In promoting his plan to “rescue America,” Sen. Rick Scott went too far in claiming that Medicare will go “bankrupt” in four years and Social Security in 12 years. Government trustees project that certain Medicare and Social Sec
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Full Fact→ Chris Bryant wrong on 0% EU VAT for heat pumps
“Thanks to Brexit, we are no longer constrained by EU law, so I can announce that for the next five years, homeowners having materials such as solar panels, heat pumps and insulation installed will no longer pay 5% VAT; they will pay zero.&rdquo
Full Fact→ Facebook video shows actors making a TV series in 2020—not staging the war in Ukraine
A video of someone applying fake blood to actors is being shared on Facebook with the caption “White helmets in action, ‘innocent victims of Russian aggression’ smile and wave you [sic]”. The phrase “white helmets&rd
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukraine Does NOT Grow 25% Of World’s Wheat – It’s Only 3%
Does Ukraine produce 25% of the world's wheat crop? No, that's not true: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates Ukraine's annual wheat harvest at just over 3% of the global total. Ukraine accounts for
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Alopecia Is NOT Just Hair Loss — It Can Be Caused By An Autoimmune Disease
Is alopecia literally just male or female pattern baldness or hair loss? No, that is missing context. Alopecia does mean "hair loss," but it can be "an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss," according to Yale Medicine. The claim was m
Truth or Fiction?→ Virginia Thomas Embraced Conspiracy Theories Long Before ‘Big Lie’ Texts Came to Light
Long before she was revealed to have been pushing for the overturning of the 2020 presidential election, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas — the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — trafficked in conspiracy theories in disinfor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Filibuster First Nomination Of A Black Woman To SCOTUS
Did Republicans nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, only for her nomination to be blocked and filibustered by then-Sen. Joe Biden? No, that's not true: Janice Rogers Brown was only nominated for and confirmed as a ju
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Edmonton Man Did NOT Fight Fires In Ukraine — It’s Ukrainian In Donated Gear
Was a Canadian firefighter spotted putting out a fire in Ukraine during the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict? No, that's not true: That was a Ukrainian firefighter wearing donated firefighter gear from Edmonton, a city in Alberta, Canada. Kev
Truth or Fiction?→ The Fairness Doctrine and Ronald Reagan
On March 28 2022, an Imgur user shared a meme (“The Father of Fake News”) about President Ronald Reagan, the Fairness Doctrine, and the Federal Communications Commission’s purported role in the rise of partisan “news”: Te
AllSides→ Did Ketanji Brown Jackson Want to Release Inmates During the Pandemic?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-check-did-ketanji-brown-jackson During Judge Ketanji Brown Jac
Full Fact→ Pelicans don’t push their spines out of their mouths to cool down
A post on Facebook claims that pelicans “take their spines out of their mouths to cool themselves”. The claim is accompanied by three pictures of birds with what appear to be their spines appearing to protrude out of their mouths, and an il
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukrainian Medals For ‘Seizure Of Crimea’ NOT Found in Kherson — They’re Counterfeits
Did Russian troops in Kherson find pre-made Ukrainian medals "For the Taking of Crimea" when they captured a Ukrainian military facility at Kherson? No, that's not true. The photos circulated by the Russian news media and social media use
Health Feedback→ Infants’ immune systems are perfectly able to safely cope with several vaccines in one day
REVIEW In the last century, infants in the U.S. went from receiving one routine vaccine protecting against a single disease (smallpox) to receiving as many as 26 inoculations that protect against 14 different diseases. In their first year of life, i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Prove Kyiv Sends Armed Children To The Front Lines
Does Ukraine engage teenagers in its military forces by providing them with shoulder-mount anti-tank weapons and grenade launchers and sending them to the front lines as an Instagram post claims? No, this is not true: there is no photo, v
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden Did NOT Tweet A Stock Photo Taken In The Middle of Summer
Did President Joe Biden tweet a stock photo in March 2022 with trees covered in leaves taken in the middle of summer? No that's not true: The photo of Biden boarding Marine One on March 23, 2022, is not old or stock. It was taken at the t
Snopes→ Did McConnell Say ‘No Question’ Jackson Qualified, Then Say He Won’t Support Appointment?
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on "The Guy Benson Show" on Fox News Radio in early March 2022.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Man Was NOT Arrested At Utah Legislative Meeting Over His T-Shirt
Was a man arrested at a state legislature meeting for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with "We The People" and an image of the Statue of Liberty? No, that's not true: The man was arrested at a Utah state Senate committee meeting held on Marc
FactCheck.org→ Former Judge Janice Rogers Brown Was Not Nominated to the Supreme Court
Quick Take Republicans did not nominate former Judge Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Supreme Court. A Facebook post falsely claims that Brown — not Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson — was the first Black woman to be nominated to the nation’
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NPR Did NOT Report On January 6 Storming Of Capitol Before It Happened
Did NPR publish an article on the morning of January 6, 2021, about Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol and clashing with police before any clashes with police had occurred? No, that's not true: This intentionally deceptive post fo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Military Did NOT Arrest Loretta Lynch
Did the military arrest Loretta Lynch? No, that's not true: The claim that the former U.S. attorney general was arrested by the Marines is a complete fabrication by a website known for its made-up stories. A spokesperson for the U.S. Mari
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Putin Beheaded Bioweapon Engineers In Ukraine
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin behead 12 bioweapon engineers in Ukraine? No, there's no evidence that's true: The allegation was published by a website well known for publishing fake news stories. The supposed source for the claim w
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukraine Gun Battle Is From 2018 NOT 2022
Did this footage of a gun battle between Ukraine and Russia get caught on camera in 2022? No, that's not true: Sky News' YouTube channel posted this exact video on August 3, 2018, with the title, "On the frontline in Ukraine | Hotspots."
FactCheck.org→ Save America
Political leanings: Republican 2020 total spending: n/a Former President Donald Trump established the Save America political action committee in November 2020, just days after he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden. Save America is a so-called
FactCheck.org→ Viral Photo of Russian Bomber Shows Incident from 2020
Quick Take Amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, a misleading photo posted March 22 on Facebook shows an American fighter jet intercepting a Russian bomber near Alaskan airspace. But the incident was not related
Full Fact→ Fake Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe photo makes it look like husband and daughter aren’t smiling
A photo purporting to show Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband and daughter is being shared on Twitter and Facebook, with a caption along the lines of “What a lovely picture of Richard and Gabriella thrilled to have Nazanin back home&rdquo
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘NASA Has Outdone Themselves, This Is an Image of the Entire Observable Universe’
On March 19 2022, a Facebook user shared what looked like a cropped Twitter screenshot, depicting a purported NASA image of the “entire observable universe”: Text on the “night mode” screenshot read: NASA has outdone themselves
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Is White House Foliage Proof Biden Faked a Photo?
(Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images)Viral social media posts claim that President Joe Biden shared a fake photo of himself boarding Marine One on his way to a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels. The supposed proof for this
Full Fact→ Ukraine is not enacting the ‘Great Reset’ with an app
A post on Facebook claims: “Ukraine just silently announced it's the first country to implement the WEF's 'Great Reset’ by setting up a Social Credit Application combining Universal Basic Income (UBI), a Digital Identity & a Vaccine Pas
Full Fact→ Video doesn’t show Russian and Ukrainian soldiers dancing together after invasion
A video on Facebook claims to show Russian and Ukrainian soldiers dancing together, with the caption urging people not to “buy into the drama that is being propagated by the media”, falsely indicating that this is a recent video following t
Full Fact→ The House of Lords’ daily allowance is about what Universal Credit pays in a month—but peers don’t get it every day
A number of Facebook posts, and a widely shared tweet, have compared monthly Universal Credit payments with daily allowances in the House of Lords. The posts and the tweet all said: “In April a member of the House of Lords (inc Lord Lebedev) will
Full Fact→ US military deaths didn’t increase by 1,100% last year
A TikTok clip posted to Instagram falsely claims that official data shows the number of deaths among US military personnel rose by 1,100% in the first 10 months in 2021. While the people in the clip, which features US right-wing pastor Rick Wiles
FactCheck.org→ American Bridge 21st Century/AB PAC
Political leanings: Democratic/liberal 2020 total spending: $84.7 million American Bridge 21st Century is a liberal super PAC that conducts opposition research to aid Democratic candidates and organizations. The group changed its name to AB PAC in No
Full Fact→ List of MPs’ crimes isn’t true
A list claiming to describe the crimes of MPs is being widely shared on Facebook at the moment, after being originally posted in 2019. It isn’t true. The list, which originated in the US more than 20 years ago, and which we have written about bef
FactCheck.org→ House Majority PAC
Political leanings: Democratic 2020 total spending: $160.2 million The House Majority PAC was founded in April 2011 by Alixandria Lapp, a former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official. Her husband, Democratic consultant John Lapp, has le
Full Fact→ A video of a failed grenade launcher does not show Russian army
A video on Facebook showing soldiers unsuccessfully discharging a rocket propelled grenade launcher, has the caption: “Russian soldiers using weapons that have been in a cupboard since soviet times”. It’s been viewed over 2.4 million
Poynter→ Poynter’s MediaWise joins Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey to launch a free digital media literacy program
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 25, 2022) – MediaWise, the digital media literacy initiative of the nonprofit Poynter Institute, has developed a new microlearning course that teaches Turkish citizens how to […] The post Poynter’s MediaWise jo
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Ketanji Brown Jackson Want to Release Inmates During the Pandemic?
(Photograph by Jabin Botsford/Washington Post/Getty Images.)During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing this week, Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn claimed Jackson “consistently called for greater freedom for har
Full Fact→ Video of someone smoking in a body bag was taken on set of a music video
A video on Facebook appears to show a number of bodies in body bags, and a person in one of the bags smoking a cigarette. The video’s audio says: “Dead bodies in Ukraine smoking cigarette”. Text over the video says “Sky news and
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Canadian Sniper Wali Was NOT Killed In Ukraine — He Continues Giving Video Interviews To Reporters Who Know Him
Is it true that a Canadian sniper who calls himself Wali was killed in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol before March 23, 2022? No, that's not true: The person who runs the online application portal for Canadians volunteering t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Russian 16-Year-Old Was Fatally Beaten By Ukrainians in Germany
Did a Russian teenage volunteer die in Germany after being beaten by Ukrainian refugees on March 20, 2022? No, that's not true: German police said no complaint or report of such a killing has been received. The person narrating the video