Did "tens of thousands of moms ... watch their child regress or die within 24-72 hours" of being vaccinated? No, that's not true: There is no confirmation that tens of thousands of moms watched their children regress or die within 24 to 7
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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
Full Fact→ False claims about first vaccine recipients spread on social media
Following the first UK vaccinations against Covid-19, various far-fetched falsehoods are spreading on social media about the people who were vaccinated. One post notified to us by readers on WhatsApp, which has also been shared on Facebook and Tw
FactCheck.org→ Warnock’s False Ad on Taxes
A TV ad from Democrat Raphael Warnock falsely says Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler “supports raising taxes on Georgia’s middle class.” That’s a reference to the 2017 Republican tax law that temporarily cut individual income taxes, bu
FactCheck.org→ Warnock’s False Ad on Taxes
A TV ad from Democrat Raphael Warnock falsely says Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler “supports raising taxes on Georgia’s middle class.” That’s a reference to the 2017 Republican tax law that temporarily cut individual income taxes, bu
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Deadliest Days in American History’ Meme
In early December 2020, a meme began circulating titled “Deadliest Days in American History,” a sobering list of individual dates on which mass casualty events in the United States led to large losses of life — and four of the eight
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
Snopes→ Did Biden Say He’d ‘Develop Some Disease’ and Resign If He and Harris Disagreed?
The president-elect’s purported joke fell flat during an interview with CNN.
FactCheck.org→ False Claim of ‘Seized’ Voting Machines in Georgia
Quick Take Viral posts falsely claim that Dominion voting machines were “seized” in Ware County, Georgia, and that votes were found to have been “switched” for Joe Biden. No such seizure occurred and there was no such finding, a
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
AllSides→ Facebook Fact-Checker Relied on China, Fails to Update COVID Numbers
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/alec-schemmel/2020/12/08/facebook-fact-checker-relied-china-fails-update-covid
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
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A COVID-19 Vaccine Is NOT Likely To Kill You
Will taking a COVID-19 vaccine kill you or lead to "debilitating" illness? No, that's not true: There is an abundance of evidence to the contrary. For one, between the two farthest along and most robust vaccine trials out of Moderna and P
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Never Forget: Nancy Pelosi Rejected Trump’s Offer for Direct Stimulus Checks Two Months Ago’
On December 3 2020, a tweet by @thebradfordfile was shared to TheDonald.win, accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of having “rejected Trump’s offer for direct stimulus checks two months ago,” which placed the purported action in Septe
Poynter→ Fact-checking Trump was a volume business. How will that change with Biden?
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. Is ‘too stupid to fact-check’ a thing of the past? On
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: China DID Recover With a COVID-19 Vaccine, Which Has Been Reported
Did China recover from COVID-19 without a vaccine, which no one has reported? No, that's not true: China has already administered nearly 1 million doses of experimental COVID-19 vaccines. And that has been reported widely in scientific pu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nine-Point List Of Election ‘Peculiarities’ Relies On Falsehoods And Unproven Theories
Does a nine-point list of election "peculiarities" contain only true statements? No, it doesn't: The list relies on falsehoods and unproven theories. Chief among them are claims that swing states stopped counting ballots on election night
The Dispatch→ Was Donald Trump Denied an Orderly Transition?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Dominion Voting Systems Presentation Covers "Adjudication" Of Improperly Marked Ballots, NOT How To Switch Votes
Did a Dominion Voting Systems official admit in 2017 that its election equipment allows for votes to be switched? No, that is not true. Dominion has strongly denied that votes can be switched in its systems. No evidence is presented -- in
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
The Dispatch→ Is YouTube Censoring Videos That Encourage People to Take Natural Supplements?
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AllSides→ Does the Dominion Voting Systems organization have ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, George Soros and the Clinton Foundation?
https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics CLAIM: Attorney Sidney Powell claimed that widely used voting m
FactCheck.org→ Ad Links Warnock to ‘Defunding the Police’
A conservative group’s deceptive TV ad suggests that Democrat Raphael Warnock supports defunding the police. He has said multiple times that he doesn’t. The ad, from the American Crossroads super PAC, features Harris County, Georgia, Sherif
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→ 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
Truth or Fiction?→ Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Win Emmy for Use of Television to ‘Inform and Calm People Around the World’
On November 20 2020, “Emmy” trended on Twitter due to tweets asserting that New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the unlikely recipient of an Emmy award: NOT A JOKE: Andrew Cuomo to Receive International Emmy for ‘Masterful Use’ of T
The Dispatch→ Were There ‘More Votes Than People’ in Detroit?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Staffer Did NOT Claim A Dominion Vote Server Was Seized In Germany
Did a Trump staffer confirm that a computer server belonging to Dominion Voting Systems containing all of the U.S. votes was seized by the U.S. in Germany? No, that's not true. The person who was purportedly a "Trump staffer" who made the
FactCheck.org→ Loeffler-Warnock Runoff Starts with Attack Ads
About a week after Georgia’s special election headed to a runoff, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, and Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, both launched questionable attacks that the other candidate has disputed: An ad from Loeffler claimed that
FactCheck.org→ Opening Ads in the Perdue-Ossoff Runoff
In the first TV ads of the runoff campaign that could help decide the balance of the Senate, Republican Sen. David Perdue warned his opponent would “radically change America,” while Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff accused his opponent of d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Statistics On This Protest Sign Are NOT From ‘Last Year’ — They’re From Four Decades Ago
Are the numbers cited on this protest sign representative of gun deaths from last year? No, that's not true: This list of statistics is 40 years old. Although the numbers are old, the photo shows a protest in Los Angeles that likely took
Truth or Fiction?→ Trump’s Disinformation Spree After Losing Election Propelled by Social Media
In the days after a resounding popular vote loss to former United States Vice President Joe Biden, sitting president Donald Trump advanced numerous conspiracy theories before beginning to deny the results of the election outright. The first set of con
Truth or Fiction?→ Trump’s Disinformation Spree After Losing Election Propelled by Social Media
In the days after a resounding popular vote loss to former United States Vice President Joe Biden, sitting president Donald Trump advanced numerous conspiracy theories before beginning to deny the results of the election outright. The first set of con
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sinclair Broadcast Promo Compilation Video Does NOT Show ‘The Media’ Colluding To Control A Narrative, It’s A Broadcast Chain’s Promo
Does this video show "the media" is colluding to control a narrative by giving anchors identical scripts? No, that's not true: The video, from 2018, shows how conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group was found to be requiring its TV
Health Feedback→ Although fetal cell lines are used to grow viruses for some COVID-19 vaccines, the cells are not part of the vaccines
REVIEW A Facebook video published on 15 November 2020 claims that “aborted fetal tissue” is present in the COVID-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and that the vaccine can change a person’s DNA. Shared by the anti-vacci
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
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