Is a video that shows social media personality Damon Imani interrupting World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab at its 2024 Davos meeting with the f-word real? No, that's not true: Imani wrote on his social media account that the video
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FactCheck.org→ Trump Distorts the Facts About His New York Civil Trial
Former President Donald Trump made false and questionable claims in a brief press conference on Jan. 11 after the closing arguments in a New York civil fraud trial. The lawsuit, filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleges that Trump
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Acting On ‘Bump This Post’ Will NOT Help Find Missing Man With Dementia — It’s Ruse To Trick People To Share It
Did "Mr. Luke Jones," purportedly a man with dementia, drive away from his home and fail to return, triggering the activation of a silver alert? No, that's not true: No elderly man named Luke Jones is missing at the time of writing. This
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Zelenskyy Begging Western Leaders To Spend Their Money On Ukraine
Does a video show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy begging Western leaders to spend their money on Ukraine? No, that's not true: In the Fox News Channel interview, Zelenskyy was directing his comments toward domestic critics, not a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia Gov. Kemp Lawyers Did NOT Notify Sec. of State Raffensperger ‘17,852 Invalid 2020 Votes’ Counted In Fulton County
Did Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's legal staff notify Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in late 2023 that 17,852 invalid 2020 votes were counted in Georgia's Fulton County? No, that's not true: The State Election Board told Lead Stories th
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking the Fourth GOP Primary Debate
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Summary In the last Republican presidential primary debate of 2023, the candidates argued over their positions on gender-affirmation surgery, legal immigration and more: Florid
Truth or Fiction?→ Investigating Opportunities of Peace: The Palestinian Story
Historically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict forms one of the most intricate and longstanding disputes in the broader Middle East affair. The century-long dispute, a consequential aftermath of the influential Balfour Declaration in 1917, has seen s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US National Debt Was NOT Paid Off In 2017 — Last Time Was 1835
Does a viral video show proof that the U.S. national debt was paid off in 2017? No, that's not true: The U.S. Treasury website shows the current U.S. national debt, which is about $33.7 trillion, a number accepted by U.S. financial market
FactCheck.org→ No Change in George Floyd’s Cause of Death, Despite Viral False Claims
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take The police officer who kept his knee on George Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes in 2020 was convicted of murder, and the medical examiner determined that police
Truth or Fiction?→ So Long, and Thanks for All the Facts
Today we, the staff at TruthOrFiction.com, are shutting down the site. It will remain live for the foreseeable future, but it will no longer be updated. We are eternally grateful for our readers. You made us everything we were. We appreciate you and wi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Hamas Paraglider’ Crashing Into Power Line — Footage Predates Most Recent Israel-Hamas Conflict
Did a viral video capture a "Hamas paraglider" falling on electric transmission lines during the Hamas attack on Israel that started on October 7, 2023? No, that's not true: The footage began circulating on social media months before that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Clinton And Pope Francis Did NOT Call For ‘Urgent Depopulation’ To Save The Planet
Did Bill Clinton and Pope Francis call for "urgent depopulation" to save the planet? No, that's not true: The pope and former President Clinton had a public conversation in September 2023 during the Clinton Global Initiative 2023 meeting
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vast Majority of 100K ‘Severe’ Side Effects Per 1M Vaxed Teens NOT Deadly/Permanent — Soreness, Fever, Nausea, Headache
Does data from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) briefing from September 2023 show that mRNA COVID vaccines "CAUSE 100,000-200,000 severe side effects" for every one million shots given to "teens"? Yes, that's the label o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Call Child ‘Sexy’ — It’s Edited Audio
Did President Biden whisper "You're one sexy kid" in the ear of a child? No, that's not true: The audio had been edited. Lead Stories found the original video on TikTok and in it, Biden did not call the child "sexy." We also could not fin
Truth or Fiction?→ Mexico’s ‘Mummified’ Alien Corpses
On September 13 2023, a pair of popular posts about “alien corpses” presented at a hearing before Mexico’s government appeared on Reddit’s r/aliens (and elsewhere): Aliens revealed at UAP Mexico Hearing byu/im2much4u2handlex in
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘The Richest 1% Evade $163 Billion in Taxes Every Year, the United States Literally Has a Yacht Tax Deduction’
On August 28 2023, an unlinked post by former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich was shared to Reddit’s r/WhitePeopleTwitter; it alleged that the “richest 1%” of Americans “evade $163 billion” in taxes each year
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Visiting Maui After Wildfires — It’s Alabama In 2019
Does a video show former President Donald Trump visiting the Hawaiian island of Maui in August 2023 to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires there? No, that's not true: The footage of Trump is from 2019, when Trump visited Alabam
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Mug Shot Is NOT Real
Does a photo show a real mug shot for former President Donald Trump? No, that's not true: No mug shot had yet been taken of Trump for any of his court cases as of August 16, 2023. The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Twitter on
FactCheck.org→ Republicans Oversell Archer’s Testimony About Hunter and Joe Biden
Congressional testimony by Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, on July 31 led to competing narratives about what Archer said, and how damaging his testimony was to President Joe Biden. The release of a transcript of Archer̵
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Georgia Has More Than 2 Million ‘Phantom Voters’ On Its Voter Rolls
Does the state of Georgia have 2.2 million "phantom voters" on its voter rolls, a situation that could lead to widespread voter fraud? No, there's no evidence that's true: A woman making this claim in a video on social media provided just
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Defense Lawyer Spins the Facts
John Lauro, one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, went on five Sunday talk shows to present a counternarrative to a federal indictment that accuses Trump of engaging in a criminal conspiracy to remain in office despite losing to Joe Bi
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s First Amendment Defense
Former President Donald Trump and one of his attorneys have invoked a First Amendment defense in response to the federal indictment charging Trump with trying to “subvert the legitimate election results.” But legal experts note Trump’
FactCheck.org→ Indictment Details Trump’s Attempt to Overturn Swing State Election Outcomes
The federal indictment against former President Donald Trump, concerning his efforts to remain in office despite losing the election, details actions Trump and his co-conspirators allegedly took to get state officials to change legitimate electoral vo
Truth or Fiction?→ Sinéad O’Connor’s Saturday Night Live Rehearsal
Sinead O’Connor had a short but storied life. When the Irish musician and performer (who since 2018 had called herself Shuhada’ Sadaqat after converting to Islam) — died on July 26 2023, her groundbreaking Saturday Night Live per
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Obamas Did NOT Say They Were ‘On The Property’ On Martha’s Vineyard When Private Chef Drowned
Did Barack and Michelle Obama's story change about where they were when their personal chef Tafari Campbell drowned near their Massachusetts home, "altering the story to say they were indeed on the property" when Campbell went missing? No
Truth or Fiction?→ July 2023 UAP Hearing, Explained
On July 26 2023, a House subcommittee hearing on unidentified objects or phenomena in the sky instantly lit up social media; for example, “UAPs,” “UFOs,” “#endUAPsecrecy,” and “Tom DeLonge” all appeared o
Truth or Fiction?→ Reddit’s r/Place Turned Into a Protest
On July 21 2023, Reddit accounts asked others to explain what “the deal” was with subreddit r/place in a post to the self-explanatory subreddit r/OutOfTheLoop: What’s the deal with r/place? by u/Indigo_132 in OutOfThe
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NBC News Did NOT Report DeSantis’ Classmates Referred To ‘Muffin Incident’
Did NBC News report that the news outlet was told that several of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' classmates "vaguely referred to an event known as the 'muffin incident'"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that NBC News published a cla
Truth or Fiction?→ Moms for Liberty’s ‘Americans and Jews’ Tweet
On July 12 2023, a screenshot of a tweet addressing “Americans and Jews” was attributed to the far-right activist group Moms for Liberty. It was quickly shared to Reddit’s r/WhitePeopleTwitter and r/MarchAgainstNazis: “Am
Truth or Fiction?→ FDR and the Business Plot of 1933
On July 6 2023, a post to Reddit’s r/todayilearned subreddit shared a post about United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and “The Business Plot” of 1933: TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt t
Truth or Fiction?→ U.S. Navy Twitter Account Features Russian Ship on Independence Day Post
The U.S. Pacific Fleet — which calls itself the largest naval force of its type in the world — tweeted, then deleted a tweet marking the July 4th Independence Day holiday after a researcher pointed out that it used a photo depicting Russian
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Al Jazeera Did NOT Release Video Claiming Ukrainians Thought Titan Passengers Spent Too Much On Deadly Expedition
Did Al Jazeera media network publish a video reporting that Ukrainian social media users accused the passengers of the OceanGate Titan submersible of spending too much money on the trip when that money could have been used to support Ukra
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Declare ‘War On Russia’ On Or Before June 17, 2023
Did President Joe Biden declare "war on Russia" as of June 17, 2023? No, that's not true: This video post is missing context as the footage, taken from a March 2022 event of Biden speaking to the House Democratic Caucus, was edited. The t
FactCheck.org→ Republican Claims About Hunter Biden Offenses
Several Republican lawmakers have objected to a plea deal between the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden, the president’s son, claiming it was “a slap on the wrist.” We’ll explain the plea and what we know about several oth
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Administration Does NOT ‘Quietly’ Drop ‘All Charges Against Sam Bankman-Fried’ — Still Facing 8 Counts
Did federal prosecutors "quietly" drop all 13 criminal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed crypto-exchange FTX? No, that's not true: On June 14, 2023, prosecutors announced that, for the time being, they would
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mel Gibson Is NOT ‘Secretly Working On A 4 Part Docu Series’ About Child Sex Trafficking Trade
Did Mel Gibson start working on a new documentary "exposing the 34 billion dollar global child sex trafficking trade"? No, that's not true: No credible sources confirmed he made such an announcement, and his publicist explicitly denied Gi
Truth or Fiction?→ JP Morgan Claims to ‘Now Understand’ Jeffrey Epstein Was a Predator
In negotiating a $290 million settlement with the victims of billionaire sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, megabank JPMorgan suggested ignorance of Epstein’s activities. “We all now understand that Epstein’s behaviour was monstrous,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukraine Did NOT Tell Elon Musk To Delete Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Account In 72 Hours
Did Ukraine demand Elon Musk delete Tucker Carlson's Twitter account within 72 hours, threatening consequences if the demand was not complied with? No, that's not true: the claim originated on a Russian Telegram channel known for satirica
Truth or Fiction?→ Boston University President Accuses Students of ‘the Cancel Culture’ for Booing Warner Bros. Head
The outgoing president of Boston University lashed out at graduating students who booed and heckled Warner Bros. Discovery chief executive David Zaslav while he was speaking at the university in the midst of a strike by the Writers’ Guild of Amer
Truth or Fiction?→ Disney ‘Pulls Plug’ on Billion Dollar Florida Campus
On May 18 2023, a flurry of posts about Disney “pulling the plug” on a billion-dollar planned investment began appearing across social media, with popular posts on r/politics and r/LeopardsAteMyFace (twice): Disney Pulls Plug on