On the night of the January 6 2021 Capitol riots, Rep. Matt Gaetz shared a Washington Times article on Twitter along with the headline, “XRVision firm claims Antifa infiltrated protesters who stormed Capitol”: "Facial recognition fi
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Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Is this a coup? Some history and context to help you decide
Are Americans witnessing a coup? Before the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the case was arguable, but not a slam dunk. After the Capitol was breached, the case became more clear cut, experts say. The questions stem from President Donald Trump
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Is this a coup? Some history and context to help you decide
Are Americans witnessing a coup? Before the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the case was arguable, but not a slam dunk. After the Capitol was breached, the case became more clear cut, experts say. The questions stem from President Donald Trump
TruthOrFiction→ A Woman Was Shot in Capitol Riots; ‘Roberta Paulson’ Meme Follows
During riots at the United States Capitol on January 6 2021, a woman was shot on livestreams, an incident followed by memes claiming her name was “Roberta Paulson”: Roberta Paulsen, protester shot in the neck in DC, has reportedly died.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Despite Claims In Georgia Senate Hearing, Dominion Voting Machines Were NOT Hacked Because They Don’t Have Modems
Did someone hack into the electronic voting system being used in Georgia for the January 5, 2020, U.S. Senate runoff races? No, Georgia election officials say that's not true: The digital poll book was not even in use on December 30, 2020
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Despite Claims In Georgia Senate Hearing, Dominion Voting Machines Were NOT Hacked Because They Don’t Have Modems
Did someone hack into the electronic voting system being used in Georgia for the January 5, 2020, U.S. Senate runoff races? No, Georgia election officials say that's not true: The digital poll book was not even in use on December 30, 2020
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘ANTIFA Being Bused Into D.C. In Advance Of MAGA Rally’
Does a video show "ANTIFA being bused into D.C. in advance of a MAGA rally on January 6, 2020"? No, that's not true: A video that claims to show buses of protesters heading into Washington, D.C., for the pro-Trump rally on January 6, 2021
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘ANTIFA Being Bused Into D.C. In Advance Of MAGA Rally’
Does a video show "ANTIFA being bused into D.C. in advance of a MAGA rally on January 6, 2020"? No, that's not true: A video that claims to show buses of protesters heading into Washington, D.C., for the pro-Trump rally on January 6, 2021
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia Ballots Were NOT Printed Differently for GOP Areas Versus Democrat Areas To Enable Election Rigging
Were ballots used in Republican areas of Georgia different from ballots used in Democratic areas of the state, resulting in a rigged election? No, that's not true: A purported elections expert -- who the Georgia secretary of state's offic
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Fact Check: Debunking Donald Trump’s Claims About Voter Fraud
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Sudden Injection’ Of Nearly 385,000 Votes In Michigan Does NOT Prove Election Fraud
Does a "sudden injection" of close to 385,000 votes in Michigan prove election fraud? No, that's not true: There's often a delay between when absentee ballots are counted and when they are reported, leading to what may look like a sudden
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fulton County, Georgia, Election Worker Ruby Freeman Has NOT Been Arrested
Has Fulton County, Georgia, election worker Ruby Freeman been arrested for voter fraud? No, that's not true: A top official at the Georgia secretary of state's office, which is constitutionally in charge of investigating voter fraud alleg
TruthOrFiction→ Dominion Voting Systems and the SolarWinds Vulnerability, Explained
On December 15 2020, a popular post was shared to the far-right forum TheDonald.win. Its topic was included in its title, “Dominion CEO states in MI hearing that Dominion has never used Solarwinds. Pro tip: If you’re gonna remove the Solarwin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cyber Analyst Did NOT Prove Dominion Software Used In Antrim County, Michigan Was Designed For Fraud
Did a computer analyst prove voting software used in Antrim County, Michigan was designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud? No, that's not true: The expert making the claims has not been put under oath nor cross-examined, pro
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: What The Story About China, Dominion and $400 Million Is Actually About
Did China buy Dominion Voting Systems for $400 million in October 2020? No, that's not accurate: A Swiss investment bank's New York subsidiary, UBS Securities LLC, in October bought $400 million in shares Dominion's parent company, Staple
Top Fact Checks→ Under the TMC, over 150 BJP workers have been murdered, and 11 innocent Gorkhas were shot dead by the TMC police.
West Bengal has witnessed deadly clashes between TMC and BJP workers over the years, but an accurate death toll cannot be verified
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Spikes On Schumann Resonance Readout Do NOT Show Dangerous Disturbance In Ionosphere
Were the large red spikes recorded on a spectrogram on December 1, 2020 a dangerous "Schumann Resonance Explosion"? No, that's not true: The spikes on the spectrogram readout were caused by snow falling on the antenna of a monitoring stat
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Did Detroit Poll Workers Scan the Same Ballots Over and Over?
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TruthOrFiction→ Did Louie Gohmert’s Tooth Fall Out During a Press Conference?
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert became instant online fodder (again) on December 8 2020, after a news site posted footage showing one of the Texas lawmaker’s teeth falling out as he spoke. The brief clip from The Recount showed his tooth coming lo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: DIY Vote Analysis Does NOT Prove Arizona Votes Were ‘Eaten From Mr. Trump And Handed Over To Mr. Biden’
Did a Massachusetts engineer prove election software took Maricopa County, Arizona, votes from Donald Trump to give them to Joe Biden? No, that's not true. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on December 4, 2020, rejected Trump's chall
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Fatal Car Crash Was A Message For Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ‘To Get Back In Line’
Was a fatal car crash a message for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp "to get back in line"? No, there's no evidence that's true: Although the cause of the crash, which killed an aide to Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, remains under investigation, a p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Meme Does NOT Show Some Virginia Counties Had Turnout Exceeding 100%
Did a meme correctly cite Virginia voter turnout numbers exceeding 100% in several counties and did these numbers appear as "voter turnout" data in a Judicial Watch report? No, that's not true: the meme falsely presents Judicial Watch's v
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Team Does NOT Have Dominion Machine From A Small Georgia County That Shows Votes Flipped from Trump to Biden
Did Donald Trump's campaign gain control of voting machines in a small Georgia county and run tests that showed votes were flipped from Trump to Biden? No, that's not true: Articles and social media posts making the claim say the voting m
FactCheck.org→ Video Doesn’t Show ‘Suitcases’ of Illegal Ballots in Georgia
The Trump campaign is falsely claiming that surveillance camera footage captured election workers in Georgia adding thousands of illegal ballots that were brought into an Atlanta facility in suspicious “suitcases” on election night. The campaign p
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s ‘Most Important’ Speech Was Mostly False
In what he billed as perhaps “the most important speech I’ve ever made,” President Donald Trump continued his attempt to deceive the American public into believing the election was “rigged.” Trump has presented no evidence for
TruthOrFiction→ Mellissa Carone, Dominion Subcontractor, Goes Viral After Bizarre Michigan ‘Hearing’ Appearance
On December 2 2020, video of “a drunk woman” acting as a witness for purported and nonexistent election fraud went viral, due in part to the following tweet: a drunk woman is trump team’s star witness in michigan pic.twitter.com/qGxEI3
TruthOrFiction→ Special Forces Did Not Raid a ‘CIA Server Farm’ in Frankfurt to Seize Dominion Servers
In November and December 2020, following Donald Trump’s resounding loss by millions of votes in the presidential election to Joe Biden, rumors spread by those trying to cope with their loss centered around persistent and increasingly ludicrous c
TruthOrFiction→ Did Twitter Suspend Bobby Piton, an ‘Election Whistleblower,’ to Prevent People ‘Understanding His Testimony’?
On November 30 2020, the name “Bobby Piton” became a trending topic on social media following a “hearing” at an Arizona Hyatt hotel about Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Piton was not mentioned by
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 35,000 Votes Were NOT Added To Every Democratic Candidate In Arizona
Were 35,000 votes added to every Democratic candidate in Arizona? No, that's not true: There's no evidence to support that statement. In some legislative races, Democratic candidates received fewer than 35,000 votes total, which makes the
FactCheck.org→ Baseless Conspiracy Theory Targets Another Election Technology Company
Quick Take An unfounded conspiracy theory of widespread election fraud claims that an election technology company called Smartmatic switched votes in the 2020 election. But Smartmatic provided ballot-marking machines to only one U.S. county in the elec
TruthOrFiction→ Activists Accuse Facebook of Ignoring Warning on Neo-Nazi Groups’ Spread
An activist group combating the proliferation of white supremacist propaganda online accused Facebook in a November 2020 report of failing to act when alerted to the spread of one such network on its platforms in 2018. “Facebook’s leadersh
FactCheck.org→ The Facts on Trump’s Post-Election Legal Challenges
On Nov. 19, President Donald Trump’s legal team spouted a gusher of false and unfounded allegations of voter fraud at a 90-minute press conference. We could fact check it, but we’re not going to. We’re not going to fact check Rudy Giu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Was NO Evidence Of ‘Ballot-Dumping’ Found In Wisconsin And Michigan
Is there evidence of ballot dumping found to help Joe Biden in Wisconsin and Michigan? No, that's not true. An article published by OAN claimed there were instances of ballot dumps in both states from the November 3, 2020 presidential ele
Full Fact - All content→ A picture of the Titanic sinking is not a newly discovered photograph
A widely viewed Facebook post shares a recent painting of the Titanic, but implies that it was a photograph taken at the time. “A camera discovered deep in the ocean containing dramatic pictures of the sinking Titanic has been found,” the p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: One-Hour ‘Analysis’ Of Election Results Does NOT Reveal Rigged Election Software In Michigan
Does a YouTube analysis of the votes in four Michigan counties prove election software transferred 69,000 votes from President Donald Trump to Joe Biden? No, that's not true: Based on an analytical method created by a non-statistician, th
FactCheck.org→ Fabricated Claim of Biden Campaign Official’s Arrest
Quick Take A viral tale on social media falsely claims that a campaign official for President-elect Joe Biden was arrested in an illegal ballot-harvesting scheme in Texas. He has not been charged or arrested. The false claim stems from unverified alle
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Whistleblower And Dominion ‘Staffer’ Did NOT See Detroit Voter Fraud, Judge Rules
Did whistleblower and Dominion staffer Melissa Carone see Detroit voter fraud? No, this claim is missing context. Carone was not a "staffer" for Dominion Voting Systems, she was contracted as a freelance worker to work for the company on
TruthOrFiction→ Was Dallas Jones, a ‘Biden Campaign Director,’ Arrested For ‘Electoral Fraud’?
On November 15 2020, a blog post titled “Biden Campaign Director Arrested For Electoral Fraud” began circulating on social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit: Apparently Former FBI agent and Joe Biden staffer has been arrested: Dall
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Fact Check: Debunking the Hammer and Scorecard Conspiracy Theory
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lawsuit Does NOT Claim Out-Of-State Vehicles Brought Tens Of Thousands Of Unsealed Ballots To Michigan, All For Dems
Does a lawsuit claim that out-of-state vehicles delivered tens of thousands of unsealed ballots -- all for Democrats -- into Michigan? No, that's not true: A lawsuit alleging voter fraud in Detroit does include a poll watcher's allegation