A video viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Facebook and YouTube posts in January 2021 purports to show President Rodrigo Duterte announcing that Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jnr has won a legal challenge over the 2016 election result aga
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AFP Fact Check→ Edited, manipulated clip of former Pakistani diplomat discussing 2019 Indian air strike circulates on social media and in mainstream Indian press
A purported clip of a Pakistani TV programme that appears to show a former Pakistani diplomat admitting that India’s air strike against the country in February 2019 killed at least 300 people has been viewed tens of thousands times in Facebook, Twi
Snopes→ A Second Impeachment Is Just the Start of Trump’s Legal Woes
The second impeachment is the opening salvo of investigations and allegations of wrongdoing that will define Trump's legacy.
Snopes→ Disneyland Ends Annual Passes
Disneyland is ending its annual pass program 10 months after the theme park shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Truth or Fiction?→ Was a Florida Teacher Fired for Blaming the Capitol Riot on ‘Antifa’?
A Florida woman was dismissed from working as a substitute teacher for a Florida charter school system after she was caught on video attempting to justify the seditious January 6 2021 attack on the United States Capitol building. The unidentified woma
FactCheck.org→ False Claim of Trump Invoking Insurrection Act
Quick Take A falsehood on social media claims President Donald Trump has “invoked” the Insurrection Act, seized control of the country through the military and will “remain president indefinitely.” A Defense Department spokesma
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Louisiana Floods Destroy Home of Christian Leader Who Says God Sends Natural Disasters to Punish Gay People’
On January 14 2021, an Imgur user shared the following screenshot of a headline (“Louisiana Floods Destroy Home of Christian Leader Who Says God Sends Natural Disasters to Punish Gay People”), in a post titled “Such dramatic way of c
Logically→ Only seven percent of the US government’s emergency stimulus package will be granted to individuals, with the rest going to big businesses
The emergency stimulus package includes funding for individuals and businesses, but the exact distribution of government funds can't be confirmed
Truth or Fiction?→ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Impeachment Dress’ Makes Second Appearance
A January 13 2021 post to Reddit’s r/pics was one of several observing that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s dress appeared to be identical to the one she wore for outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s first impeachment on December 19 2
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Our President HAS Been Officially Impeached. Twice. — Video Misstates Constitutional Process
Has President Donald Trump officially never been impeached because the United States Senate hasn't convicted him? No, that's not true: The U. S. Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole power of impeachment and the Senate sole
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report Investigators Believe Riot At U.S. Capitol Wasn’t Trump-Inspired
Did CNN report that investigators believe the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not inspired by Donald Trump, and did Democrats impeach Trump "before they had any information from investigators?" No, that's not true: CNN re
Logically→ Biden “plans to force schools to allow males to use female bathrooms”.
Biden's guidance for transgender students has been misrepresented.
AllSides→ Did Members of Congress Provide ‘Reconnaissance Tours’ Before Capitol Riots?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/reconnaissance-tours/ Ever since a mob of pro-Trump rioters overwhelm
Snopes→ Did Pelosi Wear Same Dress for Both of Trump’s Impeachments?
U.S. President Donald Trump was the first president in American history to be impeached twice.
AllSides→ Timeline of National Guard Deployment to Capitol
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/01/timeline-of-national-guard-deployment-to-capitol/ On the day of the C
Poynter→ Growing usage of encrypted messaging apps could make it harder to combat misinformation
Gigantic numbers released this week indicate that encrypted messaging apps are on the rise — and this is disturbing for some members of the fact-checking community. Reporting by Axios showed private messaging app Signal saw a 677% increase in downloa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trey Gowdy Quote About Rigging Election and Martial Law Is NOT Real
Did former politician Trey Gowdy say "If you're okay with rigging an election, I'm ok with martial law to stop you" as several social media posts are claiming? No, that's not true: there is no record of Gowdy ever saying these words, they
Poynter→ Facebook has banned QAnon, but false claims connected to the conspiracy are still circulating on the platform ahead of Inauguration Day
Facebook and Instagram posts are spreading false claims that President Donald Trump is set to impose martial law ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration. Many of them allude to QAnon, a baseless conspiracy theory that’s banned on the platforms. On Jan. 6
AFP Fact Check→ The video shows people queueing at a Covid-19 quarantine centre in Malaysia
A video has been viewed hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts, along with a claim that it shows a long queue of people to enter a Covid-19 makeshift hospital in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. The claim is false; the video actually shows a queu
Snopes→ Enduring 2nd Impeachment, Trump Stands Largely Silent, Alone
For more than four years, Trump has dominated the national discourse like no one before him. Yet when his legacy was set in stone by a second impeachment, he was stunningly left on the sidelines.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Big Tech’ CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet
Is "Big Tech" letting child porn distributors freely operate while restricting people who post content that companies like Amazon and Facebook consider to be dangerous falsehoods? No, that's not how it works: No one owns the internet, whi
Truth or Fiction?→ Was a ‘Biden Election Official’ Arrested for Voter Fraud in Texas?
Shortly after the arrest of a Texas woman accused of election tampering, right-wing social media users began trying to spin the case into an attack on U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden’s decisive win over outgoing president Donald Trump. Embattled
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Governors’ Names Are NOT On Leaked List Of Chinese Communist Party Members
Are U.S. governors' names on a leaked list of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members? No, that's not true: Although there are credible reports of a leaked CCP database, people with direct knowledge of the list told Lead Stories no governor
FactCheck.org→ Timeline of National Guard Deployment to Capitol
On the day of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, the first National Guard members arrived to assist at about 5:40 p.m. By then, most of the violence had subsided. In the critical minutes before rioters had breached the Capitol building around 2 p.m., the chie
Snopes→ Trump Impeached After Capitol Riot in Historic Second Charge
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol.
Snopes→ Hawley, Facing Fallout, Blames Media, D.C. ‘Establishment’
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, facing waning support from longtime backers and donors in the wake of the attack at the U.S. Capitol, defended himself in a newspaper column, accusing the media and “Washington establishment” of deceiving Ameri
Snopes→ YouTube Suspends Trump’s Channel for at Least a Week
The Google-owned platform said it removed content that was uploaded on January 12 to the Donald J. Trump channel for inciting violence.
Snopes→ Mix of Extremists Who Stormed Capitol Isn’t Retreating
As rioters laid siege to the U.S. Capitol, the seat of American democracy became a melting pot of extremist groups: militia members, white supremacists, paramilitary organizations, anti-maskers and fanatical supporters of President Donald Trump, standi
Snopes→ Majority of House Members Vote for 2nd Impeachment of Trump
A majority of the U.S. House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, just a week after he encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results.
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Jim Jordan’s Claim That He Never Said ‘The Election Was Stolen’
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AFP Fact Check→ Quotes from US Democrats falsely characterized as calls for violence
Social media posts shared after the storming of the US Capitol by followers of President Donald Trump combine images of prominent Democrats with pictures of burning buildings and quotes suggesting that the politicians previously incited unrest. But the
Logically→ An IT expert testified in an Italian court, saying that he and others rigged machines to switch votes to Biden.
There is no evidence of switched votes or that electoral fraud took place in the presidential election.
Logically→ U.S. lawmakers can use impeachment to bar Trump from running for president in 2024.
While the articles of impeachment themselves would not bar Trump, one possible outcome of the impeachment proceedings is that he could be barred.
Snopes→ Did PGA of America Ban Trump Golf Courses for Life?
Professional golf distanced itself from U.S. President Donald Trump after the Capitol riot.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Votes Were NOT Deleted And Were NOT Switched To Biden
Were votes for Donald Trump deleted and switched to his opponent, Joe Biden? No, that's not true: There's zero evidence to support the claim. Dominion Voting Systems, independent experts and election officials have all, repeatedly, defend
Full Fact→ The government spent £63,000 on influencer marketing for Test and Trace
In August of last year, media outlets reported that a number of social media influencers had been paid to post about the government’s Test and Trace service. Full Fact asked the Cabinet Office how much was spent on this type of marketing, via a F
Snopes→ US Carries out Its 1st Execution of Female Inmate Since 1953
Lisa Montgomery was the 11th prisoner to receive a lethal injection there since July when President Donald Trump, an ardent supporter of capital punishment, resumed federal executions following 17 years without one.
Logically→ During the siege on the Capitol, rioters smeared feces around the building.
Prominent media organizations have reported that feces were smeared throughout the federal building.
Logically→ The Supreme Court has stayed the implementation of three farm laws.
The Supreme Court has stayed the implementation of three farm laws and set up a four-member committee that will scrutinize them.
AllSides→ The second Trump impeachment: Questions and answers
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/11/second-trump-impeachment-questions-and-answers/ In the w