A video has been widely shared on social media supposedly depicting the new president making a speech in English. But it is actually a different politician and appears to have been altered using AI.
The Dispatch→ Debating the Israel-Hamas War
"The aim is to make Gaza unlivable."
The Dispatch→ Why the Perception That Crime Is Rising Persists
President Joe Biden trumpets a falling violent crime rate, but FBI raw data tells a different story.
The Dispatch→ Intelligence Briefings for Presidential Candidates, Explained
What happens when a candidate has a complicated history with classified information?
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff on Online Discourse, Sports Gambling, and the Conservative Legal Movement
Plus: the lingering effects of schooling during the pandemic.
The Dispatch→ The Dispatch Monthly Mailbag with Wendy Lane Cook
It’s our new deputy managing editor’s turn to answer your questions.
The Dispatch→ Why Church Attendance Is More Important Than Ever
Its decline has consequences for society and individuals—including those who profess no faith at all.
The Dispatch→ The Difference Between a Biden Loss and a Trump Win
How to read the latest polling on key swing states.
The Dispatch→ Goldfish Memories
"The abstract third party candidate is not there, there is no person who scratches all those itches."
The Dispatch→ The Empresario
Beyoncé should make a country album.
The Dispatch→ A Map for Those ‘Lost in Ideology’
Jason Blakely’s new book explores today’s major political ideologies on their own terms.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Francis Scott Key Bridge Is NOT In Movie ‘Leave The World Behind’
Is Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed in March 2024, in the Netflix movie "Leave the World Behind"? No, that's not true: Publicly available footage from the movie shows that the film contains no images or footage of the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Differing Length, Persistence Of Plane’s Vapor Trail Does NOT Indicate If It Is Contrail Or Something Else
Does a video of two jet aircraft passing in opposite directions show that one is producing a contrail and the other is producing something else -- perhaps a mythical "chemtrail"? No, that's not true: Both planes are producing contrails. T
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2 Million Voters Did NOT Register Without Photo ID In Arizona, Pennsylvania, Texas In First 3 Months Of 2024
Did 2 million voters register without a photo ID in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Texas during the first three months of 2024? No, that's not true: Election officials from these three states told Lead Stories that this figure from a social me
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Free Speech’ Sign On Campus Did NOT Say ‘You’re Not Ready For University Yet’
Did a "free speech" sign on a campus say "You're not ready for university yet"? No, that's not true: The image was digitally altered to replace the original content. The sign was first photographed in January 2022, not in 2024. The claim
Truth or Fiction?→ BlackRock Crypto ETF Impact
{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "ClaimReview", "url": "https://www.truthorfiction.com/blackrock-crypto-etf-impact/", "claimReviewed": "BlackRock's launch of a Bitcoin ETF legitimizes cryptocurrency investment", "itemReviewed":
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Everyone Should NOT Deworm Routinely — Only At-Risk Populations In Specific Regions
Should everyone routinely take dewormer medication, as a post on X suggested? No, that's not true: In certain parts of the world, the World Health Organization recommends periodically giving deworming medication to preschoolers, school-ag
Truth or Fiction?→ Chiefs’ Rice in Lamborghini Crash Explained
The Incident and Immediate Aftermath In an unexpected turn of events, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice found himself involved in a multi-car accident that shook the Dallas community over the weekend. Driving a Lamborghini, part of a hig
The Dispatch→ A Spoiler Spoiled
Why did No Labels fail?
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Donald Trump was sued for using false information to get loans, not for paying them back
"Trump takes out a loan and pays it back with interest, it is a crime."
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Is CERN activating the world’s most powerful particle accelerator for the April 8 eclipse? No
CERN’s activation of its Large Hadron Collider is connected to the April 8 eclipse.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No existe un programa que borra la deuda de los hispanos en Estados Unidos
“A todos los hispanoamericanos se les borraran sus deudas...porque quieren luchar contra la recesión que se avecina”.
PolitiFact→ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – RFK Jr. said that Jan. 6 ‘protestors carried no weapons.’ Evidence shows that's Pants on Fire!
On Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol “protestors carried no weapons.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Social media influencer claims a law lets people invade abandoned houses. Is that true?
A U.S. law says that “if a house is not inhabited, we can expropriate it.”
PolitiFact→ Benny Johnson – No, this video doesn't show New York Gov. Kathy Hochul being denied entry into police officer’s wake
Video shows “New York Governor Kathy Hochul being denied entry into the wake for slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – More than 2 million noncitizens have not registered to vote in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Texas
More than 2 million people registered to vote so far this year without photo ID in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Texas.
The Dispatch→ Nations Aren’t People
So why do we treat them as such?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden, White House DID Mention Jesus Christ, The Resurrection On Easter
Did President Joe Biden and his administration not mention Jesus Christ and the Resurrection on March 31, 2024, when many denominations of Christianity celebrate Easter? No, that's not true: The president released a statement on Easter me
The Dispatch→ No, President Biden Has Not Ignored the American Hostages in Gaza
The president has addressed the crisis repeatedly.
FactCheck.org→ Fairshake
Political leanings: Pro-cryptocurrency 2022 Spending: N/A Fairshake, its website says, is a super PAC that “supports candidates committed to securing the United States as the home to innovators building the next generation of the internet.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Clips of Joe Rogan talking about sea monsters, El Dorado and the Bermuda Triangle are AI-generated
Video shows Joe Rogan talking about “mythical sea beasts,” gold in the Grand Canyon, and aliens in the Bermuda triangle.
FactCheck.org→ Posts Raise Unfounded Concerns About Aluminum in Vaccines
SciCheck Digest Small amounts of aluminum have been used for many decades to strengthen the immune response to vaccines. Exposure to high levels of aluminum has been associated with brain and bone problems, but there is no evidence that the level o
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, the Navy, Coast Guard working together isn’t a sign of war
It’s a sign of war that the U.S. Navy is assisting the U.S. Coast Guard in cleaning up Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge site.
AllSides→ RFK Jr. gets mobbed by media fact-checkers for saying Biden is ‘much worse’ for democracy than Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rfk-jr-gets-mobbed-media-fact-checkers-saying-biden-worse-democracy-trump-everything-misleading
PolitiFact→ Inaccurate data used to show cost-of-living increases between Trump and Biden presidencies
A graphic that purports to show the differences between the cost of living today and when Donald Trump left the presidency in 2021 uses inaccurate data.
AllSides→ Does Not Ejaculating for 7 Days Increase Testosterone by 45%?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/increase-testosterone-45-percent/ Claim: Not ejaculating for seven da
AllSides→ Is it illegal to display the US flag upside down?
https://fortworthreport.org/2024/04/03/fact-brief-is-it-illegal-to-display-the-us-flag-upside-down/?utm_source=gigafact&utm_id=112
PolitiFact→ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – In RFK Jr.’s campaign against censorship, he made a False attack on Biden
“President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history, that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech ... to censor his opponent."
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Social Security Administration data does not show that a skyrocketing number of voters are registering without a photo ID, evidence that migrants who entered the country i
The Dispatch→ No Unity Ticket for No Labels
How a troubled process turned off would-be nominees for the third-party effort.