Did a jeering crowd chant "Fuck Joe Biden" at the president as he was leaving church with his granddaughter on Mother's Day? No, that's not true: The audio on this video clip has been edited to add the sound of an aggressive crowd chantin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Breyers Ice Cream Is STILL Legally Ice Cream
Is Breyers ice cream now, legally, no longer ice cream? No, that's not true: The company sells multiple flavors of ice cream and others that are frozen dairy desserts. Some of Breyers' products are labeled "frozen dairy dessert" as they a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fico Shooting Suspect’s Wife Is NOT Ukrainian Refugee — Police Said Such Speculation Is ‘Hoax’
Is the wife of the suspect in the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico a Ukrainian refugee? No, that's not true: The head of the country's national police said that such speculations on social media are "definit
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Joe Biden In Sexually Suggestive Pictures With A Girl — Man Pictured Is Someone Else
Does footage exist that shows President Joe Biden possibly naked with a girl? No, that's not true: The image shown in the social media post is not of Biden. Instead, it is a screenshot from a video that has appeared on pornographic websit
PolitiFact→ X posts – Would Sen. Katie Britt’s bill ‘create a national registry of pregnant women’? No.
Sen. Katie Britt introduced a bill “to create a national registry of pregnant women.”
FactCheck.org→ Biden Twists Trump’s Comments on Tracking Pregnancies and Punishing Women Who Get Abortions
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In an interview with Time, former President Donald Trump was asked, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, if states should monitor women’s pregnancies and/or prosecute women wh
PolitiFact→ X posts – Video of Slovakia Prime Minister speaking against WHO was from November, not ‘last week’
Video shows Slovakia Prime Minister Fico speaking against the World Health Organization the week before he was the target of an assassination attempt.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Was NOT Awarded ‘Greatest Trader In Congress’ — Altered Video With Fake Audio And Chyron
Did President Joe Biden award Rep. Nancy Pelosi a medal for being the "Greatest Trader In Congress"? No, that's not true: This video clip has been edited to display a fake NBC News chyron and to add a fake audio track. This video shows in
The Dispatch→ A Tableau of Impunity
No, Mitt Romney, Trump shouldn’t have been pardoned.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No proof Barbara O’Neill’s cousin ‘was sentenced to life in prison’
“They are hiding the fact that Barbara O’Neill’s cousin was sentenced to life in prison for revealing these gatekept health secrets.”
PolitiFact→ Tucker Carlson – Was Lyme disease spread as a bioweapon? No, that theory is Pants on Fire!
Lyme disease became endemic because of U.S. government bioweapons labs.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ JFK airport project misrepresented as not allowing bids from white, male-owned businesses
Social media users are falsely claiming that certain businesses will be excluded from JFK’s multibillion dollar redevelopment based on the race and gender of their owners.
FactCheck.org→ ‘Who Is Bobby Kennedy?’ Video Promotes Debunked Anti-Vaccine Narratives
A recent video promoting independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promises to “start with some irrefutable facts.” The over 30-minute video, narrated by actor Woody Harrelson, begins with some biographical truths abo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show French Prisoners Celebrating Police Deaths, Ambush Of May 2024
Does a video show French prisoners celebrating the killing of two police officers in an ambush in May 2024? No, that's not true: The video predates the attack. The ambush happened as a prisoner named Mohamed Amra rode in a prison van; a c
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Don’t get clowned! Apple isn’t getting rid of the clown emoji. That headline is fake.
CNBC reported that "Apple device update set to remove clown emoji" because it has become a far-right symbol.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – The Antisemitism Act hasn’t proposed to ‘eliminate’ part of the Bible
“The House of Representatives in the U.S. just passed … the Antisemitism Act that proposes to eliminate part of the Bible.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Black Pepper Essential Oil Does NOT Cure Arthritis Or Rheumatism
Can black pepper oil cure arthritis and rheumatism, as a post on Facebook implied? No, that's not true: There is no known cure for osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, a spokesperson for the Thurston Arthritis Research Cente
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fico Shooting Suspect Is NOT Member Of Pro-Western Progressive Party — Interior Minister, Party Chairman Denied It
Is a man suspected of shooting Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico a member of the Progressive party opposing Fico's policies? No, that's not true: Both Progressive Slovakia's chairman and the interior minister rejected such claims. As
Health Feedback→ Claim that fungi are the sole cause of cancer misinterprets data, makes baseless assumptions
REVIEW On 30 April 2024, the Facebook page Know The Cause published
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Proposed changes to Michigan election recounts would not ban ‘voter fraud investigations’
“Voter fraud investigations are being banned by Michigan lawmakers!”
The Dispatch→ The Broadband Era Takes a Hit
With the Affordable Connectivity Program ending, it's up to Congress whether to prioritize universal service.
The Dispatch→ The Republican Pilgrimage to Donald Trump’s Trial
Plus: What we know—and what we don’t—about the SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity.
The Dispatch→ Posts Claim Falsely That AstraZeneca Is Withdrawing Its COVID Vaccine Because of Blood Clots
The company is taking the vaccine off the market, but for economic reasons.
PolitiFact→ How unprecedented is Joe Biden’s break with Israel over arms shipments?
President Joe Biden’s decision to withhold certain heavy weapons from Israel amid White House concerns about civilian casualties has prompted critics to call such U.S. actions unprecedented. Are they?
Full Fact→ Argos is not selling laptops or vacuum cleaners for just £1
Posts promoting supposed offers that seem too good to be true are very common on sites like Facebook.
AllSides→ Biden cites erroneous inflation statistic to make his case about the economy
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-biden-inflation-9-percent-740342231608 CLAIM: Inflation was at 9%
AllSides→ Biden Gets 2021 Inflation Rate Wrong, Trump Bizarrely Riffs About Hot Dogs, Hannibal Lecter And Sinatra
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/05/14/biden-trump-gaffe-tracker-biden-gets-2021-inflation-rate-wrong-trump-bizarrely-riffs-about-hot-dogs-hannibal-lecter-and-sinatra/?sh=2aa6cab54b3a
AllSides→ Biden repeats lie that inflation ‘was at 9% when I came in’ as president
https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/us-news/biden-repeats-lie-that-inflation-was-at-9-when-i-came-in/ Preside
The Dispatch→ Streamers Try Cable-Style Bundling
More streaming companies turn to bundling as the industry faces economic headwinds.
Full Fact→ Viral post about Muslims in England makes a number of incorrect claims
Versions of the post have been circulating since at least 2017, but contain claims that are either wrong or unevidenced.
The Dispatch→ Should Judges Get Political?
Rumble in the AO jungle.
The Dispatch→ Fair Markets for Me, Protectionism for Thee
The price is right.
The Dispatch→ Joe Biden’s Israel Policy Divides Congress
Some Republicans compare it to Donald Trump withholding aid from Ukraine, but Mitt Romney says there’s no equivalence.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Altered video claims to show CNN report about purported Robert Downey Jr. app
Video shows CNN report about actor Robert Downey Jr.’s app “to earn money.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Irish Police Escorting Schoolchildren Because Of Migrant Camps In Dublin — It Was Field Trip
Does video show Irish police walking with schoolchildren in Dublin to protect them from asylum-seekers living in a tent camp? No, that's not true: The police told Lead Stories that the videos shared on social media showed a routine practi
Internet Archive→ President Biden Remarks at National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service : CSPAN : May 15, 2024 8:35pm-8:46pm EDT
"There is no greater responsibility of government than ensuring the safety of the American people and those who sacrifice to protect us all," President Biden said in his remarks at the 34th annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S...
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this isn’t a real statement from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem about killing a dog
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said, “At least I have the guts to look in the eyes of the animal I’m killing!”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Elon Musk didn’t warn about a forthcoming Rapture
“Elon Musk confirms — ’The rapture is going to happen VERY soon.’”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Altered video makes false claims about Elon Musk
This video shows BBC News reporting on the “tragic end of Elon Musk.”
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – A South Carolina hiker saw a ‘huge snake’ in 2021, but it wasn’t the one pictured in this post
Image shows a “huge snake found by a hiker near South Carolina creek.”