Can a person in Michigan send in applications for absentee ballots for people no longer living at their residence and then vote multiple times? No, that's not true. According to the secretary of state in Michigan, that is not po
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AFP Fact Check→ This 2019 video shows Chinese military expert Zhang Zhaozhong dining in Beijing
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Twitter in August 2020 alongside a claim that it shows Chinese military expert Zhang Zhaozhong dining with his family in the United States during ongoing tensions between the two countries. The cla
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Weekend Press Briefings
President Donald Trump made several false, misleading and exaggerated claims in press briefings he held Aug. 7 and 8 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, spinning the facts on COVID-19 and the economy, among other topics: Trump fa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Has NOT Promised To Outaw Gas-Powered Cars If Elected President
Has Democrat Joe Biden promised to outlaw gas cars if elected U.S. president? No, this is not true. Biden's "Clean Energy" policy released in July 2020 does not include a promise to outlaw gas-powered cars. It does propose action
Truth or Fiction?→ How COVID-19 Triggered a #SaveTheChildren Child Trafficking Panic
In the summer of 2020, a massive amount of rumors about child trafficking appeared under the hashtag #savethechildren — and temporary hashtag filtering by Facebook in response was cited as evidence of “media suppression” of a massive
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Illinois Did NOT Just Quietly Pass A Law Making It A Felony To Record Police Without Consent
Did Illinois just quietly pass a law making it a felony to record police without consent? No, that's not true. Illinois did pass a law in 2014 that relates to "eavesdropping" devices to record "private conversations," but this do
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Two Stamps Are NOT Needed For Mail-In Ballots
Are two stamps needed for mail-in ballots to be delivered and counted? No, that's not true: The U.S. Post Service has a policy of delivering all ballots, even if they do not have enough postage on the envelope, a USPS spokesman t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Images in ‘1918 Flu Pandemic’ Photo Post Are NOT All From That Period In History
Are a series of images circulating on social media accurately depicting what life looked and felt like during the 1918 flu pandemic? No, that's not true: While some of the photographs are, in fact, from the time when what was kno
AllSides→ Dueling Trump, Biden Claims on COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/dueling-trump-biden-claims-on-covid-19-vaccination-distribution/ As s
AllSides→ A look at Susan Rice, Benghazi, and unmasking
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/07/look-back-susan-rice-benghazi-and-unmasking/ Joe Biden h
AllSides→ A look at Susan Rice, Benghazi, and unmasking
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/07/look-back-susan-rice-benghazi-and-unmasking/ Joe Biden h
Health Feedback→ Contrary to claim in viral Facebook post, the flu vaccine does work and certain types of cancers can be cured
REVIEW A Facebook post published at the end of July 2020 expressed skepticism at how we could “make a vaccine in 6 months for an illness that [we] STILL don’t understand”—heavily implied to be COVID-19—by claiming that we “can’
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Treasury Law Does NOT State It Is Unlawful For Businesses To Refuse TO Take Cash
Does U.S. Treasury law make it unlawful for American businesses to refuse to take "legal tender" cash as payment for goods and services? No, that's not true: The Federal Reserve, which oversees the U.S. money supply, made it clea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dropping Percentages of Positive Tests Would NOT Show U.S. Has Reached Herd Immunity to COVID-19
Would a drop in the percent of positive tests for COVID-19 prove the U.S. has reached "herd immunity"? No, that's not true: The doctor overseeing the testing lab at the pandemic's ground zero says so-called 'positivity' data is n
AllSides→ Does Joe Biden own an island near Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St. James?
https://checkyourfact.com/2020/08/07/fact-check-joe-biden-water-island-jeffrey-epstein/ An image shared
FactCheck.org→ Republican Group Selectively Edits Biden Tax Remark
A Republican group’s TV ad uses an out-of-context video clip of Joe Biden saying if he is elected president, “your taxes are going to be raised, not cut.” That was Biden’s response to one person at a 2019 campaign rally who said
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kamala Harris Has NOT Been Chosen (Yet) As Biden’s Veep, She IS A Natural-Born U.S. Citizen And Is Eligible To Be President
Has Joe Biden already chosen Kamala Harris as his running mate, but she is not eligible to be president since her parents were not American citizens at the time of her birth? No, that's not true. While Sen. Harris was reportedly
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Epstein Flight Logs Do NOT Record Bill Clinton Visiting ‘Pedo-Island’
Do flight logs show former President Bill Clinton visited Jeffrey Epstein's "pedo-island" but the media is ignoring it? No, that's not true. There are no flight logs that document Bill Clinton -- the only former U.S. president na
FactCheck.org→ Dueling Trump, Biden Claims on COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution
As scientists work to find a safe vaccine for COVID-19, President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, have made competing claims about the administration’s plans to carry out the daunting task of distributing hundreds of millio
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Trump Once Say He Had Known Jeffrey Epstein for Years and ‘He Likes Women … on the Younger Side’?
On August 6 2020, the Facebook page “Americans Against The Republican Party “shared the following image of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and United States President Donald Trump, along with a quote: White text with a photograph of
Health Feedback→ Hydroxychloroquine, alone or in combination with azithromycin, found ineffective for treating COVID-19 in large clinical trials
REVIEW In late July 2020, numerous memes on social media spread the unsupported claim that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), azithromycin (AZM), and zinc can cure COVID-19. Other versions questioned why the drug is considered unsafe for COVID-19 patients wh
The Dispatch→ Does Anthony Fauci Own ‘Half the Patent’ for Moderna’s COVID Vaccine?
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AllSides→ False Ad About Biden’s VP Pick
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/false-ad-about-bidens-vp-pick/ A Republican TV ad targeted at Latino
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tom Hanks Did NOT Flee To Greece To Hide From Epstein-Related Prosecution; Pedophilia is NOT Considered A ‘Disability’ In Greece
Did Tom Hanks flee the United States to live in Greece where pedophilia is a "disability?" No, neither of those points is true. A persistent conspiracy theory about the A-list actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, has reappeared after
Snopes→ Did Jared Kushner’s Task Force Scrap Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Over Politics?
The pandemic response team led by Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, reportedly did not want to extend help to blue states.
AllSides→ What’s Driving Recent Crime Statistics?
https://abridgenews.com/topic/recent-crime-statistics This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique ar
Truth or Fiction?→ Was a Georgia High School’s Senior Class Photographed Together Without Masks?
Online criticism concerning safety measures in schools trying to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic circulated around a second Georgia school in August 2020 as a photo spread online showing an entire senior class gathered together without face covering
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misrepresents Obama-Era Fair Housing Rule
In response to a question about his tweet to “all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream,” President Donald Trump suggested that an Obama administration fair housing rule required the construction of low-income homes in suburba
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ruth Bader Ginsberg Did NOT Say The Age Of Consent For Sex Must Be Lowered To 12 Years Old
Did Ruth Bader Ginsberg say the age of consent for sexual acts must be lowered to age 12 years old? No, that is not true. The Supreme Court justice did not ever say this. The claims have gone viral with fake quotes from Ginsberg.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did U.S. President Donald Trump Say ‘When I Took Over, We Didn’t Even Have a Test’ for COVID-19 During an Axios Interview?
On August 5 2020, a quote meme was shared to Imgur referencing an Axios interview which August 3 2020, and it quoted United States President Donald Trump as saying that when he “took over … we didn’t even have a test” for COVID
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Stats Canada Report That Not One Baby Has Been Named Karen Since November 2019?
On August 5 2020, a popular Imgur post appeared to show a headline reporting that not one baby in Canada had been named “Karen” since November 13 2019: Well that was unexpected and quite hilarious. Name choice dropped due to a meme. On I
AllSides→ Trump’s Misleading COVID-19 Comparisons to Other Countries
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/trumps-misleading-covid-19-comparisons-to-other-countries/ In a flurr
Poynter→ Fact-checking 22 claims from President Trump’s Axios interview with Jonathan Swan
Editor’s note: PolitiFact, which is owned by the Poynter Institute, is fact-checking misinformation about the coronavirus. This article is republished with permission, and originally appeared here. In a rare sit-down interview at the White House, P
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence President George H.W. Bush Ever Said Americans Would ‘Lynch Us’ If People Knew What His Administration Had Done
Did George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, say in 1992 that the American people would "chase us down the streets and lynch us" over Iran-Contra? No, there is no evidence the former president ever said that reg
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading COVID-19 Comparisons to Other Countries
In a flurry of tweets and remarks, President Donald Trump continued to distort the facts on the coronavirus pandemic: In a series of comments focused on the surging number of COVID-19 cases elsewhere in the world, Trump left the misleading impression
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 800,000 Is NOT An Accurate Number Of Kids Who Vanish Every Year In The U.S.
Do 800,000 kids vanish every year in the United States? No, that's not true: The FBI posted 421,394 reports of missing children in 2019. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) on July 16, 2020. It opened: 2000 chil
AllSides→ How Trump should change the way journalists understand “objectivity”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/4/21306919/donald-trump-media-ethics-tom-rosenstiel The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Countries Using Hydroxychloroquine Have Far Fewer COVID-19 Deaths
Have multiple studies shown that countries treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine suffer fewer deaths than those like the U.S. where its use is restricted? No, that's not true: The claim was made without citing any such studie
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘If You Elect Joe Biden, There Will Be No Hand Sanitizer; I Have Spoken to the Hand Sanitizer People…’
On August 4 2020, the Facebook page “Being Liberal” shared a screenshot of a tweet purportedly quoting United States President Donald Trump on hand sanitizer and a potential Joe Biden administration: Donald Trump today: "If you ele
The Dispatch→ Did the Postmaster General Order Postal Workers to Slow Down the Mail?
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