NBC Sports presenter Tony Dungy promoted — and quickly deleted — the right-wing hoax about students “identifying as cats,” a further sign of how disinformation can be laundered from fringe online circles into legitimate media. D
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Publish A Story Linking Hamlin’s Collapse To COVID-19 Vaccine
Did CNN publish a news article that linked Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin's on-field collapse to the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the news network confirmed to Lead Stories by email that the media outlet ne
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Anti-Zelenskyy Graffiti Did NOT Appear In London On January 18, 2023
Did new graffiti negatively portraying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appear in London? No, that's not true: Based on analysis of open-source data, Lead Stories identified the location of the purported drawing as Lindt Home of Ch
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Consumers Will NOT Get $500 Target Gift Card As A ‘Settlement’ For High Prices — It’s A Scam
As a "settlement" for raising prices "unfairly," is Target giving out $500 gift cards to people who shopped with them during the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022 and who will answer three questions? No, that's not true: A Target spokesperson
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lowe’s Is NOT Handing Out KitchenAid Mixers For $2 To Women Over 35
As a "settlement" for "gender discrimination," is Lowe's handing out $2 KitchenAid mixers to women over the age of 35 who respond to four questions? No, that's not true: A spokesman for Lowe's denied the claim, and there is no evidence th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Military Did NOT Extract ‘Giant Mummies’ From Caverns In Grand Canyon
Has the U.S. military "extracted giant mummies" from caverns in the Grand Canyon? No, that's not true: The story about Egyptian artifacts allegedly found in North America goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, it has
FactCheck.org→ What to Know About the Special Counsels Investigating Trump and Biden
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Jan. 12 that he has appointed Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney, as special counsel for the investigation of how classified documents from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president ended up at Biden
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Of Zelenskyy Portrayed As Locust Did NOT Appear In NYC’s Central Park As Of January 10, 2023
Did an image of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy depicting him as a "locust" eating up budgets around the world appear in New York City's Central Park as of January 10, 2023? No, that's not true. A Lead Stories reporter found no tr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Tyler Miller’ Is NOT Missing — Post Is A Ruse
Did this woman's son named "Tyler Miller" leave for baseball training and not come back afterward? No, that's not true: This is not a real missing person post. Multiple identical posts have been made with a different boy's photo in each o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Klaus Schwab Has ‘Banned Vaccinated Pilots From Transporting World Economic Forum Members In And Out Of Davos’
Did Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), ban "vaccinated pilots from transporting World Economic Forum members in and out of Davos due to the safety risk they pose"? No, there's no evidence that'
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Teams Of Men Are NOT Shadowing Women In Multiple Cities’ Marshalls Stores
Are unknown men stalking women in the discount retailer Marshalls in cities throughout the United States and Canada? No, that's not true: This claim is a copypasta, a chunk of text that is copied and pasted on social media about an event
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 1958 Encyclopedia Americana Does NOT Contain Evidence Of Firmament, Flat Earth
Does the 1958 Encyclopedia Americana prove the Earth is flat? No, that's not true: A "dome" referenced in a 1958 encyclopedia entry describes a naturally occurring ice dome and not the firmament -- a supposed planet-encompassing dome cons
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Pastina Discontinued?
In December 2022, social media posts began to appear with the claim that the small, star-shaped pasta known as “pastina” had been discontinued. A humorous December 30 2022 TikTok post titled “When they find out they discontinued past
Truth or Fiction?→ Before Being Elected, George Santos Pushed His Own ‘Stolen Election’ Hoax
Amid continuing criticism and demands — even from local party members — that he leave office, a video circulating online shows right-wing Rep. George Santos (R-New York) appearing at a January 5 2021 rally and falsely claiming that an elect
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Country Singer George Strait Did NOT Have ‘Tragic End’ On December 31, 2022
Did country singer-songwriter George Strait have a "tragic end" on December 31, 2022? No, that's not true: Strait's verified Instagram account posted content as recently as January 10, 2023. There have been no news articles or statements
Truth or Fiction?→ Brazil Insurrection Had Familiar Faces, Themes
A January 8 2023 attempted right-wing coup in Brazil’s capital Brasília followed the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (popularly known as “Lula”) over right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the South American nation’s pres
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Economic Forum Did NOT Declare That Pedophiles ‘Will Save Humanity’
Did the World Economic Forum declare, as part of a purported campaign to promote public acceptance of pedophilia, that "pedophiles will save humanity"? No, that's not true: No credible evidence exists that the WEF has made any such statem
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘To Catch a Predator’ Texas DA Tweet
On January 5 2023, a Reddit post to r/WhitePeopleTwitter queried whether it was true that the To Catch a Predator series (a sting-based reality show) ended after an entrapped Texas district attorney died by suicide “in front of the camera”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Japan Is NOT Investigating ‘Millions Of COVID Vaccine Deaths’ — No Such Death Tolls Reported, No Investigation Launched
Did Japan launch an official investigation into "millions of COVID vaccine deaths" in December 2022 or early January 2023? No, that's not true: As of January 4, 2023, there is no available evidence to suggest that "millions" of people in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Did NOT Cry After Clashing With Sen. Chuck Grassley
Did former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi cry after Iowa's Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley presented information about business ties between Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, and the Chinese government? No, that
Health Feedback→ Ivermectin hasn’t proven effective in COVID-19 patients so far, despite persistent online claims
REVIEW On 25 December 2022, the Epoch Times reposted an article by naturopath Colleen Huber titled “Ivermectin is Safe and Effective: The Evidence”. At the time of this review’s publication, the article had received more than 4,500 interaction
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Clint Eastwood NOT On Life Support After ‘Deadly Ligma Virus’ Spreads Through Body
Is Academy Award-winning actor/director Clint Eastwood on life support in a California hospital after the "deadly ligma virus" spread through his body? No, that's not true: Ligma is not a real disease, and the purported hospital source in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Economic Forum Did NOT Tweet That ‘Christmas Must Be Abolished’
Did the World Economic Forum (WEF) tweet that "Christmas must be abolished" to fight climate change? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that this is a real tweet and it does not appear on the official WEF Twitter account. The claim
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Chuck Norris Did NOT Announce ‘Devastating News’ As Of December 26, 2022
Did Chuck Norris announce "devastating news" on or before December 26, 2022? No, that's not true: A Facebook post that claimed the martial artist announced "devastating news" and implied he suffered a health crisis appears to be nothing m
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Was NOT Hanged At GITMO
Was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hanged at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba? No, that's not true: The claim was reported on a website well-known for making up stories about public figures. The site has a disclaimer warning readers
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Charlie Hebdo Publish an Issue Mocking Volodymyr Zelensky?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images.) A fake, mock-up cover image of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is circulating online. The fabricated cover is of a supposed special holiday issue of the publi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden’s Ex-COVID-19 Coordinator Jeff Zients Did NOT Die At Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Delta On December 21, 2022
Did former White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients die at Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta in Cuba on December 21, 2022, after being arrested by the U.S. military? No, that's not true. This claim originated from an article published on a
Full Fact→ Police warn against interacting with posts about missing Surrey boy
A social media post about a supposedly missing child has been shared hundreds of times.
Logically→ The World Economic Forum claims that God is dead, that Jesus is fake news, and that they have gained divine powers.
According to an article on the website Newspunch, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said that God is dead, that Jesus is "fake news," that WEF leaders have gained divine powers to rule over humanity, and that they will turn humans into gods
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Family Photo Of Meghan and Harry Does NOT Show Evidence That Lilibet Is Fake
Did the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, commonly known as Harry and Meghan, accidentally release a professional photo that was so badly edited that it revealed that their "invisible" daughter Lilibet is not a real child? No, that's not true:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Er Blood Group Is NOT From COVID Shots Or Vaccine Injury
Is the new Er blood group due to a genetic variation caused by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines or vaccine injury? No, that's not true: An expert from the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Research told Lead Stories that the b
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: GO2Bank Is NOT Giving New Customers $1,000 As Sign-Up Bonus
Is the digital bank GO2Bank giving new customers a sign-up bonus of $1,000? No, that's not true: A representative of the owner of the GO2Bank brand, Green Dot Corporation, told Lead Stories that this alleged sign-up bonus is not a GO2Bank
Truth or Fiction?→ TikTok ‘Angel Cut,’ ‘Angel Cut With Layers’ Explained
On December 11 2022, TikTok hair influencer Leda Fazal (@ledafazal) shared a clip about an “angel cut” or “angel cut with layers,” one of many purported secret signals aimed at assisting victims of domestic violence or human tra
FactCheck.org→ The Whoppers of 2022
Summary The midterm elections are finally over, but it won’t be long before the 2024 campaign cycle — which will really start in 2023 — gets going. Before that happens, we’ve put together this list of the year’s bigges
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Brazil’s Military Killed Red Command Cartel Leaders Or ‘Prepares Take Over’ As Of December 14, 2022
Did the Brazilian military kill the leaders of the Red Command cartel in early December 2022, and prepare to "take over" the country? No, that's not true: The article circulating on social media that makes these claims contains multiple f
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hillary Clinton Did NOT Tweet About ‘Elon Musk’s Suicide’ On December 2, 2022
Did Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, tweet about "Elon Musk's suicide" in response to the Twitter CEO releasing corporate discussions, now known as "The Twitter Files," about Tw
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID Response Coordinator Was NOT Arrested By Military On December 12, 2022
Was Jeff Zients, a former White House coordinator for COVID-19 response under President Joe Biden, arrested by the military on December 12, 2022? No, that's not true: The Department of Defense told Lead Stories that the claim, which was p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Murdered US Senate Aide Harold Rosenthal Did NOT Expose Jewish Plot For World Domination Before His Death
Did Harold Rosenthal, a U.S. Senate aide killed in a 1976 terrorist attack, expose before he died a clandestine Jewish plot to become global "task masters"? No, that's not true: The claim is part of an antisemitic hoax that white supremac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jen Psaki Did NOT Announce ‘Inflation Relief’ In December 2022 For Americans Making Less Than $50,000
Did Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary for President Joe Biden, announce in December 2022 that the U.S. Senate has approved "Monthly Health Credits" or "Inflation Relief For Americans Making Less Than $50 000/year"? No, that's
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Chuck Norris Was ‘Fighting For His Life’ As Of December 13, 2022
Was Hollywood action film star and martial artist Chuck Norris "fighting for his life" and hospitalized as of December 13, 2022? No, that's not true: No credible news organizations had reported the 82-year-old Norris as hospitalized and o