Viral social media posts are claiming that Fox 10 Phoenix aired election results of the Arizona gubernatorial race prior to the election, showing Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs winning in favor of her Republican opponent, Kari Lake. An Instagram post
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, Ray Epps and Nancy Pelosi did not talk on the phone a week before Capitol insurrection
“Freedom of Information Act requests show a dozen phone calls between the cell phone of Ray Epps and the office of Speaker Pelosi in the week before #January6th”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Audio Of Paul Pelosi’s 911 Call Has NOT Been Leaked As Of November 3, 2022
Has a recording of Paul Pelosi's October 28, 2022, phone call to emergency dispatchers leaked? No, that's not true: The San Francisco Police Department, which responded to the attack on the 82-year-old husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelos
FactCheck.org→ Bodybuilder Died from COVID-19, Not the Vaccine as Social Media Posts Claim
SciCheck Digest A 62-year-old bodybuilder who had heart disease died after contracting COVID-19. But vaccine opponents are falsely suggesting that he died from the COVID-19 vaccine. He didn’t. He’d been vaccinated 18 months before his death
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump falsely said Democrats are playing ‘games’ with ‘unverified’ ballots in Pennsylvania
"Over 240,000 'unverified' ballots have already been sent out in Pennsylvania, a total mess. The Democrats are playing games again.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Off-Duty Pentagon Cop NOT ‘Caught Dealing Fentanyl To Children During Trick Or Treating’ – Headline Altered
Was an off-duty Pentagon police officer caught dealing fentanyl to children during trick-or-treating? No, that's not true: Officer Eric Welch was arrested, but the arrest was on charges related to cocaine, not fentanyl, and the arrest too
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking DSCC’s Abortion Ad in Nevada Senate Race
Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, opposes abortion and has called the overturning of Roe v. Wade a “historic victory.” But he has not voiced support for criminalizing abortion for women, as the Democratic Senatorial Campa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Seedless Limes Are NOT GMO
Are seedless limes a product of bioengineering that involves technology to alter plants' DNA? No, that's not true: Seedlessness occurs in nature, and farmers may use traditional breeding techniques to maintain this quality. That does not
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, mRNA vaccines aren’t being used on livestock in Australia
Australian officials “are giving cows mRNA vaccines."
FactCheck.org→ What Republican Officials Have Said About the Violent Attack on Paul Pelosi
Many Republicans have condemned or spoken out against the violent assault on Paul Pelosi, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband, who was knocked unconscious by an intruder at the couple’s San Francisco home the morning of Oct. 2
Truth or Fiction?→ U.S. President Joe Biden’s Speech on Threats to Democracy
On November 2 2022, United States President Joe Biden gave a speech ahead of the November 8 2022 U.S. midterm elections decrying a spike in political violence and urging voters to participate at the polls. Some Twitter users claimed that Biden’s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Soursop Fruit Has NOT Been Proven To Be 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemotherapy And Is NOT In Use As Cancer Treatment
Is soursop fruit 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy? No, that's not true: Soursop has not been proven in any clinical trials to be stronger than chemotherapy to any degree. According to a cancer professor at Harvard, this is "not a p
PolitiFact→ Tweets – No, Phillies fans at Citizens Bank Park did not trigger seismic activity
Thunderous crowd at Philadelphia Phillies game “literally registering on the Penn State University Brandywine seismograph station.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report Trump Died Of Autoerotic Asphyxiation
Did CNN report that Donald Trump died of autoerotic asphyxiation? No, that's not true: "It's a fabricated image and not anything CNN reported," a CNN spokesperson told Lead Stories. The post appears to be a joke since former President Don
Full Fact→ ‘New’ UK trade deals don’t account for ‘over £800 billion worth of new global trade’
Michael Gove tweeted a graphic claiming the UK has signed new trade deals with more than 70 countries, worth over £800 billion in new global trade. But the majority of these mirror previous EU deals.
Logically→ There are 47,000 homeless veterans in the U.K.
The figure stated in the post is taken from a 2015 report from the U.S., and does not reflect the number of homeless veterans in the U.K.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, Donald Trump isn’t dead, and CNN didn’t say he was
CNN reported Donald Trump died on Nov. 1.
PolitiFact→ Tim Ryan – Ohio’s Tim Ryan said J.D. Vance was silent on Pelosi attack
“J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi.
PolitiFact→ Citizens for Sanity – Ad comparing spending on Ukraine, US children is ridiculously wrong
President Joe Biden and Democrats "send a fortune to Ukraine but nothing for our children."
Health Feedback→ Japan preprint on myocarditis used inadequate methods to suggest COVID-19 vaccines cause more myocarditis deaths
REVIEW A preprint (a study that hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet), uploaded to the server medRxiv, claimed that relative to pre-pandemic years, “SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with higher risk of myocarditis death, not only in young adults b
AllSides→ Social Security Increase Due to Inflation, Not Presidential Action
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/11/social-security-increase-due-to-inflation-not-presidential-action/ A
Full Fact→ No evidence for Irish passport numbers among MPs and peers
Widely shared figures about the number of UK parliamentarians with Irish passports appear to have no source.
FactCheck.org→ Social Security Increase Due to Inflation, Not Presidential Action
A deleted tweet from the White House and remarks by President Joe Biden could leave the false impression that Biden’s policies have something to do with an increase in Social Security payments. But the increase is set by law and is linked to inf
PolitiFact→ Senate Majority PAC – Ad on Sen. Ron Johnson's Jan. 6 comments makes a point but comes with caveat
Says "Ron Johnson is making excuses for rioters who tried to overthrow our government, even calling them ‘peaceful protests.’”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Smithsonian didn’t admit to destroying giant human skeletons
“Smithsonian admits to destruction of thousands of giant human skeletons in early 1900s.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, a leaked 911 call doesn’t contradict reports about Pelosi attack
“Leaked audio tape of the 911 call from the Paul Pelosi attack has surfaced. The call proves that the liberal media has lied about what really happened.”
PolitiFact→ Georgia Gun Owners – Raphael Warnock, Stacey Abrams are not communists, nor trying to take guns from all Georgians
"Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams are radical communists and, if they get their way, gun owners here in Georgia will be completely disarmed."
AllSides→ White House Deletes Misleading Tweet Giving Biden Credit For Social Security Check Raise
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/11/02/white-house-deletes-misleading-tweet-giving-biden-credit-for-social-security-check-raise/?sh=495977be1750
AllSides→ White House Deletes Tweet Bragging about Social Security Increase after Inflation Fact Check
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/white-house-deletes-claim-of-ten-year-record-increase-in-social-security-under-biden/
AllSides→ White House deletes misleading tweet about Social Security
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/fact-check-biden-white-house-tweet-social-security-inflation/index.html
Logically→ MLA Brijesh Merja was seen trying to rescue victims in the river after the Morbi bridge collapsed in Gujarat.
Visuals of former Morbi BJP MLA Kantilal Amrutiya participating in the rescue operation were misattributed as Brijesh Merja.
Logically→ Elon Musk fired Twitter’s head of legal affairs and policy on air during Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Although Musk terminated Vijaya Gadde, he didn't do it on Joe Rogan's podcast. The video contains clips from different podcasts.
The Dispatch→ Calling Putin’s Black Sea Bluff
Why did Russia’s president back down on his threat to resume blockading Ukrainian grain exports? A Dispatch ExplainerThe post Calling Putin’s Black Sea Bluff appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Experiments in Democracy
Most states have tweaked their election laws in the last two years. But assessing how those changes will affect this year’s midterms is hard to do.The post Experiments in Democracy appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Radical Kooks
When political violence occurs, sorting out the crazy from the politics can be difficult.The post Radical Kooks appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Moors’ Are NOT The Original Inhabitants Of North America — ‘Pyramids’ Are Native American Earthworks
Is the U.S. covered with the sites of ancient pyramids associated with a pre-Columbian African civilization known as the Moors? No, that's not true: Hundreds of ancient earthworks and mounds scattered throughout North America have been li
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Narcotraffickers, Communists Celebrating Lula Election Victory In Brazil — It’s From 2019
Does a social media video show narcotraffickers and Communists celebrating the election victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva In Brazil's presidential election? No, that's not true: The video clip shows street celebrations in Brazil from
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Paul Pelosi Did NOT Tell 911 Dispatcher David Is A Friend — These Were The Attacker’s Words
Does a publicly available 911 recording feature the voice of Paul Pelosi identifying the man in his house as David and stating that he is a friend? No, that's not true: At the time of writing, the recording of the actual 911 call has not
PolitiFact→ Kris Mayes – Kris Mayes said Arizona’s murder rate rose by 20% under Republican leadership
“We have seen over the last 10 years ... under Republican governors a rise in the murder rate in Arizona of 20%.”
PolitiFact→ Kris Mayes – Kris Mayes exaggerates, but as AG, Abraham Hamadeh could seek jail time for abortion providers
Abraham Hamadeh says he will “lock up doctors, nurses, pharmacists” and “punish women for abortion.”