Did a group of horse-drawn buggies flying American and Trump flags surround the bus of the Biden-Harris campaign on a country road? No, that's not true: This is a photoshopped image made from a photo that really does show about 10 buggies
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Snopes→ With Election Looming, Astroturfing ‘Kullberg Network’ Reemerges
A network of Facebook pages with names like Blacks for Trump and Catholics for Trump disappeared after a 2019 Snopes investigation. They returned just weeks before Election Day.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of Karlie Kloss DOES Show ‘Trump’s Sister-In-Law’ Voting For Biden
Does a photograph of model Karlie Kloss show "Trump's sister-in-law" voting for Joe Biden? Yes, that's true, assuming the Trump referred to is senior adviser to the president Ivanka Trump and not her father, President Donald Trump. The cl
FactCheck.org→ Pennsylvania Voters Told to Quarantine Can Still Cast a Ballot
Quick Take Pennsylvania voters told to quarantine due to potential COVID-19 exposure are entitled to vote and can request and return an emergency absentee ballot through 8 p.m. on Election Day. A viral Facebook post misleadingly suggests they are being
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Stay Home’ Robocalls To Voters Are NOT Authentic
Did election officials warn voters to "stay home and stay safe"? No, state officials in Nebraska and other states say robocalls with that message are fraudulent attempt to suppress voting. The deception was spotlighted in a tweet (archive
Snopes→ Did Rep. Ilhan Omar Say Minnesotans Can Vote without Registering?
A Fox News commentator misrepresented a tweet by the Minnesota representative exhorting her constituents to vote.
Truth or Fiction?→ Flint Robocalls Purportedly Advised Voters to Avoid Long Lines and ‘Vote Tomorrow’
Election Day 2020 brought with it expectations of widespread, ongoing attempts at voter suppression — and those expectations bore out early and often. One report from Flint, Michigan concerned “robocalls” warning of long lines at
FactCheck.org→ The 2020 FactCheck Awards
Summary It’s Election Day, which our longtime readers know means it’s time for our just-for-fun awards. Here we recognize some of the campaign ads that made an impression on us — good, bad or otherwise — during the 2020 election
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.
Snopes→ Death Rates Have Fallen for Hospitalized COVID–19 Patients as Treatments Improve
Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August.
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
FactCheck.org→ Video Doesn’t Show Voter Fraud in Utah
Quick Take A video suggesting that there’s been “voter fraud” in Utah has been circulating online, but all it actually shows is a misunderstanding of a poll worker’s mistake on the first day of early, in-person voting. The mista
Logically→ The Great Reset is a plot to reset the world order and push Trump out of office.
The WEF launched 'The Great Reset' as a means to effectively manage the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and improve the state of the world.
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
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Democrats Are Colluding With CIA To Alter Voting Machines
Are Democrats colluding with the CIA to alter voting machines in key swing states to help Joe Biden? No, there is no evidence to support this. The source of the claim is a retired U.S. Air Force general who, contrary to the claim, never s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Constitution Does NOT Say That A Candidate Can Just Declare Themself Winner
Does the Constitution say if Trump declares himself the winner at any time on November 3 then he automatically wins? No, that's not true: This is satire from Houston talk radio host Michael Berry. The claim was posted to Facebook and Twi
Poynter→ FactChat sent a half million messages in 46 days to fight electoral misinformation in the U.S
More than 500,000 messages were sent to 82,000 people in the last 46 days to help them sort facts from fiction using WhatsApp. The total number of messages shared by FactChat, the chatbot launched by the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter I
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Trump Did Not Post This Fauci Meme On Facebook
Did President Trump post a meme about Dr. Anthony Fauci on Facebook? No, that's not true: the meme was posted by a parody account but garnered tens of thousands likes, shares and comments, many from people who didn't realize it did not co
Snopes→ 2 Dead, 15 Wounded in Vienna Terror Attack, Authorities Say
Austrian police said that several people were injured and officers were out in force following gunfire in the capital Vienna.
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
AllSides→ Fact check: In bid to win Michigan, Trump makes false claims about the state’s auto industry
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/fact-check-michigan-auto-jobs-trump-obama/index.html Trying to
Snopes→ Is the FBI Investigating After Trump Fans Surrounded Biden Bus in Texas?
Videos of the incident in Texas went viral during the last weekend before Election Day.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: No Such Thing As The ‘Texas Day Of Purge’ Allowing ‘DemSocialist Anarchist’ To Be Chased Down And Legally Shot Under The Insurrection Act
If President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act after the election does it mean that "DemSocialist Anarchists" can be "chased down and legally shot" for the Texas Day of Purge"? No, that's not true: Shooting American citizens beause of th
Truth or Fiction?→ Pennsylvania Bakery Cookie Poll’s ‘Landslide’ Result Goes Viral
Less than a day before Election Day (November 3 2020), “PA bakery cookie poll” spiked as a search term and a topic of interest on social media: Let’s just say the cookie has red frosting “Pa. bakery's 'cookie poll,' w
AFP Fact Check→ Trump envoy uses 2019 photo to allege Biden hypocrisy on masks
Richard Grenell, an envoy for US President Donald Trump, tweeted that Democratic candidate Joe Biden wears a mask outside but not on aircraft, including two photos as evidence. But the image of a maskless Biden on a plane is from 2019, before health au
Snopes→ Austrian Police Say Several Injured After Gunfire in Vienna
Austrian police said that several people were injured and officers were out in force following gunfire in the capital Vienna.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘The Simpsons’ Did NOT predict Donald Trump’s 2015 Candidacy Announcement Or The 2016 Electoral Map
Did "The Simpsons" animated TV sitcom predict Donald Trump's 2016 victory 15 years before he even announced his candidacy? Did the show also foretell the full electoral map of the 2016 election results? No, that's not true: The cartoon im
FactCheck.org→ Mailbag: Biden’s Claymont Childhood Home
This week, a reader sent us a comment about our article on social media posts that misquoted former Vice President Joe Biden as saying he grew up in Section 8 housing. Biden actually said he lived in a building in Claymont, Delaware, which “became Se
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Administration Did NOT Claim Songwriter Billie Eilish Is ‘Destroying Our Country’ In Leaked Documents
Did the Trump administration state that Billie Eilish, the acclaimed songwriter, is "destroying our country and everything we care about" in leaked documents? No, that is not true. Eilish was the one who said that Trump was ruining the na
Poynter→ Is the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop legit? Here’s how to form your own judgment.
You might have heard — unless you’ve been trying to avoid the news over the past two weeks, which would be understandable — about this big New York Post exclusive story about Hunter Biden’s laptop allegedly containing emails pointing to shady d
AFP Fact Check→ Quote on fear misattributed to Hermann Goering
A post shared several thousand times on Facebook claims that the Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering said during the Nuremberg trials that "the only thing a government needs to turn people into slaves is fear." However, there is no trace of the statement
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Joe Biden Say ‘I’m Gonna Take on Those Rapist Mexicans’ During a Rally?
On October 30 2020, TikTok user @camarocuddy shared what appeared to be footage of former U.S. Vice President and Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden saying, “I’m gonna take on those rapist Mexicans”: @camarocuddyJoe
FactCheck.org→ Instagram Post Misleads on ‘Ballot Box’ Posters
Quick Take A popular Instagram post suggests nefarious actors are misrepresenting trash cans in Philadelphia as ballot boxes. The signs seen in the images were actually part of a poorly conceived advertising effort for an exhibit about voting rights
Snopes→ The Election Result May Be Delayed. That’s OK.
We may not know who won the presidential election on Tuesday night. And if so, it does not necessarily mean anything is broken, fraudulent, corrupted or wrong.
AllSides→ Five Days of Facebook Fact-Checking
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/five-days-of-facebook-fact-checking.php MARK ZUCKERBERG, Facebook’s CEO,
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
AFP Fact Check→ WHO head did not say he tested positive for Covid-19, only that he was quarantining after a contact tested positive
Reports in Nigerian media claiming that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general said he had tested positive for Covid-19 were shared in multiple social media posts in the country. However, it is not what Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus act
Logically→ Ivanka Trump Declares She Is ‘Unapologetically’ ‘Pro-Life’ for the First Time.
A week before the U.S. elections, Ivanka Trump has taken an anti-abortion stance publicly for the first time.
Full Fact→ Daily Mirror misrepresents research on public support for Brexit
“Pollster YouGov finding a record low of 38% still believe Brexit’s a good thing while 62% realise it’s bad illuminates why shackling a country to a narrow referendum squeaked on lies four years ago isn’t smart.” Daily Mi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Covid-19 Pandemic Was NOT Planned By Bill Gates And 5G Does NOT Cause It
Was the COVID-19 pandemic pre-planned with help from billionaire Bill Gates and have the illnesses associated with it been spread by 5G technology? No, that's not true: The claims made in the "Covid-19 Genocide of 2020" video are a rehash