Category: Fact Check
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Pass the Torch USA
Political leanings: Democratic/Pro-Dean Phillips 2022 total spending: N/A Pass the Torch USA was created in November to promote the presidential campaign of Rep. Dean Phillips… Read More
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Fact Check: Texas Gov. Abbott suggests feds violated court order by snipping razor wire at border. Is it true?
As U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional Republicans gathered on the banks of the Rio Grande to highlight the migrant crisis at the… Read More
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Fact Check: Claim this document shows Jimmy Kimmel in Epstein court case is Pants on Fire!
The first 40 of more than 200 court documents from a 2015 lawsuit filed by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking victims were released Jan.… Read More
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Fact Check: Ron DeSantis is right, Barack Obama deported more people than Donald Trump did
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that if elected president, he’d do better at deporting people who are illegally in the country than former President Donald… Read More
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Fact Check: No, Ben Carson isn’t hawking CBD gummies to treat high blood pressure
Social media users are claiming Dr. Ben Carson has backed a new treatment for high blood pressure: CBD gummies. A Dec. 11 Facebook post shows… Read More
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Fact Check: No comfort, just cold: There’s no evidence Elon Musk invented the ‘Cosmo Heater’
Winter brings holiday cheer, New Year’s resolutions and something less pleasant — costly utility bills from turning on the home heater. You may want to… Read More
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Fact Check: Key facts about immigration data: What it can and can’t tell us about border policies
President Joe Biden was elected in 2020 after promising to reverse many of Donald Trump’s restrictive immigration policies, including some that limited people’s ability to… Read More
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Fact Check: NY’s Clean Slate law doesn’t keep convictions sealed from everyone
New York’s Clean Slate Act, intended to help convicts secure jobs and housing after they have served their sentences, has come under fire from Republicans,… Read More
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Fact Check: Wisconsin Public Service Commission has approved rate hikes, but not $1.9 billion
Electric and natural gas are always on Wisconsin residents’ minds, especially during the winter months. Like many other things, the cost of electric and natural… Read More
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Fact Check: PolitiFact’s 15 most popular social media fact-checks from 2023
Once more, with feeling. Michelle Obama is never, was never a man, even if social media users argued otherwise all year long. False statements about… Read More