On April 4 2023, Imgur u/SugarTeet shared a screenshot of a tweet which warned voters in Ohio that a “new voter ID [identification]” law went into effect “TODAY”: Ohio's strict new voter ID law goes into effect TODAY Here
AllSides→ Fact Check: No Evidence Sen. John Fetterman Has a Body Double
https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-check-no-evidence-sen-john-fetterman-has-a-body-double/ Two photos
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Surveillance Footage Does NOT Show Nashville School Shooter Wearing Different Shoes And Pants
Does police body camera footage from the March 27, 2023, mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, show that the active shooter had changed clothes and shoes sometime during the incident? No, that's not true: Two still
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Ingesting Pavana Leaf Will Treat Cancers
Does the pavana leaf treat cancer? No, that's not true: A surgical oncologist told Lead Stories that there is no medical evidence supporting that claim. The FDA warns consumers to be wary of products that claim to treat cancer. The implie
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Ukraine Staging War Scenes ‘To Maintain Morale In The Ranks’
Did Ukraine stage war scenes to boost the morale of its soldiers at the frontlines by exaggerating their success? No, that's not true: A clip used as "proof" by social media users actually shows backstage footage from a real movie set loc
PolitiFact→ Laura Ingraham – Protesters against gun violence didn’t make their way onto the Tennessee House floor
Video clip shows that protesters in Tennessee “made their way onto the state capitol floor.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, the FedNow Service is not replacing cash. It’s an instant payment service.
The FedNow program “is going to replace your paper currency.”
PolitiFact→ Charles Schumer – Fact-checking Chuck Schumer on Sullivan County, drug trafficking
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: What Has the Biden Administration Said About Uganda’s Anti-LGBT Law?
Joe Biden. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images.) A digitally altered image attributed to President Joe Biden’s verified personal Twitter account is circulating online. The fake tweet, proliferated across social media platforms in the context
PolitiFact→ Read the 34 felony charges in the Donald Trump indictment over the Stormy Daniels payoff
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Read the charges against Trump here.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Is NOT Being Led By A Blind Man In Video
Does a video show President Joe Biden being led into a room by a blind man? No, that's not true: Biden was escorting a blind man into an event in Kansas City, Missouri, allowing the man to hold his arm as they were ushered to their places
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Morgan Freeman Did NOT Criticize Biden’s Ice Cream Comments — It’s An AI Mask
Did actor Morgan Freeman make a video criticizing President Joe Biden for talking about ice cream? No, that's not true: This is a deepfake of Freeman. Someone has put on a filter that looks like Freeman's face while also trying to speak l
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Boy Dressed Like A Girl’ On Biden Plane
Was a "little boy" in female clothes videotaped while traveling on the same plane as President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: A video making that claim on social media shows Biden's granddaughter Natalie Biden going down steps from the a
The Dispatch→ Dispatch Live: The Day Trump Got Indicted
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The Dispatch→ Another Great Migration?
A U-Haul truck travels along Interstate 10 in California. The state, along with other blue states, has seen increased rates of people moving away. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)How will post-COVID population trends shape our politics?Continue
Truth or Fiction?→ Tennessee Republicans Move to Expel Democratic Colleagues Following Gun Control Protest
On April 4 2023, a popular post to Reddit’s r/politics described an attempt to expel three Nashville, Tennessee Democrats from the state House over a “gun control protest”: Chants of ‘Fascists!’ Ring Out as Tenn
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Bury the falsehood, not the president. Biden never had a funeral and lives.
Joe Biden received a military funeral service Jan. 20, 2021
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – In past speeches, Hillary Clinton talked of figurative glass ceiling, not literal glass dome
Videos show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussing a glass dome over Earth.
PolitiFact→ Indictment of a president was unprecedented before Trump in the U.S., but not other countries
Republican leaders have likened former President Donald Trump's indictment to something out of a "banana republic" or a "third-world country." PolitiFact examined how countries across the globe have brought criminal offenses against their leaders.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – A popular video promised tears from Pelosi and an exoneration for Trump. It delivered neither.
“Pelosi cries like a kid after Trump’s lawyer proves her client ‘innocence.’”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Detention photos of Brittney Griner in Russia aren’t new and they weren’t ‘leaked’
“Brittney Griner’s shocking detention photos leaked online.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Ohio Republican Jim Jordan didn’t send President Joe Biden to jail
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, “sends Biden straight to jail.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Is that a masked man? No, that’s really Donald Trump.
Former President Donald Trump is actually another man wearing a Trump mask.
FactCheck.org→ Vote for Us to Win a Webby
Nominees for the 27th Annual Webby Awards were announced today, and FactCheck.org is one of the contenders in the category for Websites and Mobile Sites: News & Politics. To help us win the Webby People’s Voice Award, which is voted on by
The Dispatch→ Can the GOP Force Biden’s Hand on the Debt Ceiling?
President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on March 17, 2023. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)House Republican leaders may pass their own bill to raise the federal borrowing limit. Continue reading Can the GOP Force Biden’s Hand
Poynter→ What’s the key to regulating misinformation? Let’s start with a common language.
This op-ed was published in commemoration of International Fact-Checking Day, held April 2 each year to recognize the work of fact-checkers worldwide. One big challenge looms over attempts to regulate misinformation, […] The post What’s the ke
Logically→ Old image of former Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra falsely linked to his recent visit as Foreign Secretary
AllSides→ Misinformation Watch: Is the Government Coming for Your Gas Stove?
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Poynter→ Global fact-checkers have diverse backgrounds, but their pursuit of facts is universal
This op-ed was published in commemoration of International Fact-Checking Day, held April 2 each year to recognize the work of fact-checkers worldwide. The pursuit of facts is the highest goal in […] The post Global fact-checkers have diverse bac
AllSides→ 74 people have been killed or injured by guns at American schools this year
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166651590/nashville-school-shootings-gun-violence-children-cause-death-2023
AllSides→ School Shootings This Year: How Many and Where
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2023/01 School shooting
AllSides→ Democrats distort the record on guns after Nashville shooting
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/fact-check-democrats-distort-the-record-on-guns-nashville
Poynter→ As the fact-checking world battles Russian falsehoods, Chinese misinformation often gets a pass
This op-ed was published in commemoration of International Fact-Checking Day, held April 2 each year to recognize the work of fact-checkers worldwide. The Russo-Ukrainian War that erupted in February 2022 prompted […] The post As the fact-checki
Poynter→ Poynter and Meta partner to provide Fact-Checking Fundamentals for Asia-Pacific journalists
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Apr. 4, 2023) — The International Fact-Checking Network at the nonprofit Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalistic excellence, has partnered with Meta to create a free […] The post Poynter and Meta partner to prov
Full Fact→ Tetanus jabs are not being used to sterilise people
Claims in a Facebook video that the tetanus vaccine was being used to sterilise people seem to be a rehashing of an old theory that has previously been disproven.
Full Fact→ Magnetic antibiotic capsules don’t contain graphene oxide
A social media post apparently shows part of an amoxicillin capsule being magnetic, and says this means it “most likely” has graphene oxide in it to poison us. This is not true.
Logically→ No, a saffron flag was not hoisted on a mosque during Ram Navami celebrations in Ganganagar
The Dispatch→ The Logistics of a TikTok Ban
An advertisement for TikTok is displayed at Union Station in Washington, DC, on April 3, 2023. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)Plus: Why Russia detained a Wall Street Journal reporter.Continue reading The Logistics of a TikTok Ban »
Logically→ Morphed image shared to falsely claim Burj Khalifa was lit up with Ram’s image on Ram Navami
The Dispatch→ Tennessee Law Drags On
Not every wrong has a legal remedy.Continue reading Tennessee Law Drags On »