Did President Joe Biden wave "to nobody" after delivering his address in Lithuania on July 12, 2023? No, that's not true: The claim is based on video showing only the president, not a wider shot showing the audience beside the stage. The
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Old video of former President Donald Trump miscaptioned as ‘breaking news’
Video shows “breaking news” because “President Trump just dropped a bombshell!!!”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Fourth of July video featuring Hunter Biden wasn’t taken same day cocaine discovered at White House
Video of Hunter Biden at the White House was taken on the “same day they found cocaine.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Polish Astronaut Did NOT Admit The Earth Is Flat — It Was A Joke
Did Polish astronaut Miroslaw Hermaszewski admit in a 2018 interview that that the Earth is flat? No, that's not true: The claim takes his remarks out of context -- it was an apparent joke aimed at flat-earthers and demonstrating obvious
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Posts Fabricate DeSantis High School Yearbook Quote
Quick Take Earlier this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ high school yearbook photo was posted to Reddit by a person claiming to be a former schoolmate. But Instagram posts show an altered version of the yearbook entry that includes a fake qu
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden gets some good news on inflation, but challenges remain
President Joe Biden recently got some good economic news: the 12th straight month of declining inflation and the second straight month in which wages outpaced consumer prices. But wages have a long way to catch up after being eroded by past inflation.
Logically→ Claims that Earth will experience an ‘internet apocalypse’ in 2025 are false
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – What’s missing from this offer of grants for free dental implants? The grants
“Free dental implants” are available “through Dental Grants.”
PolitiFact→ How many trans people are there in the U.S., and why do we overestimate it?
Transgender people make up about 1% of the U.S. population, yet surveys show people perceive they make up 20%! What can psychologists tell us about our tendency to overestimate minority groups and how that might influence the political landscape?
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Don’t believe this altered Associated Press headline about the White House cocaine culprit
The Associated Press reported that cameras show a TikTok influencer leaving a bag of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House.
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – No, no está oculto el ‘número de la bestia’ 666 en el logo de Threads
El logo de Threads oculta “el número de la bestia” 666.
Logically→ No, video doesn’t show people pushing a train to ‘start’ it
Logically→ Video of Karnataka’s Jog Falls wrongly shared as visuals from Kerala
Logically→ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಪಕ್ಷವು ಸೋತರೆ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರದಿಂದ ಮಂಜೂರಾದ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳು ಸ್ಥಗಿತಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ ಎಂದು ಜೆಪಿ ನಡ್ಡಾ ಹೇಳಲಿಲ್ಲ
Logically→ No scientific evidence that toothpaste can cure foot or toenail fungus
The Dispatch→ A Busy Week for NATO Leaders in Vilnius
Plus: The best inflation report in years.
Health Feedback→ 2023 malaria cases in the U.S. are unrelated to the release of genetically modified mosquitoes, contrary to viral claims online
REVIEW Mosquitoes serve as vectors for a number of potentially fatal diseases like dengue, chikungunya, Yellow fever, and West Nile fever, as well as malaria and Japanese encephalitis. Altogether, they cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year
Logically→ No, cayenne pepper cannot stop a heart attack
Full Fact→ The UK’s tax revenue isn’t £40 billion less than it used to be “because of Brexit”.
A now-corrected article in The Guardian fails to make clear that a figure estimating the impact of Brexit on UK tax revenues is based on a counterfactual analysis.
Logically→ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಚುನಾವಣೆಗೆ ಮುನ್ನ ‘ಮೋದಿ ಹಟಾವೋ, ದೇಶ್ ಬಚಾವೋ’ ಘೋಷಣೆಯನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಜಾಹಿರಾತೊಂದನ್ನು ಡಿಜಿಟಲಿ ಎಡಿಟ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿದೆ
Washington Post→ Trump conjures up a phony dispute with Ron DeSantis over China tariffs
The former president claims Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opposed his tariffs on China and his aid to farmers. That's false.
The Dispatch→ The Great Couch Detectives
Shaking hands with Frank Sinatra.
The Dispatch→ AO on K Street
No Summer Associates were harmed during this recording.
The Dispatch→ Surprise and Frustration at the NATO Summit
Turkey drops its opposition to Swedish accession, but Ukraine is left with uncertainty.
The Dispatch→ Process Over Outcomes
The Supreme Court’s upcoming Second Amendment case is just as much about due process.
The Dispatch→ Why Nikki Haley Is Feeling Confident
She explains in an interview with The Dispatch why she’s looking beyond polling to measure her campaign’s success.
Logically→ No, France is not limiting people’s travel
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Wisconsin’s turnout of registered voters in the 2020 election was not suspicious or abnormal
CLAIM: The turnout of registered voters in Wisconsin in the 2020 election was 94%, which suggests something suspicious about the results.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: National Geographic Did NOT Publish December 2020 Magazine Cover With ‘White People’ Headline — It’s Fake
Does a National Geographic magazine cover purportedly published in December 2020 display what appears to be two adults and two children who are all white-complexioned beside a headline that reads "WHITE PEOPLE"? No, that's not true: A Nat
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘1.4% Of Americans Owned Slaves’ Does NOT Accurately Represent Scope Of Slavery In 1860
Does the idea that 1.4 percent of Americans owned slaves in 1860 represent the true extent of slavery at that time? No, that's not true: That statistic isn't meaningful. By 1860, slave ownership was concentrated in the southern U.S., maki
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dutch PM Mark Rutte Did NOT Try To ‘Seize Over 3000 Farms’ To ‘Free Land For Immigrants’
Did Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte try to "seize over 3000 farms" to "free land for immigrants" during the unsuccessful negotiations over immigration shortly before the government's collapse in July 2023? No, that's not true: The c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Government Does NOT Approve Sale Of ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat ‘Without Any Labeling’ — Labels Will Say ‘Cell-Cultivated’
Did the U.S. government approve the sale of "lab-grown" meat "without any labeling"? No, that's not true: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on June 14, 2023, that it gave label approval to GOOD Meat and UPSIDE Foods; com
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Parody tweet about the Titanic submersible falsely attributed to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
CLAIM: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene published a Twitter post reading, “How can the Titanic submersible run out of air if you breathe both in and out?
Truth or Fiction?→ WGA Strike: ‘The Endgame is to Allow Things to Drag On Until Union Members Start Losing’ Their Homes
On July 11 2023 (two months into a Writers Guild of America strike), Deadline quoted a studio executive as saying that the endgame for Hollywood executives “is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and los
FactCheck.org→ Online Post Misrepresents 2020 Wisconsin Voter Data, Turnout
Quick Take Nearly 3.3 million votes were cast in the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin, which the state calculated as a record turnout of 73%. A social media post tries to cast doubt on the results by citing incomplete data and claiming it sh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There IS Scientific Consensus That Climate Change Is Happening And Caused Primarily By Human Activities
Is there no scientific consensus that climate change is happening? No, that's not true: A scientific survey of more than 88,000 climate-related studies found that more than 99 percent of research agrees that climate change is real and pri
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ FACT FOCUS: A story about a deadly TikTok boat-jumping challenge went viral. Then it fell apart
News outlets are warning of a deadly TikTok challenge that involves people jumping off speeding boats.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘WEF Agent’ Is NOT Calling For Cashless Society To Keep ‘Less Desirable’ People Out — He Is Warning Against It
Is a "WEF agent" revealing a plan to exclude "less desirable" people from digital currency that will take over the world? No, that's not true: The man in the first clip in the video is a renowned Cornell University professor who was speak
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No se ha aprobado un programa nuevo para obtener una ‘green card’
“Nuevo programa de Green Card” aprobado.
The Dispatch→ When We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
No one should be confident in their opinion of the Hunter Biden allegations.