Weaponized disinformation campaigns and more conventional attacks on February 24 2023 marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; amid retrospectives and updates, a popular Imgur post featured a video and commentary attribute
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ’19-Year-Old Girl In Texas’ NOT Sentenced To ’96 Years In Prison’ After Abortion
Was a 19-year-old girl in Texas sentenced to "96 years in prison" after traveling across state lines to gain access to an abortion procedure? No, that's not true: The social media account that shared this post is a satirical one. Furtherm
PolitiFact→ One year into Russia’s war in Ukraine: A look at U.S. aid, and why the U.S. is involved
One year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, polls show that a rising number of Americans — though well short of a majority — are tiring of U.S. support for Ukraine. How much are we spending? And why are we doing it? We provide some answers.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Delipidated train track is in years-old image and isn’t close to East Palestine derailment site
Photo shows “what railways in Ohio look like while we send $40 billion to Ukraine.”
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Goodyear Blimp Over Daytona’
On February 20 2023, an Imgur user shared a purported image of the Goodyear Blimp, flying over the Daytona 500 with a “don’t shoot” message on the side (a reference to a recent controversy over possible “spy balloons“): T
Logically→ 6,000-year-old carvings of Lord Rama and Hanuman have been spotted in Silemania, Iraq.
A rock relief depicting Iraqi tribal king Tardunni has been falsely claimed to be sculptures of Hindu deities.
The Dispatch→ DeSantis’ Disney Dispute, One Year Later
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)The proposal to strip Disney World of its special governing status was finally released. Is it everything Florida’s governor prom
PolitiFact→ Social Media – Social media posts falsely name 22-year-old as Michigan gunman. Police say it was Anthony McRae, 43
“Michigan State University suspect is 22-year-old ‘Raymone Jordan.’”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Michigan State University gunman was 43-year-old Anthony McRae, not a 21-year-old named ‘Lynn’
The Michigan State University shooter is a 21-year-old man named Lynn Dee Walker.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Has Had More Than 1,000 Train Derailments Per Year On Average For Decades
Does more than one train derailment a day manifest a dramatic increase compared to the existing national statistics about train accidents? No, that's not true: A video implying that three derailments within a week and a half don't match t
Logically→ 20-year-old Alyssa Carson is the first person selected for a one-way mission to Mars.
While Carson aims to become the first person to step foot on Mars, NASA has not selected her for a one-way mission to the planet.
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misquote Biden’s Year-Old Remarks on Tanks for Ukraine
Quick Take President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 25 that the U.S. would provide Ukraine with 31 tanks. After the announcement, a meme on social media misquoted Biden’s remarks from March 2022, suggesting he said that sending tanks to Ukr
The Dispatch→ Member Discussion for “1920: The Year of the Six Presidents” — March 2023
We want to hear from you while you’re reading “1920: The Year of the Six Presidents.”The post Member Discussion for “1920: The Year of the Six Presidents” — March 2023 appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Puppies Rescued From Rubble Was NOT Filmed After Turkey Earthquake — Years-Old Footage Is From India
Does a video on social media show a man helping a mother dog dig her puppies free from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the 2023 earthquake in Turkey? No, that's not true: This video is several years old and was posted on August
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pandemics Do NOT Happen Every 100 Years
Do pandemics happen every 100 years? No, that's not true: A post making the claim cherry-picks disease outbreaks, excluding obvious examples. It also misrepresents basic facts about the pandemics it does list, including the years in which
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Some One Dreamed the Other Night That He Was Living in the Year 2023 … Eggs Had Gone Up to $10 a Dozen’
In late January 2023, an Imgur account shared an image of a newspaper clipping which contained an apparent lament about the future cost of eggs a century from 1923: The post was titled “Nostradamus, is that you in 1923?” The text shown on
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Actor Isaac Kappy died years ago, but QAnon claims that he was murdered persist
Actor Isaac Kappy was murdered for exposing Hollywood pedophiles.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Andrew Tate Has NOT Been Found Guilty And Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison As Of January 24, 2023
Was Andrew Tate found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in prison as of January 24, 2023? No, that's not true: The former kickboxing champion and internet influencer remained in detention as of January 24, 2023, but had not been tried, con
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Judge Has NOT Sentenced Young Thug To 25 Years In Prison, As Of January 12, 2023
Did the judge in the trial of Young Thug sentence the Atlanta rapper to 25 years in maximum-security prison, as of January 12, 2023? No, that's not true: Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffery Williams, was not convicted -- much less sen
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump touts one year’s decline in drug overdoses, ignoring three years of increases
As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years."
Full Fact→ Posts celebrating the birthday of a 105-year-old grandmother are fake
The picture in the post is of a younger woman with a different name.
Full Fact→ Keir Starmer’s New Year speech fact checked
We’ve taken a look at some of the Labour leader’s claims in his first speech of 2023 covering burglaries, regional inequality and funding for more NHS training.
Full Fact→ Rishi Sunak’s New Year speech fact checked
We’ve looked at some of the claims made by the PM in his first speech of 2023.
Logically→ Afro-Arab migrants attacked an ambulance crew with firecrackers and stones on new year’s eve in Berlin.
The video of demonstrators attacking Hong Kong Police officers in 2019 was misattributed to the recent new year's eve attacks in Neukölln, Berlin.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Max Loughan NOT Missing ‘About Six Years’ — ‘Energy Harvesting Device’ Creator Was In Middle, High School
Did Max Loughan, a 13-year-old who gained fame in 2016 for creating an "energy harvesting device," disappear for "about six years"? No, that's not true: There's no evidence that Loughan was or is missing or hiding. A video posted by his s
Logically→ The Bharat Jodo Yatra will be halted from December 24 to January 2 as Rahul Gandhi is going on an international trip to celebrate Christmas and the new year.
The yatra is being halted for maintenance work of containers that house the participants, according to the INC. Gandhi is scheduled to stay in Delhi.
The Dispatch→ Authoritarianism’s Bad Year
Vladimir Putin. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images.) Putin bungled his war with Ukraine, and China and Iran contended with massive protests.The post Authoritarianism’s Bad Year appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Video: 2022 Year in Review
Watch the video of our weekly livestreamed conversation.The post Video: 2022 Year in Review appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Dispatch Live: 2022 Year in Review
Join our weekly livestreamed conversation.The post Dispatch Live: 2022 Year in Review appeared first on The Dispatch.
PolitiFact→ Ro Khanna – US trade deficit with China now $400 billion per year, much higher than in the 1990s
The U.S. "trade deficit with China has gone from about $80 billion a year in the 1990s to $400 billion a year.”
Logically→ FIFA president Gianni Infantino has announced that the football World Cup will be held every three years.
The FIFA president has made no such announcement. The next FIFA World Cup will be held as per norms after four years in 2026.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2021 Was NOT A Year With No Flu Cases Worldwide
Were there zero influenza cases worldwide in 2021 because flu cases were fraudulently recorded as COVID-19 cases? No, that's not true: Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, flu cases have been categorized separately f
Logically→ A 56-year high in snow cover in the northern hemisphere in November 2022 proves global warming is a hoax.
A small spike in the snow cover extent in mid-November 2022 has been misrepresented to claim that global warming and climate change are not real.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Twenty-Year-Old Woman Did NOT Die After Receiving COVID Vaccine
Did a 20-year-old woman from Kansas die shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: Although Regan Lewis did experience cardiac arrest and die shortly after receiving a vaccine, Regan's mother Connie Lewis clarified t
PolitiFact→ Lie of the Year 2022: Putin’s lies to wage war and conceal horror in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin lies. This is not a revelation, we know. But in 2022, Putin’s lies about Ukraine and the war he waged there killed thousands of people, drove millions from their homes and sought to blindfold his country to these atrocities.
PolitiFact→ They were whoppers: A look back at PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, 2009 to 2021
PolitiFact uses the word "lie" only once a year. Here's a look back at all the Lie of the Year awardees going back to 2009.
PolitiFact→ We asked, you answered: PolitiFact readers’ choice for the 2022 Lie of the Year
We asked, you answered: PolitiFact readers’ choice 2022 Lie of the Year
Logically→ Cristiano Ronaldo has completed a €200 million-a-year contract with Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr.
Cristiano Ronaldo dismissed reports that he agreed to a deal to join Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr after departing Manchester United.
Logically→ Number of FIFA footballers who ‘died suddenly’ in 2021 was 300 percent higher than the previous 12-year average.
No professional football player died in 2021 because of side effects of COVID-19 vaccines. The Exposé has misinterpreted data to suggest the same.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 12-Year-Old Girl’s Grandmother Did NOT Kidnap The Child From Hospital At Gunpoint To Prevent Transgender Surgery
Did a 12-year-old girl's grandmother kidnap her from the hospital at gunpoint to prevent transgender surgery? No, that's not true: The grandmother's attorney told Lead Stories the claim was completely false. The woman was arrested and ple