False Story Ties Clintons to Doctor’s Death
By Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org Q: Did the late surgeon Dean Lorich expose “Clinton Foundation corruption in Haiti”? A: No. Lorich co-authored an article [...]
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Facts on Food Stamp Work Requirements
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org The rhetoric has been heated on both sides of the aisle as House Republicans pursue a bill that would expand the work requirements [...]
Schumer’s CHIP Spin
By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org The White House has proposed rescinding $7 billion in unspent funds from a children’s health program, a move Sen. Chuck Schumer [...]
Trump Spins Rise in Job Openings
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org The number of job openings has been rising since mid-2009, contrary to President Donald Trump’s boast that under his stewardship [...]
Trump’s Misleading Attack on Mueller Team
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump made several misleading comments when questioning the impartiality of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III [...]
Pelosi Misrepresents Childhood ‘Hunger’ Data
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org In talking about the importance of the 2018 midterm congressional elections, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi misrepresented [...]
Trump Wrong on Comey ‘Leak,’ McCabe Funds
By Eugene Kiely and D’Angelo Gore – FactCheck.org President Donald Trump claimed a memo that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend “in order to [...]
Did the Polio Vaccine Cause Cancer?
By Vanessa Schipani – Factcheck.org Q: Did people develop cancer because of the polio vaccine? A: There are no known cases, and it’s very unlikely. In the 1950s [...]
Trump’s Numbers (First Quarterly Update)
By Brooks Jackson – Factcheck.org Summary In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: Job growth slowed, but unemployment still sank to the lowest rate [...]
(Fact Check) Has the Border Wall Begun?
By Robert Farley – FactCheck.org Q: Has President Donald Trump started building the wall between United States and Mexico? A: Congress approved $1.6 billion to [...]
Fact Checking Trump’s Pennsylvania Rally
By Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley and Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org In a campaign speech supporting the Republican candidate in a special House election in [...]
The Facts on Media Violence
By Vanessa Schipani – Factcheck.org In the wake of the Florida school shooting, politicians have raised concern over the influence of violent video games and films [...]
Meme Falsely Claims FactCheck.org ‘Exposed’ Snopes.com
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org Q: Did FactCheck.org expose Snopes.com as an “extremely liberal propaganda site”? A: No. That false claim was made in [...]
Fact Check: More Armed Citizens Equals Less Mass Shootings?
Media Bias Fact Check Launched in November 2015. One of our first fact checks was in December 2015 when we did a fact check looking at FBI statistics regarding armed citizens [...]
(Fact Check) Trump’s Misleading Gun Rhetoric
By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and Robert Farley – Factcheck.org In a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress, President Donald Trump made false and [...]
(Fact Check) School Shooting Spawns Conspiracy Theories
By Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org The internet has been rife with rumors about the school shooting that left 17 dead in Florida on Feb. 14. We’ve [...]
(Fact Check) Sanders Uses Old Gun Sales Stat
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org Results of a national survey published in 2017 show that 13 percent of U.S. gun owners who purchased a firearm in the past [...]
GM Korea Didn’t Announce Move to Detroit
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org General Motors will close one of its four assembly plants in South Korea in May. It did not say it was moving production to [...]
(Fact Check) Trump’s Claim that Electricity Prices are Falling
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org At a meeting on international trade, President Donald Trump falsely claimed his policies have reduced the cost of electricity for [...]
(Fact Check) Trump on Britain’s Universal Health Care
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump tweeted that while Democrats are pushing for universal health care, “thousands of people are marching in the [...]
