On January 10, 2019, the Facebook page “The Other 98%” shared a meme about Joshua trees which were purportedly destroyed due to the 2018-2019 federal government shutdown: Atop two images of trees, text read: During the shutdown, with Joshu
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Snopes→ Wisconsin Girl Missing Since Parents’ October Deaths Found
A woman stumbled across the 13-year-old girl and pounded on her neighbors' door shouting: "This is Jayme Closs! Call 911!"
Internet Archive→ President Trump Receives Border Security Briefing in Mission, Texas : CSPAN : January 11, 2019 6:40am-7:01am EST
President Trump received a briefing at the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, Texas. He asked a border patrol agent about his work and the challenges along that section of the border, and then took questions from reporters....This item belongs to: movies/T
Internet Archive→ President Trump Receives Border Security Briefing in Mission, Texas : CSPAN2 : January 10, 2019 6:31pm-6:48pm EST
President Trump received a briefing at the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, Texas. He asked a border patrol agent about his work and the challenges along that section of the border, and then took questions from reporters....This item belongs to: movies/T
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Dolly Parton, Country Music and Film Star, NOT Deceased
Did singer Dolly Parton die? No, that's not true: the death hoax was published by a liberal satire weblog that usually takes aim at conservatives and Trump supporters but isn't above posting a few boob jokes now and then. Dolly Parton is doin
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Budget Wouldn’t Erase Deficits, CBO Said
Under President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018, there would have been hundreds of billions of dollars in deficits each year from 2018 to 2027, according to projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That contra
Internet Archive→ President Trump Holds Border Security Roundtable in McAllen, TX : CSPAN3 : January 10, 2019 2:14pm-3:11pm EST
[LIVE] President Trump holds a roundtable discussion with border and immigration officials in McAllen, Texas. Sponsor: White House Travel | Domestic Trip.This item belongs to: movies/TV-CSPAN3.This item has files of the following types: Closed Caption
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Coast Guard Employee Did NOT Tell Cops She Was Forced Into Prostitution By Government Shutdown
Did Coast Guard employee Marleen Freeman tell the cops who arrested her for prostitution that she was forced into it to cope with the effects of the recent government shutdown. No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertai
Truth or Fiction?→ Do Democrats Pay The $5 Billion Wall Cost Every 10 Days to ‘Subsidize’ Illegal Immigration?
On January 4, 2019, a Facebook user shared a text-based post to a public group: It stated: Democrats pay what Trump is asking for the wall every 10 days to subsidize illegal aliens. Let that sink in. #SocialistClowns The status update was shared durin
Internet Archive→ President Trump Departs White House for McAllen, Texas : CSPAN : January 10, 2019 11:19am-11:36am EST
As a partial government shutdown over wall funding neared three weeks, President Trump departed from the White House to travel to McAllen, Texas in an effort to highlight what the administration has deemed a humanitarian and national security crisis at
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Chevy Chase NOT Dead at 89, Did NOT Donate Estate to Wall Fund
Did actor and comedian Chevy Chase die and did he leave his estate to a fund to build a border wall? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and Republicans about
Internet Archive→ Hannity : FOXNEWSW : January 9, 2019 6:00pm-7:00pm PST
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions..This item belongs to: movies/TV-FOXNEWSW.This item has files of the following types: Closed Caption Text, Columbia Fingerprint TV, Columbia Sparse Fingerprint TV, Item Tile, JSON, MP3, MPEG1, Meta
Truth or Fiction?→ Did the United States Give Jordan $500 Million to Build a Wall on its Border with Iraq?
On January 8, 2019, just after President Donald Trump addressed the United States on the matter of his intent to construct another border wall, the Facebook page “The American Dreamer” shared the following meme: Text overlaid on an image
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Immigration Address
In a national address, President Donald Trump called on Congress to provide $5.7 billion for a border wall to address what he called a “crisis” on the border. The president made some false and misleading claims, and provided some facts with
Internet Archive→ President Trump’s Address to the Nation on Border Security : CSPAN : January 8, 2019 11:04pm-11:15pm EST
President Trump addressed the nation on what the administration argues is a humanitarian and national security crisis on the southern border. This was his first address to the nation from the Oval Office....This item belongs to: movies/TV-CSPAN.This it
Truth or Fiction?→ United States President Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech
On the evening of January 8, 2019, United States President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office on the topic of immigration and what he calls a humanitarian and national security crisis on the country’s southern border as a shut
PolitiFact→ Live fact-checking President Donald Trump's immigration address
This story will be updated. President Donald Trump made a televised plea for a border wall with Mexico, claiming that the southern border is a route for drugs and criminals and has led to a national crisis. "Over the years, thousands of Americans
Lead Stories→ Fake News: MSNBC NOT To Air Obama’s 2004 Convention Speech During Trump’s Address to Nation
Is MSNBC planning to air an old Obama speech during President Trump's immigration speech scheduled for tonight? No, that's not true: the story was just a bit of satire from the Borowitz report mocking the recent controversy over if the major
Climate Feedback→ Is President Trump right that polar ice caps are setting records for growth, instead of melting?
In a January 2018 interview with ITV, President Trump claimed that the ice caps are not melting but are setting records: “The ice caps were going to melt. They were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, okay? They’
FactCheck.org→ Story Cherry-Picks in Assessing CNN Ratings
Quick Take A story shared on Facebook uses selective TV ratings data to make the misleading claim that CNN was not one of the 10 most watched cable networks in 2018. Full Story A conservative website takes aim at CNN by misrepresenting recently releas
FactCheck.org→ Misleading Border Crime Statistic
U.S. Border Patrol encountered 6,259 immigrants with criminal convictions, many of them for illegal entry charges, in fiscal 2018, according to the most recent statistics. Yet, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney misleadingly claimed authorities &
Snopes→ Trump, Democrats Taking Border Wall Fight to Prime-time TV
Trump's evening remarks will be followed by a rebuttal from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who have strongly opposed the wall and have repeatedly called on Trump to reopen the rest of government while border negoti
Climate Feedback→ We are not heading towards a “mini ice age”, contrary to claims in some media
Recently, alarming claims that we are heading towards a “mini ice age” have been popping up across the web. This was the subject of a widely discussed Metro article titled “A mini ice age could be on the way which means it will get very,
Truth or Fiction?→ Do ‘The Most Brilliant Scientists’ Not Vaccinate Their Own Children?
On January 7, 2019, the Facebook page for NaturalNews.com shared a video, the premise for which was contained in its title: “The most brilliant scientists working for the U.S. government do NOT vaccinate their own kids.” The same video was
PolitiFact→ Explaining Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 70 percent marginal tax rate idea
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., had barely been sworn in before she attracted widespread attention for floating significantly higher maximum tax rates on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Let’s take a closer look at what she said, and what it could
Lead Stories→ Fake News: K. K. Downing NOT Back in Judas Priest
Did guitarist K. K. Downing rejoin Judas Priest? No, that's not true: the news about Downing reuniting with his former band was uploaded by some prankster to a website were anyone can post realistic-looking news articles to fool friends and f
Snopes→ Administration: Government Shutdown Won’t Delay Tax Refunds
Taxpayers who are owed refunds will be paid on time, despite the government shutdown that has closed many federal agencies, a Trump administration official said.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Bre Payton’s Death NOT Ruled Murder – DA NOT Investigating Clinton Connection
Was Bre Payton's death ruled murder and is the District Attorney investigating a possible Clinton connection? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and Republic
FactCheck.org→ RNC Misleads on ‘Immoral’ Democratic Bill
Republican National Committee tweets in recent days have attacked a Democratic-sponsored bill in the House as “immoral” because it “would spend $54 billion taxpayer dollars on foreign countries” but not address “the border
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Democrats Put Up a Four-Mile Fence Around the DNC in 2016?
On December 28, 2018, a Facebook user commented on a debate over border wall funding by sharing a photograph of a purported four-mile long fence erected around the Democratic National Convention (DNC): Alongside the image, the user posted a comment: A
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Richard Petty NOT Dead at 81
Did former NASCAR driver Richard Petty die on January 6, 2019 and is President Trump heartbroken about the news? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and Repub
Lead Stories→ Very Old News: Sharifa Alkhateeb Talking About Using Public Schools to Convert America to Islam… In 1989
Did Sharifa Alkhateeb talk about converting America to Islam in a video? Yes, she did, back in 1989, several years before she died in 2004. For some reason a video clip of a speech she made at a conference thirty years ago in August 1989 went
Truth or Fiction?→ Did President Barack Obama Shut Down the Government to ‘Force Obamacare’ in 2013?
On December 29, 2018, a Facebook user posted a status update claiming that a federal shutdown over border wall funding was similar to one in 2013 — and it was purportedly initiated by President Barack Obama: This was nearly identical to a December 2
Truth or Fiction?→ Is the IRS Suspending Tax Refunds During the Government Shutdown?
On December 22, 2018 the United States government shut down, suspending the functions and payrolls of numerous federal agencies. As the shutdown continued into January 2019, concern and rumors began to spread over whether tax refunds issued by the Int
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Jerry Jones Did NOT Give Ted Nugent a Night at Texas Stadium and $3 Million For Wall Benefit Concert
Did Texas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones give Ted Nugent the use of the Texas Stadium for a benefit concert to build a border wall on the U.S. Southern border? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a liberal satire website that also invente
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Scientists DID NOT Discover A Hot Bath Burns As Many Calories As A Bike Ride
Did scientists discover that an hour-long bath burns as many calories as a 60 minute cycle ride? No, that's not true: a lifestyle article seriously misrepresented the results of some research that was reported on by The Conversation. In realit
Internet Archive→ President Trump Departs White House for Camp David : CSPAN : January 6, 2019 5:26pm-5:48pm EST
President Trump made a brief statement outside the White House and took questions from reporters before heading to Camp David. Sponsor: White House.This item belongs to: movies/TV-CSPAN.This item has files of the following types: Closed Caption Text, C
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Medical Drone Delivering Drugs Did NOT Crash In Togo
Did a medical drone delivering drugs crash in Togo during tests? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a fake news site masquerading as satire, it is not real. The story originated from an article published by News@7 on January 6, 201
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Supreme Court Did NOT Rule 5-4 That Oaths Not Taken on Bibles Are Illegal
Did the U.S. Supreme Court rule five to four that oaths not taken on the bible are illegal? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and Republicans about the need
Internet Archive→ President Trump Rose Garden Remarks after Meeting with Congressional Leaders : CSPAN : January 6, 2019 12:08pm-1:12pm EST
After meeting with congressional leaders at the White House to discuss border security funding and the ongoing government shutdown, President Trump spoke to reporters for about an hour in the Rose Garden....This item belongs to: movies/TV-CSPAN.This it