President Donald Trump has attacked reporting on the Russia investigation by the New York Times and the Washington Post as “fake news,” asserting — along with his press secretary — that the news organizations should return
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The Dispatch→ Do Masks Make It Impossible to Breathe in Enough Oxygen?
In a viral video on Facebook, Jeff Neff, a candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate, measured the oxygen levels behind various masks and concluded that “No matter what you choose—head sock, neoprene-type fancy mask, cheap mask, N-95, the bes
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Person With Coronavirus Is NOT Counted As More Than One Case No Matter How Many Positive Tests They Have
Can a person with coronavirus be counted as more than one case, if he or she takes multiple tests and the results of those tests keep coming back positive? No, that's not true: Case counts and testing counts are separate. A person can have mul
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bogus Screenshot Falsely Claims Taylor Swift Said We Should Remove The Statue of Liberty
Did Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Taylor Swift say that the Statue of Liberty should be taken down in an article posted by a site named G1? No, that's not true: a screenshot with headline making that claim is bogus and was not really
Full Fact→ What was the New Deal?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is having quite a moment. At the weekend, Michael Gove heaped praise on the 33rd US President who, he claimed, “managed to save capitalism.” On Monday the Prime Minister called for a “Rooseveltian approach to
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Covid911 – Insurgency’ Video Pushes Several Falsehoods And Unproven Conspiracy Theories
Is the COVID-19 pandemic a conspiracy manufactured by "Deep State Democrats" and the "mass media" to disrupt, even rig, the upcoming presidential election in a bid to topple Donald Trump? And did the coronavirus provide the perfect cover for t
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s False Military Equipment Claim
President Donald Trump has falsely claimed his administration invested “$2.5 trillion in all of the greatest equipment in the world” for the military. That’s approximately the total for defense budgets from 2017 to 2020, but the cost
Full Fact→ We know of no successful convictions of a police officer for the killing of someone in police custody since 1971
“The last time a police officer was successfully prosecuted in the UK concerning the death of somebody in custody was in 1969.” The Guardian, 4 June 2020 We’ve found no evidence that any serving police officer has been successfully
AFP Fact Check→ Fake police bulletin about ‘face mask scam’ circulates worldwide
A purported "police bulletin" warning of a new burglary scam has been shared thousands of times by Facebook users based in the Australian state of Victoria. The posts claim the burglars go "door to door" offering face masks laced with chemicals whic
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence San Francisco Hospital Faked Positive COVID-19 Tests
Did a nurse prove that COVID-19 tests were being faked at a San Francisco hospital? No, that's not true: The source of the claim is admittedly at least four times removed from the purported false testing and no credible evidence is offered in
FactCheck.org→ Viral Post Falsely Attributes ‘Shadow Government’ Claim to Krauthammer
Quick Take A Christian blogger writing for The Daily Jot accused former President Barack Obama in 2017 of running a “shadow government.” The blog post has been recirculating lately on social media, but it is falsely attributed to the late P
Snopes→ Beavis and Butt-Head Are Coming Back
“It seemed like the time was right to get stupid again,” Mike Judge, the creator and voice of both characters, said in a statement.
Truth or Fiction?→ Is Antifa Renting U-Hauls to Infiltrate ‘Residential Neighborhoods’?
A June 27 2020 post by user Cindy Kowalczyk was shared thousands of times, claiming (without citations or sources) that “Antifa plans residential Neighborhood attacks” using U-Haul moving trucks: The Rumor and Earlier Iterations In the
AllSides→ Fact-checking Trump’s claims about the coronavirus during his trip to Wisconsin
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2020/fact-checking-trumps-visit-to-wisconsin/ Resuming campaignin
Truth or Fiction?→ Did a Teenager Get Pleurisy From Wearing a Face Mask for Work?
On May 31 2020, Facebook user Lena Kovacs shared the following screenshot of a redacted post, in which a person claimed their neeninet-year-old daughter developed pleurisy solely due to her use of a face mask in her job at “a huge grocery store
AFP Fact Check→ As COVID-19 cases spike in US, mask misinformation also spreads
Social media posts shared thousands of times in the United States contain multiple false or misleading claims about face masks used to stop the spread of COVID-19, including that they violate federal standards for oxygen supply, cloth masks “do not
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Michelle Obama Did NOT Surrender Law License For ‘Insurance Fraud’
Did Michelle Obama have to surrender her law license because of insurance fraud? No, that's not true: The former first lady's law license is valid, she's never been subjected to disciplinary action and she's on "voluntary inactive status," a s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Erykah Badu Did NOT Tell People Not To Buy Rap Music
Did Erykah Badu call on people to stop buying some types of rap music because most rappers aren't doing anything to stand up against racism? No, that's not true: The neo-soul singer herself has said the words in a viral social meme aren't hers
FactCheck.org→ COVID-19 Cases and Deaths, By the Numbers
Noting that the United States accounts for about one-quarter of global COVID-19 cases and deaths, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the U.S. has “the worst record of any country in the world.” While the U.S. has the most confirmed cases and d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Truck Driver NOT Found Dead With COVID-19 On California Highway With Load Of COVID-19 Contaminated Face Masks
Was a truck driver found dead on Interstate 5 in California and positive for COVID-19 hauling a load of made-in-China masks contaminated with the novel coronavirus? No, that's not true. The California Highway Patrol said the photo included in
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘The Golden Girls’ Blackface Controversy
On June 28 2020, Facebook user Matt Joseph shared the following post, which showed a BuzzFeed article (“An Episode Of “The Golden Girls” Was Pulled From Hulu For Featuring Blackface”) and a comment about how the decision was co
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Wearing A Mask Does NOT Remove Your Ability To Legally Carry A Concealed Carry Weapon
Does wearing a face mask remove your ability to legally carry a concealed weapon? No, that's not true: Laws vary by state, but authorities in several states have issued guidance making it clear that their law does not prohibit someone from law
Full Fact→ Covid-19 study that links deaths to low vitamin D levels is flawed
“Nearly 99 per cent of Covid-19 patients who are vitamin D deficient die, according to a terrifying study” Mail Online, 17 June 2020 “The results revealed 98.9 percent of infected patients who suffer with a vitamin D deficiency lost
AFP Fact Check→ Photo shows pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong
Thousands of Facebook and Instagram users in the United States claim a photograph shows looters being sprayed by a water cannon in Japan, with some of the posts suggesting American police should use the same measures. The claim is false; the photog
Full Fact→ What do we know about Covid-19 inequalities among people from minority ethnic groups?
In the early stages of the coronavirus epidemic in the UK, and in the absence of data splitting out Covid-19 deaths by ethnicity, reports of health workers from minority ethnicities dying of Covid-19 was the first clue that some groups of people might
Health Feedback→ No scientific evidence indicates that cannabis can prevent or cure COVID-19 in patients
REVIEW An article which has received more than hundreds of thousands of interactions on Facebook claimed that cannabis could prevent or cure SARS-CoV-2 infection. The article states that scientific results experimentally indicate that certain cannab
AFP Fact Check→ False claim circulates that Facebook has announced plans to delete accounts posting criticism on Aung San Suu Kyi’s profile
Multiple Facebook posts and an online article shared thousands of times claim Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to automatically delete accounts that post critical comments on the profile of Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Marine Did NOT Capture An Antifa Member
Did a U.S. Marine capture an Antifa member? No, that's not true: The photo used with that claim in a Facebook post was taken in Fallujah in 2004 during the Iraq War. The man being held by the Marine was not a member of Antifa. The claim appare
FactCheck.org→ Meme Misrepresents Florida Surgeon General’s Position on Face Masks
Quick Take Amid a surge in Florida’s COVID-19 cases, a Facebook meme dated June 24 falsely claims the state’s surgeon general recommended that people stop wearing face masks. The surgeon general actually issued an advisory two days earlier
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Liberals and BLM Did NOT Petition to Change the Name of the White House
Did liberals and Black Lives Matter petition to change the name of the White House? No, that's not true: This claim was made in a satirical article published by a satire website that trolls conservatives. Sometimes, these stories are stolen by
Snopes→ Reddit, Twitch Clamp Down On Hate Speech, Including Trump Forums
r/The_Donald was banned from Reddit because it encouraged violence, regularly broke other rules, and defiantly “antagonized” both Reddit and other forums, the company said in a statement.
The Dispatch→ Is a Muslim Group Preparing to Patrol Streets in Minneapolis?
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AllSides→ Did Michelle Obama ‘Complete’ a Ph.D. in Law Since Leaving White House?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michelle-obama-phd-law/ Michelle Obama may have accomplished a lot si
AllSides→ Trump’s see-no-evil posture on coronavirus
https://apnews.com/96432a9bf1d9326d23353ca697c89114 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pers
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 is among the leading causes of death worldwide so far in 2020, but beware of incomplete graphs
An animated bar graph circulating on social media went viral in June 2020 and received more than 100,000 interactions on Facebook. The graph claims to report the number of deaths that have occurred worldwide from several causes, including COVID-19, bet
Snopes→ As Virus Grows, Governors Rely on Misleading Hospital Data
The issue of hospital capacity has gained urgency across the nation this week as Florida, Texas, California, Arizona and other states reported skyrocketing case numbers.
Snopes→ Facebook to Label All Rule-Breaking Posts – Even Trump’s
CEO Mark Zuckerberg had previously refused to take action against Trump posts suggesting that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud, saying that people deserved to hear unfiltered statements from political leaders.
FactCheck.org→ Wearing Face Mask During Pandemic Doesn’t Affect Concealed Carry Permit
Quick Take A meme making the bogus claim that wearing a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic “REMOVES YOUR CONCEAL CARRY ability” is spreading widely online. Laws regulating concealed weapons vary by state, but sheriffs in many states hav
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Nisha Patel Once Employed By The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Did NOT Drown In A New Jersey Pool
Did Nisha Patel, who accidentally drowned with her father-in-law and daughter in their New Jersey home's backyard pool, work as the "US Program Officer at the Bill Gates Foundation?" No, that's not true. The Nisha Patel who once worked for the
Truth or Fiction?→ Did a Landlord Ask a Possible Tenant to Pay a Year’s Worth of Rent in Advance?
A property management company in Asheville, North Carolina became one of several symbols of landlord excess for social media users in June 2020, after a prospective tenant revealed that she was asked to provide a year’s worth rent before moving