On six separate occasions, President Donald Trump has claimed that Europe’s excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic is 33% to 40% higher than America’s. But that’s only possible when cherry-picking numbers or ignoring Europe’s larger popu
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Two British Siblings From Hampstead Did NOT Volunteer Truthful Stories About Satanic Ritual Abuse On Videotape
Were two British siblings witnesses and participants in sexually depraved, baby-killing, cannibalistic satanic rituals in which their father was the cult leader and every teacher in their school in Hampstead, England, was a member? No, th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Is NOT A Photo Of Don Lemon and Jeffrey Epstein
Is this a photo of Don Lemon and the late convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein posing together? No, that's not true: This is a doctored photo. In the original photo, Lemon was actually posing with his CNN colleague Chris Cuomo. The clai
Truth or Fiction?→ Are 85 Percent of White People Killed by Other White People, Even Though We Never Hear About ‘White on White Crime’?
On August 23 2020, amid global Black Lives Matter demonstrations, the following meme appeared on Facebook with the claim that 85 percent of white people are killed by other white people — and yet, no one ever talks about “white on white c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof Satanist Raped And Tortured A Small Child Shown In Meme
Was a small child, whose graphic photo is being shared on social media, raped and tortured by a satanist? No, that's not true: The horrific image of the child shows evidence of abuse, but there's nothing to suggest that a satanist raped a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Democratic Convention Logo Does NOT Have The ‘EXACT Same Design And Measurements’ As Satanic Insignia
Does the Democratic Convention logo turned sideways have the "EXACT same design and measurements" as a well-known satanic insignia? No, that's not true: The logo and the insignia have no similarities other than the fact that a part of the
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Talking Points
As the Republican National Convention begins today, we present here a rundown of President Donald Trump’s repeated false and misleading claims during the 2020 campaign. If Trump’s recent speeches are a guide, he may well repeat some of thes
Snopes→ Did Kamala Harris Say Joe Biden Is ‘Trash to Me’?
A quote lifted from a blog post about Harris and Biden was misattributed to Harris.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Is NOT One Of National Geographic’s Photos Of The Year
Did an image of a massive shark springing from the water win a "National Geographic" photo of the year prize? No, that's not true: This image was created by a 3D graphic artist who goes by the name "Alexyz3D" and the image was not given t
The Dispatch→ Was Joe Biden’s Speech Recorded Rather Than Delivered Live?
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Poynter→ Taking a look at claims as Republicans gather soon to nominate Trump for a second term
Another week, another convention. Republicans will gather next week to officially re-nominate President Donald Trump, who will face Democratic nominee Joe Biden, in his quest for a second term. The Republican National Convention comes on the heels of
AFP Fact Check→ Early overseas voting does not show Myanmar’s ruling party in the lead — voter lists are still being finalised
An image that claims to show strong support for Myanmar’s ruling party in early overseas voting in South Korea has been shared thousands of times on Facebook. The claim is false: overseas voter registration was still ongoing when the misleading po
AFP Fact Check→ False claim circulates on Facebook that plant seeds can restructure their DNA if you spit on them
An image has been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook which claim it shows plants can “read your DNA” if you spit on them and subsequently “structure [their] own genetic blueprint to create a superfood”. The claim is fa
AFP Fact Check→ This image was created by a US designer for a photo manipulation contest in 2011
An image has been shared tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim it shows archeologists in India discovering the skeleton of Ghatotkacha, a giant warrior that featured in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The clai
AFP Fact Check→ Most of these photos show an arcus cloud formation from Indonesia’s Aceh
Six photos have been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim they show an eruption of Mount Sinabung, a volcano in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. The claim is misleading; five of the photos show an arcus cloud
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows an incident in Pakistan sparked by a land dispute
A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim it shows a crowd uprooting saplings in Pakistan because planting trees goes against Islamic law. The claim, however, is misleading; the video shows a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pelosi Does NOT Want To Remove Votes From Soldiers Overseas, Did NOT Say ‘They Don’t Even Live Here’
Did Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi realy say soldiers deployed overseas shouldn't be able to vote because "They don't even live here"? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump
Snopes→ Did 41 Senators ‘Vote to Let Babies Scream Until They Die If Born Alive’?
U.S. Senate Bill 311 provoked widely shared social media posts that targeted Democratic and Independent senators in 2020.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘A Pound of Flesh’: Facebook’s Provides Little Explanation for Anti-Fascist Takedown
Even as it claimed to have done so to guard against accounts promoting violent, Facebook has refused to provide evidence behind the elimination of pages belonging to two news organizations that post anti-fascist content. The platform removed Facebook
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Democrats Did NOT Take Out ‘Under God’ From Nightly Pledge Of Allegiance At Their National Convention
Did Democrats take out the words "under God" from the nightly Pledge of Allegiance when it was recited at their national convention? No, that's not true: The words "Under God" were included in the Pledge of Allegiance in nightly prime tim
FactCheck.org→ New ‘Plandemic’ Video Peddles Misinformation, Conspiracies
The second part of “Plandemic” — a documentary-style video that presents a sweeping conspiracy theory about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, patents and vaccines — landed on Aug. 18, spinning together many of the falsehoods about t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mail-In Ballots Marked Democrat Or Republican Were NOT For November Election — They Were For Florida Primary
Did some mail-in ballots received by voters identify the voter's party on the envelope? Yes, but those ballots were for the primary election in Florida only. A meme that has gone viral shows ballot envelopes with D or R on them. In Florid
FactCheck.org→ Video: FactChecking the Democratic National Convention
This video reviews some of the statements that we fact-checked during the Democratic National Convention, which ended Aug. 20 with former Vice President Joe Biden accepting his party’s nomination for president. Our video covers these five claims
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Ben Shapiro Tweet That He and His Wife Know There Are More Important Things in Marriage Than ‘Sexual Satisfaction’?
On August 21 2020, a tweet attributed to right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro appeared: The purported tweet, which spread in screenshot form, said: You know how much this endless parade of jokes about me and my wife bothers me? Not one bit. My wife and I b
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Steve Bannon Was NOT Scheduled To Speak At The Republican National Convention After His Arrest
Was Steve Bannon slated to speak at the Republican National Convention -- and is he still on the schedule for Tuesday night? No, that's not true. The claim that Bannon would be one of the speakers at the GOP convention came in a Facebook
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia Did NOT Pass A Bill Making It A Hate Crime To Harass Police Officers
Did Georgia's legislators pass a bill making it a hate crime to harass police officers? No, that's not true: This false claim combines two separate bills recently passed in Georgia. The first bill, signed into law in late June, is a hate
The Dispatch→ Does an Arizona Superintendent Want Kindergartners Learning ‘Sexual Positions’?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Robert Trump’s Cause Of Death Has NOT Been Released; Has NOT Been Tied To COVID-19
Is it confirmed that President Donald Trump's brother, Robert, died of "COVID-exacerbated complications," as claimed on Facebook and in a tweet, both by a former Republican U.S. Senate candidate? No, that is not true. The cause of death f
Full Fact→ Flu isn’t the underlying cause of death for more people than Covid-19
“Flu killing six times more people than coronavirus” The Mirror, 19 August 2020 “FLU has killed more people in the UK than coronavirus for eight weeks in a row” The Sun, 19 August 2020 “In the week to the end of July, fiv
The Dispatch→ Did Barack Obama Mock the Flint Water Crisis?
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Health Feedback→ Current COVID-19 mortality rate does not predict the future probability of dying from the disease
REVIEW A claim regarding the risk of dying from COVID-19 began circulating in mid-August 2020 on social media and the posts repeating it have received more than 12,000 interactions on Facebook. The posts state that the U.S. Centers for Disease Contr
Poynter→ The Fact-Checking Development Grant has awarded 22 projects in 12 countries. Meet the grant winners
The Fact-Checking Development Fund will support 22 projects from 12 countries. The winners, who are splitting $1 million from a partnership established between the International Fact-Checking Network and YouTube (via the Google News Initiative), will d
Poynter→ Automated fact-checking can catch claims that slip past human checkers. Here are the two ways they work.
From false claims that drinking warm water with lemon protects against the coronavirus to high contamination rates among NATO troops based in Latvia, the pandemic has been ripe for many kinds of hoaxes and disinformation campaigns. Between January and
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates online that drinking coffee with lime can relieve migraines
Multiple posts shared hundreds of times on Facebook claim that drinking black coffee mixed with lime juice can “reduce migraines”. The claim is misleading; health experts told AFP that while coffee may temporarily alleviate pain, combining it with
FactCheck.org→ Final Night of the Democratic Convention
Summary As the socially distanced convention came to a close, Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination with a speech that was largely accurate, but lacked context in some instances: Biden claimed that America has “by f
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates on Facebook about Philippine housing projects under Duterte
A photo collage has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows a comparison between government housing projects in the Philippines under the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte and his predecessor Benigno S. Aquino
Poynter→ Fact-check: Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention
In a near-empty arena on the river in his hometown, Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for president, promising hope over fear, fairness over privilege, love over hate. And, he said, “Facts over fiction.” Let’s see about that. H
Poynter→ Fact-check: Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention
In a near-empty arena on the river in his hometown, Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for president, promising hope over fear, fairness over privilege, love over hate. And, he said, “Facts over fiction.” Let’s see about that. H
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows a mock funeral procession during an anti-citizenship law protest in India in 2019
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter which claim it shows a mock funeral procession to "celebrate" Indian Home Minister Amit Shah testing positive for the novel coronavirus. The claim, howe
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Belarus Bouncing Balls Video Does NOT Show An Actual Street Event in Embattled Belarus
Does a video showing giant balls bouncing down a street show a real protest in Belarus? No, this video is computer animation that is so realistic some people thought it was a novel form of protest art that really did take place on a stree