(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 debunked…
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(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…
GM Korea Didn’t Announce Move to Detroit
By D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org General Motors will close one of its four assembly plants in South Korea in May. It did not say it was…
(Fact Check) Trump’s Claim that Electricity Prices are Falling
By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org At a meeting on international trade, President Donald Trump falsely claimed his policies have reduced the cost of electricity for U.S….
(Fact Check) Trump on Britain’s Universal Health Care
By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump tweeted that while Democrats are pushing for universal health care, “thousands of people are marching in the UK because…
Fact-Checking The Nunes Memo
The memo released Friday by the House Intelligence Committee makes many claims about the FBI’s surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page—and suggests that…
FactChecking the FactChecking of Trump’s State of the Union – A Counterpoint
By Karen O’Connor Rubsam An October 2017 Pew Reseach Center poll noted that “the partisan split in America is the highest it has been in two…
FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Vanessa Schipani and Saranac Hale Spencer – Factcheck.org Summary President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was filled with several…
(Fact Check) Democrats’ Misleading Tax Line
By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org The Line: The top 1 percent will get 83 percent of the tax cuts under the new tax law. The Party: Democratic The…
The Facts on DACA
By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org Congress is trying to agree on a bipartisan plan on what to do about DACA, after the Trump administration announced a “wind-down”…