Did Democrats dump tractor-trailer loads of stolen Trump votes in the desert? No, that's not true: The scene in the video post dates back to 2016 and shows workers in Saudi Arabia throwing away thousands of pounds of expired packaged chic
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Obama Did NOT Get More Votes In 2008 Than Biden Has In 2020
Did former President Barack Obama receive more votes in 2008 than Joe Biden has gotten this election cycle? No, that's not true: Ballots are still being counted in this election cycle, but Biden has already surpassed Obama's 2008 vote tot
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Apparent Pro-Trump Ballots Burned In Viral Video Were NOT Official; They Were Sample Ballots
Is it true that about 80 official election ballots cast for President Trump in Virginia Beach, Virginia, were torched to undermine the president's chances of winning there? No, that's not true. The burning papers shown in a viral video, a
The Dispatch→ Did Michigan ‘Magically’ Find 138,339 Votes for Joe Biden?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: TV News Graphic Does NOT Show Pennsylvania Mail-in Voter Fraud
Does a TV news graphic show voter fraud in Pennsylvania with more mail-in votes counted than were sent to voters or received by the elections office? No, that's not true: The on-air graphic used a number that mistakeningly combined the to
FactCheck.org→ Viral Posts Misreport Data on Registered Voters in Wisconsin
Quick Take Viral posts on Facebook falsely claim there were more votes cast in the 2020 election in Wisconsin than there were registered voters. According to state data, the number of registered voters exceeded the votes cast by nearly 388,000, as of N
FactCheck.org→ Sharpie Ballots Count in Arizona
Quick Take The falsehood that votes for President Donald Trump weren’t counted in Arizona because the ballots were filled out with Sharpie pens spread widely on the day after the election. But the county where the claim originated actually recomm
FactCheck.org→ Clerical Error Prompts Unfounded Claims About Michigan Results
Quick Take A data input error that briefly showed an unusually large uptick in votes for Joe Biden in Michigan prompted suspicions online and an unfounded claim of voter fraud. The error came down to a typo by a county’s reporting that was quickl
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misleadingly Claims That Ballot Count Was ‘Called Off’
President Donald Trump misleadingly said early in the morning after Election Day that ballot counting in states where he was leading had been “called off,” baselessly suggesting there was something suspicious happening. Similar complaints w
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Burning 80 Trump Ballots’
As ballots continued to be counted in the U.S. presidential election, a questionable video with the equally questionable claim that someone had set several ballots marked with votes for President Donald Trump on fire suddenly appeared on social media
Truth or Fiction?→ No, Arizona’s Sharpie Ballots Were Not Spoiled
As vote-counting carried over into November 4 2020, disinformation about uncalled states spread on social media — such as a claim that poll workers in Arizona distributed Sharpie markers to voters — and that ballots marked in Sharpie were
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ballots Marked With Sharpie Pens Were NOT Invalidated In Arizona
Were ballots marked with Sharpie pens invalidated in Arizona on Election Day? No, that's not true. Sharpies are preferred, said election officials. A claim has gone viral that people who voted in Maricopa County, Arizona, using Sharpie pe
The Dispatch→ Did Arizona Poll Workers Give Out Sharpies To Prevent Votes From Being Registered?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Suddenly Go Up 138K Votes In Michigan, With No Change To Trump
Did Joe Biden's vote tally suddenly rise by 138,000 in Michigan, with no change to the vote count for president Donald Trump? No, that's not true: What looked like a suspicious, one-sided jump was actually just an input error. The data wa
Truth or Fiction?→ Wisconsin Does Not Have More Votes Than Registered Voters
Disinformation was rife on November 4 2020, including a high-engagement tweet by Mike Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) falsely asserting that there were more votes counted in Wisconsin than there were registered voters. It looked like this: Coudrey said: B
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Falsehood-Filled Speech on the Election
Before all of the votes in the 2020 election were counted, President Donald Trump wrongly claimed victory, calling for “all voting to stop” and claiming continuing to count legally cast votes would “disenfranchise” the people wh
Full Fact→ A Covid-19 vaccine is not being administered via Covid-19 nasal swab tests
A post on Facebook has claimed that if you have been tested for Covid-19, you have been vaccinated, suggesting that a vaccine is being delivered via nasal swab tests. This is not the case. The post uses genuine screenshots of several scientific papers
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of Mammoth Wall In Front Of The White House Is NOT Real
Is a photograph that shows a mammoth wall in front of the White House real? No, that's not true: It's been Photoshopped. The doctored image is based on a decade-old photograph. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) on Nove
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Video Does NOT Show Riot Gear Being Unloaded From A Truck After The Election
Does a video show a truck carrying protest riot gear being unloaded after the 2020 U.S. election? No, that's not true: This story was resurfaced on November 4, 2020, with intentional contextual deception regarding the date this incident o
Health Feedback→ The number of COVID-19 deaths over the entire pandemic is higher in the U.S. than Europe, even when controlling for population size
REVIEW This article, published by Issues and Insights at the end of October 2020, claims that “coronavirus cases are now exploding in Europe at rates far higher than the U.S.,” and, “the share of positive test results is higher in Europe, as i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Proof People Are Planning On Mass Murder Of POC And LGBTQ+ People If Biden Wins
If Joe Biden wins the election are there people planning on mass murdering POC and LGBTQ+ people? No, that's not true. A claim has gone viral that if the Democratic nominee beats Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, there are p
Snopes→ Did Trump Promise a COVID-19 Vaccine by Election Day?
After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. president repeatedly flirted with claims that a vaccination would be available “very soon.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Gov. Whitmer Did NOT Say ‘I Will Not Certify The Vote In My State For Donald Trump, No Matter The Outcome’
Did Gov. Gretchen Whitmer say "I will not certify the vote in my state for Donald Trump, no matter the outcome"? No, that's not true: There's no evidence the Michigan governor ever said that. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archive
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: What ‘DKIM’ Verification Of Hunter Biden Email Proves — And What It Doesn’t
Does the DomainKeys Identified Mail signature within metadata of the New York Post's "smoking gun" Hunter Biden email prove the correspondence is "unquestionably authentic"? That's a stretch: DKIM can validate who sent an email and what t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Secret Super-Computer Is NOT Stealing Votes Through Voter Interface Contractor
Is a super-secret super-computer stealing votes for Joe Biden in eight states via a state contractor called VR Systems? No, that's not true: The claimed point of theft -- VR Systems -- says it isn't involved in vote-recording or vote-coun
Truth or Fiction?→ Anonymous ‘US Politics Polls’ Twitter Account Spreading Election Disinformation
An anonymous Twitter account presenting itself as political analysis set itself to spreading disinformation on the last night of the U.S. elections on November 3 2020. The account, which called itself “US Politics Polls,” posted several fa
The Dispatch→ Did a Caravan of Trump Supporters Block Access to a Polling Location?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Stacks Of Bricks Found in Cities Nationwide Are NOT Connected To Election Results
Did groups hoping to incite violence stage stacks of bricks in cities around the country to be used in post-election rioting? No, that's not true: All of the photos of bricks presented in this article were associated with local constructi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Election Night Coup D’état Plot Coordinated By Sunrise Movement, BLM, Dems
Are the Sunrise Movement, Black Lives Matter, other left-leaning organizations and the Democratic Party caught on tape coordinating a coup if President Trump wins re-election, including the takeover of government buildings like the White
FactCheck.org→ Overblown Claims of ‘Bad Things’ at Philly Polls
Quick Take A story circulating on social media deceptively claims “Bad Things Are Happening in PA.” It overstates the significance of a video that shows a Republican poll watcher being denied access to a Philadelphia polling place on Electi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Person Who Claimed He Threw Away 100 Pro-Trump Ballots In Erie, Pennsylvania, Was NOT A Poll Worker
Did a poll worker in Erie, Pennsylvania, throw away more than 100 pro-Trump ballots on Election Day? No, that's not true: Erie County Board of Elections Chair Carl J. Anderson III says the "poll worker" who purportedly admitted the allege
Snopes→ 1876 Election Holds Record for Highest Turnout
The voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election was massive by recent standards. But it didn't come close to surpassing the record set in 1876.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photograph IS Of An Official Ballot Box In Philadelphia And A City Employee Is Taking The Mail-In Ballots To Be Processed And Counted
Does a photograph of a person moving a ballot box in Philadelphia show an official ballot box? Yes, it that's true. The Philadelphia GOP Tweeted out a photo of an person next to a ballot box and a car on election day and questioned what w
FactCheck.org→ Viral Voting Misinformation
Several posts on social media have made false or misleading claims alleging voter suppression and voting fraud across the United States. Below is a roundup of some of the claims we have fact-checked. We will update this list as necessary. A popular De
FactCheck.org→ False Claim of Voter Intimidation in New Jersey
Quick Take A popular Democratic Facebook page falsely claimed that “Trump supporters are blocking access to polling sites” in a New Jersey town on Election Day. Local police called the report “entirely false.” The photo cited in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Time Magazine Did Not Publish Cover Showing Donald Trump And The Text ‘Time To Go’
Did Time magazine publish a cover showing Donald Trump and the text "Time to go"? No, that's not true: This cover is not shown on the Time magazine website. It is a fake. The claim began circulating online around Election Day. Among the p
FactCheck.org→ Antifa ‘False Flag’ Flyer Is an Old Hoax
Quick Take A viral blog post falsely claims that an “Antifa flyer” shows that left-wing activists are planning to masquerade as supporters of President Donald Trump and riot following the election. The purported flyer cited as evidence has
FactCheck.org→ Bogus Posts Claim ‘Poll Worker’ Tossed Ballots in Pennsylvania
Quick Take A bogus post on Instagram purports to be from an Erie County, Pennsylvania, poll worker who claimed he threw out over 100 pro-Trump ballots. The chair of the Erie County Board of Elections says the man “does not work in any way with Er
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misinterpret Video of North Carolina Voter Rally
Quick Take Social media posts falsely claim that a video shows get-out-the-vote marchers in North Carolina were pepper-sprayed by police because they were “blocking polls & intimidating voters.” The nearest voting place was a block away
Truth or Fiction?→ Mysterious ‘Piles of Bricks’ in Chicago on Election Day
Retreads of previously debunked rumors were part of the disinformation attacks that swarmed Election Day 2020 in the United States, and one particular tweet about a mysterious pile of bricks placed in Chicago (archived) inspired significant chatter a