Risk
Does a study conducted by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic provide an "absolute direct linear correlation" that the more COVID-19 vaccines a person receives, the higher likelihood that person has of contracting the disease, thus provin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show An ‘Official Statement’ Saying That Putin Was ‘Assassinated’ or ‘Hospitalized’ in August 2023
Does a video demonstrate an "official statement" confirming an assassination attempt on Russian president Vladimir Putin? No, that's not true: The clip does not contain any images of such a document, and no credible reports from establish
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Rachel Levine Did NOT Refer To Mothers As ‘Egg Producers’ While Visiting A Gender Clinic in Alaska
Did U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine, a physician, describe mothers as "egg producers" during her August 6, 2023, visit to an LGBTQ+ clinic in Alaska? No, that's not true: None of the sources describing this suppo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show 2023 DEW Attack On Hawaii — It’s A 2018 SpaceX Launch From California
Did a laser beam from a Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) blast Hawaii just before the wildfires started in August 2023? No, that's not true: This is not a photo of a DEW laser hitting Hawaii. It shows a time-lapse image of a SpaceX rocket lau
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Latvia Did NOT Plan To Invade Russia In 2023 Or Between 2011 And 2015 — It’s A Parody Account’s Claim
Have Latvia's "secret plans" to invade Russia recently been exposed? And does information from military archives confirm these plans? No, that's not true: The author of the claim later publicly referred to it as "obvious satire." The stor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ‘Secret CDC Report’ Shows Hundreds Of Thousands Of Children ‘Died Suddenly’ Following Rollout Of COVID-19 Vaccines
Does a "secret CDC report" show hundreds of thousands of children "died suddenly" in the United States following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? No, that's not true: The author or authors of the article making the claims did not find any su
FactCheck.org→ Republicans Oversell Archer’s Testimony About Hunter and Joe Biden
Congressional testimony by Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, on July 31 led to competing narratives about what Archer said, and how damaging his testimony was to President Joe Biden. The release of a transcript of Archer̵
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Suits’ Writers Paid Just $3,000?
On August 13 2023, a popular post to Reddit’s r/WorkReform featured a claim about writers for the popular show Suits only earning $3,000 “collectively” for their work on the series: Here’s Why They’re Striking b
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove That Prigozhin Joined Zelenskyy Or That Wagner Mercenaries Agreed To Fight For Ukraine
Did Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin switch his loyalty to Kyiv, reaching an agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that his paramilitary unit would fight alongside Ukrainian soldiers? No, that's not true: A viral vide
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Georgia Has More Than 2 Million ‘Phantom Voters’ On Its Voter Rolls
Does the state of Georgia have 2.2 million "phantom voters" on its voter rolls, a situation that could lead to widespread voter fraud? No, there's no evidence that's true: A woman making this claim in a video on social media provided just
FactCheck.org→ RFK Jr.’s COVID-19 Deceptions
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s battle against vaccines — and against the institutions that promote them — goes back to at least the mid-2000s, as we explain in the first article of this series. But the arrival of COVID-19 gave the environme
Health Feedback→ Testimony by Steve Kirsch on the alleged harms of vaccination relies on flawed, biased analyses
REVIEW Vaccines protect against potentially life-threatening infectious diseases. Thanks to vaccination, some infections, like smallpox and polio, that took more than 400 million lives globally and disabled many others are now eradicated or signific
Health Feedback→ VAERS data don’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are deadly; Steve Kirsch’s claim to the contrary relied on flawed analysis
REVIEW The claim that COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the deaths of many people is a recurring theme of disinformation that Health Feedback has refuted on previous occasions. In yet another iteration of this claim, entrepreneur Steve Kirsch pu
Full Fact→ Amazon is not giving away parcels of ‘sorted electronics’ for £3
A post on Facebook is promoting a fake Amazon giveaway that users can supposedly apply for by following a link.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: VAERS Data Is NOT ‘Crystal Clear’ Proof That COVID-19 Vaccines Are Killing ‘1 Person Per 1,000 Doses’
Does data collected from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) prove that COVID-19 vaccines are "killing an estimated 1 person per 1,000 doses," resulting in "676,000 dead Americans"? No, that's not true: The claim originated
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no stranger to FactCheck.org. He is a prominent anti-vaccine advocate who has been on our radar for years, primarily as the founder of Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit that spreads anti-vaccine misinformation.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Ban ‘5G Across Russia’ Or Destroy ‘All Towers’ — Signal Is Still Present
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin prohibit 5G in Russia, tearing down all the towers delivering it? Not, that's not true: As of this writing, 5G is working in major Russian cities, and the government continues to invest in the expansio
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: British Journalist Martin Lewis Did NOT Endorse An Elon Musk Investment Project
Did Martin Lewis, a popular British financial journalist, endorse an investment platform featuring Elon Musk? No, that's not true: Lewis himself confirmed this is a fake video. This video is a deepfake creation that used Lewis' head from
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Family Said J&J Executive’s Child ‘Died Suddenly’ After Getting A Vaccine
Did the family of 10-year-old Kelsey Morand, who died in Princeton, New Jersey, in July 2023, confirm that her death happened after vaccination? No, that's not true: Publicly available reliable sources do not mention any vaccination recor
FactCheck.org→ Posts Share Fabricated Quote on ‘Permanent Climate Lockdowns’
SciCheck Digest In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum proposed an initiative to reform economic and social systems, called the “Great Reset.” But a 2020 video of WEF’s Nicole Schwab discussing this initiative
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘White Hats’ Did NOT Arrest ‘Black Hats’ in New York State
Were a U.S. Army major and a command sergeant major arrested after recruiting 250 soldiers into a private army "whose mission was to suppress civil insurrection if Joseph Biden wins the 2024 presidential election"? No, that's not true: Th
FactCheck.org→ What Trump Asked of Pence
In an interview hours after former President Donald Trump was indicted for an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, one of his attorneys said that all Trump had ultimately asked his vice president to do was “simply pause
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Doctor Did NOT Represent World Health Organization At COVID Summit In Brussels — She Was Criticizing WHO
Did Dr. Meryl Nass represent the World Health Organization (WHO) at a press conference, boldly outlining plans to ignore existing human rights laws? No, that's not true: Nass does not speak for the WHO. She is an internal medicine doctor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Doctor Did NOT Represent World Health Organization At COVID Summit In Brussels — She Was Criticizing WHO
Did Dr. Meryl Nass represent the World Health Organization (WHO) at a press conference, boldly outlining plans to ignore existing human rights laws? No, that's not true: Nass does not speak for the WHO. She is an internal medicine doctor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: DJ Avicii, Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell, Anthony Bourdain Were NOT All Killed For Their Work On Child Sex Trafficking Documentary ‘The Silent Children’
Were DJ Avicii, Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell and Anthony Bourdain all killed because of their work on a child sex trafficking documentary called "The Silent Children"? No, that's not true: The producer of the movie told Lead Stories
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: DJ Avicii, Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell, Anthony Bourdain Were NOT All Killed For Their Work On Child Sex Trafficking Documentary ‘The Silent Children’
Were DJ Avicii, Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell and Anthony Bourdain all killed because of their work on a child sex trafficking documentary called "The Silent Children"? No, that's not true: The producer of the movie told Lead Stories
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Little Yikes’ Kid’s ‘Ankle Monitor’ Is NOT Real Toy, Nor Is It Sold By Walmart
Is a children's "ankle monitor" toy a genuine product sold in Walmart stores and manufactured by a company named Little Yikes? No, that's not true: A video of the "toy" shared widely on social media in July 2023 was created by spoof compa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Little Yikes’ Kid’s ‘Ankle Monitor’ Is NOT Real Toy, Nor Is It Sold By Walmart
Is a children's "ankle monitor" toy a genuine product sold in Walmart stores and manufactured by a company named Little Yikes? No, that's not true: A video of the "toy" shared widely on social media in July 2023 was created by spoof compa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: WEF Founder Klaus Schwab’s Daughter Nicole Did NOT Say ‘Permanent Climate Lockdowns Coming — Whether You Like It or Not’
Did Nicole Schwab -- daughter of World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab -- say, "permanent climate lockdowns [are] coming -- whether you like it or not"? No, that's not true: There is no record of Nicole Schwab having said that.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Good Harvest’ Does NOT Produce ‘Human Steak’ — That Company Doesn’t Exist And There’s No Human Steak Factory
Is there a "Good Harvest" company that produces "human steak" for human consumption? No, that's not true: Good Harvest and its "human steak" is an invention of the creators of a spoof documentary. The mockumentary is meant as a satirical
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Lady In Green’ Did NOT Hypnotize Mitch McConnell, Freezing Him With A Touch — Sen. Capito Was Standing Behind Him With Others
Did Sen. Shelley Moore Capito reach out and touch Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, somehow causing him to freeze midsentence while he was speaking during a July 26, 2023, news conference? No, that's not true: Capito, a Republican f