(Photo illustration from Getty Images.)Americans struggle to understand how their tax dollars are spent.The post How Taxpayer Receipts Could Improve the Debate Over Spending appeared first on The Dispatch.
Logically→ Footage shows an American Abrams tank failing to climb a snowy hill in Ukraine.
Abrams tanks are not yet present in Ukraine, and this footage predates the Russian invasion in 2022.
Logically→ London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan will launch a scheme to ban dog walking in Tower Hamlets.
Sadiq Khan has not proposed a scheme to ban dog walking; the claim in the shared tweet is false.
Logically→ Uttar Pradesh government demolished a mosque in Prayagraj after a Pakistani flag was hoisted over it.
The Shahi Masjid had hoisted the Islamic flag and not the Pakistani flag. Authorities said the mosque was razed under a road-widening project.
Washington Post→ What’s more common: A ‘good guy’ without a gun — or with one?
FBI active-shooter reports are missing cases and have errors, making it difficult to come to a conclusion.
The Dispatch→ Is That A Mein Kempf In Your Pocket?
Sarah takes the reins.The post Is That A Mein Kempf In Your Pocket? appeared first on The Dispatch.
PolitiFact→ Louise Lucas – Lucas falsely inflates Youngkin’s special election setback
Glenn Youngkin is “the first sitting Governor in the modern era to have their party have less legislative seats than when they were elected.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Black Americans Are NOT Descendants Of North America’s Original Indigenous Inhabitants
Are Black Americans descended from the original indigenous inhabitants of North America and not from enslaved persons taken from Africa? No, that's not true: This notion descends from the Moorish Science Temple, a pseudoscience organizati
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John F. Kennedy’s Secret Service Driver Did NOT Kill Former President
Did the driver for John F. Kennedy, Secret Service Agent William Greer, turn around and shoot the former president when JFK was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963? No, that's not true: A video posted on social media that makes this c
FactCheck.org→ It’s Too Soon to Attribute the California Storms to Climate Change, Experts Say
The relentless storms that hit California from Dec. 27 to Jan. 16 caused extreme flooding and extensive damage in most of the state, killing at least 22 people. A series of storms hit back to back, soaking the state in the midst of California’s drie
FactCheck.org→ Democrats Misleadingly Suggest Widespread GOP Support for FairTax Bill Unlikely to Become Law
Few Republican lawmakers have publicly supported a bill to replace most federal taxes with a national sales tax, a plan that has almost no chance of becoming law, or even passing in the GOP-led House of Representatives — certainly not in the 118
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Biden stumbled in December speech, but altered video removes context and clarity
President Joe Biden said, “To the Ukrainian people, I say to them all, you might you might they they might be able to make right and they’re not able to.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Marines And FBI Did NOT ‘Clash’ At Camp Pendleton, California
Did FBI agents "clash" with U.S. Marine Corps guards at Camp Pendleton in California? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that such a "clash" happened. Real Raw News, which originated the claim, has a history of writing false storie
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Giant Snake Wrapped Around Iveco Van Is NOT Real — Prop Python Is Chinese Installation
Is a video showing two people trying to help a man break free from the grasp of a giant python that has swallowed his entire head real? No, that's not true: This giant snake wrapped around a white Iveco van is not real, but a novelty prop
PolitiFact→ Richard Hudson – Hudson inflates Biden's role in oil prices
“Joe Biden’s war on American energy caused this crisis and his only response has been to drain our strategic petroleum reserve to its lowest level since 1983.”
The Dispatch→ The Only Way Out Is Through
Former President Donald Trump, joined by Sen. Lindsay Graham, right, and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, left, speaks at a campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 28. (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)On Trump and ‘actuari
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Drinking Coffee Causes Cancer, Experts Say
Does regularly consuming a cup of java increase the odds of developing cancer thanks to the chemical acrylamide in the brew? No, that's not true: Repeated medical studies have found no link between acrylamide and cancer, the National Canc
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Some One Dreamed the Other Night That He Was Living in the Year 2023 … Eggs Had Gone Up to $10 a Dozen’
In late January 2023, an Imgur account shared an image of a newspaper clipping which contained an apparent lament about the future cost of eggs a century from 1923: The post was titled “Nostradamus, is that you in 1923?” The text shown on
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking a Map That Depicts Part of Ukraine as Polish Territory
This map shows an accurate depiction of Poland and Ukrainian territory. (Photo from Getty Images.) An image circulating online purports to show a weather map that depicts Polish territory extending well into Western Ukraine. The image is fake. A hi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Videos Do NOT Show People ‘Dropping Suddenly’ Because Of The COVID Vaccine
Does a collection of video clips show people "dropping suddenly" because of the COVID vaccine? No, that's not true: Almost all of the clips in a post making that implication predate the vaccine, meaning there is no way the people seen stu
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Old photo of former President Donald Trump used to hawk diet pills
This photo shows former President Donald Trump “last week.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Final frontier? No, NASA didn’t stop studying oceans, it’s exploring in ocean depths and from space
“NASA stopped exploring the ocean.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The US still exists. Biden didn’t sign away the country’s sovereignty with North American agreement
The United States of America “no longer exists” because President Joe Biden “signed away our sovereignty as a nation.”
Truth or Fiction?→ 2023 Connecticut Egg Production Plant Fire Rumors
On January 29 2023, right-wing Twitter personality and longtime disinformation purveyor Elijah Schaffer tweeted a video which tied together two popular narratives by purportedly depicting “one of the largest egg production plants” burning d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fluoride In Drinking Water Is NOT Unsafe, NOT Ineffective In Preventing Tooth Decay
Is fluoride a toxic chemical that is neither safe or effective at preventing tooth decay? No, that's not true: In the right concentrations fluoride is a safe and effective tool for preventing tooth decay, although overexposure to high lev
The Dispatch→ Is Harvard Medical School Teaching Students to Treat ‘LGBTQIA+’ Infants?
Harvard Medical School. (Photo by: Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group /Getty Images.)The treatments in question are only for intersex babies. The post Is Harvard Medical School Teaching Students to Treat ‘LGBTQIA+’ Infants? appeared fi
Full Fact→ How wages and pensions in the UK and France compare
A tweet shared more than 5,000 times makes a number of comparisons between France and the UK, many of which need context or are not quite right.
The Dispatch→ Pompeo Sounds Off on Classified Documents Scandal
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.)Plus, Ronna McDaniel seeks to unite the RNC after her reelection.The post Pompeo Sounds Off on Classified Documents Scandal appeared first on The Dispatch.
Logically→ Viral photo proves Rahul Gandhi met producer of the BBC documentary on PM Modi six months ago.
The image captures Gandhi with British politician Jeremy Corbyn and entrepreneur Sam Pitroda at a much-talked-about meeting in London in May 2022.
The Dispatch→ Last Call in Brussels
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a press conference at the June 2022 NATO summit in Madrid. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Why should NATO continue to let Turkey hold it hostage?The post Last Call in Brussels appeared f
Logically→ A satellite image shows a power outage in Pakistan on January 23, 2023.
A 2000 image by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has been digitally altered and linked to the current economic crisis in Pakistan.
Logically→ A video shows British people shouting ‘shame on you’ outside the BBC offices in London for its documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The video is from an anti-vaccine protest held in London on January 21 and has no connection with the BBC documentary.
The Dispatch→ Ukraine’s Fight Against Corruption
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a meeting in Lviv, Ukraine. (Photo by Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)Plus: Introducing Dispatch Politics, our newest newsletter offering.The post Ukraine’s Fight Against Cor
Poynter→ A claim vastly overstates the government’s spending on TSA’s gender-neutral screening technology
A man recording a video while in line at the airport Transportation Security Administration checkpoint had another agenda besides flying. In the video posted Jan. 19 on Facebook that’s been viewed nearly […] The post A claim vastly overstates
The Dispatch→ Trump Tries Slogging It Out
Donald Trump at an event in Dallas, 2015. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)He’s lost his crucial advantage from 2016—the ability to surprise.The post Trump Tries Slogging It Out appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Mike Pompeo’s Preemptive Strike on Donald Trump
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo waves as he arrives to speak during a Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 18, 2022. (Photo by Wade Vandervort / AFP) (Photo by WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty
The Dispatch→ The Tech Bubble Burst
People walk past Google offices in New York City. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress)Easy access to loans and high demand for products inflated the tech industry. Now it has lost both.The post The Tech Bubble Burst appeared first on The Dispatch.
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The Dispatch→ A Last Word From David French
On his way to the New York Times.The post A Last Word From David French appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff From the Week That 2024 Got Rolling
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Republican state committee's annual meeting on January 28, 2023 in Salem, New Hampshire. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images.)And an announcement from us.The post Our Best Stuff From the Wee