Joe Biden slammed President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to jam through a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and urged more senators to stand with a pair of GOP colleagues who oppose the election-season rush.
Search Results (13212) for: public
Snopes→ Biden to GOP Senators: Don’t Jam Through Ginsburg Nominee
Joe Biden slammed President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to jam through a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and urged more senators to stand with a pair of GOP colleagues who oppose the election-season rush.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Did Not Wage ‘Active Campaign’ For The Repeal Of The Mann Act Or Lowering Age Of Consent
Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg wage an "active campaign" to repeal the Mann Act and to lower the age of consent for sex? No, that's not true: The claims that the late justice tried to get the Mann Act repealed -- a 1910 law that made it a federa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say The Second Amendment is ‘Obsolete’
Did Joe Biden say the Second Amendment is "obsolete"? No, that's not true: This claim is from a satirical website that publishes outlandish claims about Democrats with the goal of making Republicans believe and share them. It is also some
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Deep State Did NOT Unplug RBG After Waiting Until Trump Had No Time To Fill Her Seat
Did the "Deep State" keep Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg alive just long enough so that President Trump would not have enough time to replace her on the Supreme Court, setting up a "combustible state of limbo" for the United States after the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Deep State Did NOT Unplug RBG After Waiting Until Trump Had No Time To Fill Her Seat
Did the "Deep State" keep Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg alive just long enough so that President Trump would not have enough time to replace her on the Supreme Court, setting up a "combustible state of limbo" for the United States after the
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden answered questions from the public in a CNN town hall, but he got some facts wrong and misled on others: Biden made the far-fetched claim that data show President Donald Trump could have prevented “all&
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Spread Of Novel Coronavirus IS A Pandemic
Is it true that COVID-19 is not a pandemic? No, That's not true: The rapid global spread of COVID-19 fits both the dictionary definition of pandemic and has also ticked enough of the boxes necessary for global and national public health o
FactCheck.org→ Trump Again Overstates Speed of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Contradicting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and other government officials, President Donald Trump incorrectly said in a press briefing that a coronavirus vaccine would be “immediately” available to the general public afte
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kohl’s DOES Sell Blue Lives Matter Apparel
Does Kohl's only sell Black Lives Matter apparel and no Blue Lives Matter apparel? No, that's not true: Kohl's sells cowboy boots with a stitched-on Thin Blue Line patch, one symbol of the Blue Lives Matter pro-police organization. Starti
Truth or Fiction?→ Tucker Carlson: ‘Well, If That’s What Democratic Socialism is, Then I’m Basically on Board.’
On September 18 2020, Twitter user Alexandra Halaby shared what became a viral tweet — it claimed that Dr. Cornel West appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and got Carlson to admit that he was “basically on board” with de
The Dispatch→ No, Minneapolis Has Not ‘Defunded the Police’
a.image2.image-link.image2-971-1456 { padding-bottom: 66.68956043956044%; padding-bottom: min(66.68956043956044%, 971px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.image
Full Fact→ Lots of people are getting confused over testing figures
“We’re now doing about 240,000 antigen tests a day, at the moment… 240,000 is the latest figures… This is the capacity in the system.” Nadhim Zahawi MP, 17 September 2020 “The government’s own figures, the
Full Fact→ Lots of people are getting confused over testing figures
“We’re now doing about 240,000 antigen tests a day, at the moment… 240,000 is the latest figures… This is the capacity in the system.” Nadhim Zahawi MP, 17 September 2020 “The government’s own figures, the
Snopes→ Ohio Limit of 1 Ballot Drop Box Per County Blocked, Appealed
An Ohio judge has temporarily blocked the Republican secretary of state’s order limiting counties to one ballot drop box, and both the state and the Republican Party have appealed.
AllSides→ Did CBS Conflate a Latinos for Trump Rally With a Biden Event?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-cbs-conflate-a-latinos-for-trump A viral tweet claims that CBS
FactCheck.org→ Posts Mislead on Biden’s Role in Social Security Taxes
Quick Take Posts on Facebook and Twitter suggest that former Vice President Joe Biden is responsible for taxes on Social Security, but those posts ignore the political history and mislead on the details. The posts also twist Biden’s proposals on
Washington Post→ Biden ad isolates the wrong Trump comments on coronavirus
A new Biden campaign ad uses misleading examples to make the case Trump played down the novel coronavirus publicly, while he was taking it seriously in private.
Lead Stories→ Press Release: Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network launches the first-ever coalition of major U.S. fact-checkers to debunk misinformation in English and Spanish
The project, FactChat, will lead to the creation of a WhatsApp chatbot and two Spanish-language fact-checking units. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Sept. 18, 2020) -- Led by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute,
Full Fact→ Angela Rayner’s testing numbers are not quite right
"The government's latest figures show that there were an average of 62,000 people tested per day, not 500,000. The Prime Minister has said that testing capacity is at 300,000, but the average is 62,000 a day. How does he explain this?" Angela Rayner M
Health Feedback→ Assessment of the evolution of the number of COVID-19 cases is based on SARS-CoV-2 specific test. No confusion with flu or common cold is possible.
REVIEW Claims circulated in early September 2020 stating that the common cold or flu can be mistaken for COVID-19, suggesting that current and future cases of COVID-19 should instead be attributed to common cold or flu. Posts making these claims pro
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Demand Kayleigh McEnany Resign As White House Press Secretary
Did CNN demand that Kayleigh McEnany resign as White House press secretary for "perpetuating the lies" of President Trump to the media over COVID-19 health risks? No, that is not true. CNN did not author a piece demanding she step down; i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Article Accusing China Of Loosing COVID From A Lab Is NOT Tested Science
Did a scientific study prove the Chinese government cooked up the novel coronavirus and loosed it on the world? No, that's not true: The claim is made in a self-published article produced by doctors who identify themselves as part of a po
Truth or Fiction?→ Did a Life Insurance Company’s Attempt to Curb Suicide on a South Korea Bridge Precede an Increase in Deaths?
On September 17 2020, the following post was shared to r/therewasanattempt, which described a purported initiative to curb suicides on South Korea’s Mapo Bridge: to stop suicide from therewasanattempt An image showed two
FactCheck.org→ CBS News Didn’t Misrepresent Trump Gathering as a Biden Event
Quick Take Social media posts are using an image of a CBS News report to accuse the network of misrepresenting a campaign event for President Donald Trump as one for former Vice President Joe Biden. That’s false. The report’s voiceover was
Poynter→ Fact-check: Did Joe Biden say that Breonna Taylor should be arrested?
MediaWise Rating: Not Legit On Sept. 3 a video surfaced on Twitter that appears to show Joe Biden calling for the arrest of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was shot by police on March 13. The video comes from a Q&A session during a public speakin
Snopes→ ‘A Giant Middle Finger to the Entire System’: Trans Anarchist Satanist Runs for Sheriff
... as a Republican.
FactCheck.org→ Report Resurrects Baseless Claim that Coronavirus Was Bioengineered
Quick Take A paper that has not been peer-reviewed reaches faulty conclusions to advance the unsubstantiated claim that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered in a Chinese lab, according to immunology and microbiology experts. The paper’s claims
The Dispatch→ Did CBS Conflate a Latinos for Trump Rally With a Biden Event?
a.image2.image-link.image2-634-1129 { padding-bottom: 56.155890168290526%; padding-bottom: min(56.155890168290526%, 634px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.ima
Full Fact→ Data on how far people travel to get a Covid-19 test isn’t all that useful
“The vast majority of people who use our testing service get a test that is close to home, and the average distance travelled to a test site is now just 5.8 miles - down from 6.4 miles last week.” Matt Hancock, 15 September 2020 “Jus
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘FB Banned over 700 Pages Dedicated to Expose Pedophilia. That Should Scare the Absolute S*** Out of Everyone.’
On September 4 2020, a Facebook user asserted the platform had banned “700 pages” which were “dedicated to expos[ing] pedophilia”: White text against a blue background included the #SaveOurChildren hashtag: FB banned over 70
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘FB Banned over 700 Pages Dedicated to Expose Pedophilia. That Should Scare the Absolute S*** Out of Everyone.’
On September 4 2020, a Facebook user asserted the platform had banned “700 pages” which were “dedicated to expos[ing] pedophilia”: White text against a blue background included the #SaveOurChildren hashtag: FB banned over 70
Full Fact→ There’s no connection between new biometrics legislation and Covid-19 tests
Multiple posts on social media have claimed that new government legislation has enabled DNA to be “harvested and retained” from Covid-19 test kits. This is not true. The legislation, ‘The Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints a
AFP Fact Check→ Medical experts say having a dry throat ‘does not increase the risk’ of infection
Multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Line messaging app claim that having a dry throat will cause germs to enter one’s body. The claim is false; the Thai Public Health Ministry denies it has ever issued such advice; medical experts say dry throat
AFP Fact Check→ Medical experts say having a dry throat ‘does not increase the risk’ of infection
Multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Line messaging app claim that having a dry throat will cause germs to enter one’s body. The claim is false; the Thai Public Health Ministry denies it has ever issued such advice; medical experts say dry throat
FactCheck.org→ Trump Reprises Inaccurate COVID-19 Comparisons with Europe
In a series of recent appearances, President Donald Trump continued to wrongly insist that the U.S. compares favorably with Europe on both coronavirus cases and deaths. Trump falsely said that Europe’s COVID-19 outbreaks are “much worse” than tho
The Dispatch→ Did Joe Biden Play ‘F*** tha Police’ at a Campaign Event?
a.image2.image-link.image2-1023-1456 { padding-bottom: 70.26098901098901%; padding-bottom: min(70.26098901098901%, 1023px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.ima
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Did NOT Witness UFO Over New Jersey On September 14, 2020
Did thousands of people witness a UFO over New Jersey September 14, 2020? No, that's not true: While there may have been some excitement and confusion about what they saw, it was not a flying saucer from outer space, but just one of the f
FactCheck.org→ DSCC Falsely Attacks Daines on Social Security
In a TV ad, a Democratic committee falsely claims Sen. Steve Daines of Montana is “pushing a plan” that could “end Social Security benefits by 2023.” He’s not. The ad is confusing Daines’ support for eliminating the Soci
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof That Trump Is ‘A Rapist And A Pedophile’
Is Donald Trump a rapist and a pedophile? There's no proof this is true: The claims are based on allegations and lawsuits that have been recanted, dismissed or remain ongoing. They remain unproven in a court of law. The claims appeared in