Quick Take Instagram posts erroneously claim the “SAME DOCTOR” performed the autopsies on “JFK, MLK, Epstein, AND George Floyd.” The doctor referenced, pathologist Michael Baden, has connections to those four cases — but h
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lady Gaga Did NOT Drink Blood With Children On American Horror Story Episodes
Did Lady Gaga drink blood with children in a satanic ritual to make the TV series "American Horror Story," season 5? No, she did not. What took place, in reality, was four actors pretended to drink blood in a fictional setting. They drank red,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Protester’ Was Joking When He Told Interviewer George Soros Paid Him To Protest
Was a man serious when he told a journalist that George Soros invited him to lunch, paid him by personal check to protest, and made him rich? No, that's not true: A video of the "paid protester" is a 3-year-old spoof, according to the man who
FactCheck.org→ Video of Trump’s ‘Choke’ Quote Refers to Political Rivals
Quick Take Video clips of President Donald Trump pretending to choke while saying “I can’t breathe” have been circulating with the misleading suggestion that he was mocking George Floyd. The videos pre-date Floyd’s death and sho
The Dispatch→ Did Donald Trump Mock ‘I Can’t Breathe’?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Leaked IRS Tax Returns Did NOT show George Soros Wired $1.7M To Antifa
Did leaked IRS tax returns show George Soros wired $1.7 million to Antifa? No, that's not true: The Open Society Foundations, created by Soros, has made several large donations to The Center for Community Change, but that group is not affiliat
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Honest Abe’ At Lincoln Memorial Was NOT Vandalized With Graffiti By Protesters
Did protesters tag "Honest Abe" at the Lincoln Memorial with "Black Lives Matter" graffiti? No, that's not true: The image showing a chunk of Lincoln's head missing and the rest of him covered with words and names drawn in blue, red, black, ye
FactCheck.org→ Bricks Were Placed for Construction, Not to Incite Protesters
Quick Take Some viral social media posts misleadingly suggest that piles of bricks are being staged ahead of the protests over the death of George Floyd to incite violence. We reviewed five social media posts making such claims and found no evidence of
FactCheck.org→ LEGO Temporarily Halts Marketing, Not Sales, of Police Toy Sets
Quick Take LEGO isn’t discontinuing the sale of its law enforcement-themed toys, despite an erroneous social media claim. The confusion arose after the company temporarily suspended some marketing efforts — not sales — amid the U.S. p
The Dispatch→ Did Lego Pull Products Featuring Police and Rescue Workers?
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FactCheck.org→ Post on Floyd Protests Uses Old Vandalism Photos
Quick Take A Facebook post about protests taking place in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death is criticizing protesters for “destroying the cemeteries” of veterans. But three of the four images cited are old and have nothing to do with the
FactCheck.org→ Two Former Officers Involved in Floyd’s Death Are Not In-Laws
Quick Take Contrary to social media posts, Kellie Chauvin, the estranged wife of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, is not the sister of Tou Thao, another former officer involved in the events tha
FactCheck.org→ Officer Charged in Floyd’s Death Hasn’t Committed Suicide
Quick Take A viral story shared on social media is falsely claiming that Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd, committed suicide in his prison cell. Full Story As national tensions surged over the d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Atlanta Did NOT Deploy A ‘Child Militia’ During Protests
Did Atlanta deploy "a child militia" that was "fitted with riot shields and batons" during recent protests? No, that's not true: A video posted on Twitter alleges as much, but the National Guard has denied these claims, insisting that the pict
Truth or Fiction?→ Did George Floyd’s Autopsy Reveal ‘Potential Intoxicants’?
Following the arrest of Derek Chauvin in connection with the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd in May 2020, the release of the criminal complaint against the former Minneapolis police officer reignited criticism against local authorities. One part
FactCheck.org→ Viral Photos Don’t Show Minneapolis Officer in Floyd Case
Quick Take Politically charged social media posts have wrongly identified pictures as showing the Minneapolis police officer who was seen kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, who died shortly after. The two photos circulating do not show the officer,
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Evidence-Free Attempt to Link Scarborough to Aide’s Death
President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought without evidence to link MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to the death of one of his staffers in 2001, when he was a Republican congressman. The medical examiner found that the death was accidental, due to a heart
Truth or Fiction?→ Obamagate, Explained
Chances are you saw at least a passing reference to “Obamagate” in May 2020, and chances are similar you (like many) struggled to understand what “Obamagate” might actually be. We’ll do our best to break it down. WhatR
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Death Rate Is NOT A Mere ‘0.1%’
Is the COVID-19 death rate a mere '0.1%'? No, that's not true: The novel coronavirus death rate is about 1.3 percent, according to the most recent estimate by University of Washington researchers. It is much deadlier than the seasonal flu, whi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Kill Carolyn Gombell; She Is NOT Real, But The Creation Of A Twitter Parody Account
Is Donald Trump really a suspect in the murder of a personal assistant in 2000, while he was still a New York-based real estate mogul? No, that's not true: the #JusticeForCarolyn tweet that claims Trump "strangled her because he'd gotten her p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Tweet ‘America Is Now GREAT Do To My Sacrifices’
Did President Trump tweet on Memorial Day weekend that "American is now GREAT do to my sacrifices," and that "only losers and haters don't see that"? No, this is not true. A search through the president's Twitter timeline, as well as archives
The Dispatch→ Is Trump Implementing COVID Relief Efforts With ‘No Oversight’?
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FactCheck.org→ Trump Misleads on Hydroxychloroquine, Again
Summary In announcing that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19, President Donald Trump made a series of inaccurate, unsubstantiated or misleading statements related to the drug, which remains an unproven treatment against the coro
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Survival Rate From COVID-19 Is NOT 99.983 Percent
Is the U.S. survival rate for COVID-19 cases 99.983 percent? No, that's not true. The math does not add up. There are at least 95,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 and 1,610,000 confirmed cases in the United States as of May 21, 2020. If onl
FactCheck.org→ Trump Twists Record on Inspectors General
Defending his decision to fire a fourth inspector general this year, President Donald Trump has misleadingly compared his record to past presidents, claiming, “I think every president has gotten rid of probably more than I have.” According
Snopes→ AP Source: Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen to Be Released from Prison
President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison and is expected to serve the remainder of his sentence at home, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
FactCheck.org→ Trump Baselessly Claims Coronavirus Will ‘Go Away’ Without Vaccine
At a White House meeting with fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump said, without evidence, that the coronavirus “is going to go away without a vaccine.” While it’s impossible to predict the future, experts say it’s unlikely that the virus
FactCheck.org→ The RNC’s Misleading Message About the Bidens
A voicemail message being left at the homes of voters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere by the Republican National Committee makes a number of misleading claims about presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter and Trump’
FactCheck.org→ Treason Conviction Wouldn’t Erase Presidential Actions
Quick Take Social media posts targeting former President Barack Obama suggest he will be tried for “treason” and falsely claim that if convicted his title would be “stripped away” along with all his presidential actions. There
FactCheck.org→ False Claim of Forced Removals Under Contact Tracing Bill
Quick Take Viral posts on social media falsely claim that a House bill would “give the government the power to forcibly remove” children from their homes. That’s not true. The bill actually provides $100 billion to fund COVID-19 contact trac
Snopes→ Georgia AG Seeks Probe of Prosecutors in Ahmaud Arbery Killing case
Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested two months after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, after video of the shooting appeared online and prompted outrage.
FactCheck.org→ How Many COVID-19 Tests Are ‘Needed’ to Reopen?
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that there are enough COVID-19 tests for states to begin reopening their economies. While that may be true for select locations, experts say more tests are needed, even if they don’t agree on a particul
Snopes→ AP: Justice Dept Dropping Flynn’s Criminal Case
The Justice Department’s action comes amid an internal review into the handling he case and an aggressive effort by Michael Flynn’s lawyers to challenge the basis for the prosecution.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Hydroxychloroquine 60¢ a Pill, Remdesivir $1000 a Dose, Now Do You See Why They are Pushing the New Drug and Not the Old One?’
On May 1 2020, a Facebook user shared the following post, which contained the claim that antiviral medication remdesivir had replaced hydroxychloroquine as a favored hopeful treatment for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 because the former medica
Climate Feedback→ “Planet of the Humans” documentary misleads viewers about renewable energy
On 21 April 2020, Michael Moore released a documentary on his YouTube channel titled Planet of the Humans, which has received over 5 million views as of May 1st. The film, directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs, criticizes renewable energy technologies li
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof Ultraviolet Radiation Eliminates Coronavirus From The Body
Does exposure of blood to ultraviolet light rid the body of coronavirus? No, there is no evidence that it does. The fact that ultraviolet light has been shown to kill the virus on surfaces does not mean that it does the same thing in people. T
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Presidents Lincoln And Kennedy Were Assassinated For Trying To End Federal Reserve
Were President Abraham Lincoln and President John F. Kennedy both assassinated for trying to end the Federal Reserve banking system? No, there is no evidence to back this up: The two presidents, who were both shot and killed while in office, h
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on COVID-19 Antibody Tests
Much of the focus on COVID-19 testing thus far into the pandemic has been on tests that can determine whether someone is actively infected with the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2. But, in his drive to “open up America again,” President Donald Tru
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Misleading Ad About Sending Experts to China
An ad for Joe Biden’s campaign hammers President Donald Trump for failing to send U.S. health experts to China to investigate the novel coronavirus. But the ad fails to mention that the administration tried several times soon after the outbreak, alth
FactCheck.org→ Facebook Users Wrongly Tie Dog Vaccine to Novel Coronavirus
Quick Take A viral image on Facebook falsely suggests a vaccine exists for the novel coronavirus by referencing a photo of a vaccine for a coronavirus that infects dogs. The two viruses are not the same. Full Story Facebook users are spreading a ph