Quick Take Online posts falsely claim that there was fraud in the Senate runoff elections in Georgia, but the only evidence they offer are clips of election night newscasts that corrected two data-entry errors. Full Story Some of the same false claims
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AFP Fact Check→ Georgia runoff counts were corrected on TV, are not evidence of fraud
Social media posts claim clips from US broadcasters ABC and CNN provide evidence of election fraud in the Georgia Senate runoff races. This is false; the changes to the vote totals displayed in the TV clips are the result of corrections by Edison Resea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fulton County Did NOT Defy Court Order Against Blocking Credentialed Republican Poll Monitors From Viewing Absentee Ballots In Georgia U.S. Senate Runoff
Did the Fulton County Board of Elections defy a judge's order to remove barriers that prevented credentialed Republican poll monitors from viewing absentee ballots in the Senate runoff election in Georgia? No, that's not true: In a Januar
Snopes→ Did Bill Gates’ Father ‘Run’ Planned Parenthood and Teach His Son to Spread the ‘Gospel’ of Eugenics?
Conspiratorial social media posts baselessly linked the philanthropist to eugenics.
Truth or Fiction?→ Are Georgia Runoff Voters Being Told Voting Machines Are ‘Malfunctioning’?
Georgia’s long-anticipated runoff elections were slated for January 5 2020; that day, the disreputable site TrendingPolitics.com published an item headlined, “BREAKING: Georgia Voters Sound the Alarm, Claim They’re Being Told Votin
AllSides→ FactChecking the Georgia Senate Runoffs
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/01/factchecking-the-georgia-senate-runoffs/ Two months after Election Da
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking the Georgia Senate Runoffs
Two months after Election Day, control of the U.S. Senate in the 117th Congress comes down to two races in Georgia on Jan. 5. None of the four candidates on the ballot garnered 50% of the vote on Nov. 3, which forced separate runoffs. In one of the con
Snopes→ California Funeral Homes Run out of Space as COVID-19 Rages
As communities across the country feel the pain of a surge in coronavirus cases, funeral homes in the hot spot of Southern California say they must turn away grieving families as they run out of space for the bodies piling up.
Snopes→ Loeffler, Perdue Run Hard-Line Pitch in Swing State Georgia
In the final days of campaigning, the Republican Senate candidates are appealing to the most conservative part of the electorate.
Snopes→ EXPLAINER: Stakes High for U.S. Senate Runoffs in Georgia
Here's a look at how two key Georgia elections pushed into 2021, who's running and more.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Federal Government Did NOT Fail In An Attempt To Run Nevada’s Mustang Ranch Brothel After Seizing It For A Tax Debt
Did the Federal government unsuccessfully attempt to operate the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada after seizing over a tax debt? No, that's not true: The U.S. government did seize the famed house of ill repute twice, but in each instance i
Snopes→ Video: Deputy Runs Over Fleeing Black Man in Kansas Field
Lionel Womack was on his way back home from a business trip to California when a Kansas Highway Patrol officer in western Kansas initiated a chase over “an alleged traffic violation,” according to the lawsuit.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jeff Foxworthy Is NOT Behind Viral ‘You Might Live In A Nation That Was Founded By Geniuses But Is Run By Idiots’ Essay
Did Jeff Foxworthy write, "If plastic water bottles are okay, but plastic bags are banned -- you might live in a nation (state) that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots"? No, that's not true: The popular comedian never wrote or s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: GoFundMe CEO Did NOT Say ‘I Run A Website That Hosts Popularity Contests Where If You Lose, You Die’
Did the CEO of GoFundMe say, "I run a website that hosts popularity contests where if you lose, you die"? No, that's not true: The purported quote came from a spoof interview posted by CollegeHumor, an entertainment website. The quote, li
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dominion Voting Machine Algorithm Was NOT ‘Broken’ By Test Run On ‘Sequestered’ Machines In Georgia
Did a test run using Dominion voting machines "sequestered" in Ware County, Georgia, reveal that an algorithm secretly gave Biden 26% extra votes? No, that's not true: The chief election officer in Ware County told Lead Stories the claim
Snopes→ Pearl Harbor Dead Remembered in Ceremony Shrunk by Pandemic
The U.S. military streamed the ceremony live online for survivors and others unable to attend in person.
Snopes→ Could Write-In Ballots for Trump in Georgia Runoffs Elect Him to US Senate?
Social media posts urged conservatives to vote for U.S. President Donald Trump in races in which he wasn't a candidate.
Logically→ 72 percent of Americans want a government-run healthcare system.
Media and research polls suggest that more than 50-60 percent of Americans would want an affordable health care system provided by the government.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dominion And Smartmatic Have NOT Closed Up Shop; Executives Are NOT On The Run
Have Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic closed up shop and are all their executives on the run after the 2020 vote count? No, that's not true: Neither Dominion nor Smartmatic has shuttered. Citing safety concerns, Dominion has encoura
Snopes→ Officer Pops Open Woman’s Trunk, Lets Her Go After What He Sees?
Clickbaiters have turned a fairly tame, if heartwarming, incident involving a traffic stop into something much more sensational.
Snopes→ Officer Pops Open Woman’s Trunk, Lets Her Go After What He Sees?
Clickbaiters have turned a fairly tame, if heartwarming, incident involving a traffic stop for a woman named Chy-Niece Thacker into something much more sensational.
Snopes→ Did Alex Trebek Run a CBD Oil Business?
Falsely tying celebrities to CBD oil sales isn't a new internet scam.
FactCheck.org→ Loeffler-Warnock Runoff Starts with Attack Ads
About a week after Georgia’s special election headed to a runoff, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, and Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, both launched questionable attacks that the other candidate has disputed: An ad from Loeffler claimed that
FactCheck.org→ Opening Ads in the Perdue-Ossoff Runoff
In the first TV ads of the runoff campaign that could help decide the balance of the Senate, Republican Sen. David Perdue warned his opponent would “radically change America,” while Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff accused his opponent of d
AFP Fact Check→ South African pharmacy chain Clicks denies offering free sanitary pads, but is running a promotion
Social media posts shared thousands of times in South Africa claim that health and beauty retailer Clicks is giving away free sanitary pads. The claims are false; the pharmacy explained that while it is running a promotion on sanitary pads, they are n
AFP Fact Check→ Scam alert: Africa’s richest man is not running a Facebook giveaway for youths affected by Covid-19
Widely-shared posts on Facebook claim that Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is giving away money, food and other assistance to 10,000 youths who have lost loved ones to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is misleading; the Nigerian billionaire has commi
Poynter→ Falsehoods about the 2020 election run rampant on the world stage
Fact-checkers outside the United States were not spared the onslaught of both mis- and disinformation that followed the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Asia, Europe and Latin America all had to contend with a tidal wave of false claims about voting Su
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows an incident when Macron was running for French president in 2017
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter alongside a claim it shows French President Emmanuel Macron being hit on the forehead by an egg after he “insulted the Prophet Muhammad”.
Snopes→ Were Dems Urged To ‘Fake Residency’ and Vote in Georgia Runoff Election?
Allegations of "leftists" encouraging "voter fraud" spread in right-wing media ahead of the Georgia runoff elections.
The Dispatch→ Did the Washington Times Run a ‘President Gore’ Cover the Day After the 2000 Election?
On Sunday, shortly after it was announced that Joe Biden defeated President Trump in the 2020 election, Tim Murtaugh, communications director for Trump’s re-election campaign, tweeted a photo of what appears to be the front page of the Washington
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Washington Times Did NOT Run A ‘PRESIDENT GORE’ Headline Following The 2000 Election
Did The Washington Times publish a "PRESIDENT GORE" front page headline on November 8, 2000, following the highly-contested and drawn-out 2000 election in which Democratic candidate Al Gore ended up losing to George W. Bush? No, that's no
Snopes→ Alex Trebek, Long-running ‘Jeopardy!’ Host, Dies at 80
Alex Trebek, who presided over the beloved quiz show “Jeopardy!” for more than 30 years with dapper charm and a touch of school-master strictness, has died.
Logically→ A pipe burst in Georgia, from away from the location where votes were being tabulated and they stopped counting for 4 hours. Election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats.
The pipe burst happened where Fulton County's absentee ballots are being processed. Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is a Republican.
Snopes→ Cranes Lift Dutch Runaway Train off Whale Sculpture
The train was left precariously balanced on the whale's tail 33 feet above the ground after plunging off the end of a metro line in Spijkenisse.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Santos Dumont Airport In Rio De Janeiro Does NOT Have A 1,300-foot Runway
Is the Santos Dumont Airport runway only 1,300 feet long? No, that's not true: The runway was 1,300 feet long back in 1934 when the airport was first being developed. The runway size was increased with improvements over time and currently
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Urge Company To ‘Expand The Size Run So Everyone Can Have A Pair’
Did Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorse a shoe store on Twitter, urging it to "expand the size run so everyone can have a pair"? No, Austin, Texas-based Nice Kicks posted a fake tweet using images from the congresswoman'
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Term ‘Hungover’ Did NOT Originate From Drunken Sailors Sleeping Over A Rope
Did the term "hungover" originate from a practice of allowing drunks to drape their bodies across a rope overnight for the price of a penny in Victorian England? No, that's not entirely true: The term hungover -- and its noun form, hangov
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Was NOT Escorted Drunk And Maskless From A Building
Was Nancy Pelosi recently photographed being escorted out of a building, drunk and maskless? No, that's not true: This photo of Nancy Pelosi was taken on a 2016 shopping outing in Hartford, Connecticut, in a time before people would be we
AFP Fact Check→ Manipulated photo used to falsely portray Pelosi as drunk
Posts on Facebook use a photo of former president Barack Obama kissing Nancy Pelosi to support the claim that the House Democratic leader is a drunk. This is false; the original image -- which shows the pair arriving back in the US after official busin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of President Obama Kissing Nancy Pelosi Is Not A ‘Drunken Photo’
Does a photo showing President Obama kissing Rep. Nancy Pelosi's cheek show a drunken Pelosi and is it a photo she doesn't want "out there"? No, that's not true: The photo shows Obama and Pelosi after they deplaned from Air Force One on t