Category: Fact Check
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Fact Check: Trump attended his eldest children’s graduations, contrary to online claims
A recent Threads post casts doubt on whether former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his Manhattan criminal trial so that he could attend his… Read More
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Fact Check: Columbia not all remote, offers students hybrid learning amid Israel-Hamas war protests
As student protests by pro-Palestinian groups that oppose the Israel-Hamas war flared at college campuses in recent weeks, New York’s Columbia University has been in… Read More
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Fact Check: Are Democrats right that Republicans are to blame for low UW System state funding?
Outside reports released earlier this month showed warning signs for the financial viability of the University of Wisconsin System’s universities and signaled future cuts to… Read More
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Fact Check: Reba McEntire isn’t facing any ‘charges,’ despite claims in social media posts
A Facebook post from a couple of months ago has recently gained traction using the image of country singer Reba McEntire and a fabricated story… Read More
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Fact Check: Have there been mass store closures under President Biden? Here are the facts.
Some social media users are claiming that a number of businesses have reported hundreds of store closures under Joe Biden’s presidency. An April 19 Facebook… Read More
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Fact Check: Old altered photo of Stormy Daniels doesn’t show her arriving at Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial
A recent Threads post purports to show adult film actor Stormy Daniels striding into the courthouse April 22 for former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal… Read More
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Fact Check: Israel did not ‘accidentally vote for Palestine’ at a United Nations meeting
A misleading video circulating online appears to show Israel voting in favor of support for Palestine. A video shared multiple times on TikTok includes text… Read More
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Fact Check: Hunter Biden was indicted twice. A claim that he and others have escaped criminal charges is wrong.
A social media post contrasted former President Donald Trump’s mounting criminal charges with what appeared to be a lack of legal consequences for other groups… Read More
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Fact Check: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrong about a ban on NIH research about mass shootings
The National Institutes of Health is the federal government’s main agency for supporting medical research. Is it barred from researching mass shootings? That’s what presidential… Read More
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Fact Check: No, Kelly Clarkson isn’t promoting weight loss gummies or other diet products. Such claims are scams
Kelly Clarkson’s image has been repeatedly misappropriated online to purportedly sell diet products. We’ve debunked multiple claims including several involving altered videos that appear to… Read More