Category: Fact Check
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Fact Check: Fact-checking claims about what special counsel report said about Biden
Special counsel Robert Hur on Feb. 8 released his long-awaited report into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Social media users then parsed Hur’s… Read More
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Fact Check: Ask PolitiFact: Were the pictures in the Jesus ‘washed feet’ Super Bowl ad AI generated?
Trusting what you see is harder than ever these days. During Super Bowl LVIII, artificial intelligence appeared in multiple ads, as a product, a highlighted… Read More
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Trump’s Distorted NATO ‘Delinquent’ Comments
At a rally in South Carolina, Donald Trump said that when he was president, he told the leader of a large NATO country that if… Read More
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Fact Check: What Florida’s driver’s license policy change means for transgender people
No one likes going to the DMV, but what drove LGBTQ+ activists in Florida to stage a “die-in” at the traditionally mundane administrative buildings on… Read More
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Fact Check: GOP claims that Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas is ‘responsible’ for fentanyl crisis are false
In their failed push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, some House Republicans focused on the fentanyl crisis. They made it a central part… Read More
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Fact Check: Did George Soros or Klaus Schwab’s father work for Hitler? Here’s what we know
If you haven’t seen a false claim related to billionaire philanthropist George Soros or World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab in a while (we doubt… Read More
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Fact Check: NYC will give migrant families debit, not credit, cards for food
Credit or debit? This familiar checkout counter question is at the heart of misinformation about a new program that aims to help migrant families in… Read More
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Fact Check: Tucker Carlson wasn’t added to Ukrainian ‘hit list” after Vladimir Putin interview
What do Tucker Carlson and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters have in common? According to social media posts, both have been targeted for inclusion on… Read More
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Fact Check: Trump says he ‘cooperated far more’ than Biden in classified documents cases. Pants on Fire!
After the Justice Department said it would not pursue criminal charges against President Joe Biden for retaining classified documents, former President Donald Trump compared it… Read More
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Fact Check: Experts say mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives, not caused mass deaths
In the more than three years since COVID-19 vaccines first became available, billions of doses have been administered worldwide, protecting against severe disease and death.… Read More