An antitrust probe against Facebook has expanded into nearly the entire continental United States and beyond, New York State Attorney General Letitia James said on October 22 2019, with 46 states and one territory taking part. James said in a statemen
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Lead Stories→ Fake News: President Trump Told The Press About Jeffrey Epstein: ‘Check The Plane Manifests To His Island.’ They Actually Did
Did the news media ignore Jeffrey Epstein's flight manifests, including those concerning Bill Clinton, even after President Donald Trump told them to look? No, that's not true: Reporters wrote stories about former President Bill Clinton's trav
Snopes→ Democrats’ 2020 Race Has a New Shadow: Hillary Clinton
Some Democrats are putting up caution signs for Hillary Clinton as she wades back into presidential politics.
Snopes→ Television’s Weather Channel Wades into Climate Debate
The Weather Channel is moving beyond cold fronts and heat waves to wade into the politics of climate change, with a special planned for early next month that includes interviews with nine presidential candidates on the topic.
FactCheck.org→ Video: Trump’s False Subpoena Claim
This week, CNN’s Jake Tapper takes a look at a claim that President Donald Trump made about subpoenas issued by the House committees for documents and testimony related to the impeachment inquiry. In criticizing the House Democrats for their han
Snopes→ Trump Outstripping Obama on Pace of Executive Orders
It wasn't too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as "power grabs" and a "basic disaster."
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Hillary Clinton Did NOT Claim Russians ‘Grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard As Third-Party Candidate
Did Hillary Clinton claim Russians are "grooming" Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as a third-party presidential candidate in 2020? No, that's not true: Clinton suggested in a podcast that the Trump campaign -- not Russians -- was "grooming" a woman who was
Snopes→ Did Elizabeth Warren Say of Mollie Tibbetts’ Slaying, ‘We Need to Focus on Real Problems’?
Critics of the Democratic presidential candidate, and supporters of President Trump's immigration policies, seized on remarks Warren made in August 2018.
FactCheck.org→ Flurry of Trump Falsehoods
Summary In two press appearances in the same day, President Donald Trump made several false claims and distorted the facts on issues ranging from Syria to trade: Trump claimed that former GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan “would never issue a subpoena
Truth or Fiction?→ MIT Science Professor Accused of Spreading Disinformation Resigns From Science Journal
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has resigned from the board of a prestigious science journal after he was accused of spreading conspiracy theories about a chemical weapons attack in Syria in 2017 and a major scientific journ
Snopes→ White House: Ukraine Aid Held Up in Part Over Election Probe
The White House acknowledged that it held up military aid to Ukraine as President Donald Trump pushed the country's new leader to investigate the Democratic National Committee in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, a central question in the House impe
PolitiFact→ No, Mark Zuckerberg did not endorse Donald Trump, as Elizabeth Warren said in phony ad
Did Mark Zuckerberg endorse Donald Trump for president? No. Zuckerberg has not endorsed Trump; the ads set the record straight two sentences below the attention-grabbing claim. Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said she took out ads with th
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NEW Starbucks CEO Did NOT Admit She Doesn’t Like White Peope
Did "New Starbucks CEO" Rosalind Brewer admit she doesn't like white people? No, there are several things that are not true in that statement, the most obvious one being that Brewer isn't actually the CEO of Starbucks (who happens to be a whit
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Satanic Pentagram Was NOT On Democratic Debate Stage Ceiling
Was a satanic pentagram displayed on the ceiling above the stage of the Democratic presidential debate stage in Westerville, Ohio? No, that's not true: A purported photo showing the pentagram above the Democratic candidates was digitally alter
PolitiFact→ Why Tulsi Gabbard calls the war in Syria a ‘regime change war’
Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard said during the recent Democratic debate that the United States is in Syria waging a "regime change war." President Donald Trump this month withdrew American troops from the Syrian border with Turkey, prom
FactCheck.org→ Video: FactChecking October Debate Claims
In this video, we highlight several claims made by some of the candidates in the Oct.15 Democratic presidential debate: Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro wrongly claimed that the “latest jobs data” show that “
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking the October Democratic Debate
Summary We found several false and misleading claims in the October Democratic presidential debate: Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro claimed that the most recent jobs data show that “Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania &
Washington Post→ Fact-checking the fourth Democratic debate
Here's a roundup of eight claims from the fourth Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 campaign.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Republicans Hold 33 Benghazi Hearings and Make Hillary Clinton Testify for 11 Hours?
In October 2019, the Facebook page “Occupy Democrats” shared the following tweet, which claimed that Republicans held 33 “Benghazi hearings” — and that Hillary Clinton testified for eleven hours as they ran their course: R
FactCheck.org→ The Democratic Letter to Ukraine
In May 2018, three Democratic senators wrote to the Ukrainian prosecutor general, asking about a news report that he had frozen four Ukrainian investigations involving Paul Manafort to avoid angering President Donald Trump. Republicans have called the
FactCheck.org→ Misleading Narrative About a Supposed ‘Ukrainian Arms Dealer’
Quick Take An online story says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff “are both connected to a Ukrainian arms dealer” through a 2013 fundraiser. But the supposed “Ukrainian arms dealer” owns a California company tha
Snopes→ Warren Escalates Facebook Fight with Ad Targeting Zuckerberg
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has escalated her tiff with Facebook by running an ad — on Facebook — taking aim at its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Truth or Fiction?→ Do Four in Ten Cancer Patients Really Lose Their Life Savings?
An October 11 2019 Imgur repost of a Bernie Sanders tweet appeared alongside the caption “this is how you know he would fight for the people if he is elected our president”: That tweet read: It’s not coincidental that the top health
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Los Angeles County Does NOT Have The Same Population As All Of The Bottom 43 States
Does Los Angeles County have the same population as all of the bottom 43 American states? No, that's not true: The census bureau estimates there were 10,105,518 people living in Los Angeles County, California, at the start of 2019, while the 4
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Numbers October 2019 Update
Summary Since President Donald Trump took office: The economy added 6 million jobs, and the unemployment rate dropped to the lowest level in nearly 50 years. Economic growth fell far short of the annual 4% to 6% Trump promised. The most recent rate is
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s False Tweets on Syria
After announcing a withdrawal of U.S. troops in Syria at the border with Turkey, President Donald Trump tweeted incorrect statements about the conflict. On Oct. 7, Trump claimed the United States’ involvement in Syria was originally supposed to l
FactCheck.org→ Fact: Trump TV Ad Misleads on Biden and Ukraine
With its candidate the subject of an impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has gone on the offensive with a TV ad that claims to present the “facts” about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Ukr
PolitiFact→ Did Elizabeth Warren lose a teaching job because she was pregnant?
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tells a different story today than she once did about how she lost a teaching shortly after graduating from college. The Massachusetts senator now says she lost the job because she was pregnant.
FactCheck.org→ Outburst at AOC Town Hall Was Staged
Quick Take A political group took credit for planting a woman who espoused “eating babies” to address climate change at a recent town hall event hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But some have still misrepresented the woman as “
Truth or Fiction?→ Does Footage Prove Elizabeth Warren Lied About ‘Visibly Pregnant’ Firing?
In early October 2019, a number of social media posts and attendant articles referenced a multi-layered claim that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) “lied” about being fired because she was “visibly pregnant.” Social medi
Snopes→ Warren Stands By Account of Once Being Fired for Pregnancy
It's an anecdote that she routinely recounts at campaign events but one that some critics charge has been embellished to make the narrative more compelling for her presidential run.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Actor Tim Allen Did NOT Say: ‘President Trump’s Wall Costs Less Than The ObamaCare Website. Let That Sink In, America’
Did actor Tim Allen say "President Trump's wall costs less than the ObamaCare website. Let that sink in, America"? No, that's not true: Tim Allen's publicist confirmed to Lead Stories that the "Home Improvement" star never said those words. Th
Truth or Fiction?→ Facebook on Allowing Political Ads with Disinformation: ‘A Benefit to See What Politicians Are Saying’
Just one day after a report highlighting an ad for United States President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign based on a claim that Facebook’s own fact-checking partners had already debunked, the social media platform is claiming that al
Truth or Fiction?→ Lyndon LaRouche: An Explainer
An attempt to troll U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) in early October 2019 led to newfound attention for the devotees of failed political candidate, convicted felon, and one-time Marxist-turned-Democratic-presidential-candidate-turned-f
Snopes→ Campaign: Sanders Had Heart Attack, Released from Hospital
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had a heart attack, his campaign confirmed as the Vermont senator was released from a Nevada hospital.
FactCheck.org→ Video: False Whistleblower Rule Claim
In this fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper scrutinizes a false claim — made by President Donald Trump and Rep. Jim Jordan — that rules were recently changed to allow an intelligence community whistleblower to file a complaint alle
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Inaccurate Claims About His ‘Perfect’ Call
President Donald Trump’s request that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, has triggered an impeachment inquiry. Since then, the president has made a series of inaccur
PolitiFact→ Who is the ‘Ukraine gas exec’ playing golf with the Bidens in Trump’s Nickelback post?
CNN Iowa campaign embed D.J. Judd may have said it best: "Well, if you had ‘Nickelback invokes trademark infringement to remove a parody video posted by the president to Twitter,’ on your 2019 bingo card, today is your day," he wr
PolitiFact→ Timeline: The Trump impeachment inquiry
Under the umbrella of an impeachment inquiry, House Democrats are investigating President Donald Trump and whether he abused his presidential power by withholding aid to Ukraine while asking its government to look into his political rival Joe Biden. Th
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Joe Biden Did NOT Call Trump Supporters the ‘Dregs Of Society’
Did Joe Biden call Trump supporters the "dregs of society"? No, that's not true: The former vice president referred to "forces of intolerance" who "remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress" as the "dregs of society" in a speec