On March 2 2021, throngs of Twitter users objected to the purported canceling or banning of books by Theodor Geisel, also known as children’s author Dr. Seuss. In some tellings, it was actual censorship — a state-sponsored cancellation that
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Snopes→ FBI Says Rioters Weren’t Fake Trump Protesters
Some Republican members of Congress have suggested that left-wing protesters dressed up as Trump supporters to attack the Capitol, despite no evidence of that.
Health Feedback→ Bananas may be healthy, but consuming them won’t treat gastrointestinal diseases nor limit the replication of HIV
REVIEW A Facebook post by Anthony William, who also goes by the moniker Medical Medium, made a series of claims about the healing benefits of bananas. Among them were that bananas are a powerful antiviral that can prevent or reduce the growth of hum
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s CPAC Speech
In his first public speech since leaving office, former President Donald Trump delighted his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference with numerous false and misleading claims, many of them criticisms of his successor. Trump falsely cl
Snopes→ Trump Calls for GOP Unity, Repeats Lies About Election Loss
Former President Donald Trump called for GOP unity, even as he exacerbated intraparty divisions by attacking fellow Republicans and promoting lies about the election.
New York Times→ Trump Revives Familiar Falsehoods in CPAC Speech
The former president attacked his successor and continued to claim that he won the 2020 election.
New York Times→ Trump Revives Familiar Falsehoods in CPAC Speech
The former president attacked his successor and continued to claim that he won the 2020 election.
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Vaccines Impact Fertility
Q: Do the COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility? A: There’s no evidence that approved vaccines cause fertility loss. Although clinical trials did not study the issue, loss of fertility has not been reported among thousands of trial participants nor
Washington Post→ Dissecting the House GOP spin against Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill
Here's a guide to what's wrong or off-base about House GOP talking points attacking the covid-rleief plan.
Poynter→ Fox News host Tucker Carlson downplayed the role of white supremacists at the Capitol riot
Fox News host Tucker Carlson downplayed the involvement of racially motivated extremist groups in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, falsely suggesting that the mob of pro-Trump rioters who violently stormed the building did not include white supre
AFP Fact Check→ AFP photo from 2018 circulates in misleading posts about unrest in Nigeria’s southeast region
An image of a soldier rappelling from a chopper has been shared hundreds of times in Facebook posts with claims that it shows the Nigerian army attacking a local militia using a “war helicopter”. Although there has been a resurgence of unrest in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Blocking ‘Community Standards’ Does NOT Keep A Person Out Of ‘Facebook Jail’
Do these instructions explaining how to block "community standards" give a Facebook user free rein to violate the platform's community standards without being penalized or going to "Facebook Jail"? No, that's not true: These instructions
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Jr. Did NOT Say The Governor Of Texas Was A Democrat
In defending Ted Cruz' ill-timed vacation in Cancun, did Donald Trump Jr. flub it and say Texas' Republican governor is a Democrat? No, that's not true. Trump Jr.'s tweet about Texas Sen. Cruz leaving Texas for Cancun amid a winter storm
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Washington, D.C., Is NOT ‘Checking Your ID’ For People ‘To Get In And Out Of’ The City
Is Washington, D.C., "checking your ID" for people "to get in and out of" the city? No, that's not true: There are currently no checkpoints at the city limits/boundaries of Washington, D.C. The claim appeared a Facebook post (archived her
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Ted Cruz Fly to Mexico While Texans Were Without Electricity?
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was denounced online after being caught flying out of the state as hundreds of thousands of residents remained without power and water for sunnier climates. Photographs placing Cruz at the Houston airport began surfacin
Full Fact→ US rapper Pitbull wrong to claim Event 201 was ‘rehearsal’ for coronavirus pandemic
A video of the US rapper Pitbull claiming that the pandemic was planned out during ‘Event 201’ has been widely shared on UK Facebook. Event 201 was a real pandemic planning exercise that took place in October 2019. This does not mean its or
Snopes→ US Charges North Korean Computer Programmers in Global Hacks
The Justice Department has charged three North Korean computer programmers in a broad range of global hacks, including a destructive attack targeting an American movie studio.
FactCheck.org→ Video Airs False, Misleading Claims About Face Masks
Quick Take Evidence of the efficacy of face masks to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus has grown since the start of the pandemic. But a Facebook video, viewed tens of thousands of times, uses false and misleading claims to tell viewers t
The Dispatch→ Assessing the Various Claims in Mike Lindell’s ‘Absolute Proof’
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The Dispatch→ Is Bank of America Giving Away Customer Data Without Consent?
During his show on February 4, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed that Bank of America is “without the knowledge or the consent of its customers, sharing private information with federal law enforcement agencies.” Carlson explained how
Logically→ Capitol rioters attempted to gouge out a police officer’s eye.
Officer Daniel Hodges said he was violently attacked at the Capitol hill riots.
Poynter→ The impeachment trial is over, but Donald Trump faces more investigations
By a vote of 57 to 43, the Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., cautioned that Trump might still face charges or lawsuits for his role in the attack on the Capito
Health Feedback→ The CDC didn’t introduce a “major rule change” to inflate COVID-19 deaths; there have been more than 490,000 excess deaths in the U.S. to date
REVIEW An article published by the Gateway Pundit in early February 2021 claimed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent”. The article received more t
Snopes→ Trial Highlights: Trump Grievances, Angry Outbursts and More
In a whirlwind defense, Donald Trump’s impeachment attorneys aired a litany of grievances, arguing the former president bore no responsibility for the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol while accusing Democrats of “hatred” and “hypocrisy.”
FactCheck.org→ Video Makes Bogus Claims About ‘War Crimes’ and COVID-19 Vaccine Safety
Quick Take A video falsely claims that people receiving authorized COVID-19 vaccines are taking part in a deadly clinical trial and that those administering the doses are war criminals under the Nuremberg Code. That’s bogus. People getting the
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘California Inmate Has Now Beaten to Death 2 Child Molesters With a Cane While in Prison, Authorities Say’
In February 2021, a February 1 2020 Facebook post (possibly “revived” by “On This Day” or “Memories”) continued its viral spread. The post consisted of what appeared to be a screenshot of a headline reading “C
Snopes→ Fox Abruptly Cuts off Impeachment Manager During Testimony
Fox News Channel cut off an impeachment manager in mid-sentence as he was presenting dramatic video footage of the mob attacking the U.S. Capitol and government leaders running for safety.
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Ashli Babbitt’s Death ‘Exposed as a Hollywood Stunt’?
A blog with a history of publishing weaponized disinformation attempted to use the death of one of the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 as grist for another conspiracy theory. The “story,” posted on Before It’s N
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: mRNA Vaccine Does NOT Increase Risk Of COVID Death, Provoke ‘Cytokine Storm,’ Turn Patients Into ‘Genetically Modified Organisms’
Do mRNA vaccines increase the risk of death for COVID-19 patients, provoke immune system over-reactions and turn patients into genetically modified organisms whose own immune systems attack them? No, that's not true: mRNA vaccines do not
Snopes→ New Riot Video Shows Officer Goodman Point Romney to Safety
The response under fire of Eugene Goodman and other officers during the Jan. 6 attack was central to the arguments made by impeachment managers.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mike Lindell Did NOT Say Capitol Rioters Were ‘Drugged By Antifa Sluts’
Did Mike Lindell say Capitol rioters were "drugged by antifa sluts"? No, that's not true: The claim was made in an article posted to a satire website with completely made-up quotes from Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow. The claim appeared as
Truth or Fiction?→ Law Professor Refutes Trump Attorneys’ Attempt to Cite Him in Impeachment Defense
An effort to sow weaponized disinformation benefiting former United States president Donald Trump ahead of his second impeachment trial was blunted in early February 2021, when the legal scholar cited by his attorneys publicly debunked their claims. T
Snopes→ Senate Agrees to Hear Trump Case, Rejecting GOP Arguments
Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial opened with graphic video showing the former president whipping up a rally crowd to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” against his reelection defeat, followed by images of the deadly attack
Truth or Fiction?→ MyPillow Guy ‘Lindell: Capitol Rioters Were Drugged By Antifa Sluts’
On February 5 2021, “Business Standard News” published an item with the headline, “Lindell: Capitol Rioters Were Drugged By Antifa Sluts,” which claimed — true to its headline — that MyPillow’s chief executive
FactCheck.org→ Misleading DCCC Ads Link Republicans to QAnon
The campaign committee for House Democrats is running ads that claim eight House Republicans “stood with Q, not you,” because they voted against impeaching then-President Donald Trump for inciting the violent insurrection at the Capitol. But none
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Fun Fact … If a Fire Starts in the [Yale] Library, All the Oxygen Leaves the Building,’ ‘Killing [People] … to Protect the Rare Books’
On February 7 2021, a Facebook user shared a Twitter screenshot with a “fun fact” about a library at Yale University that involved a mechanism that would “protect the rare books” from the effects of a putative fire, but at the
Snopes→ Trump Lawyers Blast Impeachment Trial As ‘Political Theater’
In a brief filed on the eve of the impeachment trial, lawyers for the former president leveled a wide-ranging attack on the case, foreshadowing the claims they intend to present when arguments begin on the same Senate floor that was invaded by rioters
FactCheck.org→ MyPillow CEO’s Video Rehashes Debunked Election Fraud Claims
Quick Take A two-hour video, claiming to prove that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, has been viewed tens of thousands of times online and aired on the cable channel One America News Networ
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mike Lindell’s ‘Absolute Proof’ Video, Promising To Expose Election Fraud, Relies On False And Unsubstantiated Claims
By Dana Ford and Alexis Tereszcuk Does Mike Lindell's "Absolute Proof" video, which promises to expose election fraud, contain only factual and proven statements about the 2020 election? No, that's not true: The nearly two-hour video recy
Snopes→ Ocasio-Cortez Leads Lawmakers Recalling Capitol Siege
Lawmakers stood before the House to tell their persona accounts of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, preserving for the record their own memories of the most violent domestic attack on Congress in the nation’s history.