The World Economic Forum "wants to slaughter millions of pet cats and dogs to fight climate change."
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Good Enough to Be True: Man’s 100th birthday dog parade draws 200 canine friends
More than “200 dogs showed up and lined up around the block” for a man’s 100th birthday celebration.
PolitiFact→ How Meta, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube plan to address 2024 election misinformation
YouTube said it will no longer remove videos that promote election falsehoods. Some digital misinformation experts warn that the policy change could have ripple effects across social media platforms, allowing misinformation to spread more easily.
Logically→ No, recent U.S. malaria cases not linked to Bill Gates or mosquito release project
Full Fact→ Evidence doesn’t show sunscreen increases cancer risk
A social media post falsely claims that sunscreens increase cancer risk, and makes assertions about endocrine disruption that aren’t borne out in the evidence.
Logically→ Image from Belgium misinterpreted to show pro-refugee rally in France in 2016
Logically→ ಇಲ್ಲ, ಹರಳೆಣ್ಣೆಯು ಗೆಡ್ಡೆಗಳು, ಮೂಳೆ ಸ್ಪರ್ಸ್ ಮತ್ತು ಗರ್ಭಾಶಯದ ಫೈಬ್ರಾಯ್ಡ್ಗಳನ್ನು ಗುಣಪಡಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ
Logically→ Shrapnel fragment photograph does not prove Ukraine destroyed a restaurant in Kramatorsk
Logically→ Video from Syria shared as violence in Manipur
Logically→ Viral video does not show a library in France set ablaze by protestors
Logically→ ಇಲ್ಲ, ಕೇರಳ ಸರ್ಕಾರವಾಗಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ಹಾಲು ಒಕ್ಕೊಟವಾಗಲಿ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಡೈರಿ ಬ್ರ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ನಂದಿನಿಯನ್ನು ರಾಜ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಷೇಧಿಸಿಲ್ಲ
Logically→ Old video of protesters vandalising police cars in Paris shared as recent
Logically→ No, the NHS COVID-19 app did not cost £37 billion
The Dispatch→ A Tumultuous SCOTUS Term
Plus: Biden administration hit with court order limiting communications with Big Tech platforms.
Logically→ ಬಿಹಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಪತ್ನಿಯನ್ನು ಕೊಂದ ಆರೋಪಿಯ ವೀಡಿಯೋವನ್ನು ಕೋಮು ಸ್ಪಿನ್ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗಿದೆ
Logically→ Screenshot of Guardian op-ed supporting looting in France is fake
Logically→ Gujarat High Court has not passed order scrapping reservations
Logically→ No medical evidence to suggest Celtic salt can reduce high blood pressure
The Dispatch→ Legal Eagles Travel Log: A Gettysburg Anniversary Special
"A national divorce? Didn't we try that once?"
The Dispatch→ Bureaucratic Wrangling Is No Substitute for Lawmaking
The histories of affirmative action and student loan forgiveness show that circumventing Congress made both programs vulnerable from the start.
The Dispatch→ Powerball Politics
Too many in Washington want to ignore the price of risk or wrangle with costs and trade-offs.
The Dispatch→ Gaps in the Border Wall
Republicans are promising to complete a wall along the southern border, but doing so isn’t so simple.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Remains Of Russian Soldiers Crushed ‘Into Meat Cubes’
Did a viral photo capture the bodies of Russian soldiers mashed together into a rectangular piece of flesh "for easy transportation"? No, that's not true: The image showed previously frozen but then thawed pet food left in the streets of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 2023 Protest In Paris — It’s A 2019 Algerian Pro-Democracy Protest
Does a video show that Algerians have taken over France in the summer of 2023? No, that's not true: The video was filmed in Paris in 2019 at a time when there were protests in Algeria. Peaceful protests were attended in cities around the
Truth or Fiction?→ U.S. Navy Twitter Account Features Russian Ship on Independence Day Post
The U.S. Pacific Fleet — which calls itself the largest naval force of its type in the world — tweeted, then deleted a tweet marking the July 4th Independence Day holiday after a researcher pointed out that it used a photo depicting Russian
Truth or Fiction?→ Federal Judge’s Ruling ‘Limits’ Biden Administration’s Contact with Social Media
On July 4 2023, a post to Reddit’s r/politics suggested that a federal judge had blocked the Biden administration from “communicating with social media companies”: Federal judge blocks Biden administration officials from co
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Actual Footage Of The Titan Sub Implosion — It’s Fake
Does a video really show "recovered" footage of the OceanGate Titan submersible imploding? No, that's not true: This is a fake animated video clip, as confirmed by the Twitter account in which this claim is found. Also, this video derives
PolitiFact→ Ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento: ¿Podría Ron DeSantis acabar con ella? Y si es así, ¿cómo?
En Español: El gobernador de Florida Ron DeSantis reveló una plataforma inmigratoria prometiendo terminar con el derecho a la ciudadanía por nacimiento. Aquí te explicamos de qué se trata y si se podría eliminar.
The Dispatch→ Okay, What About Legacy Admissions?
They go against the stated missions of elite universities, but they aren’t racist.
PolitiFact→ Mike Pence – Are US abortion laws really more like China and North Korea than Europe? No
“The fact is, today abortion law in the United States is more aligned with China and North Korea than with Western nations in Europe.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – France did not announce internet shutdown amid riots, as social media posts claim
France said it would shut down internet services “to control the riots.”
The Dispatch→ The End of COVID Politics
Dead or just resting?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Building Fire Did NOT Happen In France During 2023 Riots — It Was In The UAE
Does a video show a building on fire in France amid the 2023 protests following the police shooting death of a teenager of North African descent? No, that's not true: The video shows a fire in a residential building in Ajman, United Arab
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Italian Government ‘Reached Out’ To Mark Zuckerberg About A Fight At Colosseum
Did the Italian government offer Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg the Colosseum as a location for their fight? No, that's not true: A spokesperson of the Italian Ministry of Culture told Lead Stories that no related paperwork existed to subs
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Depict 2023 French Riots — It’s From 2016 Euro Cup Final
Was this photo taken during the summer 2023 French riots? No, that's not true: This photo is from 2016 during the Union of European Football Association's championship, also known as the Euro Cup, in Paris, France. A Huffington Post artic
Truth or Fiction?→ Cartier Boss with $7.5 Billion Fears ‘Prospect of the Poor Rising Up’ Every Night
On July 3 and 4 2023, screenshots of a headline (“Cartier boss with $7.5bn fortune says prospect of the poor rising up ‘keeps him awake at night'”) spread in three popular iterations on Twitter (and in many scattered tweets): We’
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Hamish Harding Tweeted About ‘Biden Crime Family’ Before Diving In OceanGate Titan Sub
Did Hamish Harding, an aviation businessman and aircraft pilot who died in the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster, tweet on June 17, 2023, that the Biden family tried to hire his aviation company for human smuggling? No, that's not true
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Arson Attack At National Library Of France — Blaze Was At Historic Post Office In Philippines
Did an "arson attack on the Bibliothèque nationale de France" (National Library of France) on July 3, 2023, destroy "thousands of books and manuscripts"? No, that's not true: The video in a social media post shows a fire at the historic
Full Fact→ Riot video of Marseille library actually shows fire at Manila post office
This is one of several mislabelled videos we’ve seen claiming to show the outcome of riots in France.
Logically→ No, Swedish law does not allow for only the Quran to be burned