MBFC Fact-Check: Jim Jordan Flight Delays Claim
FALSE Claim By Jim Jordan (R): Don’t remember seeing this many flight delays during the Trump Administration. Don’t remember seeing this many flight delays…
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Fact Check: NFL Player Damar Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest Triggers Unfounded Social Media Claims
By Jessica McDonald – factcheck.org SciCheck Digest Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field and suffered a cardiac arrest moments after taking a hit…
Fact Check: The Whoppers of 2022
Factcheck.org’s annual review of the year’s worst political and viral deceptions. By D’Angelo Gore, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Jessica McDonald, Saranac Hale Spencer, Eugene Kiely, and Alan Jaffe Summary The midterm elections are…
Fact-Check: Blood Transfusion Doesn’t Transfer COVID-19 Vaccine
By Saranac Hale Spencer – factcheck.org SciCheck Digest A blood transfusion from a vaccinated person doesn’t transfer the inoculation to an unvaccinated person. But high-profile purveyors…
‘Died Suddenly’ Pushes Bogus Depopulation Theory
By Saranac Hale Spencer, Jessica McDonald and Catalina Jaramillo – factcheck.org SciCheck Digest What appear to be ordinary postmortem blood clots are held up in a viral online video…
FactChecking Trump’s Presidential Bid Announcement
Summary Here we go again. Donald Trump’s official bid to get back to the White House had us at FactCheck.org feeling a bit of déjà…
Fact Check: Ballot Printer Delayed Maricopa Voting, Contrary to Unfounded Claims
Quick Take Tabulating machines at some polling locations in Maricopa County, Arizona, couldn’t process ballots during part of Election Day, though affected voters could leave…
Biden’s Numbers (Second Quarterly Update)
Summary Since President Joe Biden took office: The economy regained nearly 9 million jobs, coming within about half a million of the pre-pandemic peak. Unemployment…
What Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett Said About Roe at Confirmation Hearings
By Lori Robertson, D’Angelo Gore and Robert Farley (05/10/2022) In the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that indicates the court could overturn Roe v. Wade, some lawmakers have…
FactChecking Biden’s State of the Union Address
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Catalina Jaramillo, Cecelia Vieira and Lucía Osses – Factcheck.org Summary In his first State of the Union address, President Joe Biden focused on…
FactChecking Biden’s Press Conference
In a nearly two-hour press conference, President Joe Biden stretched the facts and left out important context on vaccinations, funding for lead pipe removal, child…
Daily Fact Check Bonus: Mike (Mypillow guy) Lindell Report
On 2/5/2021, Mike Lindell (Mypillow Guy) released a documentary-style video highlighting what he called Absolute Proof of election fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election. This…
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…
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….
