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 [...]
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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 [...]
Who’s to Blame for Higher Gas Prices?
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org With gasoline prices rising, Sen. Chuck Schumer placed the blame on President Donald Trump, and specifically his decision to pull [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
StopFake.org — Ukrainian site fights fake news on the front line
Olga Yurkova has spent years fighting fake news on the front line. The Ukrainian journalist and colleagues weighed into the battle with a StopFake.org website after Russian [...]
Will Trump’s Wall Pay for Itself?
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump cited a contested report from an organization that advocates low immigration to claim that a wall along the [...]
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 [...]
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) 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 [...]
