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AllSides→ Does the Postmaster General Have $70 Million Invested in USPS Competitors?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/does-the-postmaster-general-have Claims that Postmaster General Lou
Full Fact→ This vaccine survey may not be exactly what it seems
“Young people twice as likely to refuse a coronavirus vaccine, study shows” The Telegraph, 9 August 2020 “Survey sparks concern over misconceptions about vaccines and scepticism about science” The Guardian, 9 Augu
AFP Fact Check→ No tourists have been allowed to visit New Zealand since March 2020 — this photo has circulated online since 2016
An image has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts in August 2020 which claim it shows “Chinese tourists allowed to go out of the Auckland bubble”. The posts were shared after New Zealand's government reimposed a coronavirus lo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Call Joe Biden ‘A Racist And A Rapist’
Did Kamala Harris call Joe Biden a racist and a rapist? No, that's not true: There's no record nor any other evidence that she's used either word to describe the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The claim appeared as
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Don’t Mail Ballots In, Drop at Board of Elections, This is an Inside Tip from a Postal Worker, Can’t Say More than That’
On August 3 2020, a Facebook user shared the following status update, which advises readers to submit their mail-in ballots to the Board of Elections directly — based on “an inside tip from a postal worker”: It read: Don’t m
FactCheck.org→ Facebook Post Makes Baseless Claim About Bill Gates’ Family Ties
Quick Take A Facebook post makes the baseless claim that Bill Gates’ mother was related to Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The post also shows an image of a young man who is misidentified as Gates. Full St
AllSides→ Facebook’s Preferential Treatment Of US Conservatives Puts Its Fact-Checking Program In Danger
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-arbiter-truth-fact-check-mark-zuckerberg O
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Leak The Identities Of SEAL Team 6 Members
Did Joe Biden leak the identities of SEAL Team 6 members? No, that's not true: Though he publicly praised the SEALs for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, he did not identify members of the elite unit by name. The claim a
Poynter→ Platforms scramble to contend with QAnon. Are they too late?
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and accountability journalism, from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here The Q factor For people who thought QAnon exis
Truth or Fiction?→ Will Boston University Begin Awarding Posthumous Degrees in 2020?
A story published by the student newspaper at Boston University attracted attention online on August 12 2020, after revealing the school’s move to formalize the process behind awarding posthumous degrees. The Daily Free Press first broke the sto
FactCheck.org→ Face Masks Don’t Cause Legionnaires’ Disease
Quick Take A viral social media post is spreading the falsehood that wearing a face mask to slow the spread of COVID-19 could cause Legionnaires’ disease. But Legionnaires’ disease is caused by bacteria that festers mostly in warm, standing
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Kamala Harris Say She Would Opt for More Policing in 2009 — Before Describing it as ‘Status-Quo Thinking’ in 2020?
After United States Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden confirmed his selection as Kamala Harris as his running mate on August 11 2020, a Facebook meme purportedly quoted Harris on policing in 2009 and 2020 — expressing what appear
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2 Million Women And Children NOT Held Captive Last Year Under The Getty Museum
Were 2 million women and children held captive under The Getty Museum in Los Angeles last year? No, that's not true. "These claims are fictitious and dangerous and of course we refute them," Lisa Lapin, vice president of communic
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Missteps on COVID-19 Mortality
President Donald Trump exaggerated Americans’ comparative success battling the coronavirus, falsely saying in a press briefing that the U.S. per capita death rate is lower than “most” of Western Europe. He also claimed a 9% decrease in COVID-19 f
Truth or Fiction?→ Does a Facebook Live Reveal a Shocking Secret about ‘LOL Dolls’ Amid #SaveTheChildren Panic?
On August 11 2020, social media users shared a Facebook Live video (archived here), which purportedly unveiled a shocking surprise harbored by the popular LOL Surprise! dolls — that their bodies change color when immersed in water, often in the
The Dispatch→ Does the Postmaster General Have $70 Million Invested in USPS Competitors?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Comedian Steve Harvey Did NOT Write ‘How I Feel About Trump’ Post
Did comedian Steve Harvey write a post titled "How I Feel About Trump" that compared ridding a basement of rabid raccoons to the challenge of fixing the federal government? No, that's not true: The post is a letter written in 201
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Face Masks DO Work. Period.
Has no scientific study demonstrated masks protect people from COVID-19? No, that's not true: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a list of 19 scientific publications its infectious disease experts rely on whe
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kamala Harris Said She Believed Women Who Said They Felt ‘Uncomfortable’ By Biden Touching — NOT ‘Rape Accusers’
Did Kamala Harris say she believed Joe Biden's "rape accusers"? No, that's not true: This is a misrepresentation of what Senator Harris said about women who said they felt "uncomfortable" from Biden's touching them and another wo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kamala Harris Descended From A Slave Owner, But It’s Not ‘An Inconvenient Part Of Her History’ Or A ‘Deep, Dark Secret’ That ‘Could Come Back To Haunt Her’
Did Kamala Harris descend from a slave owner and it is a "deep, dark secret" that has "come back to haunt" her? Yes, it is true that Sen. Harris does apparently have an Irish great-great-great-great-great grandfather who owned sl
The Dispatch→ Did Hillary Clinton’s Emails Include Evidence of Child Sex Trafficking?
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AllSides→ Did Ben Shapiro Create a Fake Antifa Recruitment Site?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-ben-shapiro-create-a-fake-antifa Viral social media posts claim
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Did NOT ‘Confirm China Would Prefer Joe Biden’
Did Nancy Pelosi "confirm" that China would prefer Joe Biden as president? No, that's not true: Pelosi was quoting Trump administration's National Counterintelligence and Security Center intelligence report that concluded that Ru
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Sen. Kamala Harris
As a former 2020 presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris — now presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate — was on our fact-checking radar this election cycle. Here’s a rundown of the claims we addre
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kurt Russell Did NOT Share ‘The Badge’ Poem Attacking ‘Defund The Police’ Movement
Did Kurt Russell share a poem titled "The Badge" that attacks the "defunding the police" movement? No, that's not true: An earlier version of the poem attributed to "unknown" appeared in a Facebook post on June 7, 2020, but it d
Snopes→ Man Shot Near White House Had Shouted Threats
A man shot and wounded by a uniformed Secret Service officer, prompting President Trump to be abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a news conference, had been threatening to kill people near the White House.
FactCheck.org→ Kamala Harris Is Eligible to Serve as President
Quick Take Kamala Harris, former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, is eligible to serve as U.S. president, contrary to the false claims of viral posts on Facebook. Her mother is from India and her father from Jamaica — but Harris was
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Tweet ‘Child Lifes Matter’ Should Be Painted On Hollywood Streets
Did President Trump post a tweet suggesting "child lifes matter" should be painted on the streets of Hollywood? No, that's not true: The message was published on a fake Trump Twitter account, a fact missed by some who believed it
Truth or Fiction?→ Do 800,000 Children Go Missing Each Year in the United States?
As child trafficking rumors combined with COVID-19 disinformation went viral in August 2020, concurrent rumors appeared that 800,000 children go missing every year in the United States — or that 2,000 are disappeared each day: Vi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: MLK Jr. Family Sued Cafe Owner Loyd Jowers, NOT U.S. Government, For Civil Rights Leader’s Murder
Did the family of Martin Luther King Jr. successfully sue the U.S. government for the civil rights leader's murder? No, that's not true: The family brought a civil suit against a Memphis man, Loyd Jowers, not the U.S. government.
Full Fact→ An Express headline on how many working carers fear for their job is flawed
“Care crisis: 4.7m unpaid carers fear the sack if they put loved ones first” The Daily Express, 29 July 2020 At the end of July, the Express published an article claiming that “as many as 4.7 million” people who have caring resp
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Post About Enjoying Adrenochrome On Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Island
Did Mark Zuckerberg post about the participating in a "sexual congress" and enjoying "ingesting adrenochone," but finding it "challenging" to watch it being taken from "little participants" while on Jeffrey Epstein's private isla
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Weekend Press Briefings
President Donald Trump made several false, misleading and exaggerated claims in press briefings he held Aug. 7 and 8 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, spinning the facts on COVID-19 and the economy, among other topics: Trump fa
Truth or Fiction?→ How COVID-19 Triggered a #SaveTheChildren Child Trafficking Panic
In the summer of 2020, a massive amount of rumors about child trafficking appeared under the hashtag #savethechildren — and temporary hashtag filtering by Facebook in response was cited as evidence of “media suppression” of a massive
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Images in ‘1918 Flu Pandemic’ Photo Post Are NOT All From That Period In History
Are a series of images circulating on social media accurately depicting what life looked and felt like during the 1918 flu pandemic? No, that's not true: While some of the photographs are, in fact, from the time when what was kno
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Patton Oswalt Tweet ‘I Am a Proud Pedophile’?
On August 3 2020, a Facebook user shared a purported tweet from comedian Patton Oswalt, in which Oswalt purportedly claimed to be a “proud pedophile”: Commenters on the Facebook post folded it into a larger conspiracy theory abou
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photos Are NOT Connected To Hillary Clinton — They Show Scarlett Keeling, Killed In India In 2008
Are images of a deceased teenager connected to Hillary Clinton? No, that's not true: The photographs are of Scarlett Keeling, a British teenager who was killed in India in 2008. There is no evidence supporting the claim that the
Full Fact→ There is no proof you’re more likely to get Covid-19 if you’re tall
“People over 6ft have double the risk of coronavirus, study suggests.” The Telegraph, 28 July 2020 “People who are over 6ft tall are twice as likely to catch coronavirus, study claims.” The Daily Mirror, 28 July 2020 “Doe
AllSides→ Dueling Trump, Biden Claims on COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/dueling-trump-biden-claims-on-covid-19-vaccination-distribution/ As s