Viral Meme Misidentifies Nazi Guard as Soros
By Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org Q: Is there a bogus viral meme circulating online that purports to show Holocaust survivor George Soros as a Nazi soldier? A: It [...]
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Fact check: Does a video show people being paid to storm the US border?
Congressman Matt Gaetz tweeted a video showing two men giving cash to people and claimed it shows people in Honduras being given cash to “storm the US border.” BREAKING: [...]
FactChecking Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview
By Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley and Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org In a wide-ranging interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” President Donald Trump repeated several [...]
Trump’s Numbers October 2018 Update
By Brooks Jackson – Factcheck.org Summary In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: The jobless rate dropped to the lowest in nearly half a century, and [...]
FactChecking Trump’s Medicare Op-Ed
By Robert Farley, Lori Robertson and D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org In an op-ed for USA Today, President Donald Trump made a series of false and misleading [...]
Falsehoods About Ford
By Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org In the days after Christine Blasey Ford came forward to describe an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh [...]
(Fact Check) Clinton Goes Too Far in Criticizing Trump
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org In an op-ed, Hillary Clinton went too far with her criticism that President Donald Trump has shown a “complete unwillingness to [...]
After McCain’s Death, a False Claim Resurfaces
By Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org Q: Did John McCain “hide the fact that he ‘accidentally’ killed 134 American sailors”? A: No. He wasn’t responsible for [...]
U.S. Not Ranked the ‘Cleanest’ Country
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump recently said “we’ve got the cleanest country in the planet right now” when it comes to “clean [...]
Cherry-Picking to Overhype Jobs Gains from Tax Cuts
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org The GOP cherry-picked states with the largest number of job gains this year to promote its claim that “GOP tax cuts have fueled [...]
A Rally Filled with Repeats
By Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore and Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org Summary President Donald Trump has embarked on a string of political rallies around the [...]
Bogus Claim About LGBT History Lessons
By Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org Q: Is California forcing “schools to show kids ‘gay sex’”? A: No. California law requires the state’s history [...]
Fact Check – Ocasio-Cortez Wrong on Cause of Low Unemployment
By Corey Berman and Robert Farley – Factcheck.org Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 14th Congressional District, wrongly [...]
Trump’s Remarks on Putin and the Russia Investigation
By Eugene Kiely and Lori Robertson – FactCheck.org Asked whether he believed U.S. intelligence agencies or Russian President Vladimir Putin on whether Russia [...]
Home Explosion Spawns Clinton Conspiracy Theory
By Angelo Fichera – FactCheck.org Q: Were the victims of a New Jersey home explosion tied to an investigation into the Clinton Foundation? A: No. A viral [...]
Trump’s Numbers (Second Quarterly Update)
By Brooks Jackson – Factcheck.org Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office. Summary In the time Donald Trump has been in the [...]
Illegal Immigration Statistics
By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org With the controversy over family separations, much of the political rhetoric in recent weeks has focused on illegal [...]
Sessions vs. Sessions on Separating Families
By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org Attorney General Jeff Sessions now says that the administration “never really intended” to separate families as part of its [...]
Sanders’ Misleading Wage Claim
By Brooks Jackson and Robert Farley – Factcheck.org Sen. Bernie Sanders claims that “the average American worker today, despite the strong economy, is not [...]
FactChecking Trump’s Nashville Rally
By Eugene Kiely and D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org At a campaign rally in Nashville, President Donald Trump repeated a bushelful of false and misleading [...]
