Category: Fact Check
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Fact Check: Former President Donald Trump doesn’t control the military, but not everyone believes it
Although Donald Trump is a former president and aspiring to a second term, he doesn’t control the U.S. military, as a recent Facebook post claims. … Read More
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Fact Check: Don’t freak out: This claim about Oprah Winfrey and missing children in Maui, Hawaii, is unfounded
Media magnate Oprah Winfrey has been a regular target of misinformation since wildfires ravaged Maui, Hawaii, in August. Now a Facebook post suggests she’s connected… Read More
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Fact Check: Former President Donald Trump isn’t the commander in chief
“Big news!” a recent Instagram post said. “Trump is commander & chief.” The supposed evidence that former President Donald Trump is still running the nation… Read More
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Fact Check: You can pass the salt: Bill Gates and the FDA aren’t coming for it
A headline being shared on social media reads like a misinformation Mad Lib: “FDA wants to replace salt with Bill Gates’ new mRNA fake salt.” … Read More
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Fact Check: Biden said Obama spent hundreds of millions to bury Florida power lines. That lacks evidence
Frozen bottles of water, slushy popsicles and melting ice cream get you only so far when the power goes out in a hurricane. After Hurricane… Read More
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Fact Check: Social media post misleads about flu vaccine ingredients. Here’s what’s in them.
Instagram post, Oct. 2, 2023 (archived) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, What’s in Vaccines?, accessed Oct. 4, 2023 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,… Read More
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Q&A on Looming Government Shutdown
The federal government is heading to a shutdown, if Congress doesn’t pass funding legislation by the time the clock strikes midnight on Sept. 30. We’ll… Read More
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Fact Check: New York officials didn’t value Mar-a-Lago at $18 million. A Palm Beach property appraiser did
After a New York judge ruled last month in a fraud lawsuit that former President Donald Trump inflated the value of properties including his Mar-a-Lago… Read More
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Video: Hearst on Updated COVID-19 Vaccines
Hearst Television, one of our media partners, produced a recent segment of “Get the Facts” partly based on our Q&A article about the updated COVID-19… Read More
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Fact Check: Is E. Gordon Gee right that foreign languages aren’t a high priority nationally?
One of the biggest casualties of program cuts aimed at balancing the West Virginia University budget were foreign languages. In the initial round of proposed… Read More