https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/02/immigration-migrants-border-nongovernmental-organizations-funding-fact-brief/?utm_source=gigafact&utm_id=112
AllSides→ Posts Mislead About COVID-19 Vaccine Safety With Out-of-Context Clip of FDA Official
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/posts-mislead-about-covid-19-vaccine-safety-with-out-of-context-clip-of-fda-official/
The Dispatch→ Another Primary, Another Trump Victory
Donald Trump wins the South Carolina primary, adding 47 more delegates to his count.
The Dispatch→ Is North Korea Preparing for War?
From unification to annexation.
The Dispatch→ Social Media Platforms and the ‘Common Carrier’ Question
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether social media companies should be regulated like utilities.
The Dispatch→ CPAC 2024 Presents a Vision of a Second Trump Administration
The former president modifies his revenge-seeking rhetoric.
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff Marking the Second Anniversary of the War in Ukraine
Plus: The truth about Moscow grocery stores and Biden’s diminished mental capacity.
The Dispatch→ Video: A Special Saturday Ukraine-Focused Episode
Watch the video of our weekly live-streamed conversation.
The Dispatch→ The Dispatch Monthly Mailbag with Mary Trimble
One of our Morning Dispatch authors answers your questions.
The Dispatch→ The Revelations of Simone Weil
Like Alexei Navalny, she embodied her ideals despite the personal cost.
The Dispatch→ SCOOP: Some RNC Members Pushing Resolutions to Constrain Trump
As Trump inches closer to securing the Republican presidential nomination, an effort to prevent him from short-circuiting the process emerges.
The Dispatch→ Reminder: Bonus Dispatch Live Episodes Today and Tomorrow
Information on how to tune in to upcoming episodes on the war in Ukraine and the future of the conservative movement.
AllSides→ Fact-Checking Trump and Haley’s War of Words
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/politics/trump-haley-fact-check.html As voters in South Carolina
The Dispatch→ Can Haley Wake Them Up in South Carolina?
Today’s primary will reveal if voters are growing weary of the outrages of Trump and Trumpism.
The Dispatch→ What We’re Paying for in Ukraine
Does the U.S. need to provide continuous aid?
The Dispatch→ Relearning the Basics
The dog did nothing wrong.
The Dispatch→ Presidents Day, Meet Black History Month
Remembering an exchange between George Washington and the poet Phillis Wheatley.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 97% Of Guns NOT In Areas Of US That Account For 3% Of Gun Violence
Are 97 percent of the guns in the United States located in areas that account for only three percent of gun violence? No, that's not true: Gun violence experts told Lead Stories that different statistics demonstrate a correlation: In regi
The Dispatch→ In Limbo Fertilization
The GOP’s IVF nightmare.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Angela Merkel Is NOT The Daughter Of Adolf Hitler
Is Angela Merkel the daughter of Adolf Hitler? No, that's not true: Merkel, the former German chancellor, was born in 1954 in Hamburg, West Germany. Hitler died on April 30, 1945, almost a decade before Merkel was born. Merkel's parents w
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Marines Did NOT Participate In Fiction Website’s Fantasy of U.S. Customs And Border Protection Patrol Conspiracy
Did United States Marines arrest two United States Customs and Border Protection Patrol agents for accepting bribes from immigrants for entry into the United States on February 19, 2024? No, that's not true: This claim appeared on a websi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Parents’ Refusal To Use Chosen Pronouns Was NOT Reason Child Was Removed From Indiana Home — Care For Eating Disorder, Mental Health Were Needed
Did the Indiana Department of Child Services remove a child from their home because the parents refused to call them by their preferred pronouns, as a social media post suggests? No, that's not true: The complex situation outlined in Indi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Solar Flares ARE Real And CAN Disrupt Telecommunications Networks
Are solar flares not real, thus incapable of disrupting telecommunications networks, as a post on Instagram suggests? No, that's not true: Solar flares are well-documented bursts of electromagnetic energy emitted by the sun during geomagn
The Dispatch→ Nations, Nation-States, and Nationalism
On Ukraine and the treason of the nationalists.
FactCheck.org→ Posts Mislead About COVID-19 Vaccine Safety With Out-of-Context Clip of FDA Official
SciCheck Digest Given the extra scrutiny and large number of doses, reports of possible side effects to a vaccine safety monitoring system increased with the COVID-19 vaccines. The high number of reports does not mean the vaccines are unsafe, contr
PolitiFact→ X posts – Proposed online safety act does not require websites to verify government IDs
The Kids Online Safety Act “would require everyone to upload your government ID in order to use most sites on the internet.”
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Do immigrants crossing the US southern border take union jobs? Fact-checking Donald Trump
“The biggest threat to your unions is millions of people coming across the border, because you're not gonna have your jobs anymore.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Attorney Johnnie Cochran died from a brain tumor, not because of reparations fight
Johnnie Cochran “mysteriously passed away” and his death is linked to his work on slavery reparations.
PolitiFact→ Why the juvenile suspects in the Chiefs parade shooting haven’t been named, unlike Kyle Rittenhouse
After the Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting, some people questioned why the juvenile suspects haven’t been named although minors have been identified in other incidents. Here’s what state laws and journalism ethics experts say.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – NASA is not photoshopping pictures of Canada and passing them off as Mars images
The pictures we see of Mars are actually Devon Island in Canada.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: President Joe Biden did not issue Executive Order 9066 to provide $5,000 gift cards to migrants who enter the U.S. illegally.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ The Red Cross did not ban people with COVID-19 vaccinations from donating blood
Social media users are misrepresenting a question the Red Cross asks potential blood donors to make false claims about donor eligibility and COVID-19 vaccine safety.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Google Is NOT Sunsetting Gmail On August 1, 2024
Did Google send out a notification that it would end Gmail service on August 1, 2024? No, that's not true: The company denied that, and no credible sources reported that the announcement in question has ever been made. Early posts about t
The Dispatch→ Why Donald Trump’s Prosecutors May Be Helping His Campaign
Plus: A new federal indictment could sink Republicans’ impeachment aspirations.
Health Feedback→ France passed a law targeting health-threatening psychological manipulation and influence, but didn’t criminalize criticism of mRNA vaccines
REVIEW Claims that France passed a law criminalizing criticism of mRNA vaccines circulated on social media in February 2024. They referred to a bill passed by the French National Assembly on 14 February 2024, addressing sectarian drift (“dérive s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Donald Trump Shoving Man At Mar-A-Lago
Does video footage show Donald Trump shoving a man at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort the former president calls home? No, that's not true: Another video of the incident makes clear it was a friendly pat. Additionally, the man who was alle
PolitiFact→ Sean Parnell – A Nevada glitch does not equal mail ballot fraud
Nevada database glitch showing voters cast ballots when they didn’t is evidence that voting by mail is “the largest source of potential voter fraud.”
The Dispatch→ Bring Back Political Factions
Smirnov iced.
Health Feedback→ The American Red Cross doesn’t prevent people vaccinated against COVID-19 from donating blood, contrary to rehashed viral claim
REVIEW In mid-February 2024, posts started circulating on social media claiming that the American Red Cross was warning potential blood donors to check their eligibility if they’d received a COVID-19 vaccine. Some asked, “I thought the vax was
Health Feedback→ Global COVID Vaccine Safety study identified already-known risks, doesn’t show that risks are greater than benefits
REVIEW In late February 2024, a flurry of posts appeared on social media platforms like Instagram, revolving around a study newly published in the scientific journal Vaccine. This is part of the Global COVID Vaccine Safety project that analyzed adve