Is Joe Biden stepping down as president-elect because of health issues? No, that's not true: This is a fabricated claim. Biden is not stepping down. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) where it was published by @Undergro
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Truth or Fiction?→ Did Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Say ‘Amen and Awomen’ During a Congressional Prayer?
On January 3 2021, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver led a Daily Congressional Prayer, drawing intense scrutiny from certain circles for purportedly concluding with “amen and awomen” (or “awoman”) in lieu of the standard “amen”
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘George Soros With the Owner of Smartmatic’
As conspiracy theorists continued trying to convince themselves that Donald Trump did not definitively lose the November 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, they also found another way to recycle — yet again — a reliable boogeyman in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Purported Evidence in ‘The Plot To Steal America’ Video Does NOT Support Election Fraud Claims — Mostly Consists of Rehashed Hoaxes
Does an advertising video titled "The Plot To Steal America" contain hard evidence of election fraud? No, that's not true: the 18-minute pitch contains allegations based on video clips purporting to show "evidence" but several of these cl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Mansion Is NOT Joel Osteen’s
Is this Joel Osteen's house? No, that's not true: The sprawling mansion, shown in a Facebook post, is not Joel and Victoria Osteen's River Oaks, Texas, home. It is the Hidden Hills, California, home of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, accor
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Border Wall: Where Does It Stand?
In the final weeks of his presidency, President Donald Trump has returned to the signature issue that brought him to the White House — his pledge to build “a beautiful, gorgeous, big wall” on the southern border. On two separate occas
Truth or Fiction?→ Far Right News Organizations Issue Statements, Admit ‘No Evidence’ Exists to Support Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Election Fraud
Far right propaganda purveyors like Newsmax, One America News Network, and certain Fox personalities became hot topics after the November 3 2020 election, when they captured a significant number of former Fox News viewers thanks to their regular ̶
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 Surge Is NOT A ‘No-Show’: Numbers Increased In Most U.S. States
Did the post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID-19 cases after people traveled and gathered in groups -- which was predicted by Dr. Anthony Fauci and other health officials had warned would happen -- end up being a 'no-show'? No, that's not true
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Political Ad Showing Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock Saying ‘God Damn America’ Leaves Out Context
Does a political ad showing Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock saying "God damn America" present the video in context? No, it does not: When Rev. Warnock uttered the controversial phrase, he was discussing the use of those words in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vaccine Reaction Did NOT Cause Nurse To Faint After COVID-19 Shot – Pain/Stress Triggered Vagal Nerve-Driven Fainting
Did a Tennessee nurse who fainted after getting a COVID-19 vaccination shot do so due to a reaction to contents of the vaccine? No, that's not true. A nurse, who was given the COVID-19 live on television at the hospital where she is emplo
Truth or Fiction?→ Is a ‘Firefly’ Reboot Coming To Disney+?
On December 15 2020, rumors of a purported Disney+ Firefly “reboot” that was refashioned to be “family-friendly” spread on social media, with fans of the show registering opinions about the what that might mean: We have ex
FactCheck.org→ False Claim About Biden’s Win Probability
Quick Take Facebook posts have repeated a false claim about a “one in a quadrillion” chance that President-elect Joe Biden received more votes than President Donald Trump in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Experts told us the claim m
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Michigan State Police Block ‘Republican Electors’ From Entering the Courthouse?
As the U.S. Electoral College made it official — again — that outgoing United States President Donald Trump had lost his bid for re-election on December 14 2020, footage posted online showed an attempt to overturn the results with a group
AllSides→ Ingraham wrongly claims ‘no science’ suggests restaurants spread COVID-19
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The First Person To Get The Pfizer Vaccine In Britain Was NOT Pictured Getting It In October
Was the first person to get the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in Britain also pictured getting a COVID vaccine back in October? No, that's not true: The prior date appears near an image of the historic vaccination because of the way CNN's websi
FactCheck.org→ Vaccine Recipient Targeted With Baseless ‘Crisis Actor’ Claim
Quick Take Social media posts are peddling the baseless claim that the first recipient of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom was actually a “crisis actor.” There is no evidence for that conspiracy theory. Full Story On Dec. 8, a 90-y
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Raphael Warnock Did NOT ‘Invite Fidel Castro To His Church’
Did Raphael Warnock "invite Fidel Castro to his church"? No, there's no evidence that's true: Warnock, who is running for the U.S. Senate to represent Georgia, was a youth pastor at New York City's Abyssinian Baptist Church, where the for
Truth or Fiction?→ Will the Northern Lights Be Visible in the Continental United States in December 2020?
On December 9 2020, “Northern Lights” trended on Twitter, due in part to scattered reports that the phenomena might be visible to some Americans: Look up! https://t.co/XGQ3Rl1mYc — Thrillist (@Thrillist) December 9, 2020 Twitter h
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Supreme Court Did NOT Vote 6-3 To Take Up Texas AG’s Lawsuit Over Election, NOR Did Tennessee Join
Did the U.S. Supreme Court vote 6-3 to take up the Texas Attorney General's lawsuit seeking to overturn four other states' 2020 election results? No, that's not true: There is no such vote recorded on the Supreme Court's public list of or
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Named Goya’s ‘Employee of the Month’?
On December 7 2020, right-wing “personality” Candace Owens (among others) asserted that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) was selected as “employee of the month” at Goya because her calls to boycott the brand purport
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘RubyFreeman_Georgia’ Instagram Post
On December 5 2020, a screenshot of an Instagram post began circulating around the usual far-right fringe forums, attributed to a woman named Ruby Freeman (@rubyfreeman_georgia): An admission of election fraud by Ruby Freeman, DemocRAT vote counter
FactCheck.org→ Primer on Trump’s Visit to Georgia
For the first time since Election Day, President Donald Trump will stage a political rally — traveling to Valdosta, Georgia, to campaign on Dec. 5 for the state’s two Republican senators. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler were unable to
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Joe Biden Say if He Disagreed with Kamala Harris, He’d Fake an Illness and Resign?
On December 4 2020, a number of pundits and websites breathlessly reported on remarks made by President-Elect Joe Biden, in which he purportedly said that if he fundamentally disagreed with Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, he would “develop s
The Dispatch→ Did a Dominion Technician Manipulate Voting Data in Gwinnett County?
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Truth or Fiction?→ 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
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Election Video Does NOT Show Worker ‘Manipulating’ Data In Gwinnett County, Georgia
Does an election video show a worker "manipulating" data in Gwinnett County, Georgia? No, that's not true: The video shows a person moving what appears to be a USB thumb drive from one computer to another and looking at the screen. The te
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Contains Falsehoods And Unproven Claims About Purported Voter Fraud In Arizona
Is a video discussing purported voter fraud in Arizona factual? No, it's not: The video contains falsehoods and unproven claims. Specifically, 35,000 votes were not added to Democratic candidates, as Lead Stories has previously reported,
FactCheck.org→ Trump Repeats Baseless, False Claims About the Election
In his first interview since Election Day, President Donald Trump recapped baseless, false and misleading claims he has made before of a “rigged” election. Trump spoke by phone with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Nov. 29. In the intervi
Poynter→ Fact-checking President Trump’s whopper-laden interview with Maria Bartiromo
President Donald Trump repeated his false claims that the election was “rigged” and characterized mail-in ballots as a “disaster” in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo allowed him to make his case without c
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Debunking Several Claims by Diamond and Silk
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dominion Executive Eric Coomer Is NOT Missing And The Company Has Not Closed Its Headquarters
Is Dominion Voting Systems vice president Eric Coomer missing and has the company closed its headquarters? No, that's not true: A video repeats unfounded claims Lead Stories has previously debunked: that Dominion Voting Systems has shutte
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Boxes Marked ‘Boneless Pork Rectums’ Are Not For McDonald’s
Did someone photograph a stack of boxes labeled 'Boneless Pork Rectums' which also bore a sticker that appears to be the McDonald's logo? No, that's not true: This photo of boxes, without the McDonald's logo, appears to be a real photo th
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
FactCheck.org→ Checking the Facts in the World of Trump
I guess I picked the right year to take up fact-checking. I had been in journalism for a very long time. I had run a national magazine, overseen news operations at newspapers in many cities, covered Washington during the Watergate era, written columns
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dominion Was NOT ‘Caught Red Handed Stealing Votes on Live TV’
Was Dominion Voting Systems "caught red handed stealing votes on live TV"? No, that's not true: A video claiming to show an unexplained vote change taking votes away from Donald Trump and giving the exact same number to Joe Biden on elect
FactCheck.org→ No ‘Landslide’ for Biden, Either
Provided President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College margin of victory holds — and we have seen no reason so far to believe it will not — it will be the same margin won by Donald Trump in 2016. That would leave Biden (as it did Trum
Truth or Fiction?→ 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
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: No Evidence Dead People, Animals, Children Voted For Biden In Georgia In The 2020 Election
Did Joe Biden benefit from dead people, animals, and children voting illegally in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election? No, there's no evidence of such voter fraud. Although President Trump warned in July 2020 that he worried about p
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