Did a worker in Philadelphia disguise trash cans so that people would throw away their ballots? No, that's not true: The posters proclaiming "Ballot Box" on sidewalk solar-powered trash compactors were created to advertise "Ballot Box" an
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Lead Stories→ Student’s Chart Explaining Wild Conspiracies Trolled To Spread More Conspiracies
Abbie Richards, a climate science student in the Netherlands, was looking with bewilderment at the state of her home country of the United States. So many conspiracy theories echoing, particularly ahead of the election. Struggling to wran
Snopes→ Voting by Mail Isn’t So Easy on Native American Reservations
Native Americans have a long history of exclusion from voting, with the U.S. government depriving them of citizenship until 1924.
Truth or Fiction?→ “As Trump Attacks Lesley Stahl, Remember He Said: ‘I Do It to Discredit [and] Demean You All So … No One Will Believe You’”
In late October 2020, just after United States President Donald Trump abruptly walked out of an election with longtime broadcast journalist Lesley Stahl, an older statement of his appeared: As Trump attacks Lesley Stahl now, remember his comments to
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof That Flu Cases Are ‘Down 98% Across The Globe’
Are flu cases "down 98% across the globe"? That's unclear: Lead Stories could find no evidence to support a Twitter user's un-bolstered claim that cases fell 98% worldwide. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows a
Snopes→ Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud?
Was the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee caught red-handed confessing to large-scale voter fraud less than two weeks before Election Day? Hardly.
Snopes→ Exclusive: Russian Echoes Abide in Still-Active ‘Pennsylvania for Trump’ Facebook Group From 2016
A likely Russian administrative account had been active in the swing state group since well before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and only disappeared in October 2020 after we contacted Facebook with questions.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mail-In Ballots And Other Mail WERE Stolen From Locked Mailboxes, Dumped In A Park In Washington State — But Police Suggest Motive Was Financial, NOT Political
Is it true that mailboxes in Camas, Washington, were broken into and that mail including election ballots was taken and dumped at a local park, where the mail was then rained upon? Yes, this is true. Camas police confirmed the incident an
FactCheck.org→ Photo of Man in Halloween Costume Isn’t Mark Kelly
Quick Take Social media posts, including one retweeted by Donald Trump Jr., falsely claim that a yearbook photo shows Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly dressed as Hitler for Halloween. Kelly’s campaign and several of his former classmates to
Health Feedback→ Masks are effective at reducing COVID-19 primary transmission through respiratory droplets; the CDC acknowledges airborne transmission via aerosols can also occur
REVIEW A 22 September 2020 video that makes several inaccurate claims about the COVID-19 pandemic went viral on Facebook in late October, receiving more than 35,000 interactions on the platform, according to the social media analytics tool CrowdTang
Health Feedback→ Volunteer who died in a COVID-19 vaccine trial in Brazil did not receive the vaccine
REVIEW News that a volunteer in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial died was announced by the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) on 21 October 2020. A review by an independent committee that oversees the trial’s safety concluded that t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hunter Biden Did NOT Admit To Doing Naked FaceTimes Nor Keeping Sexually Explicit Photos Of 14-Year-Old
Did Hunter Biden admit to doing naked video calls on FaceTime and keeping sexually explicit photos of a 14-year-old? No, that's not true. There is no record Hunter Biden has confirmed having done either of those things. The person making
Truth or Fiction?→ Mike Pence, LGBTQ Communities, and ‘a Radical Social Agenda’
Vice President Mike Pence’s political history drew renewed attention online in October 2020 as a meme criticizing him spread online in October 2020. The graphic, which was originally posted by poet Andrea Gibson on Instagram, reads: Mike Pence s
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Posts Misquote Trump on Immigrant Family Separations
Quick Take President Donald Trump didn’t say “‘GOOD’ about the kids being separated from the parents” at the southern border during the final presidential debate, as social media posts wrongly claim. He said “go ahea
FactCheck.org→ Video: FactChecking the Final Debate
In this video, we review several false and misleading claims that President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden made at the final presidential debate on Oct. 22. Here are the claims that we cover in the video: Trump accused Biden of re
FactCheck.org→ Posts Target Trump With False Claim on MAGA Hats
Quick Take Social media posts erroneously suggest that President Donald Trump’s campaign hats are made in China, while those for former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign are made in the U.S. The official hats sold by both campaigns are ma
Snopes→ Did Biden Call Black Americans ‘Super-Predators’?
In two debates, U.S. President Donald Trump mistakenly conflated a remark made by Joe Biden with one made by Hillary Clinton.
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking the Final 2020 Presidential Debate
Summary President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off in the final presidential debate of the campaign. We found: Trump accused Biden of receiving “$3.5 million from Russia.” There’s no evidence of that. Biden said there
Logically→ Biden: “Look at the states having a spike, they are the red states, the states in the Midwest, in the upper Midwest, that is where the spike is occurring significantly.”
An analysis of coronavirus data by the Associated Press in July 2020 shows that in the first phase of the pandemic, Democrat-run states were harder hit by the virus but spread into Republican areas quickly, with their new cases eventually ac
Logically→ Frankly, he ran the H1N1, swine flu, and it was a total disaster…700,000 people would be dead right now. But it was a far less lethal disease.
The kind of disaster which U.S. President Donald Trump is suggesting is with regards to the Obama administration's handling of H1N1 is not true. The swine flu is estimated to have killed 12,469 in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disea
Logically→ We now have the strongest borders we’ve ever had, with over 400 miles of a brand new wall.
Although 360 miles of the border wall has been constructed so far, only a small portion of it is new construction. During the second presidential debate, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that “we have built over 400 miles of the southern
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump, Congress DID End Tax Penalty For Non-Insured, But $10,000 Penalty NOT Likely
Did someone who couldn't afford health care under Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act get penalized $10,000, which was then used to pay for others' free health care? And is it true that Trump "ended that theft?" This is a mixture of false
Truth or Fiction?→ Did the Trump Campaign Send Armed Men to a Polling Location in Florida?
A pair of armed security guards’ appearance near a voting location in St. Petersburg, Florida drew concern from observers both on the scene and online, as the story mushroomed on social media into a sign of something more sinister. According to
Snopes→ US: Russian Hackers Targeting State, Local Networks
U.S. officials said that Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in the United States in recent days, stealing data from at least two servers.
Truth or Fiction?→ Trump ‘It Was a TUCK!’ Tweet
On October 21 2020, Twitter user @TeaPainUSA (and many others) shared the following screenshot, which was purportedly a tweet from United States President Donald Trump on the matter of his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s just-revealed interactio
Snopes→ Did Merriam-Webster Update Its Entry on ‘Sexual Preference’ After Barrett Hearing?
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett had been described by advocacy groups as “hostile to the rights of LGBTQ people.”
Snopes→ Is This a Photograph of Mitch McConnell’s Bruised and Discolored Hands?
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell became a topic of speculation after photographs seemingly showed his hands looking bruised and discolored.
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misquote Biden on Section 8 Housing
Quick Take Facebook posts falsely claim that at his Oct. 15 town hall event, former Vice President Joe Biden said he grew up in Section 8 housing. Biden actually said he lived in a building which “became Section 8 housing much later.” Full
FactCheck.org→ Trump on the Stump
We reviewed all of President Donald Trump’s speeches at campaign rallies over five days, from Oct. 12 to Oct. 16. There were six speeches and combined, Trump spoke for more than eight hours, averaging about one hour and 20 minutes per speech. Bel
FactCheck.org→ Biden on the Stump
After months of doing mostly virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden returned to in-person events with small, socially distanced crowds in September. He’s kept up his travel in October. We reviewed B
Health Feedback→ The group Doctors for Truth spreads misinformation about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus, and the reliability of diagnostic tests
REVIEW A video showing a press conference from a group calling itself Doctors for Truth circulated on social media in mid-October 2020, receiving hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. In this conference, several individuals made claims about th
Health Feedback→ Claims that flu cases are used to inflate COVID-19 case counts are misleading, based on inaccurate numbers
REVIEW Facebook posts which show a screenshot from The Ingraham Angle, a television talk show on Fox News Channel, displaying the caption “flu cases down 95%” went viral in mid-October 2020. The screenshot purportedly shows the number of flu cas
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fauci Study Does NOT Support Claim That The ‘Unmasked Buried The Masked’ in Spanish Flu Pandemic A Century Ago
Did Dr. Anthony Fauci -- a leader of the U.S. government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic -- write a research study in 2008 that proves the unmasked buried the masked during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and that masks were the reason
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ABC, CBS, NBC Have NOT Given ‘Zero Coverage’ To Hunter Biden Story — All Three Have Reported The Story
Did ABC, CBS and NBC ignore New York Post stories that Democrat Joe Biden helped his son get rich from a Ukrainian company, with "proof" on a laptop the younger Biden abandoned at a repair shop? No, this is not true. All three networks ha
Snopes→ Did Bill Barr’s Father ‘Mentor’ Jeffrey Epstein and Write a ‘Bizarre’ Novel?
A meme implied a nefarious link between financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Barr, father of U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hunter Biden Was NOT Chairman Of The UN Program That Won The Nobel Peace Prize, And The Trump Kids Are NOT Banned From Operating A Charity
Was Hunter Biden chairman of the World Food Program, which just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and were Eric Trump, Donald J. Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump banned from ever operating a charity again because they stole donations to children with
Truth or Fiction?→ Is This an Associated Press Photograph of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Hands?
As he faced criticism for refusing to include relief payments for Americans in COVID-19 relief legislation, Senate Majority Leader and self-described “grim reaper” Mitch McConnell drew attention from Twitter users on October 21 2020, after
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Say ‘If Your 8-Year-Old Child Says They Want To Be Transgender … They Have A Right To Transition’
Did Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden say during an ABC News Town Hall, "If your 8-year-old child says they want to be transgender ... they have a right to transition and there is no reason for you to deny it"? No, that's not true
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Does NOT Own Four Homes Worth Millions And Funded By Foreign Entities
Does Democrat Joe Biden own four homes, each worth millions, while living on annual income of $200,000 or less? No, that's not true. The presidential nominee does not own all of the homes shown in posts making the rounds on social media a
FactCheck.org→ Doctors in Video Falsely Equate COVID-19 With a ‘Normal Flu Virus’
Quick Take A video posted by a European-based group called World Doctors Alliance falsely claims the novel coronavirus is “a normal flu virus” and there is no COVID-19 pandemic. Actually, COVID-19 is deadlier than the seasonal flu, and some Europea