Did someone hack into the electronic voting system being used in Georgia for the January 5, 2020, U.S. Senate runoff races? No, Georgia election officials say that's not true: The digital poll book was not even in use on December 30, 2020
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Despite Claims In Georgia Senate Hearing, Dominion Voting Machines Were NOT Hacked Because They Don’t Have Modems
Did someone hack into the electronic voting system being used in Georgia for the January 5, 2020, U.S. Senate runoff races? No, Georgia election officials say that's not true: The digital poll book was not even in use on December 30, 2020
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Atlanta Warehouse Does NOT House Counterfeit Fulton County, Georgia Ballots
Did a pro-Trump "operative" uncover thousands of counterfeit November 2020 Fulton County ballots stored in an Atlanta warehouse? No, that's not true: Photos of boxes of ballots showed emergency paper ballots stored in the warehouse as bac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Federal Government Did NOT Fail In An Attempt To Run Nevada’s Mustang Ranch Brothel After Seizing It For A Tax Debt
Did the Federal government unsuccessfully attempt to operate the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada after seizing over a tax debt? No, that's not true: The U.S. government did seize the famed house of ill repute twice, but in each instance i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Is NOT A War Hero, Rhodes Scholar, Nor Harvard Law Grad
Is Joe Biden a war hero, a Rhodes Scholar and a Harvard law school graduate? No, he is not any of those. The claims that the president-elect did hold those distinctions was part of a satirical meme intended to test fact checkers. It was n
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 14 Generals Did NOT Say They Will Never Take Orders From Joe Biden
Did 14 U.S. military generals say they would never take orders for President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: The claim was made in a satirical article published by the ALLOD network of websites that troll conservatives, hoping to trick th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vaccines Are NOT Primarily Designed To Improve Survival Rates Of Those Already Infected — They Work By Reducing The Risk of Infection
Are coronavirus vaccines primarily designed to improve survival rates of those already infected? No, that's not true: Vaccines are designed to reduce the risk of infection in the first place. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archive
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Political Ad Showing Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock Saying ‘God Damn America’ Leaves Out Context
Does a political ad showing Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock saying "God damn America" present the video in context? No, it does not: When Rev. Warnock uttered the controversial phrase, he was discussing the use of those words in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Instagram Is NOT Deleting Fan Pages On December 20, 2020
Is Instagram deleting fan pages on December 20? No, that's not true: A rumor has gone viral that the social media network would be getting rid of celebrity fan pages, with the rumors creating panic for the users who run accounts for their
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Comments Made In The Year 1957’ List Has A History, But Not Back To The ’50s
Does this collection of comments date back to 1955 or 1957? No, that's not true: These 20 quips do harken to an earlier time but they do not trace all the way back to the 1950s. This contrived collection of comments seems to have been a p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ID Chip In Some COVID-19 Vaccine Syringes Would NOT Be Injected Into Patients; It Signals Vaccine Expiration Date
Will a Radio Frequency Identification Chip that may be on the ApiJect COVID-19 vaccine syringes be injected into patients and would it track who has been vaccinated and where they are? No, that's not true: The tiny RFID chips would be pla
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Actual Results Of The Election’ Do NOT Show Donald Trump With More Electoral College Votes Than Joe Biden
Do "actual results of the election" show Donald Trump winning the Electoral College with 410 electoral votes to Joe Biden's 128 votes? No, that's not true: December 8, 2020, was the deadline for states to certify their 2020, election resu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Math Dividing Jeff Bezos’ Net Worth Among The World Population Does NOT Compute
Could Jeff Bezos single-handedly end world poverty by taking his $121 billion fortune and giving every person on Earth $1 billion? No, that's not true: This proposed solution to poverty is sadly not backed up by this faulty mathematical r
Snopes→ Disappearance of Utah Monolith Won’t Prompt Major Probe
Police won't be opening a major investigation into the disappearance of a mysterious silver-colored monolith that generated international attention and a mess when curious visitors made their way to the site of the discovery in the Utah desert.
Snopes→ Trump May Be Coming to Terms with Loss He Won’t Acknowledge
President Donald Trump still won't bring himself to concede the election he decisively lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
Snopes→ Yes, YouTube Ads Mistakenly Reappeared for ‘The Rise of Skywalker’
Don't worry. You haven't traveled back in time and you won't have to relive 2020 all over again.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A ‘Rude’ Flight Attendant Did NOT ‘Get Karma’ After Threatening To Kick A Passenger Off Flight In Video
Did a video show a rude flight attendant getting served by karma after threatening to kick a passenger off a flight? No, that's not true: The misleading title of this video fails to deliver what is promised. The flight attendant is never
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Did NOT Send Out This Warning About A Page Being Unpublished
Did Facebook send out a warning that someone's Facebook page was about to be unpublished because it violates their terms? No, that's not true: This is a phishing scam. The notice was sent by an imposter posing as Facebook. The goal of thi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ticketmaster Did NOT Announce A Plan For Mandatory COVID Vaccine ID To Attend Concerts
Did Ticketmaster announce a plan for mandatory COVID-19 vaccine ID to attend concerts or other live events? No, that's not true: Ticketmaster, and other companies, have been working to design systems to safeguard fan safety at local venue
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Did NOT Prevent Users From Sharing A Map From A Presidential Election
Did Facebook prevent users from posting a photo of an electoral map from a presidential election? No, that's not true: Facebook officials say the company is not prohibiting users from posting this image. The claim appeared in a Facebook
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: RealClearPolitics Did NOT Rescind Call For Biden Winning Pennsylvania
Did Joe Biden lose his status as president-elect after RealClearPolitics rescinded its call of Pennsylvania for Joe Biden? No, that's not true. RealClearPolitics Co-founder and President Tom Bevan tweeted it was false news. A search of we
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Occupy Democrats Did NOT Post A Meme Saying Joe Biden Admits To Voter Fraud
Did Occupy Democrats post a meme that said Joe Biden admits to voter fraud? No, that's not true. A meme with a photograph of Biden shows the quote, "We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the his
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Admit He Put Together A ‘Voter Fraud Organization’ — He Was Talking About Preventing Voter Fraud
Did Joe Biden admit that he put together a "voter fraud organization"? No, that comment is taken out of context. A video clip of the former vice president shows him saying, "We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter frau
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ballots Marked With Sharpie Pens Were NOT Invalidated In Arizona
Were ballots marked with Sharpie pens invalidated in Arizona on Election Day? No, that's not true. Sharpies are preferred, said election officials. A claim has gone viral that people who voted in Maricopa County, Arizona, using Sharpie pe
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: 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
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump’s Payroll Tax Cut Remarks Do NOT Mean He ‘Will Take Away Your Social Security’
Did President Donald Trump signal that he will "take away your Social Security" with his remarks that he may make a payroll tax deferment permanent? No, that's not true: President Trump signed an order for the deferral of some payroll tax
Lead Stories→ Student’s Chart Explaining Wild Conspiracies Trolled To Spread More Conspiracies
Abbie Richards, a climate science student in the Netherlands, was looking with bewilderment at the state of her home country of the United States. So many conspiracy theories echoing, particularly ahead of the election. Struggling to wran
Snopes→ Is This Yet Another Picture of a Melania Trump ‘Body Double’?
A conspiracy theory based on one photograph won't cut it if there are literally hundreds of other photographs — and video — that argue against it.
Snopes→ C-SPAN Suspends Scully After He Admits to Lie About Hack
Scully has led the network's presidential election coverage since 1992, but the suspension means he won't be part of C-SPAN's election night programming.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Suit That Accused Donald Trump Of Raping A 13-Year-Old Aspiring Model Is NOT ‘Upcoming’ — It Was Dropped
Is a lawsuit that accused Donald Trump of raping a 13-year-old aspiring model "upcoming"? No, that's not true: The suit, which was filed back in 2016, was voluntarily dismissed that same year. There are no scheduled dates related to the c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Local News Report On Biden And Harris Event At Heard Museum In Arizona Was NOT About An Unattended Rally
Did Joe Biden and Kamala Harris promote a campaign event in Phoenix on October 8, 2020, and hardly anyone turned out for it? No, that's not true: Video of Fox10 reporter Nicole Garcia reporting from outside the Heard Museum in Phoenix was
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Certainty 2020 Will End With Fewer Total U.S. Deaths Than 2018 And 2019
Is it true that, even with the coronavirus pandemic, the United States is on pace to have fewer total deaths this year than in both 2018 and 2019? No, a rough estimate doesn't account for the complexity of seasonal changes in death rates.
Full Fact→ This comparison of the cost of the Irish and UK contact tracing systems is misleading
We’ve been alerted to a screenshot circulating across WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter, which claims that the cost of the test and trace system in Ireland is £773,000, while the UK’s test and trace system has cost £12 billion.&nbs
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pepsi Did NOT Omit ‘Under God’ From An Upcoming Can Design Featuring Part Of The Pledge Of Allegiance
Did Pepsi omit "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance on a new can design? No, that's not true: This is a false claim that has been circulating since the early 2000s when it was Dr Pepper that released a can with the phrase, "One Natio
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Covid 19 Will NOT Go Away If You Stop Getting Tested, It’s NOT Just The Elderly Dying and NO ONE Is Being Intentionally Infected
Does not getting tested for Covid 19 make the disease disappear? Are the elderly the only people dying? Are Democratic governors intentionally infecting them? No, no and no. Those are not true: You will have the disease regardless of whet
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Of 2020 Mail-In Ballots Were NOT Discovered Dumped In A Sonoma County, California, Landfill
Were thousands of mail-in ballots for the 2020 election found dumped at a Sonoma County, California, landfill in September 2020? No, that's not true: Sonoma County voting officials issued an alert Friday to shoot down the claim, noting th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post Homophobic And Racist Tweet About His Call With Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
Did President Trump post a homophobic and racist tweet about his phone call with Colby Covington, an MMA fighter and fervent Trump supporter? No, that's not true: It is a fabricated tweet created by a satire site. The claim appeared in an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Louisville Bail Project Did NOT Rent Truck That Distributed Supplies to Louisville Protest and Bail Project Gets NO Funds from George Soros
Did the Louisville Bail Project rent a truck to deliver "riot supplies" to a Black Lives Matter march with support from billionaire George Soros? No, neither of those claims is true. The U-Haul truck shown in online videos delivering supp
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof That Trump Is ‘A Rapist And A Pedophile’
Is Donald Trump a rapist and a pedophile? There's no proof this is true: The claims are based on allegations and lawsuits that have been recanted, dismissed or remain ongoing. They remain unproven in a court of law. The claims appeared in