The New York Times reported that Gaetz was under investigation by the Justice Department to determine if he violated federal sex trafficking laws and had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old.
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Snopes→ Did NJ Gov. Call Rep. Matt Gaetz ‘Matt Putz’?
The politicians traded a few barbs after word got out about a maskless gathering of young Republicans in December 2020.
Snopes→ Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz Flouts House Rules with District Lease
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is paying a former legal client and donor $5,000 a month to rent space for his district office, a possible violation of U.S. House rules.
FactCheck.org→ Misleading Posts Target GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz
Quick Take Social media posts distort the facts around an 11-year-old, dismissed DUI charge against Rep. Matt Gaetz. They also leave the false impression that he “stole from dying people.” Full Story Posts about Rep. Matt Gaetz circula
Snopes→ Matt Gaetz Mug Shot Memes
The Florida congressman’s mug shot is real, but memes that make use of the image provide false information.
FactCheck.org→ Hunter Biden’s Testimony in Context
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. During a lengthy interview with House investigators on Feb. 28, Hunter Biden repeatedly insisted that his father was never involved in any of his businesses. A transcript of the i
AllSides→ Do Donald Trump Indictments Bar Him From House Speaker Role?
https://www.newsweek.com/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-indictments-bar-house-speaker-fact-check-1832140 K
The Dispatch→ Kevin’s Best Friend
Having Matt Gaetz as a foil isn’t the worst thing.
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on Looming Government Shutdown
The federal government is heading to a shutdown, if Congress doesn’t pass funding legislation by the time the clock strikes midnight on Sept. 30. We’ll explain what that means and what government services could be affected. What is a g
FactCheck.org→ Misleading Online Posts Distort Biden’s Joke at Meeting with Indian Prime Minister
Quick Take In a meeting with the Indian prime minister and CEOs of technology companies, President Joe Biden joked about Republican investigations into him and his family. “I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things,R
The Dispatch→ Trump Indicted
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Happy Friday—and stop the count! Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories Turkey’s parliament voted to approve
The Dispatch→ George Santos Was Inevitable
U.S. Rep.-elect George Santos, Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz, and Rep.-elect Lauren Boebert sit together in the House Chamber during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 07, 2023 in Washington, DC.(Photo
The Dispatch→ The GOP’s Spending Fight Is More About Fighting Than Spending
Incoming House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (right) argues with members of the Freedom Caucus, including Rep. Bob Good, Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Rep. Matt Rosendale during votes for speaker of the House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.)These new defic
The Dispatch→ When Words Fail
Rep. Matt Gaetz talks to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy during the fourth day of elections for speaker of the House. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Last week exposed the poverty of our political vocabulary.The post When Words Fail appea
The Dispatch→ McCarthy Gets the Gavel in Dramatic Fashion
Rep. Mike Rogers is restrained after getting into an argument with Rep. Matt Gaetz during the 14th round of voting for speaker of the House. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)After more than a dozen votes and days of negotia
FactCheck.org→ IRS Will Target ‘High-Income’ Tax Evaders with New Funding, Contrary to Social Media Posts
Quick Take The Inflation Reduction Act includes $79 billion for the IRS. Social media posts misleadingly claim the IRS will now hire “87,000 new agents” to investigate average citizens. But most new hires will provide customer services, and
FactCheck.org→ Social Media, Politicians Make Unfounded Claims of Politicized Mar-a-Lago Search
Quick Take FBI agents searched the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida on Aug. 8 looking for presidential records and classified materials that were improperly removed from the White House. Social media posts claiming the FBI search was po
Truth or Fiction?→ Fifth January 6 Hearing Shows Scope of Attempts to Undermine Democracy
The fifth hearing by the January 6 2021 committee covered the pressure that Donald Trump exerted on state and federal officials to call the U.S. presidential election in his favor in 2020 so that he could remain in power. The testimonials came on June
FactCheck.org→ Navarro Falsely Links Fauci to Pandemic Origin
SciCheck Digest The U.S. indirectly funded some bat coronavirus research at a lab in Wuhan, China. But those experiments could not have led to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, because the viruses used were very different. Yet former White House tr
Truth or Fiction?→ Jason Miller’s ‘Antifa Narrative’ Capitol Insurrection Texts
On April 26 2022, a viral screenshot of a tweet purportedly showed the content of a text message in which Jason Miller, advisor to former United States President Donald Trump, suggested blaming anti-fascist protestors for the deadly Capitol insurrect
FactCheck.org→ Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory Centers on Baseless Claim About Ray Epps
Quick Take James Ray Epps was at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. But there is no evidence that he was an FBI plant assigned to instigate the riot, as a conspiracy theory — embraced by at least two members of Congress — claims. There is ev
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Claims About the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was the culmination of months of false claims about election fraud, including a litany recited by then-President Donald Trump in a speech shortly before a mob stormed the building, temporarily halting the co
FactCheck.org→ Republicans Spin NIH Letter About Coronavirus Gain-of-Function Research
Republicans say a letter from a National Institutes of Health official is an admission that the agency funded so-called gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China, with some falsely linking the work to the pandemic coronavirus. But the res
FactCheck.org→ The Facts on Capitol Police’s Tampa Office
In a July 6 press release about changes the U.S. Capitol Police is making in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the agency announced it is adding field offices in Tampa and San Francisco to investigate threats against members of Congress. Sinc
Truth or Fiction?→ Police Officers’ Testimony Refutes Right Wing Capitol Riot Disinformation
The testimony of four law enforcement officers before a House select committee on July 27 2021 provided another yet another clear refutation to the disinformation pushed by right-wing outlets and operatives surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol on
FactCheck.org→ Conservative Outlets Advance Unfounded Theory About Capitol Attack
Quick Take There is no evidence that “unindicted co-conspirators” mentioned in federal indictments related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack are undercover FBI agents or informants, as conservative outlets have claimed or suggested. Legal expert
The Dispatch→ Imbeciles Amok
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The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff From a Week Georgia Was on Our Minds. Again.
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The Dispatch→ The Remnant of Misfit Onlookers
Today’s Ruminant features Jonah amid a group of silent watchers, staring at him while on mute in a Zoom meeting as he speaks to himself for an hour in the basement of an undisclosed location. On the docket today: Jonah returns to one of the most
Snopes→ Is the Age of Consent 16 and 17 in Majority of US States?
As news broke about a federal investigation into whether U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, questions about state laws swirled online.
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
Truth or Fiction?→ How to Fight Disinformation: Part II — Gaslighting
This is part of an ongoing series about how communities can fight back and protect themselves against weaponized disinformation. You can read Part I here. On January 6 2021, a mob of Donald Trump supporters, enraged by corrosive rhetoric and lies fr
AllSides→ Fact checking Republicans’ unsubstantiated claims that Antifa infiltrated Capitol riot
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/capitol-antifa-infiltration-fact-check/index.html In the wake o
The Dispatch→ Debunking the Conspiracy Theories Claiming That Antifa Led the Attack on the Capitol
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FactCheck.org→ Bogus Antifa Claims Follow Capitol Riot
Quick Take Viral social media posts and a Republican House member have amplified claims wrongly identifying some right-wing figures at the U.S. Capitol riot as part of “antifa.” The claims feed into an unfounded conspiracy theory that anti-
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Antifa Infiltrated Trump Supporters’ Claim During Capitol Riots by Washington Times Apparently Deleted
On the night of the January 6 2021 Capitol riots, Rep. Matt Gaetz shared a Washington Times article on Twitter along with the headline, “XRVision firm claims Antifa infiltrated protesters who stormed Capitol”: "Facial recognition fi
The Dispatch→ Did a Facial Recognition Software Company Identify Antifa Members at the Capitol?
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Truth or Fiction?→ Far Right News Organizations Issue Statements, Admit ‘No Evidence’ Exists to Support Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Election Fraud
Far right propaganda purveyors like Newsmax, One America News Network, and certain Fox personalities became hot topics after the November 3 2020 election, when they captured a significant number of former Fox News viewers thanks to their regular ̶
FactCheck.org→ Misleading Claim of Dead Registered Voters in Pennsylvania
Quick Take A misleading claim that more than 21,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania are dead is circulating online. The figure comes from a conservative group that failed to convince a federal judge in October that its list was accurate. Full Story
FactCheck.org→ Partisan Claims of ‘Russia Hoax’ Revived Ahead of 2020 Election
Quick Take President Donald Trump and his supporters on social media are citing unverified “Russian intelligence” from 2016 as evidence that Hillary Clinton “was behind the entire Russian collusion hoax.” But that so-called inte