On the morning of the special House election in Georgia, President Donald Trump fired off two tweets that were critical of Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff. Trump claimed Ossoff “will raise your taxes,” but we could find no evidence of Ossoff propos
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Truth or Fiction?→ President Trump Executive Order Bans Saturday Night Live-Fiction!
President Trump Executive Order Bans Saturday Night Live-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: President Trump signed an executive order banning Saturday Night Live after the show repeatedly targeted him with satire and parody. The Truth: A fake news website i
Snopes→ Could the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ Produce Radioactive Fallout?
While we cannot prove a negative, there are few mechanisms by which a MOAB-like bomb would benefit by the addition of anything that would introduce radioactivity.
Truth or Fiction?→ 98 Million Americans Were Given Cancer Through Polio Shots-Fiction!
98 Million Americans Were Given Cancer Through Polio Shots-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted that 98 million Americans were given cancer through polio shots contaminated with SV40, a cancer-ca
Snopes→ Trump Calls United Airlines ‘My Kinda People’?
A satirical site published a report that Trump approved of airport police dragging a man off an airplane to make room for United employees flying standby.
Truth or Fiction?→ Hillary Clinton Supplied Chemical Weapons to Syria-Fiction!
Hillary Clinton Supplied Chemical Weapons to Syria-Reported as Fiction! The Truth: Hillary Clinton supplied chemical weapons to Syria during her time as secretary of state, and those chemical weapons were either used by Syrian President Bashar al-Ass
Snopes→ Do Wireless Signals Stunt Plant Growth?
A 2013 school science project that purports to show that wifi wilts cress plants periodically reappears, but its claims remain unproven.
FactCheck.org→ Gorsuch’s ‘Mainstream’ Measurement
Supporters of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination describe him as a “mainstream judge.” Their evidence: He has voted nearly 99 percent of the time with the majority on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and 97 percent o
FactCheck.org→ Trump Distorts Stimulus
While calling for new infrastructure investments, President Donald Trump distorted the facts about President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill. Trump described it as an “infrastructure bill” but “[n]obody ever saw anything being
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump's skewed portrayal of Obama's stimulus
The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Donald Trump's skewed portrayal of Obama's stimulus Just over eight years ago, when Barack Obama was just as new to the Oval Office as Donald Trump is now, he signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,
FactCheck.org→ Sessions’ Dubious Drug Claims
In an address to law enforcement, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made two dubious claims about marijuana and opioids: Sessions said marijuana is “only slightly less awful” than heroin, an illicit opioid. Experts says heroin is thre
Truth or Fiction?→ With S.J. Res 34, Congress Allows Internet Providers to Sell Your Browsing History-Truth! & Misleading!
With S.J. Res. 34, Congress Allows Internet Providers to Sell Your Browsing History-Truth! & Misleading! Summary of eRumor: Congress has approved S.J. Res. 34, which would repeal an Obama-era internet privacy rule that prevented Internet service p
FactCheck.org→ Partisan Spin on Gorsuch Vote
As the Senate considers Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, senators on both sides have engaged in partisan spin over the number of votes required to approve his nomination: Sen. Bernie Sanders falsely claimed the Senate “requires 60 votes
Truth or Fiction?→ Hillary Clinton Sold 20 Percent of World’s Uranium to Russia-Fiction!
Hillary Clinton Sold 20 Percent of America’s Uranium to Russia-Mostly Fiction! Summary of eRumor: President Donald Trump has repeated the claim that Hillary Clinton sold 20 percent of America’s Uranium to Russia while secretary of stat
FactCheck.org→ Medicaid’s Doctor Participation Rates
In seeking to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has said “one out of every three physicians in this nation aren’t seeing Medicaid patients.” House Speaker Paul Ryan said “m
FactCheck.org→ Pruitt on the Paris Accord
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt made two false claims about the Paris Accord, a global agreement aimed at addressing climate change: He claimed China and India are “the
FactCheck.org→ Misrepresenting Stone’s Prescience
Rep. Adam Schiff laid out a series of “coincidences” to build a circumstantial case that President Trump’s campaign associates may have colluded with the Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign. But one of his “coincidences
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Job Boast
At an Oval Office ceremony, President Donald Trump boasted that Charter Communications “has just committed to investing $25 billion” and creating 20,000 jobs in the U.S. — the latest example of companies, he said, that are investing i
PolitiFact→ Carolyn Maloney – NY Rep. Maloney: More than half Planned Parenthood clinics are in underserved areas
The Truth-o-Meter says: True | NY Rep. Maloney: More than half Planned Parenthood clinics are in underserved areas During debate on the Republican health care bill, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., spoke passionately about the impact it will have
FactCheck.org→ Still No Evidence, Mr. President
There is still no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s tweets accusing President Barack Obama of illegally “tapping my phones in October” during the “very sacred election process.” In a March 22 interview with Time
Truth or Fiction?→ Judge Orders Vince Foster Exhumed in Clinton Murder Investigation-Fiction!
Judge Orders Vince Foster Exhumed in Clinton Murder Investigation-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A federal judge has approved GOP Congressman Trey Gowdy’s request to exhume the body of Vince Foster to determine if Bill and Hillary Clinton were invol
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Hollow Keystone Threat
President Donald Trump boasted that TransCanada Corp. “dropped” a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against the U.S. after he threatened to “terminate” the company’s Keystone XL pipeline. That’s false. TransCanada merely
Snopes→ NASA Discovers a ‘Lost Day’ in Time?
NASA scientists did not find a 'missing day' in time and thereby prove Biblical accounts to be true.
FactCheck.org→ Trump Twists Jobs Numbers
President Donald Trump says his agenda is all about “jobs, jobs, jobs.” But at a rally in Nashville, and a speech earlier the same day in Detroit, Trump made several misleading claims about jobs, and the effect he has had on them since taki
Truth or Fiction?→ President Trump Plans to Cut Meals on Wheels Program -Truth! & Undetermined!
President Trump Plans to Cut Meals on Wheels Program –Truth! & Undetermined! Summary of eRumor: President Trump plans to cut federal funding for Meals on Wheels, a program providing meals to the elderly, poor and veterans, to save money f
Truth or Fiction?→ Obituary: Great Barrier Reef is Dead-Mostly Fiction!
Obituary: Great Barrier Reef is Dead-Mostly Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A widely circulated obituary claims that the Great Barrier Reef has died after an impressive 25 million year run. The Truth: Scientists have disputed claims that the Great Barrie
Washington Post→ Fact-checking the White House’s rhetoric on the CBO report
White House press secretary Sean Spicer offered a number of attacks and claims during a news briefing dominated by the new Congressional Budget Office report on the House Republican replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act. The
Truth or Fiction?→ Tax Audit: Obama Hiding Taxpayers’ Millions in Offshore Accounts-Fiction!
Tax Audit: Obama Hiding Taxpayers’ Millions in Offshore Accounts-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A tax audit found that President Obama hid millions of taxpayers’ dollar in offshore accounts. The Truth: Reports that a tax audit revealed Preside
FactCheck.org→ Refugees and Terrorism Investigations
President Donald Trump’s new executive order on foreign nationals entering the U.S. says “more than 300″ refugees in the United States “are currently the subjects of counterterrorism investigations.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Truth or Fiction?→ Malik Obama Drops Bombshell: President Obama’s Birth Certificate-Fiction!
Malik Obama Drops Bombshell: President Obama’s Birth Certificate-Fiction! The Truth: Malik Obama, President Obama’s half-brother, posted a photo of what appears to be Barack Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate on Twitter. The Truth: M
PolitiFact→ Scott Pruitt – EPA head Scott Pruitt says carbon dioxide is not 'primary contributor' to global warming
The Truth-o-Meter says: False | EPA head Scott Pruitt says carbon dioxide is not 'primary contributor' to global warming The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt says carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global war
FactCheck.org→ Pruitt on Climate Change, Again
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency told CNBC that he “would not agree” that “human activity,” or carbon dioxide emissions, is the “primary contributor” to global warming. But climate scientists say it
FactCheck.org→ Examining Trump’s Wiretap Claim
With no evidence, President Donald Trump called it a “fact” that “President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” He compared the alleged surveillance to the criminal acts of “Nixon/Watergate.
FactCheck.org→ Did Sessions ‘Lie’?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says Attorney General Jeff Sessions “lied under oath” when he said he “did not have communications with the Russians” during the presidential campaign. She has called on him to resign. Session
FactCheck.org→ No Stimulus Check
Q: Is President Trump giving $612 to all working Americans and their families? A: No. That claim originated from a satirical website. FULL QUESTION Is it true that Trump is giving every man, woman and child that is working $612.00? FULL ANSWER The Wh
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump misleads in claim about terrorism convictions since 9/11
The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Trump misleads in claim about terrorism convictions since 9/11 President Donald Trump, in his first speech before a joint session of Congress, continued to call for improved vetting of people coming to the Uni
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Address to Congress
Summary In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump stuck closely to his prepared remarks, but ran afoul of the facts in some cases. Trump said the U.S. has spent $6 trillion in the Middle East and “with this $6 t
FactCheck.org→ DNC Chair on Trump and Overtime Pay
New Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez distorted the facts with his claim that President Trump “wants to eliminate overtime pay for people.” The DNC press office says Perez meant to say that Trump wants to nix an overtime “
Truth or Fiction?→ House Bill 610 to Defund Public Education-Truth! & Fiction!
House Bill 610 to Defund Public Education-Truth! & Fiction! Summary of eRumor: GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa has introduced H.R. 610 to defund public education. The Truth: H.R. 610 would dramatically change how federal education dollars are doled
FactCheck.org→ Terrorism and Trump’s Travel Ban
Stephen Miller, a senior White House policy adviser, claimed that 72 people from the seven countries covered by President Donald Trump’s 90-day travel ban “have been implicated in terroristic activity in the United States” since the 9