Do several photos of the 2016 parade for the Cleveland Cavaliers show an aerial view of supporters of President Trump marching in Washington D.C. on November 14, 2020? No, that's not true. The Cavaliers won their first NBA Championship in
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Over A Million People at November 14, 2020 DC Trump Protests
Does this photo show over a million people at the protest that took place on November 14 in downtown Washington D.C. in support of Donald Trump? No, that's not true: The image is actually from a 2006 pro-immigration protest in Dallas, Tex
AllSides→ Evidence undermines Trump campaign’s claims of dead people voting in Georgia
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/trump-campaign-georgia-dead-voters-fact-check/index.html With C
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Addressing Yet More Claims About Dominion Voting Systems
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Army Did NOT Seize Dominion Servers In Germany
Did the U.S. Army seize vote-count servers in Germany operated by Dominion, the company that provides voting machines to many American states? No, that's not true: There is no sourcing for a tweet cited by U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert for the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dominion Software Is NOT Developed by Engineers from Venezuela And Votes Are NOT Sent to Servers in Spain
Is Dominion Voting Systems software developed by engineers from Venezuela and were votes sent to servers in Spain? No, that's not true. Government and independent election technology experts confirm what Dominion's spokesperson says: Domi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Provided To Show Six People In Pennsylvania Died, Then Registered, Then Voted
Did six people in Pennsylvania die and then register and vote in the 2020 election? No evidence has been provided to back up that claim: Neither the Western Journal, which published the claim, nor Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was quot
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Did NOT Remove The Title ‘President’ From Donald Trump’s Personal Page
Did Facebook remove the title "President" from the @DonaldTrump Facebook page? No, that's not true: a database of screenshots of the @DonaldTrump Facebook page, going back several months, shows that the page never contained the title "Pre
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ticketmaster Did NOT Announce A Plan For Mandatory COVID Vaccine ID To Attend Concerts
Did Ticketmaster announce a plan for mandatory COVID-19 vaccine ID to attend concerts or other live events? No, that's not true: Ticketmaster, and other companies, have been working to design systems to safeguard fan safety at local venue
FactCheck.org→ Bogus Theory Claims Supercomputer Switched Votes in Election
Quick Take A baseless conspiracy theory claims that a secret supercomputer was used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Experts — and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — have said the theory is a hoax
FactCheck.org→ Biden Did Not Invent the ‘Office of President-Elect’
Quick Take Social media posts falsely claim that former Vice President Joe Biden “invented the Office of President-elect.” Donald Trump and Barack Obama also used the term during their transitions to the presidency. Full Story On Nov. 7, f
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Analysis of Scraped Data Use By "PedeInspector" On Thedonald.win Does NOT Show Millions of Vote Shifts
Did election data scraped from The New York Times website by a user of the messaging board thedonald.win show evidence of massive shifts in votes? No, that's not true: Lead Stories' analysis of the data message reveals that most of the sh
FactCheck.org→ Ballot ‘Curing’ in Pennsylvania
Counties in Pennsylvania employed inconsistent policies when it came to “curing” ballots — notifying voters of an error in their mail-in ballot so they could fix it. But contrary to claims by the Trump campaign, that inconsistency did
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Look Behind The Epoch Times’ Map That Shows 232 Electoral Votes For Trump, 227 For Biden
Does The Epoch Times' map that shows 232 electoral votes for Donald Trump and 227 for Joe Biden tell the whole story about the state of the 2020 presidential election? It's missing context. The conservative news outlet claims that the ele
Full Fact→ No, contact tracing doesn’t cost £10,000 per contact
“Independent SAGE showed that 1 217 214 contacts have been reached by England’s NHS Test and Trace service since May at an approximate cost of £10 000 (€11 000; $13 000) per head so far, based
FactCheck.org→ Trump Tweets Conspiracy Theory About Deleted Votes
In a tweet, President Donald Trump on Nov. 12 pushed the baseless theory that voting systems deleted millions of votes for him and switched thousands of votes cast for him to his Democratic rival, President-elect Joe Biden. No evidence has been produc
Full Fact→ The Covid-19 recovery rate is not 99.9%
A number of posts on social media have made comparisons between the reported effectiveness of the potential Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine and reported Covid-19 recovery rate. Text on the posts reads: “Pfizer vaccine is 90% effective Virus has 99.
AllSides→ U.S. Election Fraud is Real—And It Is Being Ignored
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-election-fraud-real%E2%80%94and-it-being-ignored-171188 Mark Ha
AllSides→ US election 2020: Five viral vote claims fact-checked
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54811410 As President Trump continues to dispute the result o
AllSides→ Fact-checking Trump’s election fraud falsehoods in White House remarks
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/nov/06/fact-checking-falsehoods-trumps-nov-5-election-rem/ In h
AFP Fact Check→ The footage has been edited and does not accurately depict the press conference in which Imran Khan criticised the French government
A clip from a news broadcast has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts that claim it shows Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan blaming Muslims for recent acts of terrorism in France. But the claim is misleading: the posts share a short, ed
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Microsoft Is Investigating Claim Of Smoking Xbox Series X, But Company Doubts It Is Real
Is Microsoft investigating the claim made by some Xbox Series X owners that the console is emitting smoke from the top vent? Yes, it's true: the company is looking into the claim, even though its engineering teams haven't encountered smo
FactCheck.org→ Pennsylvania Postal Worker Waffles on Election Fraud Claim
Quick Take A postal worker in Erie, Pennsylvania, claimed that his superiors were backdating postmarks on ballots, then told federal investigators that he didn’t actually know that — and then went back to his original position. Despite the
FactCheck.org→ Faulty Claim About ‘Biden-Only’ Ballots in Georgia
Quick Take Campaign officials for President Donald Trump and supporters have promoted the faulty claim that Joe Biden received nearly 100,000 votes in Georgia through ballots that only included selections for president, suggesting it’s “
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Wisconsin County Did NOT Transfer Votes From Trump To Biden, An AP Data Feed Made An Error
Did a glitch in the Rock County, Wisconsin, vote-counting system swap Donald Trump's votes for Joe Biden's, giving Biden the lead and ultimately the win in that county? No, that's not true: The Associated Press erred in collection and tra
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dominion Voting Systems Did NOT Delete 2.7 Million Trump Votes
Does data analysis show that an election software supplier deleted 2.7 million Trump votes and switched 435,000 votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden? No, that's not true. The states using Dominion Voting Systems software have reported tha
The Dispatch→ Is That ‘Definitely Trump’ Posing as an Anonymous Poll Worker in a Laura Ingraham Interview?
A viral social media post showing Fox News host Laura Ingraham interviewing someone who is said to be an anonymous Nevada poll worker is overlaid with text that reads: “this is definitely Trump.”The video, which has been altered and meant t
The Dispatch→ Did Edison Research Find That Dominion Deleted Trump Votes or Switched Votes to Biden?
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Truth or Fiction?→ Did ICE’s Twitter Account Disappear?
Eagle-eyed Twitter users noted on November 12 2020 that the Twitter account for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (also known as ICE) had abruptly disappeared. While a cached version of the @ICEGov account is still available online, going to th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Comparative Maps Do NOT Prove Dominion Software Was Used In States Where Trump Lawsuits Challenge Vote-Counting
Does a map that highlights states using Dominion Voting Systems software correspond to a second map showing where President Donald Trump is contesting election results in court? No, that is misleading. The Trump campaign has not filed law
Health Feedback→ Pfizer is part of Operation Warp Speed, a partnership to produce and distribute a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, but it developed a vaccine without direct Warp funding
REVIEW In early November 2020, the U.S. company Pfizer and the German company BioNTech announced that their vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 showed an efficacy rate of 90% during clinical trials. Considering that COVID-19, the disease caused by
Truth or Fiction?→ Joe Biden ‘Letter to Staff’ on Family Obligations
On November 7 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election; and on that day, Twitter user Dan Barker (@danbarker) shared a purported memo to Biden’s staff from 2014 concerning their “famil
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pictures Do NOT Show The Family Of A Record-Setting Fertile Woman
Did a woman in the 1700s give birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets (a total of 69 children) in just 40 years, with the same man fathering all the children? And is this a photo of the very large f
AllSides→ Facebook removes election misinformation pages tied to Steve Bannon
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21559063/facebook-steve-bannon-election-page-removal-avaaz-misinformation-stop-the-steal
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Debunking the Hammer and Scorecard Conspiracy Theory
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Full Fact→ There’s no evidence that mercury-based chemicals in a Covid-19 vaccine would cause harm
Our readers have asked us to check claims that new Covid-19 vaccines contain enough mercury to cause brain damage.It is likely this question refers to thiomersal, a mercury-based chemical, but this is no longer used in most standard vaccines in the UK,
Health Feedback→ Claim that high PCR test sensitivity inflates COVID-19 cases wrongly conflates the issue of contagiousness with the presence of infection
REVIEW An article published by Just the News on 8 November 2020 claims that “many patients may have been receiving false-positive test results” and that “the numbers of COVID-19 cases reported by public health authorities and major COVID track
AllSides→ Trump Baselessly Alleges COVID-19 Vaccine Announcement Was Delayed
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/11/trump-baselessly-alleges-covid-19-vaccine-announcement-was-delayed/ I
Poynter→ Are we ready for the next wave of misinformation about a COVID-19 vaccine?
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. The next disinformation challenge Pfizer’s announcement
AFP Fact Check→ Indian media and politicians amplify false claim that Pakistani lawmakers chanted in favour of Narendra Modi
A television news segment in India reporting that slogans favoring Prime Minister Narendra Modi were chanted by lawmakers in Pakistan has been shared extensively on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The claim was widely amplified by prominent Indian pol