REVIEW On 21 February 2024, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill (HB1894) on food labeling sponsored by lawmaker Scott Cepicky. The bill “prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any food that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Canada Did NOT Recently Change Its Rules To Prohibit Palestine As Country Of Birth On Passports
Did Canada recently change its passport policy to prohibit people from listing Palestine as their country of birth on their passports? No, that's not true: Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller responded t
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Polish foreign minister did not call the U.S. ‘dysfunctional and unreliable’ over Ukraine aid
Poland's foreign minister said the U.S. is "dysfunctional and unreliable" because it has not sent more aid to Ukraine.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Undocumented immigrants are not proof of a scheme to replace whites with nonwhites
“7.2 million illegals entered the U.S. under Biden administration,” showing that “the ‘Great Replacement’ is not a theory, it’s a reality."
The Dispatch→ Haley Continues Her Cross-Country Stump Ahead of Super Tuesday
Plus: With McConnell retiring, who might lead Senate Republicans next?
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Fact-checking misinformation about estrogen in meat and health effects on men
Chicken and cows have high levels of estrogen, which leads men who eat them to bald, develop man boobs and be unable to grow muscle mass.
PolitiFact→ Sarah Godlewski – No, Wisconsin Secretary of State doesn’t have to countersign new laws for them to take effect
“One of my responsibilities as Secretary of State is to countersign acts passed by the legislature & signed into law by Gov. Evers.”
PolitiFact→ The context behind Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s dueling immigration speeches at the Texas border
In Texas, Donald Trump and Joe Biden delivered vastly different speeches about immigration and border security. Here’s the context behind statements about Trump’s immigration record, crime committed by migrants and the stalled Senate border bill.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Rothschild conspiracy theory resurfaces, but family doesn’t control global financial system
“The Rothschilds were behind the Federal Reserve, and they now control the global financial system.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has not updated its background check policy to allow people in the U.S. illegally to purchase firearms.
The Dispatch→ McConnell Retires From Leadership
After almost 17 years, the Senate Republican leader announces plans to step down.
Full Fact→ Video of shivering child is from Syria, not Gaza
The video appears to have been posted by someone in Syria, but has since been shared alongside the Palestinian flag.
Health Feedback→ Various childhood vaccines have been tested in saline placebo-controlled randomized trials, contrary to claims by those opposed to vaccination
REVIEW The claim that no childhood vaccine has ever been tested against a placebo in a double-blind, randomized trial commonly crops up in anti-vaccine content. One example of this claim can be seen in this Instagram post. Prominent figures in the
The Dispatch→ The Trials of Donald Trump, Explained
The Collision takes over.
The Dispatch→ Joe Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation, Explained
Although the Supreme Court blocked one of the president’s debt cancellation plans, his administration has forgiven billions via other policies.
The Dispatch→ Ten Myths Sabotaging Social Security Reform
Distorting history and underestimating the severity of the problem only increases the chance of insolvency.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Astronauts Jumping Straight Up on the Moon NOT Exempt From Laws Of Motion — Will Land in Same Spot, Rotate Along With Surface
Does a meme on social media prove that footage of astronauts jumping on the surface of the moon must be fake because they come back down to approximately the same place? Wouldn't an astronaut who jumped up for one second come down many fe
Internet Archive→ Hannity : FOXNEWSW : February 29, 2024 6:00pm-7:00pm PST
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Marines Did NOT Arrest Rear Adm. Michael Platt In February 2024 — Claim Is From Site That Publishes Made-Up Stories
Did U.S. Marines arrest Rear Adm. Michael Platt, Coast Guard officer and military adviser to the Department of Homeland Security, in February 2024? No, that's not true: This claim appeared on a website that publishes fabricated content. A
PolitiFact→ Yes, a Maricopa County voter received two mail ballots. That’s not a sign of wrongdoing or fraud.
A Maricopa County voter shared an image of two mail ballots she received. An elections official said this happened because the voter changed her address as voter registration ended and only one ballot will be counted. This doesn’t signal fraud.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine Shedding Is NOT Real
Is COVID-19 vaccine shedding real, meaning it can spread from person to person? No, that's not true: The COVID-19 shots authorized for use in the United States do not contain the live virus and therefore cannot replicate in the body or be
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, 50% of Biden’s Michigan vote was not unverified mail-in votes
Fifty percent of the votes to Joe Biden in Michigan’s presidential primary election were mail-in, unverified, no signature, no ID.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Donald Trump, not his lookalike, promoted the COVID-19 vaccine several times
It was not former President Donald Trump who promoted the COVID-19 vaccine, but a “lookalike.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Aaron Bushnell Did NOT Comment On Reddit ‘Palestine Will Be Free When All The Jews Are Dead’
Did Aaron Bushnell comment on Reddit that "Palestine will be free when all the jews are dead"? No, that's not true: Bushnell, the 25-year-old U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say The N-Word During 2021 Virtual Munich Security Conference Speech
Did President Joe Biden use a racial slur during a speech at the 2021 Virtual Munich Security Conference? No, that's not true: According to a White House transcript, Biden did not use the N-word, a slur targeted at Black people, during th
Internet Archive→ The Context : BBCNEWS : February 29, 2024 9:30pm-10:01pm GMT
Presented by Christian Fraser. A regular panel of guests from across the political spectrum discuss the biggest international stories of the day. [S].This item belongs to: movies/TV-BBCNEWS.This item has files of the following types: Closed Caption Tex
Internet Archive→ The Lead With Jake Tapper : CNNW : February 29, 2024 1:00pm-2:00pm PST
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The Dispatch→ The Trump-Trials Round Robin
Taking stock of where Trump’s major civil and criminal trials stand.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Is NOT Proven To Cure Cancer
Does hyperbaric oxygen therapy cure cancer? No, that's not true: The Food and Drug Administration has not approved such therapy as a cancer treatment. In fact, the agency has been refuting this claim for over a decade. The claim reappeare
The Dispatch→ COVID Vaccine Study Prompts Misleading Claims About Potential Side Effects
The study found rare occurrences of adverse events, but social media users are overemphasizing the risks.
Full Fact→ Altered photo of Mexican presidential candidate was not published by Times of Israel
Posts on social media shared an apparent screenshot of an article about Claudia Sheinbaum featuring the edited photo.
Full Fact→ Junior doctors do not earn £140 in ten hours
This was about the hourly rate of basic pay only, for first-year doctors only, last year.
Full Fact→ Crew of Rubymar cargo ship not rescued by ‘Yemen’ after missile attack
The 24-man crew were rescued by a passing merchant vessel following the missile strike, which has been claimed by the Houthi rebel group in Yemen.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – More efforts to stop ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine than fentanyl? Here’s why that’s wrong.
The government did more to stop the distribution of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine than to stop the distribution of fentanyl.
PolitiFact→ Pregúntale a PolitiFact: ¿Qué son las tarjetas de débito ‘flex card’?
En Español: Publicaciones engañosas en redes sociales dicen ofrecer tarjetas ‘flex cards’ para comprar alimentos, pagar por servicios médicos y otras necesidades. Pero estas obvian información importante sobre los beneficios y disponibilidad.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Fact-checking Joe Biden’s statement about semiconductor investments and CHIPS Act
The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act “attracted $640 billion in private companies’ investments.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – This photo doesn’t show the Smokehouse Creek fire in Texas; it was posted in 2017
Photo shows the Smokehouse Creek fire in Texas.
The Dispatch→ Hunter Biden’s Day on the Hill
Despite setbacks, House Republicans continue their investigation into the younger Biden’s overseas business.
Full Fact→ Alexei Navalny was an Amnesty ‘prisoner of conscience’ when he died
Several posts on social media share a 2021 BBC headline about how he’d been stripped of this status, but these posts are missing crucial context—that it was reinstated months later.
Full Fact→ It’s not true that ‘lost’ tax revenue is 360 times greater than benefit fraud
An annotation suggesting that a graph shows tax evasion, avoidance and non-collection costs the government 360 times more than benefit fraud is incorrect.