On May 31 2020, a Facebook screenshot of an Instagram post circulated virally, purportedly depicting two white teenagers grinning as they engaged in what was labeled a “George Floyd challenge” — a tasteless recreation of the circum
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Truth or Fiction?→ Are the #BlackLivesMatter and #GeorgeFloyd Hashtags Banned on TikTok?
Actress Rachel Zegler and other users criticized the video app TikTok in May 2020, after some reported that the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #GeorgeFloyd had been wiped from search results on the platform. As the entertainment site AceShowbiz.com fi
Snopes→ Hypocrisy Gone Viral? Officials Set Bad COVID-19 Examples
Few countries seem immune to the perception that politicians and top officials are bending the rules that their own governments wrote during the pandemic.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Italy Did NOT Arrest Cardinals, Did NOT Seize Vatican City
Did Italian law enforcement arrest several cardinals and did they seize Vatican City? No, that's not true: the story originated as satire on Patheos.com and was later copied by "real" conspiracy websites. None of it is true. The original story
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Amish People Protest the Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis?
On May 30 2020, the word “Amish” trended on Twitter, due to circulating social media posts claiming Amish people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis: The Amish came out yesterday in Minneapolis to join the George
Truth or Fiction?→ Twitter Adds ‘Glorifying Violence’ Label to Trump’s ‘Looting’ and ‘Shooting’ Tweet; White House Blames Fact Checkers
In the early morning hours of May 29 2020, President Trump published two tweets about unrest in Minneapolis over the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd; Twitter later appended a label to the second over its glorification of violence: I can’t st
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Sign An Order Making Flag-Burning A Hate Crime
Did President Donald Trump sign an executive order making flag-burning a hate crime? No, he did not. The story about the presidential order originated as satire on a website that publishes fake stories designed to trick and embarrass conservat
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Charred Bodies In Image Are NOT Christians Murdered By Muslims In Nigeria
Does a gruesome photograph featuring rows of scorched bodies serve as evidence that Boko Haram militants in Nigeria massacred hundreds of Christians? No, that's not true: While the militant Islamic group operating out of Nigeria is guilty of p
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Colorado Revise its COVID-19 Death Count from 1150 to 878 — and ‘Admit’ They Were Counting Deaths from Other Causes?
A May 16 2020 Facebook post claiming that Colorado had revised its COVID-19 death count from 1150 to 878 and “ADMITTED” that the state was including deaths from other causes in its count to make the virus seem more lethal took off across
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Evidence-Free Attempt to Link Scarborough to Aide’s Death
President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought without evidence to link MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to the death of one of his staffers in 2001, when he was a Republican congressman. The medical examiner found that the death was accidental, due to a heart
FactCheck.org→ More False Mail-In Ballot Claims from Trump
California will send every registered voter in the state a mail-in ballot for the November general election. But President Donald Trump falsely said, on Twitter and at the White House, that the ballots would go to “anyone living in the state, no
Truth or Fiction?→ Obamagate, Explained
Chances are you saw at least a passing reference to “Obamagate” in May 2020, and chances are similar you (like many) struggled to understand what “Obamagate” might actually be. We’ll do our best to break it down. WhatR
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Context of Bill Gates TED Talk Quote About Lowering Population Growth By 10 or 15 Percent With Vaccines
Did Bill Gates really suggest eliminating about 10 to 15 percent of the global human population using vaccines during a TED talk in 2010? No, that's not true: Gates' remark was about possible strategies to slow down population growth in order
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It Is NOT Illegal For Businesses To Require Customers To Wear Masks, Masks Are Not A Health Hazard, And COVID-19 Is Not A Plot To Kill Everyone
Is it against the law for a business to require people to wear masks, do masks make you sick, and is COVID-19 no more deadly than the flu? No, none of that is true: The claims of a woman ranting outside a grocery store about the illegality of
Snopes→ Do Mail-In Ballots Increase Risk of Voter Fraud?
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly made the claim as states scrambled to establish new elections rules during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci & Big Pharma Did NOT Lose A Massive Supreme Court Case
Did Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Big Pharma lose a massive U.S. Supreme Court case? No, that's not true: The billionaire philanthropist Gates, the immunologist Fauci, and the major pharmaceutical companies have not lost a major high court
Truth or Fiction?→ Social Media Users Reveal White Woman Calling Police on Black Man Filming Her
A white woman caught on video threatening to use a man’s ethnicity against him by calling New York City police to report “an African-American man threatening my life” has offered a public apology after her identity was swiftly expose
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The CDC Does NOT Order Children To Wear Masks In Guidelines For Opening Schools Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Did the CDC issue guidelines ordering schools to make children over the age of 2 wear masks, forbidding children from sharing toys and requiring physical barriers in bathrooms -- all for schools to reopen amid the COVID-19 outbreak? No, that i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Re-Sign A Law ‘Making Muslamic Law Illegal, Again’
Did President Donald Trump re-sign a 1952 McCarthy-era law making any kind of "Muslamic law" illegal in the United States? No, that's not true: This is a piece of satire from a publisher notorious for trolling Trump supporters and conservative
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Survival Rate From COVID-19 Is NOT 99.983 Percent
Is the U.S. survival rate for COVID-19 cases 99.983 percent? No, that's not true. The math does not add up. There are at least 95,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 and 1,610,000 confirmed cases in the United States as of May 21, 2020. If onl
Truth or Fiction?→ In May 2020, Did Scientists Find Evidence of a Parallel Universe Where Time Runs Backwards?
If you spent any time on social media in the later days of May 2020, chances are you saw a New York Post article from May 19 2020 about scientists “discovering a parallel universe” circulating on social media, which is apparently a place
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s False Tweet About Michigan Absentee Ballot Applications
President Donald Trump erroneously tweeted that Michigan’s Democratic secretary of state was “illegally” sending “absentee ballots to 7.7 million people” for this year’s primary and general elections. The state said it will send abs
FactCheck.org→ Trump Twists Record on Inspectors General
Defending his decision to fire a fourth inspector general this year, President Donald Trump has misleadingly compared his record to past presidents, claiming, “I think every president has gotten rid of probably more than I have.” According
Truth or Fiction?→ There’s No ‘New Evidence’ Face Masks Pose Health Risks to Healthy People During the COVID-19 Pandemic
On May 18 2020, ScienceTimes.com posted a story with a frightening and shocking headline: “New Evidence Shows Wearing Face Mask Can Help Coronavirus Enter the Brain and Pose More Health Risk, Warn Expert.” The page picked up quite a lot o
Snopes→ Judge: Salvage Firm Can Recover Titanic’s Telegraph Machine
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage firm can retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcast distress calls from the sinking Titanic ocean liner.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: House Democrats Did NOT Sneak Provision Into $3 Trillion ‘Bailout Bill’ To Recess Until July 21
Did House Democrats sneak into their $3 trillion stimulus bill tied to coronavirus relief a recess that would keep them out of having to work -- but with fully pay -- until July 21? No, that is not true. HR 6800, which passed the House on May
FactCheck.org→ The RNC’s Misleading Message About the Bidens
A voicemail message being left at the homes of voters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere by the Republican National Committee makes a number of misleading claims about presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter and Trump’
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Thousands Upon Thousands’ Of Children Purportedly Kidnapped By A Satanic Pedophile Ring Have NOT Been ‘Pulled From Underground Bunkers’
Have thousands of children been pulled from secret pedophile bunkers and underground cities in a massive rescue operation led by President Trump and Russian President Putin? No, that's not true: It is a false conspiracy theory unsupported by r
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The United States Is NOT The Only Country On Earth Where People Are Protesting Coronavirus Lockdown
Is the United States the only country on Earth that is protesting being on lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak? No, that's not true: There have been COVID-19 lockdown fueled protests around the world. There have been protests in France, Ger
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Card Does NOT Exempt Anyone From Wearing A Mask In Public
Is a card claiming to exempt the holder from wearing a face mask in public the real deal, sanctioned by the government? No, that's not true: the anti-mask meme circulating on social media is full of mistakes. It claims to have the backing of t
Truth or Fiction?→ Did U.S. President Donald Trump Tweet That Obama Didn’t ‘Prepair’ for the Coronavirus Pandemic?
On May 12 2020, a screenshot of a purported tweet from United States President Donald Trump circulated — in which he purportedly lashed out at Barack Obama and said that his predecessor didn’t “prepair” for the coronavirus pa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: House Resolution 6666 Does NOT Fund Forced Quarantine For Americans With COVID-19
Does House Resolution 6666 include billions of dollars to fund forced quarantining for Americans who test positive for COVID-19? No, that's not true: the bill earmarks funding to improve Americans' health through mobile testing units in medica
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Birds Attacking A 5G Tower
Does a viral video show a flock of birds (sometimes identified as doves) attacking or destroying a 5G Tower? No, that's not true: bird experts say this is normal playful behavior for corellas (the bird species in question), much to the dismay
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading Ad on Coronavirus Testing
A new Trump campaign ad claims that President Donald Trump took “fast action” in regard to testing for the novel coronavirus. While “fast action” is subjective, pandemic experts say the U.S. did not move quickly to set up an adequate sy
FactCheck.org→ The Falsehoods of the ‘Plandemic’ Video
The first installment of a documentary called “Plandemic” stormed through social media this week, promising viewers on its website that the film will “expose the scientific and political elite who run the scam that is our global healt
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Military Did NOT Rescue Over 35,000 ‘Malnourished, Caged Children’ Out of US Tunnels
Did the U.S. military rescue over 35,000 malnourished, caged children from U.S. tunnels? No, that's not true: The Pentagon denied the existence of the unit that purportedly carried out the rescues across the country over recent months. There i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Reveal That Coronavirus Vaccine Was Patented By Bill Gates In 2006
Does a viral video reveal there is a coronavirus vaccine patent owned by Bill Gates? No, that is not true: A video by Dr. Rashid Buttar claims there is a coronavirus patent owned by a pharmaceutical company that is owned by Bill Gates. There a
Truth or Fiction?→ COVID-19 HIPAA Face Mask Exemption ‘Passes’
Chances are in early May 2020 you saw at least one Facebook post depicting a somewhat-official looking printable document: A viral image claiming that Americans in any state where masks had been mandated or otherwise advised in public places were spe
FactCheck.org→ Video: Trump’s Repeated Coronavirus Claims
President Donald Trump has repeatedly misstated the facts at the White House coronavirus briefings. In this video, we feature five examples from our story “An April Filled With Repeats.” Not a “travel ban.” At least four times in April
FactCheck.org→ Trump Ad’s Misleading Use of CNN Interview
A Trump campaign ad misleadingly edits a CNN interview to suggest 2 million people would have died from the novel coronavirus were it not for President Donald Trump’s China travel restrictions. In the one-minute ad, Wolf Blitzer, anchor of CNN