Eliot Cohen’s ‘The Hollow Crown’ intertwines Shakespearean insights with the history of statesmen, past and present.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Sentence OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar To Death On January 16, 2024
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps sentence Arati Prabhakar to death at a Guantanamo Bay military tribunal on January 16, 2024, for committing treason? No, that's not true: Prabhakar, the director of the White House Office o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Amateur Photography Of Mars Does NOT Disprove Current Scientific Understanding of The Red Planet
Does a video of Mars filmed with a Nikon p1000 camera prove that Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars are fake, and that Mars is not really a planet but a shining star that looks like "light shimmering in water"? No, that's not true: Ima
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Ellen DeGeneres And Tom Hanks Said They Will ‘Leave The US If Trump Becomes President in 2024’
Did comedian Ellen DeGeneres and actor Tom Hanks pledge to move abroad if Donald Trump is elected president in 2024? No, that's not true: No credible news outlets have reported that. The claim was promoted, among others, by an online stor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Massaging Your Cheeks Relieves Shortness Of Breath — It’s A Wellness Technique
Does massaging the cheeks provide relief for shortness of breath? No, that's not true: Physiology and massage experts told Lead Stories that there's no connection between the two things. Shortness of breath is typically related to respira
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Taylor Swift Is NOT Giving Away Free $1,000 VISA Gift Cards — Audio Is Fake
Is Taylor Swift giving away free $1,000 Visa gift cards? No, that's not true: A video on social media that shows footage of Swift has an artificially generated version of her voice making the claim about the give-away. In the original vid
The Dispatch→ Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
Trump is only telling voters what they want to hear.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – El gobierno de los Estados Unidos no ha anunciado un nuevo programa que ofrezca $6,400
Un nuevo programa llamado Acta de Atención Médica ofrece "$6,400 en créditos de prima avanzados para gastos médicos costosos y necesidades diarias".
The Dispatch→ The Silver Linings of a Short Primary
Are there any?
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Portable heater advertised on Facebook is a scam, not invented by Vietnam War-era veteran
A portable heater invented by a Vietnam War-era veteran can heat a whole home and slash heating bills.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Video deceptively edited to make it appear Michael Moore expressed support for Trump
After Trump scored a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, the edited clip was shared on social media to falsely claim Moore recently expressed support for the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't prescient about the World Trade Center buildings coming down
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew the World Trade Center buildings would be brought down six years before 9/11.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Nope, there is no human flesh in processed, ground meat
“Any type of ground or processed meats have human flesh in them.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Threaten To ‘Wage War Against Texas’
Did President Joe Biden threaten to send F-15s and "wage war against Texas"? No, that's not true: A White House spokesman told Lead Stories the claim is false. Additionally, no credible news organization has reported the quote, which, if
PolitiFact→ Thom Tillis – Tillis falsely says police made ‘no arrests’ of protesters who blocked Durham Freeway
Police made ‘no arrests’ of protesters who blocked Durham Freeway
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Do ‘illegal immigrants now have the right to vote in New York’? No, that’s False.
“Illegal immigrants now have the right to vote in New York."
The Dispatch→ Did Americans Ever Really Care About Policy?
I know you are but what am I.
PolitiFact→ X posts – El video muestra el incendio de un barco en 2021 en Sri Lanka y no el ataque hutí en Yemen en 2024
"Imágenes del ataque hutí al barco estadounidense porta contenedores M/V Gibraltar Eagle en el mar rojo"
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, vaccines do not contain unsafe amounts of aluminum for infants, research shows
Vaccines that are routinely given to children contain unsafe amounts of aluminum.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, vaccines do not contain unsafe amounts of aluminum for infants, research shows
Vaccines that are routinely given to children contain unsafe amounts of aluminum.
PolitiFact→ Nikki Haley – Nikki Haley said Donald Trump wanted to raise the gas tax as president. His support was flimsy.
Donald Trump “proposed when he was president” that “he wanted to raise the gas tax up to 25 cents."
PolitiFact→ Nikki Haley touts 17-point polling edge over Joe Biden. Here's what more recent polls say.
Nikki Haley argues that she will be much better positioned to defeat President Joe Biden than former President Donald Trump would be. She’s touted her 17-point lead in a Wall Street Journal poll. But that poll is 6 weeks old, and nine more recent pol
PolitiFact→ Ron DeSantis – Ron DeSantis wrong that boosters make COVID-19 infection more likely
“Every booster you take, you’re more likely to get COVID as a result of it.”
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: A contagion known as Disease X is not real.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Congress has not passed a $6,400 subsidy for low-income Americans
Congress has passed a $6,400 subsidy for low-income Americans.
The Dispatch→ Nikki Haley Courts New Hampshire Voters Who Dread Trump-Biden Rematch
Plus: No Labels suggests criminal charges for its critics.
Logically→ No, spike proteins from mRNA vaccines are not linked to death and illness
PolitiFact→ Opportunity Wisconsin – Does U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil back cutting Social Security and Medicare?
“Bryan Steil is part of a group that wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, that would be devastating.”
PolitiFact→ PolitiFact on the road: Dean Phillips talks AI, and voters question Nikki Haley in CNN town hall
PolitiFact is still on-the-ground in New Hampshire ahead of next Tuesday's primary. Here's what we observed Thursday at Democratic candidate Dean Phillip's speech on AI and Nikki Haley's CNN town hall.
The Dispatch→ Why the GOP Field Never Pressed Donald Trump on His Legal Woes
A Maine judge kicks the presidential ballot qualification question to the Supreme Court.
Full Fact→ Overall cost of pandemic support was around £370 billion
We’ve looked into claims by Dame Andrea Leadsom MP about the number of Sure Start centres open in the UK, and the amount the government spent on support for businesses and workers during the pandemic.
AllSides→ Fact checking Nikki Haley’s CNN town hall in New Hampshire
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/18/politics/fact-check-nikki-haley-townhall-new-hampshire/index.html Former
Logically→ Video from Dehradun peddled as Lord Ram’s image displayed at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk
Logically→ ರಾಮ ದೇವರು ಮತ್ತು ಅಯೋಧ್ಯೆ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನವನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸುವ ₹೫೦೦ ರ ನೋಟಿನ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಡಿಜಿಟಲೀ ಎಡಿಟ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿದೆ
Logically→ Old image of U.S. Navy captain in Afghanistan falsely linked to Israel-Hamas conflict
Logically→ भारतीय वायुसेना के एयर मार्शल का हेलिकॉप्टर क्रैश नहीं हुआ, पुरानी तस्वीर फ़र्ज़ी दावे से वायरल
Logically→ Keir Starmer’s Guardian op-ed on Eddie Izzard is fake
The Dispatch→ Congress Avoids a Shutdown … For Now
The House and Senate pass another laddered continuing resolution to fund the government until early March.
Full Fact→ Video does not show a British oil tanker attacked off coast of Yemen
The video, which shows a ship engulfed in flames and smoke, is being shared widely on social media.
Logically→ No, Israel hasn’t declared a holiday on Jan 22 to mark Ram temple consecration