https://www.nationalreview.com/news/desantis-dupes-opponents-into-admitting-children-are-being-exposed-to-pornographic-books/
AllSides→ Did St. Patrick Wipe Out an African ‘Pygmy’ Tribe, the First Inhabitants of Ireland?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/saint-patrick-twa-pygmy-ireland/ In the summer of 2019, we received r
AllSides→ Did Hallie Biden Delete Tweets Saying Trump Won 2020 Election?
https://www.newsweek.com/hallie-biden-trump-tweets-twitter-election-1788526 The false claim that Donal
AllSides→ What to Know About Trump-Era Bank Deregulation and Bank Failures
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/03/what-to-know-about-trump-era-bank-deregulation-and-bank-failures/ Wit
Logically→ SARS-CoV-2 virus has never been isolated, and there is no evidence that it even exists.
PolitiFact→ Whoopi Goldberg – Whoopi Goldberg gets it wrong on lying and the First Amendment
"The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to willingly lie."
Logically→ A video shows the aftermath of an earthquake in New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands on March 16, 2023.
Logically→ Worms rained from the sky in Liaoning province, China.
Logically→ There were already ’15-minute cities’ in Poland during the Nazi occupation; they were called ‘ghettos.’
Logically→ ರಾಹುಲ್ ಗಾಂಧಿಯವರು “ಸತ್ಯಾಗ್ರಹ” ಎಂದರೆ ಅಧಿಕಾರದೆಡೆಗಿನ ಹಾದಿ ಎಂದು ವಿವರಿಸಿದರು.
The Dispatch→ French Pension Reform Muscled Through
Protesters gather near Place de la Concorde in Paris on March 16. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)Facing potential defeat, Macron sidesteps the National Assembly.Continue reading French Pension Reform Muscled
Logically→ 92% of COVID-19 deaths are among the fully vaccinated, according to a government study.
The Dispatch→ Florida’s E-Verify Push, Explained
Landscaper Carlos Morales, a member of WeCount!, a labor union of low wage immigrant workers and their families, in August 2022. (Photo by Cindy Karp/Washington Post/ Getty Images)Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to go further in cracking down on illegal employ
Logically→ Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss called India ‘a nation that naively follows illiterate leaders and spiritual gurus.’
The Dispatch→ The Assumptions that Undermined the Iraq War
U.S. Marine Maj. Bull Gurfein pulls down a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein March 21, 2003 in Safwan, Iraq. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)Two decades later, the country is still a work in progress. Continue reading The Assumptions that U
Logically→ A Christian cross stands atop a historic pillar at India’s Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The Dispatch→ Blank Checks and Balances
The tide goes out and we're seeing no swimsuits. Continue reading Blank Checks and Balances »
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Alien Boarding Spaceship Before Flying Away — It’s Clip From Sci-Fi Short Film
Does a short video show in reality a lanky extraterrestrial boarding a hovering spaceship in a snowy field before flying away above a Siberian forest? No, that's not true: The animated clip is a cropped version of a science fiction short
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Consuming Only Female Animal Meat Does NOT Increase Estrogen Or Femininity In Human Males
Does eating only the meat of female animals alter the hormones of human males, purportedly increasing their estrogen and making them take on more traits associated with femininity? No, that's not true: Multiple medical and meat experts ve
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Worms Fell From The Sky In China — Experts Say They’re Tree Blooms
Did it "rain worms" in China in early March 2023? No, that's not true: Two separate botanical experts confirmed individually to Lead Stories that the "worms" reported by some publications and social media users were the result of the annu
The Dispatch→ Stop the Squeal, Revisited
(Photo by Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)Republicans might finally be losing interest in election denialism.Continue reading Stop the Squeal, Revisited »
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Promise Of $1,000 Store Credit Is NOT From SHEIN Clothing Brand — Phishing Website
Is the fast-fashion clothing brand SHEIN offering $1,000 in store credit to Facebook users for simply answering four questions? No, that's not true: SHEIN is a real clothing brand but this is not their promotion. The empty promise of stor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NASA Is NOT In 2023 Hiring 24 Theologians To Prepare Humans For An Imminent Alien Discovery
Is NASA hiring 24 theologians in 2023 to prepare humans for an imminent alien discovery? No, that's not true: The recycled claim misconstrues the meaning of a 2015 grant to the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI). Among other things, "The
PolitiFact→ Tweets – Did Kari Lake tweet that Donald Trump was ‘fat’ in 2016? Not that evidence shows
Kari Lake called Trump the “fattest president since Taft” in a 2016 tweet.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Meme uses faulty math to claim that it takes 300 gallons of jet fuel to de-ice wind turbines
"We’re just burning 300 gallons of jet fuel to de-ice this clean energy wind turbine … that needs 80 gallons of synthetic oil to operate."
FactCheck.org→ What to Know About Trump-Era Bank Deregulation and Bank Failures
With the recent failure of two midsize banks, some Democrats have blamed deregulation championed by then-President Donald Trump in 2018. While the law did reduce oversight of small and midsize banks, experts are divided over whether deregulation in 20
Full Fact→ Facebook hoax about missing child uses photo of girl believed to have been murdered years ago
A Facebook post claiming to be a mother searching for her missing daughter is a hoax. It uses the photo of a girl who is believed to have been murdered in New Hampshire, US.
Full Fact→ Youth unemployment no longer at historic low
The rate reached its lowest level last summer but has been rising ever since.
FactCheck.org→ What the Cochrane Review Says About Masks For COVID-19 — and What It Doesn’t
SciCheck Digest People online are touting the results of a Cochrane review to incorrectly claim that it shows masks “don’t work” against the coronavirus. But the primary conclusion of the review is that it’s uncertain from randomized contro
Health Feedback→ No evidence supports the use of medicinal plants mullein and marshmallow to cure or mitigate COVID-19
REVIEW Many claims of alternative or natural remedies against COVID-19 circulated on the internet during the pandemic. However, such claims are typically unsupported by clinical evidence, as Health Feedback’s previous reviews show. Similarly, a vi
Health Feedback→ Alleged Morgellons test with cranberry juice doesn’t show nanoparticles, but precipitates from tannin-protein interactions
REVIEW A Facebook reel originating from TikTok, claiming that swishing cranberry juice in your mouth removes “all these nanoparticles from the chemtrails and from the pollution in the air”, went viral in March 2023, accruing more than 14,000 lik
Logically→ Every virus since HIV in the 1980s has been a bioweapon.
Logically→ Adding this claim to test Discrepancies in the text by-Harshitha
Logically→ Rahul Gandhi said ‘satyagraha’ is the path to power.
Logically→ Digital entrance gates at Walmarts in 15-minute cities won’t open for residents who have exceeded their meat, dairy, and egg consumption limit.
Full Fact→ Think tank figure does not show 100,000 children ‘never went back to school’ due to lockdown
Journalist Isabel Oakeshott twice claimed that 100,000 children left education permanently as a result of the pandemic.
The Dispatch→ American Submarines Headed Down Under
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in San Diego on March 13, 2023. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Plus: Last chance to enter the TMD March Madness pool!Cont
Poynter→ President Joe Biden flip-flopped on allowing new oil and gas drilling on federal lands
As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden responded to a New Hampshire town hall question unequivocally, adding repetition for emphasis. “No more drilling on federal lands,” he said Feb. 9, […] The post President Joe Biden f
The Dispatch→ China’s Middle East Power Play
Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcomed by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud in Riyadh on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)A Beijing-brokered normalization deal between Iran
The Dispatch→ The High Cost of Cheap Money
A Silicon Valley Bank office in Tempe, Arizona, on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/AFP/Getty Images)SVB relied too much and for too long on low-risk, low-interest investments. Continue reading The High Cost of Cheap Money »