Is the chairman of a Dominion Voting Systems subsidiary on Joe's Biden's transition team? No, that's not true: Retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger is the chairman of Smartmatic and a volunteer on Joe's Biden's presidential
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The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Addressing Yet More Claims About Dominion Voting Systems
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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: 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
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Facebook Remove the Title of ‘President’ from Donald Trump and Designate Him as a ‘Political Candidate’?
On November 13 2020, pundit Dinesh D’Souza asserted on Twitter that Facebook had “removed” the designation of “President” from Donald Trump’s verified Facebook page, downgrading him instead to a mere “politica
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
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
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
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
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
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Debunking the Hammer and Scorecard Conspiracy Theory
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Truth or Fiction?→ Joe Biden, Arrogation, and ‘The Office of the President-Elect’
On November 10 2020, disinformation purveyors began pushing memes containing claims that the transition team for Joe Biden — the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections — invented the “Office of the President-Elect,” and
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Judicial Watch Did NOT Publish Bogus Quantum Blockchain System Recount of Votes Story
Did Judicial Watch publish a story titled "Quantum Blockchain System Recount of Votes" that claimed with no evidence elite National Guard units were recounting votes in several states? No, that's not true: there is no trace of the article
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 10,000 Dead People Did NOT Vote In The Presidential Election In Michigan, Officials Say
Did 10,000 dead people vote in Michigan in the November 3, 2020, presidential election? No, that's not true: Election officials in Michigan call it a baseless claim and say it is impossible for dead people to vote in their state. The clai
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Stop What You’re Doing and Google Why Chainsaws Were Invented’
On November 9 2020, a Facebook post encouraging fellow users to “Google why chainsaws were invented” (archived) went quite viral very quickly; it alluded to the possibility that one might have difficulty guessing the original intended purp
Truth or Fiction?→ Has RealClearPolitics ‘Rescinded’ Pennsylvania and ‘Uncalled’ the Race?
After the 2020 election was “called” with former United States Vice President Joe Biden as victor, a rumor circulated that a website called RealClearPolitics had “rescinded” Pennsylvania, effectively undoing Biden’s win:
Poynter→ FactChat is now stuffed with false claims about ballots
No, neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the military printed non-radioactive isotope watermarks on “official ballots.” No, there wasn’t “ballot stuffing” in Flint, Michigan, and it’s definitely false that truckloads of Trump vot
Snopes→ Is There a ‘Hammer and Scorecard’ Operation to Manipulate Vote Counts?
The director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) called the rumors "nonsense."
Logically→ “Hammer” and “Scorecard” were used by the Democrats to change the ballot count.
The head of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has called the claim about supercomputer election fraud “nonsense."
FactCheck.org→ Claim of Michigan Postal Fraud Is Moot
Quick Take A video from a right-wing activist suggests that U.S. Postal Service employees backdated ballots in Michigan. The claim is unproven, but, even if true, no ballots in the state are accepted after Nov. 3, regardless of the postmark. Full Stor
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Bogus Claim of ‘Election Interference’ and More
In addition to baseless allegations of “illegal votes” in swing states, President Donald Trump used his relatively brief remarks — just 16 minutes long — during a Nov. 5 public appearance at the White House press room to make fa
AFP Fact Check→ Hoax circulates online that CIA has granted Thai protest leaders political asylum in the United States
Multiple Facebook posts have shared a claim that Thai protest leaders have been granted political asylum in the United States by the CIA. The claim is false: the CIA does not grant political asylum as it falls under the US Department of Homeland Secur
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mainstream Media Is NOT Censoring ‘AP OneWire’ Press Release About ‘Obvious Election Fraud’ — This Is A Hoax
Did the Department of Homeland Security issue a private "press release" through "AP OneWire" that was then leaked through the website treeofliberty.me? No, that's not true: The AP (Associated Press worldwide news organization) does not ha
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A 118-Year-Old Michigan Man Did NOT Vote by Absentee Ballot
Did the Detroit clerk of courts count an absentee ballot from a 118-year-old voter ? No, that's not true: A Detroit elections official said a clerical error led to a ballot from a man with a similar name being incorrectly logged. The clai
FactCheck.org→ Bogus QAnon Claim that Mail-In Ballots Are Illegitimate
Quick Take A bogus QAnon-related claim that many of the mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election were illegitimate has spread widely on social media. But the claim is based on the faulty assumption that ballots are produced by the federal government. F
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Special Paper,’ ‘Watermarked Ballots’ Conspiracy Theory Spreads on Social Media
As Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden began pulling ahead in the 2020 election, Twitter user @jdburney1 generated engagement and accrued followers by advancing a “watermarked ballots” conspiracy theory (which we archived h
FactCheck.org→ Clerical Error Prompts Unfounded Claims About Michigan Results
Quick Take A data input error that briefly showed an unusually large uptick in votes for Joe Biden in Michigan prompted suspicions online and an unfounded claim of voter fraud. The error came down to a typo by a county’s reporting that was quickl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: What ‘DKIM’ Verification Of Hunter Biden Email Proves — And What It Doesn’t
Does the DomainKeys Identified Mail signature within metadata of the New York Post's "smoking gun" Hunter Biden email prove the correspondence is "unquestionably authentic"? That's a stretch: DKIM can validate who sent an email and what t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Election Night Coup D’état Plot Coordinated By Sunrise Movement, BLM, Dems
Are the Sunrise Movement, Black Lives Matter, other left-leaning organizations and the Democratic Party caught on tape coordinating a coup if President Trump wins re-election, including the takeover of government buildings like the White
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Screenshot And Blogger’s Proprietary Technology Do NOT Provide Proof That Hunter Biden Has PornHub Account With Family Photos
Has a browser bookmark label and the "XRVision Sentinel AI Platform" proved that bloggers found a PornHub account belonging to Hunter Biden that contains images of a family member without her knowledge and permission? No, that's not true.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The National Guard Is NOT Only Being Activated In ‘Blue Cities’ — It’s Happening In Red States, Too
Is the National Guard only being activated in "blue (D) cities" to prepare for possible violence during the 2020 presidential election? No, that's not true: Activations have been reported in both blue and red states, for a total of some 3
Full Fact→ “Article 61” of Magna Carta doesn’t allow you to ignore Covid-19 regulations
A number of posts on social media have claimed that under “Article 61” of Magna Carta people have the right to lawfully dissent or rebel if they believe they’re being governed unjustly. Other posts show a video shared thousands of tim
FactCheck.org→ Closing Arguments of the Presidential Campaign
After months of campaigning, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made their final pitches to voters at campaign rallies in key swing states and on TV airwaves. Here we fact-check claims the candidates made in rallies on
Truth or Fiction?→ Is There a ‘Non-Scalable Fence’ Around the White House in November 2020?
On November 1 2020, NBC News White House Correspondent Geoff Bennett published a tweet reporting that on November 2 2020, work crews would begin to build “a ‘non-scalable’ fence” in order to “secure” the White House
FactCheck.org→ A Guide to the Candidates’ Claims
Throughout the presidential campaign we have assessed the accuracy of the claims and assertions of President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. Here are some of our articles that first appeared at important campaign junctures. Click
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID Virus NOT Man-made And Vaccine NOT Forced On Unwilling
Is the U.S. pushing an under-tested, dangerous coronavirus vaccine on unwilling people as part of a depopulation agenda? And was the virus man-made and weaponized in U.S. and Chinese labs? No, these claims are untrue. There are no plans t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Photo Does NOT Show Joe Biden Golfing With Burisma’s CEO
Does a posed golf course photo prove Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden lied when he said he never met with the CEO of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian oil and gas company? No, that's not true: None of the four men in the photo i
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Dave Ramsey Warn Facebook Users About Biden’s Tax Plan?
In late October 2020, a number of Facebook users attributed a post about Joe Biden’s tax plan to money guru Dave Ramsey, instantly imparting far more weight and authority to its claims (archived): In the screenshot, an October 21 2020 post by