Did Pennsylvania reject 372,000 mail-in ballots? No, that's not true: Pennsylvania rejected 372,000 applications for mail-in ballots -- not actual ballots -- and the vast majority of them for being duplicate applications. The claim appear
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pennsylvania Did NOT Order Hunters To Wear Orange Masks
Did Pennsylvania state officials order hunters to wear orange face masks in the field? No, that's not true: The Pennsylvania Game Commission said it has not issued such an order. A similar claim for New York hunters also is not true. The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Did NOT Order Hunters To Wear An Orange Face Mask
Did New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo order all hunters in the state to wear an orange face mask while in the field? No, that's not true: There have been no announcements from the governor's office or the state agency that regulates hunters that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Does NOT Plan To Raise Taxes On 82% Of Americans On Day 1
Is it true that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden plans to raise taxes on 82% of Americans the day he takes office, should he win? No, that's not true. Biden has repeatedly said that his plan only calls for increasing taxes for th
AllSides→ Chance of an asteroid hitting Earth on Nov. 2 is not higher than dying of COVID-19
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/16/fact-check-chances-nov-2-asteroid-strike-less-than-covid-death/3679429001/
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Does NOT Support The Green New Deal
Does Joe Biden support the Green New Deal? No, he has specifically said he does not. Although his campaign website describes the Green New Deal as a "crucial framework," the Democratic presidential candidate supports something he calls th
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Immunity Claims
During a campaign rally, President Donald Trump said that once he came down with COVID-19, people for partisan reasons shifted from saying immunity was lifelong to saying it lasted only a few months. Experts, however, haven’t changed their estimates
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s False Claims About Biden Wealth, Recovery Wishes
At a rally in North Carolina, President Donald Trump claimed Joe Biden lives in “beautiful houses all over the place” and must be “corrupt” to afford such a lifestyle. Biden owns two homes and had some lucrative years in the pri
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Fun Fact: Dolly Parton is Not Blonde, All Her Blonde Dos Are Wigs … She Just Clark Kents Her Way Into Maintaining a Private Life’
An October 15 2020 Facebook post about Dolly Parton’s husband and purported success in moving through public in incognito mode went viral almost immediately; it looked like this: In the Facebook post, an undated tweet appeared above two Tumbl
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘This Is a Reverse Financed Internship So You Will Pay $15/hr to Work Here’
An apparent prank job listing first spotted in January 2020 has continued recirculating through Facebook, with some readers taking it as a sign of late-stage capitalism’s descent into pure self-parody. The ad was posted on the job listing websit
FactCheck.org→ Deceptive Trump Ad Attacks Biden on Guns
A Trump campaign ad uses an out-of-context video clip to claim Joe Biden confirmed he will come for the guns of Americans if he’s elected president. In the unedited video, Biden was talking about his opposition to so-called “assault weapons
Truth or Fiction?→ Is This a Trump Supporter’s Truck Getting Repossessed in Florida in ‘a Perfect Metaphor’?
Around October 12 2020, a photograph described as a “Trump supporter’s truck being repossessed in Florida,” flags still flying, spread on several social media platforms, including Twitter: A Trumpanzee in Florida having his truck
Logically→ Biden: Trump is the only president, to be impeached and then have a member of his own party vote to expel him, which emboldened him.
During Trump's impeachment trial, Senator Mitt Romney became the first senator in US history to vote to remove the president of his own party.
AllSides→ Fact check: Competing town halls highlight Trump’s dishonesty
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-biden-town-halls-fact-check/index.html The stark differen
AllSides→ US election 2020: Fact-checking Trump and Biden town hall events
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54512170 Trump: "Just the other day, they came out with a sta
AllSides→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Repeats False ‘Bleach in Your Arm’ Claim
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/15/fact-check-joe-biden-repeats-false-bleach-in-your-arm-claim/
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Little Girl Did NOT ‘Just’ Have Heart Surgery
Did a 4-year-old girl named Lisa "just" have heart surgery? No, that's not true: The photo of this young girl was taken seven years ago, her name is Serafina, and she was almost two at the time of surgery. With the intention of boosting t
Full Fact→ Contact tracing has not stopped in schools
The British Government have issued an instruction to contact tracers not to trace coronavirus infections that occur in schools.” Tory Fibs Twitter account, 10 October 2020 The news blog Skwawkbox, the Tory Fibs Twitter account and many people o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say If He Is Elected President He Will Lock Down The Country Until A Vaccine Is Ready And Everyone Is Vaccinated
Did Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden say if he is elected president, he will lock down the country until a vaccine is ready and everyone is vaccinated? No, that's not true: It's a fake quote. Although Biden has said he would list
Health Feedback→ No evidence that coronavirus genetic sequences were fabricated, contrary to preprint by Li-Meng Yan and colleagues
REVIEW Uncertainty surrounding the origin of the novel coronavirus has provided fertile ground for breeding conspiracy theories, some of which Health Feedback previously found to be inaccurate and unsubstantiated (see here and here). The recent clai
AllSides→ FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/factchecking-bidens-town-hall-2/ At a televised town hall in Philadel
AllSides→ FactChecking Trump’s Town Hall
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/factchecking-trumps-town-hall/ In an Oct. 15 town hall on NBC News, P
Poynter→ With no TV debates to assess, fact-checkers flagged online falsehoods about sexual abuse and alcohol
Lee en español There were no presidential debates this week, but that doesn’t mean that FactChat‘s members didn’t have plenty of material to work with. Manipulated videos and misleading claims continue to flood social networks, as we
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Town Hall
In an Oct. 15 town hall on NBC News, President Donald Trump made false and misleading claims on the coronavirus, the economy and more: Trump was wrong when he said a recent study found “85% of the people who wear masks catch” the coronavirus. The
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
At a televised town hall in Philadelphia, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made false and misleading claims on COVID-19, health insurance, the 1994 crime bill and more: Biden falsely claimed all members of a Centers for Disease Control and Pr
Poynter→ Fact-checking Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s head-to-head town halls
It was supposed to be the second presidential debate. Instead, President Donald Trump refused a virtual debate and followed Joe Biden’s lead of doing a town hall on network television. NBC host Savannah Guthrie started the Trump town hall by trying t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mitch McConnell Is NOT The Richest Senator and Kentucky Is NOT The Poorest State
Is Mitch McConnell the richest senator and is Kentucky, which he represents, the poorest state? No, that's not true: There are at least eight senators who have a higher net worth than Senate Majority Leader McConnell, and at least four st
Poynter→ Fact-check: Will a COVID-19 vaccine alter your DNA?
The post Fact-check: Will a COVID-19 vaccine alter your DNA? appeared first on Poynter.
FactCheck.org→ Conspiracy Theory Baselessly Claims Biden Had Navy SEALs Killed
Quick Take A viral conspiracy theory spread across social media baselessly claims former Vice President Joe Biden “had SEAL Team 6 killed” as part of a cover-up after a purportedly failed assassination of Osama bin Laden. President Donald T
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Hold An Event That No One Showed Up For — Supporters Stayed In Cars For Social Distancing
Did Joe Biden hold an event and nobody showed up, or were there more Trump supporters than Biden's? No, neither of those claims is true. Video and photos of a campaign Democratic nominee Biden held in Ohio show him standing on a stage wit
FactCheck.org→ Trump Revives False Narrative on Biden and Ukraine
At a campaign rally in Iowa, President Donald Trump cited an unsubstantiated news report to revive a widely debunked false narrative about Joe Biden’s work in Ukraine on behalf of the Obama administration. As we have reported more than once las
Truth or Fiction?→ Pete Buttigieg: ‘I Don’t Have a Problem Standing up to Somebody Who Was Working on Season Seven of Celebrity Apprentice When I Was Packing My Bags for Afghanistan’
On October 15 2020, a meme quoting former South Bend, Indiana mayor and Democratic Party presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg began circulating, in which he purportedly said that he was shipped off to Afghanistan while United States President Donald
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Whitmer Kidnapping Story Did NOT Disappear After ‘We Found Out The Perps Were ANTIFA And BLM Anarchists’
Did the story of the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer disappear after "we found out the perps were antifa and BLM anarchists"? No, that's not true. One, the story has hardly disappeared. News outlets are continuing to
Snopes→ Jury Finds Nebraska Woman Guilty of Dismembering Tinder Date
Jurors took less than four hours to find Bailey Boswell, 26, guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and improper disposal of human remains in the 2017 killing of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe of Lincoln.
Poynter→ The Catch-22 for journalists in Trump’s pleas for poll-watchers
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. Trump’s disinformation triple bank shot The call from P
Poynter→ Without methodology or transparency, Facebook and Twitter become the ‘arbiters of the truth’
It seems like Facebook and Twitter have decided to assume the position they’ve been avoiding for so long. Less than a month from Election Day, both companies finally became arbiters of the truth on the internet. Naive are those who believe this i
Truth or Fiction?→ The Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop
On October 14 2020, as increasingly bold or desperate attempts from all corners to sway the November 2020 U.S. elections reached a fever pitch, a story appeared in the New York Post about Hunter Biden, son of Democratic Party presidential candidate Jo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Former Pfizer Scientist NOT Correct Saying ‘Second Wave’ Based on False-Positive COVID Tests, ‘Pandemic is Over’
Is it true that the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, that false positives and rapid tests put the rate of infection near zero and that there will be no second wave of infections? No, none of those claims is true. Experts treating and research
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Exaggerated Claims on Biden and Pharma in Puerto Rico
At a rally in Sanford, Florida, President Donald Trump made the exaggerated claim that his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, “voted to obliterate” Puerto Rico’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. And during a health care speech in Char
FactCheck.org→ Trump Distorts WHO’s Lockdown Comments
At campaign rallies and in tweets, President Donald Trump falsely said the World Health Organization changed its position and “admitted that Donald Trump was right” about lockdowns. But the agency has said no such thing. The president first made th