A reader’s note temporarily attached by Twitter to a claim by President Joe Biden — that “real wages for the average American worker is higher than it was before the pandemic” — said that statement “contains a factu
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Deadly mosquitoes did not swarm Baltimore music festival
CLAIM: Video shows deadly mosquitoes released at a Baltimore music festival. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. While concertgoers were swarmed by flying insects at one point during an African American music festival last month, concert goers were not bitten by
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Human remains, aircraft debris recovered from 9/11 crash sites
No human remains or aircraft debris were found at the Pentagon or in Pennsylvania after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Dispatch→ DePlatformed
Has conservative media failed Ron DeSantis?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Military In West Hollywood In 2023 — Footage Is From 2020
Does a video show military vehicles and personnel moving through West Hollywood during the summer of 2023? No, that's not true: This footage is from the summer of 2020. The video was posted on TikTok on June 2, 2020, around the time that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of Angelina Jolie In Hospital Bed Does NOT ‘Confirm’ Anything Bad Happened To Her
Does a "Hollywood report" about Angelina Jolie accompanied by a photo of what appears to be the actress in a hospital bed "confirm" anything about the star? No, that's not true: The post and link to a website gives no information about Jo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Fall Asleep While Meeting With Israeli President Herzog
Did President Joe Biden fall asleep during an important meeting with the president of Israel? No, that's not true: Biden met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House on July 18, 2023. A video clip posted on Instagram shows a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: German Newspaper Handelsblatt Did NOT Call To ‘Reconsider Attitudes’ Toward Ukraine’s Zelenskyy After 2023 NATO Summit
Did the German newspaper Handelsblatt publish a cartoon of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its front page in the aftermath of the 2023 NATO summit, calling to "reconsider attitudes" toward support of Zelenskyy and Ukraine? No,
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Florida isn’t going to be hit by a massive sandstorm seen in footage from the Suez Canal
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Are Increased Disability Claims Contributing to Low Unemployment?
A recent viral tweet misinterprets disability awards and disability identification
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: VP Kamala Harris Did NOT Laugh At Question About Ukrainian Refugees — Awkward Pause With Polish President Was Over Who Should Answer First
Did U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris laugh at a question about Ukrainian refugees at a press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on May 10, 2022? No, that's not true: Harris did laugh following questions about Ukraini
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Biden Looking At Books In ‘Dementia Books Department’ — Dementia Sign Was Added
Does a video show President Joe Biden browsing and selecting books in a store's section called "Brain Exercises for Dementia"? No, that's not true: The video was altered to add a sign with those words on it. Biden was actually picking up
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Elon Musk ‘looks into’ some tweets, but not this one
Elon Musk tweeted “looking into this” in response to a claim that the “KKK never did anything wrong to Black people.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – That’s a lot of traffic, but it’s on a freeway in Beijing, not Houston
Photo shows a highway in Houston.
Truth or Fiction?→ Universal’s Alibi for Skewered Trees Near SAG-AFTRA/WGA Picket Line May Have Been Debunked
A statement by Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia has cast doubt on a claim by NBC Universal that it was not trying to interfere with worker strikes by pruning nearby trees in the midst of rising summer temperatures. “With cooperation from
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ The World Economic Forum didn’t call for mandatory ‘lab-grown’ babies
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
The Dispatch→ A(nother) Case Study of Terrible U.S. Tariff Policy
New trade remedies would hurt steelworkers and American consumers.
Full Fact→ Photo of melted traffic light wasn’t taken in Bulgaria
Thousands of people have shared a photo of a melted traffic light as southern Europe experiences a major heatwave.
FactCheck.org→ Bogus Claim About Miss USA Originated on Satirical Website
Quick Take The Miss USA crown was passed to the runner-up earlier this year, and the Miss Netherlands title went to that country’s first transgender winner in July. Both will compete to be Miss Universe in December. But a Facebook post spread
Logically→ Old footage of Russian attack on oil refinery shared as recent attack on Odesa port
Logically→ No, France has not banned visas and passports from all 57 Muslim countries
Logically→ 2021 video shared as sirens heard in Chicago ahead of recent tornado
Logically→ The Rothschild family does not own the Bank of England or the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
Logically→ No, Mark Zuckerberg did not admit to ingesting adrenochrome
The Dispatch→ Mike Pence’s Campaign Grapples With Fundraising Woes
Plus: Ron DeSantis meets the mainstream media in an interview with CNN.
Logically→ President Biden does not sniff a baby in this video
AllSides→ Kamala Harris Falsely Claims Gun Violence Leading Cause of Death for Children
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/17/fact-check-kamala-harris-falsely-claims-gun-violence-leading-cause-death-children/
AllSides→ Video shows comedian, not Disney executive, speaking at city council meeting
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/07/17/no-disney-isnt-opening-pediatric-transgender-clinics-fact-check/70414918007/
The Dispatch→ Why Donald Trump Is Trying to Delay His Trial
Welcome to the collision of politics and the law.
AllSides→ Has Gilgo Beach Killer Suspect Rex Heuermann Worked for Trump?
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rex-heuermann-trump-building-new-york-fact-check-1813759 The arre
AllSides→ U.S.-Acquired Malaria Cases Spark False Claims of Links to Gates-Funded Research
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/07/scicheck-u-s-acquired-malaria-cases-spark-false-claims-of-links-to-gates-funded-research/
Logically→ ೨೦೨೩ರ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಗೆಲ್ಲುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಲು ಎಬಿಪಿ -ಸಿ ವೋಟರ್ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಪೂರ್ವ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯನ್ನು ತೋರುವ ಚಿತ್ರವನ್ನು ಎಡಿಟ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿದೆ.
Logically→ ೨೦೨೩ರ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ವಿಧಾನಸಭೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಗೆಲ್ಲುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂದು ಬಿಬಿಸಿಯ ನಕಲಿ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ವೈರಲ್ ಆಗಿದೆ
Logically→ COVID-19 is not an ethnically targeted bioweapon
Logically→ Brazil police chase video shared as terrorist arrest in Kashmir
Full Fact→ Study didn’t show ‘hairdressers have a higher cancer risk because of chemicals at work’
Research covered by the Sun was exploratory and established no definite associations between people’s jobs and their risk of ovarian cancer.
Logically→ Scene from 1994 movie shared as Crimea bridge attack
Logically→ Rule to prohibit mid-day meal cooks from wearing bangles laid down by centre, not Karnataka
Logically→ Images of a Mexican lawmaker stripping have been shared with incorrect narratives
PolitiFact→ 2024 presidential primaries: Democrats switch up state order; GOP awaits Iowa caucuses
In 2024, the presidential primary calendar will start two weeks earlier than it did in 2020. For Democrats, South Carolina will leapfrog the traditional first two states, Iowa and New Hampshire. But the GOP calendar is a lot like 2020.