Did U.S. President Donald Trump write "No crying in the casino" in a Truth Social post on April 7, 2025? No, that's true: A fake screenshot purporting to show such a post was the result of digital editing. The fake post was shared widely
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 17 ‘Major Cities’ In US Did NOT Issue Evacuation Orders Between April 1 and April 7, 2025
Are there credible reports about evacuation from 17 U.S. cities due to an imminent "mass event" approaching in April 2025? No, that's not true: As of April 7, 2025, neither federal nor local authorities issued evacuation orders for the me
Full Fact→ Was Netflix’s Adolescence based on a true story?
Some, including Kemi Badenoch, have suggested the series was based on a real-life crime committed by a boy who wasn’t white—but the show’s co-creators say it wasn’t based on any single case.
Full Fact→ No evidence Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about ending dual citizenship
Claims that the US president said he is ending dual citizenship “under the Espionage Act” are being widely shared, but he doesn’t appear to have actually posted this.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Austin Metcalf Instagram Post Shows Photo of Guns and Racist Message
Did Austin Metcalf, a Texas teenager stabbed to death in April 2025, earlier post on social media a photograph of guns along with a racist message? No, that's not true: Internet users copied a photo from a 2020 Reddit post, and used digit
Full Fact→ Ian Russell of Molly Rose Foundation on why #FactsMatter
The Dispatch→ The Best and the Worst
The difference between doing the work and destroying things.
The Dispatch→ U.S. Tariffs Imperil Asian Alliances
Meanwhile, China’s military drills raise the specter of a Taiwan invasion.
Internet Archive→ Face the Nation : KPIX : April 7, 2025 2:00am-2:31am PDT
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The Dispatch→ Can We Beat China? | Interview: Sen. Tom Cotton
'The threat with China is much worse than you think.'
The Dispatch→ Motherhood Can’t Be Maximized
Why we shouldn’t apply a growth mindset to childrearing.
Internet Archive→ State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash : CNNW : April 6, 2025 9:00am-10:00am PDT
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The Dispatch→ The Monthly Mailbag With David M. Drucker
It’s our senior writer’s turn to answer your questions.
Internet Archive→ State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash : CNNW : April 6, 2025 6:00am-7:00am PDT
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The Dispatch→ Loving Your Neighbor’s Job
What DOGE gets wrong about work and vocation.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Satire Story About FBI Agents Involved In Mar-a-Lago Raid Being Fired And Stripped Of Pension Originated As Left-Wing Trolling
Is there a real news story saying every FBI agent involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid was fired and did they have their pensions stripped? No, that's not true: A meme making that claim originated on a Facebook page with a satire disclaimer. T
The Dispatch→ Faith, Beyond Worship
A new book by John Kasich celebrates vital community service by people of faith.
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff From the Week the Trade War Started
Tariffs are up, and the markets are down.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Posts Offering Free Food For Needy Americans Is A Click-Bait Operation Based In Zimbabwe
Does a series of Facebook posts offering needy Americans "free food and stuff" provide real information about food banks in the United States? No, that's not true: None of the posts provide any actual locations for those in need to get fr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Copied Satire Story Said Rep. Jasmine Crockett Also Kept Cashing Dead Grandmother’s Social Security Check
Did Representative Jasmine Crockett "conveniently overlook" social security checks going to her dead grandmother for 13 years and did this come out during a DOGE audit? No, that's not true: A meme making that claim originated on a Faceboo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Satire Story About Kash Patel Seizing Bank And Phone Records Of Pelosi Staffers Originated On Page Trolling Conservatives
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.”