The Supreme Court hears oral testimony in Colorado’s case to remove Donald Trump from the ballot.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof Transplanted Organs Transmit Character Traits From Donor To Recipient
Do transplanted organs transmit character traits from the donor to the person receiving them, as a video on social media claims? No, that's not true: Transplant surgeons and a nonprofit for transplant patients told Lead Stories that no sc
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Authentic News Segment About Genetically Engineered Disney Child Stars
Does a video shared on social media show authentic news coverage confirming that Disney child stars are genetically engineered humans? No, that's not true: The segment comes from the satirical website The Onion. The video was posted on Th
The Dispatch→ Joe Biden Takes the Good With the Bad
Plus: Two monumental cases regarding Donald Trump and 2024.
The Dispatch→ Democrats Fret Over Biden’s Age After Special Counsel Report
Plus: Why Adam Schiff is boosting the Republican in California’s Senate primary.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – El Senado de EE. UU. no propuso un total cierre a la frontera o a las peticiones de asilo
"El Senado de EE. UU. ha dado luz verde a un acuerdo que cierra inmediatamente las fronteras del país y limitará todas las peticiones de asilo y apelaciones”.
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent Saudi Prince’s Comment on Investment in Kushner Fund
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund invested money with Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, after he left the White House in 2021. Saudi
Full Fact→ Underlying debt is forecast to be higher in five years’ time than it is currently
An exchange between chief secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott and Radio 4 presenter Evan Davis has gone viral after confusion over debt projections.
PolitiFact→ Robin Vos – Wisconsin’s 20-week limit on abortion access is really not ‘out of bounds’ internationally
“The law in Wisconsin (on abortion time limit) is 20 weeks. That is way outside the international bounds.”
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: Hawaii has not passed a bill that could keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot.
AllSides→ Fact Check: Measles outbreaks not linked to ‘Disease X’ pandemic planning
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/measles-outbreaks-not-linked-disease-x-pandemic-planning-2024-02-08/
The Dispatch→ Special Counsel’s Report Puts Biden’s Age Center Stage
Robert Hur describes the president as a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’
The Dispatch→ Lankford Hates His Job
The flagship has spoken.
The Dispatch→ Do Your Job … SCOTUS
Alito goes consequentialist.
The Dispatch→ The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
Declining college enrollment will cause some pain but will also benefit students and universities in the long run.
Internet Archive→ President Biden Address to the Nation : CSPAN : February 8, 2024 11:11pm-11:26pm EST
President Biden said he was "pleased" by the conclusion of a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents following his time as vice president, which resulted in no charges being filed against him....This item belongs to: mov
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Marine Corps ‘White Hats’ Did NOT Arrest FEMA Regional Administrator Tony Robinson In February 2024
Did U.S. Marine Corps "white hats" arrest Federal Emergency Management Agency Regional Administrator Tony Robinson on February 2, 2024? No, that's not true: FEMA and Pentagon representatives confirmed to Lead Stories that this claim is fa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Show WEF Founder Klaus Schwab Wearing Tights, Garter, Swimsuit — It’s Different Person
Do viral photos show World Economic Forum founder Klaus Swab walking in public in tights, garter and what appears to be a woman's swimsuit? No, that's not true: Images in a social media post appear to show a Florida resident. Klaus Schwab
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: North Carolina Does NOT Offer Statewide Program To Help Cover Burial, Cremation Costs
Does the state of North Carolina have an "affordable supplemental death benefit program" that will pay up to $40,000 to cover final expenses as is claimed in an ad posted on Facebook? No, that's not true: No such statewide benefit program
PolitiFact→ Biden won’t be charged in classified documents case, but special counsel report questions his memory
President Joe Biden won’t face charges in the classified documents case. But the special counsel found Biden mishandled documents and portrayed Biden as having a faulty memory.
Washington Post→ After Supreme Court arguments, Trump offers his false Jan. 6 history
The former president regularly mischaracterizes tweets that his staff regarded as woefully inadequate on the day of the Jan. 6 attack.
The Dispatch→ The Disqualification Scenario
Let’s pretend.
PolitiFact→ U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on removing Donald Trump from ballot. Here’s what to know
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments that former President Donald Trump should be removed from Colorado’s presidential primary ballot. We explain the 14th Amendment, why the court is hearing this case and what the arguments are.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, Ben Shapiro did not say Tracy Chapman stole Luke Combs’ spotlight. That X post is fake.
Ben Shapiro posted that Tracy Chapman stole “the spotlight from Luke (Combs)” at the Grammys as part of “the woke war on straight white male success”
FactCheck.org→ Unraveling Misinformation About Bipartisan Immigration Bill
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Even before a bipartisan group of senators unveiled the text of a foreign aid and immigration overhaul bill on Feb. 4, it faced significant opposition from former President Donald Tru
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Video Of Trump Winning 2024 Republican Presidential Nomination As Of February 1, 2024
Is there a video showing Donald Trump receiving the Republican presidential nomination in 2024? No, that's not true: As of February 1, 2024, no candidate was chosen as the nominee. Trump did receive the nomination in 2016 and 2020; howeve
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Misleading video from 2020 shows Putin ignoring Netanyahu
Video shows “Putin refused to acknowledge Netanyahu.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NASA Video Does NOT Prove Satellites Are Fake
Does a NASA video prove that satellites are "manifestly fake," as a post on TikTok claimed? No, that's not true: The clip shared to TikTok used genuine NASA footage of an artistic rendering of satellites orbiting in space. Those clips wer
PolitiFact→ Kamala Harris – Fact-checking Kamala Harris: Did the Biden administration expand postpartum Medicaid coverage?
Postpartum Medicaid coverage expanded from three states to 43 states because of the Biden administration.
PolitiFact→ Tucker Carlson – Journalists haven’t ‘bothered’ to interview Putin? No, Tucker Carlson’s claim is Pants on Fire!
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, “not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview Putin.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Dinosaurs fossils are millions of years old, not thousands, as video claims
The presence of soft tissue and carbon-14 in dinosaur bones proves they lived “only a few thousand years” ago, not millions of years ago.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Did George Soros or Klaus Schwab’s father work for Hitler? Here’s what we know
“George Soros worked for Hitler. Klaus Schwab’s father also worked for Hitler.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Gemini 9 Spacewalk Was Faked
Was the Gemini 9 spacewalk in 1966 faked, as a 2024 post on social media implies with a video clip? No, that's not true: Video footage included in the post is from a 1966 televised re-enactment of what was happening in space on June 5 of
AllSides→ Did Biden Say He Met with Dead French President Francois Mitterrand?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-french-president/ In early February 2024, Snopes received email
AllSides→ Taylor Swift was not holding a ‘Trump won’ flag at the Grammys; it’s an altered photo
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/feb/07/instagram-posts/taylor-swift-was-not-holding-a-trump-won-flag-at-t/
Internet Archive→ Campaign 2024 Pres. Trump on Ballot Eligibility Case : CSPAN : February 8, 2024 12:27pm-12:47pm EST
[LIVE] 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters from his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida following the Supreme Court oral argument in the case deciding if Mr....This item belongs to: movies
The Dispatch→ Assessing Claims About Bayer’s Mistreatment of Auschwitz Prisoners
Allegations that 150 women died in a clinical trial can’t be confirmed, but the company has long acknowledged that its predecessor facilitated atrocities.
Full Fact→ No evidence Putin called WEF’s Klaus Schwab a ‘globalist terrorist’
This claim has been shared widely on social media.
PolitiFact→ We want to be more transparent with you about our fact-checking. Here’s how
As PolitiFact enters another election year, we wanted to explain how we’re maintaining transparency about our fact-checking in 2024.
Full Fact→ Labour has not selected a non-English speaking candidate in the Rochdale by-election
A man seen speaking Urdu in a video is a sitting Labour MP and fluent in several languages, including English and Urdu.