Category: Fact Check
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Video: FactChecking Highlights from the Biden-Trump Debate
As we’ve written, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump got more than a few things wrong at the first presidential debate. Here we…
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Fact Check: What would happen if Joe Biden or Donald Trump leaves his party’s ticket?
President Joe Biden’s debate performance, which was widely panned including by some Democrats, has led some in his party to fret about whether the 81-year-old…
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FactChecking RFK Jr.’s Rival Debate
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Summary Excluded from the CNN presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on…
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Fact Check: No, the Gates Foundation didn’t fund research to make the ‘bird flu transmissible to humans’
A headline shared June 18 on Instagram made an alarming connection between the Gates Foundation and bird flu. “BIOTERRORISM: Gates Foundation awarded $9.5 million to…
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Fact Check: This Houston woman didn’t really bake bread in her mailbox
Although summer heat records are breaking across the U.S., it’s not quite hot enough to use a mailbox as an oven. But a photo showing…
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FactChecking the Biden-Trump Debate
Summary The much-anticipated first debate of 2024 between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump featured a relentless barrage of false and misleading statements…
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Fact Check: CNN knocks down rumor of longer TV delay at Biden-Trump debate
A writer for a conservative news and opinion website claimed without providing evidence that CNN planned to add a longer-than-normal delay for its June 27…
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Fact Check: 2024 presidential debate fact-check: How accurate were Joe Biden, Donald Trump?
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive presidential nominees, shared a debate stage June 27 for the first time since 2020, in…
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Fact Check: Remdesivir didn’t kill COVID-19, Ebola patients, as social media post claims
Before misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines was even a twinkle in a conspiracy theorist’s eye, there was remdesivir. The antiviral drug was the first COVID-19 treatment…
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Fact Check: No, the US government isn’t offering a free, six-month commercial driver’s license course
Facebook posts proclaiming the existence of a free, government-provided commercial driver’s license course drew attention on social media this week. Each post shared an image…