On Feb. 5, Twitter flagged a post from controversial YouTuber Tim Pool that said the 2020 U.S. presidential election was rigged. The platform noted that the claim was disputed and turned off engagement “due to a risk of violence.” But, on Birdwatch
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AllSides→ Did U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Die After Hit With a Fire Extinguisher?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brian-sicknick-fire-extinguisher/ On Jan. 8, 2021, The New York Times
The Dispatch→ Assessing the Various Claims in Mike Lindell’s ‘Absolute Proof’
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Truth or Fiction?→ ‘California Inmate Has Now Beaten to Death 2 Child Molesters With a Cane While in Prison, Authorities Say’
In February 2021, a February 1 2020 Facebook post (possibly “revived” by “On This Day” or “Memories”) continued its viral spread. The post consisted of what appeared to be a screenshot of a headline reading “C
AllSides→ Did Trump Tell Supporters To Storm US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-tell-supporters-storm/ What's True: U.S. President Donald Trump
AllSides→ ‘Deep state’ theory makes false claims about martial law, arrests, pandemic
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/02/09/fact-check-false-claims-military-takeover-mass-arrests-covid-19/4419059001/
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Is NOT Of ‘Democrat’ Protesters Storming The Capitol In 2018 During Kavanaugh Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing — It Is From 2011 At The Wisconsin State Capitol
Does a photo show hundreds of people storming the U.S. Capitol building in 2018 during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing? No, that's not true: The photo is from protests at the Wisconsin state capitol in 2011 -- seven
AllSides→ Did AOC Exaggerate the Danger She Was in During Capitol Riot?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aoc-capitol-attack/ In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, atta
Truth or Fiction?→ Was AOC ‘Not in the Capitol’ During Riots on January 6 2021?
On February 3 2021, a viral tweet by @Breaking911 claimed that “AOC.” or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) was not in the Capitol building during the January 6 2021 riots, adding that “rioters did not breach the Cannon Build
AllSides→ What Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said about election fraud, QAnon and other conspiracy theories
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/02/what-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-has-said-about-ele/ One
Poynter→ What Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said about election fraud, QAnon and other conspiracy theories
One of the newest members of Congress is under intense scrutiny from her own party following her promotion of conspiracy theories and inflammatory comments supporting violence against other lawmakers. At least 67 House Democrats have signed on to a fo
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Wall Streeters Looking Down on Occupy Wall Street’
As the debate over the online stock activity surrounding GameStop — and subsequent questions about the activity by financial trading insiders responding to it — online commentary drew a link between the anger toward present-day Wall Street
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Hold The Line’ Video Contains Several False Claims About Biden, Trump, COVID-19
Does a video titled "Hold The Line" present the truth about President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and a range of other subjects from COVID-19 to birth certificates? No, that's not true. The video pushes debunked QAnon conspir
Full Fact→ Viral influencer video full of false Covid-19 claims
A viral video of an influencer spreading on social media makes a number of incorrect claims about the coronavirus pandemic, including its impact on children and suicide rates and misinformation about testing and face masks. “They’ve introd
Logically→ Joe Biden supports the IRA
Joe Biden has been vocal on Irish politics but has never shown support for the IRA specifically or violence associated with the group
Truth or Fiction?→ Billboard in Inverness, Florida
On January 25 2021, screenshots of a purported billboard in Inverness, Florida began circulating on Twitter and Facebook: If u ever wondered how Matt Gaetz got elected This is his district #Deliverance pic.twitter.com/Cr6cQe2rpQ — Tough Love
The Dispatch→ Do Reports That Militia Members Planned to Storm the Capitol ‘Undermine’ the Case for Impeachment?
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FactCheck.org→ Viral Meme Strips Context from Lawmakers’ Quotes on Protests
Quick Take A viral meme presents quotes from some Democratic lawmakers to misleadingly suggest they were advocating violence. They were supporting protests over various issues. Full Story Days after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters s
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Inaugural Address
Returning to a time when inaugural addresses promised unity and hope, but few facts, the newly sworn-in President Joe Biden delivered a traditional speech at his inauguration that offered little for fact-checkers. When he did offer us some facts to
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: An ‘Emergency Broadcast Alert’ Has NOT Been Issued Revealing Donald Trump Has Invoked The Insurrection Act
Did an Emergency Broadcast Alert reveal Donald Trump invoked the Insurrection Act? No, that's not true: A video makes the baseless claim that President Donald J. Trump informed the mayor of Oklahoma City that the "Insurrection Act has bee
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Amazon Banned Parler, But Allowed People to Buy This Shirt from Their Website.’
On January 16 2021, a claim about Amazon selling a “Kill All Republicans” shirt went viral as part of backlash over Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) decision to discontinue hosting controversial social media platform Parler. In a tweet, ri
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘BLM Activist’ John Sullivan/JaydenX, Explained
On January 15 2021 Breitbart published an item titled “Leftist Activist Among Those Arrested in Capitol Riot,” asserting “Utah-based left-wing activist” John Sullivan (also known as JaydenX) had been arrested in connection with
AllSides→ An Arizona State Rep Claims Antifa Members Were ‘Confirmed’ to be at the Capitol
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-check-an-arizona-state-rep-claims Arizona state Rep. Mark Finc
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Rep. Lauren Boebert On A Group Tour In Washington, D.C., In January 2021
Does a photo show U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert on a group tour in Washington, D.C., in January 2021? No, that's not true: The photo was taken more than a year earlier, at a 2019 rally in Colorado. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archiv
AllSides→ Timeline of National Guard Deployment to Capitol
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/01/timeline-of-national-guard-deployment-to-capitol/ On the day of the C
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Big Tech’ CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet
Is "Big Tech" letting child porn distributors freely operate while restricting people who post content that companies like Amazon and Facebook consider to be dangerous falsehoods? No, that's not how it works: No one owns the internet, whi
FactCheck.org→ Timeline of National Guard Deployment to Capitol
On the day of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, the first National Guard members arrived to assist at about 5:40 p.m. By then, most of the violence had subsided. In the critical minutes before rioters had breached the Capitol building around 2 p.m., the chie
Snopes→ YouTube Suspends Trump’s Channel for at Least a Week
The Google-owned platform said it removed content that was uploaded on January 12 to the Donald J. Trump channel for inciting violence.
Logically→ Donald Trump said the storming of the Capitol Building was justified.
Though he has not explicitly said that the storming was "justified", Trump did not condemn the violence on January 7.
Truth or Fiction?→ Does This Photograph Show a Tour Group the Day Before the Capitol Insurrection?
As the United States continued to grapple with a destructive and deadly right-wing riot at the Capitol building on January 6 2021, disturbing stories from Democratic Party lawmakers began to trickle out indicating that some participants may have plann
Poynter→ Expelling, censuring, and reprimanding members of Congress: What you need to know
With mounting footage showing violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers have increased their calls for punishing members of Congress who they say encouraged the group of supporters of President Donald Trump that eventually breached the Capitol.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Is NOT A Real Letter From Nancy Pelosi’s Office
Did Nancy Pelosi send an official letter urging Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland to go by the "Democratic play book" when dealing with protests and protest-related violence in his city? No, that's not true: Secretarial correspondence code in
FactCheck.org→ Road to a Second Impeachment
In the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, the House Democrats on Jan. 11 introduced legislation to impeach President Donald Trump, charging him with “inciting violence against the Government of the United States.” The impeachment resolution,
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘We Need 100 Percent of People Indoors’
Online flailing in support of outgoing United States President Donald Trump was accompanied by yet another go-round for a meme proclaiming — falsely — that Trump would be fulfilling the mission of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory known a
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: An Arizona State Rep Claims Antifa Members Were ‘Confirmed’ to be at the Capitol
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Snopes→ Did the FBI Warn of Armed Protests at ‘All 50 State Capitols’?
Congress has been briefed on a number of potential threats of violence planned for the days leading up to and including the Jan. 20, 2021, inauguration of Joe Biden.
FactCheck.org→ Fake Letter Attributed to Pelosi Generates Anger Online
Quick Take A digitally manipulated, phony letter referring to a “Democratic Play book” and attributed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been circulating online, contributing to partisan rancor following the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6. F
AllSides→ Did Trump Invoke Insurrection Act?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/insurrection-act-trump/ On Jan. 11, 2021, as Democratic leaders moved
Snopes→ Trump Says ‘Tremendous Anger’ in Nation over Impeachment
President Donald Trump said it’s “a really terrible thing that they’re doing.” But he said, “We want no violence. Never violence.”
Truth or Fiction?→ Does Trump Have an OnlyFans Account?
As outgoing United States President Donald Trump and his supporters were locked out of some digital platforms, social media users asked — sometimes derisively — if Trump would open an account on the subscription-based service OnlyFans. Two