Fact Checking the Vice Presidential Debate
By FactCheck.org Summary In the first and only vice presidential debate, Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence parroted many of the false and misleading…
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The 10 Best Fact Checking Websites for 2020
By Dave Van Zandt – Editor – Media Bias Fact Check Media Bias Fact Check strictly relies on signatories of the International Fact Checking Network…
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 government’s…
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 last Democratic debate before Super Tuesday, the candidates often talked over…
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 factual disputes centered on disagreements among the candidates: Former New York…
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 Vice President Joe…
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 address to Congress, President Donald Trump stretched and distorted the facts:…
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 several misleading and exaggerated claims in the last debate of 2019: Sen….
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 – FactCheck.org Summary We spotted several false claims and factual flubs: South Bend Mayor…
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 We found several false and misleading claims in the October Democratic presidential debate:…
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 crop of false and misleading claims. Sen. Kamala Harris of California…
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 misleading claims from several candidates: Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke…
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 what he said in his voluminous report on…
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 group of 10 Democratic presidential candidates made false and misleading claims…
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 State of the Union address included many claims that were familiar to fact-checkers….
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…
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 Congress to provide $5.7 billion for a border…
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…
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:…