Does a photograph show the son of Dr. Sebi on trial, purportedly for "spreading health secrets?" No, that's not true: The image of a man in an orange prison outfit is not a real photograph of the "son" of Dr. Sebi, whose real name was Alf
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Convict Oprah Winfrey, Did NOT Sentence Her To Death
Was former talk show host Oprah Winfrey convicted by the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps and sentenced to death? No, that's not true: The claim appeared in an article on a website that regularly publishes fabricated content, and
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
FactCheck.org→ Trump Distorts the Facts About His New York Civil Trial
Former President Donald Trump made false and questionable claims in a brief press conference on Jan. 11 after the closing arguments in a New York civil fraud trial. The lawsuit, filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleges that Trump
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Court Documents Do NOT Show Rep. Adam Schiff Visited Epstein Island Over 70 Times
Do court documents unsealed in early January 2024 show that California Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff visited the island of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than 70 times? No, that's not true: There is no credible informati
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Oprah Winfrey Was NOT ‘A Client On The Epstein List’ — Court Records Mention Her Name Once In Different Context
Did recently published court documents reveal that celebrity TV host Oprah Winfrey was "a client" of registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein? No, that's not true: Lead Stories found a single mention of Winfrey in these documents, but that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jimmy Kimmel Was NOT Mentioned As Jeffrey Epstein’s Client In Court Records Released On January 3 And January 4, 2024 — His Name Wasn’t There At All
Was comedian and TV host Jimmy Kimmel named as Jeffrey Epstein's client in the most recent batch of court documents released in the first week of 2024? No, that's not true: Lead Stories manually reviewed the files, and none of them discus
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Young Man Murdered By IDF In 2023 — It’s From 2015; Teen Survived
Does a viral video show a Palestinian teenager killed by the Israel Defense Forces during the 2023 Hamas-Israel war? No, that's not true: The footage went viral in 2015. The events preceding the scene in the video were highly contested, b
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New York Post Did NOT Say ‘Award Winning ABC Journalist’ Who Pleaded Guilty To Child Porn Debunked ‘Pizzagate’
Does a New York Post headline claim that James Gordon Meek, a former investigative journalist for ABC who pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in September 2023, also "debunked" the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory? No, that's not tru
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Journalist Charged With Child Pornography Did NOT Debunk ‘Pizzagate’ — Other Journalists Did
Has a journalist who debunked the "pizzagate" conspiracy theory also been charged with child pornography? No, that's not true: the allegation was based on a faked screenshot of a non-existent New York Post headline. While former ABC inves
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: January 6, 2021, Image Does NOT Show Federal Agent Holding Badge
Does an image taken from footage on January 6, 2021, reveal a federal agent holding a badge as part of a staged federal insurrection or "Fedsurrection"? No, that's not true: The image shows Kevin Lyons, a Chicago man sentenced to 51 month
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Topless Photo Does NOT Show New York AG Letitia James — The Illegally Obtained Photo Shows Victim Of Federal Cybercrime
Does a topless photo show New York Attorney General Letitia James? No, that's not true: This photo does not show James, but Stacey Plaskett, the U.S. delegate to Congress from the Virgin Islands, who was a victim of cybercrime. Two disgru
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Iran denies viral claim that Ronaldo is facing ‘99 lashes’ for hugging an Iranian woman
CLAIM: Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo was sentenced to 99 lashes in Iran for hugging a woman. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Convict, Sentence Gen. Mark Milley To Hang
Did the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) convict and sentence U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley to "hang"? No, that's not true: The website where this claim was made has a disclaimer that states it publishes satirical content. Fictiona
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump on ‘Meet the Press’
Kristen Welker’s first week as the new moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” featured an interview with former President Donald Trump, and she was busy trying to push back on his numerous false and misleading statements. Here
FactCheck.org→ Another Ad Attacking Beshear’s Pandemic Commutations in Kentucky Distorts Facts
In its latest TV ad attacking Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, the conservative super PAC School Freedom Fund falsely claims that Beshear’s decision to release some prisoners early during the COVID-19 pandemic allowed a man convicted of so
FactCheck.org→ The Problem with Greene’s Warning About ‘Communist Takeover’ of Judicial System
Responding to news that the former national leader of the Proud Boys was sentenced to 22 years for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called it “despicable” and commented: “We ar
FactCheck.org→ TV Ad Twists Facts to Fit Narrative in Attack on Beshear in Kentucky Governor’s Race
A TV ad from a conservative super PAC attacks Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s decision during the COVID-19 pandemic to release more than 1,800 prisoners convicted of non-violent or non-sexual felonies. But the details of the case feature
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Indictments Against Trump Do NOT Carry ‘Potential Death Penalty’
Is former President Donald Trump facing the possibility of the death penalty in the four indictments against him? No, that's not true: Lead Stories spoke to three legal experts who told us that none of the charges against Trump carries th
Truth or Fiction?→ Secret Service Agents Discussed ‘Liaison’ with Oath Keepers’ Extremist Leader
Members of the U.S. Secret Service were not only familiar with the right-wing extremist “Oath Keepers” group — at least two also parroted their talking points and discussed a “liaison” arrangement between the two organizat
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no stranger to FactCheck.org. He is a prominent anti-vaccine advocate who has been on our radar for years, primarily as the founder of Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit that spreads anti-vaccine misinformation.
PolitiFact→ Jack Posobiec – No, Tanya Chutkan is not only D.C. judge to give harsher Jan. 6 sentences than government requested
Judge Tanya Chutkan “is the only federal judge in Washington, D.C., who has sentenced Jan. 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government had requested.”
Truth or Fiction?→ Sinéad O’Connor’s Saturday Night Live Rehearsal
Sinead O’Connor had a short but storied life. When the Irish musician and performer (who since 2018 had called herself Shuhada’ Sadaqat after converting to Islam) — died on July 26 2023, her groundbreaking Saturday Night Live per
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Prove Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Worked At Disney’ In 1985
Do photographs of Ghislaine Maxwell with Donald Duck taken in 1985 confirm that the now-convicted sex offender -- associated with financier Jeffrey Epstein who died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges -- worked for
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Man Attacks 86 Year Old Woman … Because He Thought She Was Transgender’
On July 20 2023, a blurry screenshot of tweet and an apparent news headline — ” Man beats up 86-year-old woman with dementia because he thought she was transgender” — made it to Reddit’s r/WhitePeopleTwitter: WT
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 19,000 Doctors Were NOT Indicted for ‘COVID Crimes’
Did an unnamed source with the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) disclose to Real Raw News that there are about 19,000 sealed indictments held on U.S. physicians and medical staff for criminally coercing patients to get the COVID-
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misleadingly Equate Gun Case Against Hunter Biden With Rapper Kodak Black
Quick Take Hunter Biden, who has no prior criminal history, has reached a plea deal that would avoid jail time for a gun-related charge. Some conservative commentators claim the president’s son is getting special treatment, misleadingly equat
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Remarks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference
In June 24 remarks, former President Donald Trump made misleading claims about the reach of the National Archives and Records Administration and the federal charges he is facing for allegedly retaining classified documents after he was no longer in of
FactCheck.org→ Ad Misleads: Trump Not Charged as Spy
The latest ad from the anti-Trump Lincoln Project promotes the same mistaken argument that Donald Trump himself has made — that the former president has been charged with spying or espionage. Trump was charged under a part of the Espionage Act c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Say ‘3 Billion People Need To Die’
Did Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates suggest that "3 billion people need to die"? No, that's not true: The claim on social media recycles unsupported speculations from 2019 based on a distorted quote taken out of context
FactCheck.org→ Posts Distort Possible Sentencing for Trump in Manhattan Indictment
Quick Take Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on April 4 to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records to conceal alleged hush money payments. Social media posts misleadingly claim Trump is “facing up to
FactCheck.org→ Early Release of ‘QAnon Shaman’ Due to Plea and Prison Protocols, Contrary to Online Claims
Quick Take Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” was sentenced to 41 months in prison for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, but he was released early to a halfway house on March 28 because of his p
FactCheck.org→ Examining Trump’s Claims on His Arrest and Arraignment
In a speech from Mar-a-Lago hours after pleading not guilty to criminal charges in Manhattan, and in social media posts, former President Donald Trump has said the case against him is unfair. Here, we explain his attacks on the prosecutor, judge and v
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘QAnon Shaman’ NOT Released Early From Prison Because Of ‘Video Evidence Showing That January 6 Was A Hoax,’ ‘Inside Job’
Was Jacob Chansley, the Capitol rioter better known as the "QAnon Shaman," released early from prison to a halfway house "following video evidence showing that January 6 [2021] was a hoax" and an "inside job"? No, that's not true: The Bur
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Publisher Robert Maxwell Put False Information In US Textbooks
Did British publisher Robert Maxwell, who owned Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Co. in a joint venture from 1989 until his death in 1991, put false information in American textbooks? No, that's not true: McGraw Hill told Lead Stor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: False Promotions Use Famous Brand Names — Tricking People To Hand Over Personal Information
Can simply answering three or four questions and paying a nominal handling fee qualify people to redeem tickets, receive expensive products, $500 or even $1,000 gift cards, store credit or compensation from well-known brands? No, that's n
FactCheck.org→ Explaining the Missing Context of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Presentation
Quick Take On Jan. 6, 2021, about 140 police officers were assaulted during the Capitol riot, and 326 participants — more than 100 armed with weapons — have been charged. But Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson has used recently re
FactCheck.org→ Posts Mislead on Legal Basis for Paying Federal Income Taxes
Quick Take The U.S. Constitution established Congress’ right to impose federal income taxes, and the Internal Revenue Service administers the laws that require payment of taxes. Yet social media posts falsely claim there is no law that requir
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Andrew Tate Has NOT Been Released From Custody As Of February 22, 2023
Was Andrew Tate, who was arrested in late 2022 on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and participating in organized crime, released as of February 22, 2023? No, that's not true: The former kickboxing champion and internet influencer rem
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Tulsa the ‘First American City Attacked from the Air’ in 1921?
In February 2023, a 2013 Facebook post recirculated, indicating that the first American city to be “attacked from the air” was Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921: In the image above, a sepia-toned image of people walking with their hands in the air