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 [...]
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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. [...]
Did the FBI issue a report that “confirms” that “none” of Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers’ stories were true?
By Angelo Fichera – Factcheck.org Q: Did the FBI issue a report that “confirms” that “none” of Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers’ stories were true? A: No. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
