FactChecking the March Democratic Debate
By FactCheck.org Summary The first head-to-head debate of the Democratic presidential primary between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders focused on the [...]
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FactChecking the South Carolina Debate
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald and Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org Summary In the [...]
FactChecking the Las Vegas Democratic Debate
By Brooks Jackson, Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, Lori Robertson, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald and Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org Summary Many of the [...]
FactChecking the New Hampshire Democratic Debate
By FactCheck.org Summary Four days before the New Hampshire primary, seven Democratic presidential candidates debated. We found factual distortions on several issues: Former [...]
FactChecking the State of the Union
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald and Isabella Fertel – Factcheck.org Summary In his 2020 [...]
FactChecking the December Democratic Debate
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Jessica McDonald, Angelo Fichera and D’Angelo Gore – FactCheck.org Summary We found [...]
FactChecking the November Democratic Debate
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Saranac Hale Spencer, Chelsey Zhu and Katherine Hartzell [...]
FactChecking the October Democratic Debate
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Angelo Fichera and Chelsey Zhu – Factcheck.org Summary [...]
FactChecking July’s Round Two Debate
By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, D’Angelo Gore, Brooks Jackson, Jessica McDonald and Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org Summary Another debate, and another [...]
FactChecking the Second Democratic Debate
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald and Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org Summary We flagged false and [...]
Fact Checking the Mueller Hearings
By Lori Robertson, D’Angelo Gore and Jessica McDonald – Factcheck.org While former special counsel Robert S. Mueller reiterated in congressional testimony [...]
FactChecking Round Two of the Democratic Debate
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Jessica McDonald, Saranac Hale Spencer and Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org Summary The second [...]
FactChecking the State of the Union
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore and Jessica McDonald – Factcheck.org Summary President Donald Trump’s [...]
Snopes drops fact checking arrangement with Facebook
Snopes confirmed that its contract with Facebook ended in December 2018 and it has not been renewed. Snopes had a long-standing partnership with Facebook to decrease the [...]
FactChecking Trump’s Immigration Address
By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Brooks Jackson and D’Angelo Gore – FactCheck.org In a national address, President Donald Trump called on [...]
Fact Check: Dianne Feinstein claims Antarctica holds 90 percent of the world’s ice, and the rate of ice melting and calving increased six-fold from 1994 to 2012.
On December 7, 2018 Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on the Senate floor to discuss climate change and the effect it is having [...]
The Latest Fact Checks from IFCN Fact Checkers for 12/5/2018
The code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network IFCN at Poynter is a series of commitments organizations abide by to promote excellence in fact-checking. [...]
The Latest Fact Checks by IFCN Fact Checkers for 12/4/2018
Claim by Meme: Before the 1973 HMO act was signed into law by Richard Nixon, it was illegal to profit from healthcare. Snopes.com rating: False FACT CHECK: Was It Illegal [...]
(Fact Check) Trump: America ‘Cleanest We’ve Ever Been’
By Jessica McDonald – Factcheck.org In response to a question about climate change, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the United States was “the [...]
Bogus Meme Targets Red Cross
By Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org Q: Is the American Red Cross “not helping California wildfire victims” but helping members of the “caravan”? A: No. [...]