Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy's tense Oval Office meeting about Ukraine and Russia, fact-checked. — 28 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump and Starmer's White House talks: fact checked. — 27 February 2025 (LINK)

Did no-tax-on-overtime pass? Not yet. — 25 February 2025 (LINK)

— Despite claims on social media that it included Trump's campaign pledges to cut taxes on overtime and tips, the framework that passed on Tuesday is only a budget resolution meant to guide Congress on related legislation for the year. It does not provide funding for federal programs or change tax law.

Danish ex-astronaut accuses Elon Musk over 'lie' about stranded astronauts. Musk replies with slur. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)

FactCheck.org: Trump's false and misleading Ukraine claims on aid etc. — 20 February 2025 (LINK)

— He inflated the amount of U.S. aid for Ukraine and wrongly said the U.S. gave "$200 billion more than Europe." Aid from Europe is higher than that from the U.S.

Did the US give $350b to Ukraine, as Trump Claims? No. Congress has appropriated or otherwise made available nearly $183 billion toward Ukraine and Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR) — 19 February 2025 (LINK)

No, Zelenskyy doesn't have 4% approval as Trump claims; it's over 50%. — 18 February 2025 (LINK)

'Thought crime' and cancelled elections: how do JD Vance's claims about Europe stand up? (Not very well) — 14 February 2025 (LINK)

Fact Check: Are Ukrainian weapons being sold on black market as Tucker Carlson claims? There is no evidence that any such products have actually made it into the hands of a prospective buyer. — 12 February 2025 (LINK)

— Pro-Russian outlets have circulated images of a supposed Javelin anti-tank weapon for sale online. However, the listing was traced back to pro-Russian Telegram channels, and the images themselves dated to 2014 — preceding both the war and the current levels of U.S. military support.

Fact-check: President Donald Trump's Super Bowl LIX interview with Fox's Bret Baier. — 9 February 2025 (LINK)

Fact check: Chelsea Clinton did not take home $84 million from USAID. — 7 February 2025 (LINK)

— Chelsea Clinton did not receive any compensation for her work at the foundation since at least the fiscal year ending December 2013, according to tax return data published by ProPublica. The Clinton Foundation did not receive any money from the USAID from the 2008 fiscal year to now. The data only goes as far as the 2008 fiscal year. The Clinton Health Access Initiative received a grant of $7.49 million and spent a little over $6 million of it from 2019 to 2021. However, the Clinton Health Access Initiative is its own nonprofit. Additionally, Snopes found that the Clinton Foundation received only one federal award of $49,998 from AmeriCorps National in 2010.

Fox43: No, California did not reject or delay out-of-state fire trucks for emissions tests. — 14 January 2025 (LINK)

— Fire trucks traveling from Oregon and other states to help fight the California wildfires were stopped for routine 15-minute safety checks, not emissions testing.

Snopes: Viral video shows black people helping — not looting — during LA wildfires. — 8 January 2025 (LINK)

Justin Trudeau's resignation leads to celebrations in Canada? Viral videos are either AI-generated or old. — 7 January 2025 (LINK)

No, world leaders have not signed supposed WEF 'Age of Death' laws requiring state approval to live beyond that. — 23 December 2024 (LINK)

— "On the contrary, in January 2024 the organization published a report outlining six 'longevity economy principles' to fund longer lives as the global population ages. The World Economic Forum (WEF), a non-government organization and think tank, is frequently the subject of disinformation."

— The claim appears to have originated in an article published by The People's Voice, a website AAP FactCheck has debunked numerous times. Several Facebook posts have shared the article.

Snopes: Trump's odd stories about the price of apples. — 16 December 2024 (LINK)

Snopes: UnitedHealthcare uses an artificial intelligence (AI) tool with a 90% error rate to deny insurance claims: Uproven. — 13 December 2024 (LINK)

— It's true that UnitedHealth once deployed AI software to evaluate claims, though the extent to which the technology informed decisions about denying coverage, if any, was unknown. It was also unclear whether UnitedHealth still uses the software at the time of this writing.

Snopes: Trump promised to pardon Jan. 6 Capitol rioters on Day 1 of Presidency: partly true. — 4 December 2024 (LINK)

— In 2023, he said he was "inclined to pardon many of them," though not all. He added he likely would not pardon a few who "got out of control."

Trump won the popular vote, contrary to claims online. Social media users are confusing the popular vote with a majority of votes. The unofficial results show Trump received slightly less than a majority, but more votes than any candidate. — 26 November 2024 (LINK)

Newsweek Fact Check: Did Mexico declare end to caravans amid Trump tariff talk? No. — 27 November 2024 (LINK)

— "Two of Hegseth's Christian-based tattoos use symbology that has become associated with — but doesn't necessarily indicate adherence to — Christian nationalist views. Historically, both tattoos have connections to the Crusades, a series of wars in which Christian armies sought to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim rule in the 11th-13th centuries."

Fake photo shows Trump and Biden smiling at each other in White House: look at Biden's hands, or the ties in authentic and fake photos. — 13 November 2024 (LINK)

Pointer Institute PolitiFact: Fact-checking Kamala Harris' 'closing argument' speech at the White House Ellipse: something true, some things half-true — 30 October 2024 (LINK)

Snopes: SpaceX Founder Elon Musk was once an 'illegal immigrant' in US? Unproven — 30 October 2024 (LINK)

AFP: Old photo of Obama's Dublin crowd misrepresented as Trump MSG rally — 29 October 2024 (LINK)

No, Harris didn't tell NBC she'd refuse to accept election result — 28 October 2024 (LINK)

No, Trump didn't lose more manufacturing jobs than any other president, as Walz claimed: George W. Bush lost more. — 28 October 2024 (LINK)

Fact-checking Donald Trump's claims about the 2020 election during 3-hour Joe Rogan interview: pants on fire! — 26 October 2024 (LINK)

Snopes: Rumor Joe Rogan added 3m podcast subscribers after announcing Trump interview is false. — (LINK)

— Facebook page was part of a network of websites and social media pages that describes its output as being humorous and satirical in nature. The bio sections of the Facebook page says: "Nothing on this page is real."

AFP factcheck: Video of man destroying Pennsylvania ballots supporting Trump is fake — 25 October 2024 (LINK)

Pants on Fire: J.D. Vance finally asserts on 16 October that former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election — PolitiFact — 17 October 2024 (LINK)

FactCheck.org: Baseless claims proliferate on hurricanes and weather modification — 12 October 2024 (LINK)

AFP: Dated Gaza footage of Israeli strikes falsely shared on X as Iran attack on Israel — 10 October 2024 (LINK)

CNN Fact check: Trump, on a lying spree, made at least 40 separate false claims in two Pennsylvania speeches — 10 October 2024 (LINK)

PolitiFact: Hurricane Helene was not artificially created, despite what Alexa says — 8 October 2024 (LINK)

PBS: Correcting Trump's claims about Helene, immigration and the economy at his Butler rally — 6 October 2024 (LINK)

Politifact: VP debate fact-check: What JD Vance and Tim Walz got right, wrong on abortion, immigration — 2 October 2024 (LINK)

FactCheck.org: Trump, Vance wrong about 'illegal immigrant murderers' — 30 September 2024 (LINK)

— It's true that there were 13,099 noncitizens convicted of murder, as of 21 July, who were not being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the "vast majority" of them entered the country prior to the Biden administration and had their custody status determined "long before this Administration," the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement, noting that many were in prison. Also, the noncitizens include those who entered the country legally, such as green-card holders.

Biden, Harris net worth nowhere near viral post's claim: Neither has a net worth that exceeds $11 million, according to Forbes — 26 September 2024 (LINK)

Kamala Harris: Former President Donald Trump "started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times." — exaggerated — 20 September 2024 (LINK)

— Trump's companies have filed for bankruptcy a total of six times. Trump received roughly that sum from his father or from his father's estate, but it was spread out over the course of his life, not when he was starting out in the business world.

VP Kamala Harris wore Tiffany earrings, not Nova H1 audio earrings, during the presidential debate — 12 September 2024 (LINK)

Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work — 9 September 2024 (LINK)

— Trump has falsely, and repeatedly, claimed that China — not US importers — pay the tariff. A tariff is a tax that is paid by US businesses — not other countries — when a foreign-made good arrives at the American border. One of the intended goals of a tariff is to raise prices on foreign-made goods, and study after study show that the duties do drive up costs for Americans.

— Trump has said that if elected, he would impose tariffs of up to 20% on every foreign import coming into the US, as well as another tariff upward of 60% on all Chinese imports. He also said he would impose a "100% tariff" on countries that shift away from using the US dollar. These duties would add to the tariffs he put on foreign steel and aluminum, washing machines, and many Chinese-made goods including baseball hats, luggage, bicycles, TVs and sneakers. President Joe Biden has left many of the Trump-era tariffs in place.

Ohio police have 'no credible reports' of Haitian immigrants harming pets, contradicting JD Vance's claim — 9 September 2024 (LINK)

Biden-Harris unrealized gains tax would not tax most Americans: only Americans worth at least $100 million. Most Americans wouldn't be taxed when their home's value increases — 30 August 2024 (LINK)

FactChecking Harris' CNN interview: she stretched the facts on fracking and inflation reduction act — 30 August 2024 (LINK)

Snopes: No, Trump didn't brag on social media he was 'Greatest President Ever on Military' — 28 August 2024 (LINK)

— The screenshot was fabricated. The X handle displayed in the post was "@realDonaldTrimp." Trump's official X handle is @realDonaldTrump.

— Trump did post this message on Truth Social on Aug. 26: This is the third anniversary of the BOTCHED Afghanistan withdrawal, the most EMBARRASSING moment in the history of our Country. Gross Incompetence — 13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds of people wounded and dead, AMERICANS and BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT LEFT BEHIND. You don't take our soldiers out first, you take them out LAST, when all else is successfully done. Russia then invaded Ukraine, Israel was attacked, and the USA became, and is, a laughing stock all over the World. THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA REMAINS SILENT IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE WORST ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY! MAGA2024

Snopes: Real photos of Trump smiling and giving thumbs-up by soldiers' graves? True — (LINK)

Trump defends conduct at Arlington cemetery: 'I wasn't doing it for publicity' — 30 August 2024 (LINK)

— Trump, at the event in Johnstown, Pa., said the family members of those killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan asked him to visit the cemetery as they honored their loved ones. He added that after the wreath-laying ceremony, the families also asked him to accompany them to the graves and take a picture with them.

Trump didn't say people should 'inject bleach' to tackle COVID-19 — 27 August 2024 (LINK)

— During an April 2020 media briefing, Trump did ask members of the government's coronavirus task force to look into whether disinfectants could be injected inside people to treat COVID-19. But when a reporter asked in a follow-up question whether cleaning products like bleach and isopropyl alcohol would be injected into a person, the then-president said those products would be used for sterilizing an area, not for injections.

— In mid August 2024, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' campaign account on X — @KamalaHQ — resurfaced a claim that former U.S. President Donald Trump once told people to "inject bleach" into their bodies to treat COVID-19. https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1825617028188623118

— Biden also made the claim — which related to comments his predecessor made in April 2020 — during the first presidential candidates' debate of the 2024 election campaign. In his opening remarks of the CNN television debate in June 2024, the president said the pandemic was "badly handled" by Trump and "many people were dying." He then claimed (at 3:27 in the video below) the former president once told people to "inject a little bleach in your arm; it'd be all right."

FactCheck.org: Trump's claim that Harris met with Putin is false — 23 August 2024 (LINK)

— "In February 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris attended an annual security conference in Germany to talk with European leaders about Russian aggression toward Ukraine and other world topics. She didn't go to Russia, and there is no evidence she met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, contrary to an unsupported claim made by former President Donald Trump. Trump has baselessly claimed at least twice in recent days that Harris had a meeting with Putin just days before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022."

PolitiFact: Kamala Harris fact-check: How accurate was her 2024 DNC speech in Chicago? — 22 August 2024 (LINK)

Trump "plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions." Mostly False.That's Project 2025
"I … helped pass a homeowner bill of rights, one of the first of its kind in the nation." True.
Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax — call it a Trump tax — that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year." Half True.
"The United States Supreme Court just ruled he would be immune from criminal prosecution." The court did not grant Trump — or any president — full immunity.

PolitiFact: Fact-checking Tim Walz before his 2024 DNC speech — plus the attacks on his record — 21 August 2024 (LINK)

Walz linked Vance to Project 2025, which Trump has distanced himself from
Walz misled about Trump and overtime pay: Walz said Trump "cut overtime benefits for millions of workers." Mostly False.
Walz said "violent crime was up under Donald Trump." Half True.
Walz also said Trump will "gut Social Security." Mostly False.

— Claims about Walz:

An Aug. 5 X post said Walz "just changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag." False.
Trump said that after George Floyd died in Minnesota, Walz didn't call in the National Guard, "so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis. False.
Trump's supporters said a video showed Walz advocating for a "ladder factory" to help immigrants scale the southern U.S. border wall illegally. Out of context
Vance sought to negatively frame Walz's 24-year military career. Mostly False.
Fox News host Jesse Watters said, "Walz forced schools to stock tampons in boys' bathrooms." Mostly False.
and more

Factcheck: Opening Night of the Democratic National Convention — 20 August 2024 (LINK)

Biden misleadingly cited "historic joblessness" in talking about his Inauguration Day in 2021.
Sen. Dick Durbin claimed that former President Trump "lost millions of jobs in America." But that ignores the reason for the job losses: a global pandemic.
Biden said he created "a record 16 million new jobs." That's a record number increase for any president in their first 43 months. But on a percentage basis, which accounts for population growth, there was a slightly larger increase in employment under President Jimmy Carter.
and more

FactCheck.org: Trump's false and misleading claims about Harris' record on crime — 15 August 2024 (LINK)

— Trump falsely said that Harris supports "mass amnesty and citizenship" for "all illegals … even criminals." The Trump campaign pointed to past proposals that Harris has supported, but none would have done that.

— He wrongly claimed that there was "no crime" if someone stole less than $1,000 worth of goods, and he was wrong again in saying that Harris "started" such a policy. In California, it's a felony if someone shoplifts more than $950 worth of goods, but it's a misdemeanor for values below that.

— In discussing crimes committed by immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, Trump falsely claimed that Harris, when she was the San Francisco DA, "wouldn't arrest murderers. She wouldn't arrest anybody."

— Trump claimed that Harris "supports mandatory gun confiscation" that would leave Americans "defenseless in your house." Harris hasn't called for confiscating all guns, and her campaign said she no longer supports the mandatory buyback program for "assault weapons" that she called for during her last presidential campaign.

— He claimed that Harris "urged her followers to donate to bail rapists and murderers out of jail" and said "that the violent mobs should not stop." In June 2020, Harris asked for donations to a bail fund to help people protesting against police brutality, not rapists and murderers. She also said that "protests," not riots, are "not going to stop" and "should not" stop.

— Trump said Harris "supports abolishing cash bail, which means bloodthirsty criminals that just killed somebody can immediately leave custody, go out and kill somebody else." But ending money bail does not mean accused murderers would automatically be released from jail before trial.

— Violent crime and murders nationwide have gone down during the Biden/Harris administration, according to FBI and other crime data. But Trump has taken to citing a different set of data to claim "there's been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office."

Trump, Vance falsely claim Harris wants to ban red meat — 14 August 2024 (LINK)

— The Democratic nominee said during a 2019 panel that she would favor changing dietary guidelines, not outlawing certain foods altogether.

Attacks on US Democrat VP candidate Walz's military record — 9 August 2024 (LINK)

Trump's lies about undocumented immigrants hide the truth: They pay their share of taxes — 9 August 2024 (LINK)

Trump says he thought end was near in helicopter emergency that Dems say didn't happen — 9 August 2024 (LINK)

FactCheck.org: Vance wrong on child tax credit, Harris' remarks about climate change and having kids — 2 August 2024 (LINK)

— During a college tour last year, Harris said that young climate leaders had spoken to her about "climate change anxiety," which included their concerns about having kids in the future. But she did not endorse the notion of not having children because of environmental concerns. Rather, she mentioned several ways in which the Biden administration was addressing climate change.

— "We found no evidence of Harris stating she is opposed to the child tax credit and would like to end it. As we said, she has a long history of supporting the child tax credit and has worked to expand it."

AP: Donald Trump falsely suggests Kamala Harris misled voters about her race — 31 July 2024 (LINK)

World Economic Forum did NOT call for slaughter of pets to prevent global warming — 25 July 2024 (LINK)

Fact-checks from a new 2024 race: Republican committee overstates Vice President Kamala Harris' role on southwest border … Harris exaggerates Project 2025's IVF, contraception wish list … "Birtherism" claims return with Harris' candidacy, but she was born in California … Warnings about missed ballot deadlines in multiple states unfounded — 25 July 2024 (LINK)

FactChecking Vice President Kamala Harris: several misstatements about Trump policies and record— 23 July 2024 (LINK)

Deepfake video of expletive-laden Joe Biden speech after dropping out of race goes viral — 23 July 2024 (LINK)

— "My fellow Americans, I want to take a moment to address some of the hateful s**t you've been talking about me. Many of you have been saying that I've been suffering from brainworms, or I have applesauce for brains. Well, I won't mince words, so here it is — f**k you, you're all a bunch of f*****s. End of quote. Repeat the line. So enjoy president cackles or president b******, I really don't give two f***s anymore. Biden out.

AP Fact Focus: A look at false claims around Kamala Harris and her campaign for the White House — 22 July 2024 (LINK)

No evidence to support claims that extra security requests were denied ahead of Trump’s rally — 21 July 2024 (LINK)

CNN Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false claims in RNC acceptance speech — 19 July 2024 (LINK)

— Many of the false claims were ones Trump has made before, some of them for years. They spanned a wide variety of topics, including the economy, immigration, crime, foreign policy and elections. Some of them were wild lies, others smaller exaggerations. Some were in his prepared text (like the absurd claim that he left the Biden administration a world at peace), while he ad-libbed others (such as his usual lies that Democrats cheated in the 2020 election and that the US is experiencing the worst inflation it has ever had).

False claim of fake Secret Service agent contributes to rally conspiracy theories — 15 July 2024 (LINK)

— Posts from the anonymous online forum 4Chan have been spreading the false claim that Secret Service officials prevented an agent named "Jonathan Willis" from shooting former President Donald Trump's attempted assassin. The Secret Service has no employee by that name, and the claim is "categorically false," the agency said.

CNN: Biden's false and misleading claims at high-stakes news conference — 11 July 2024 (LINK)

— Biden played down a gaffe he made at an event earlier on Thursday in which he had mistakenly introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as "President Putin" before correcting himself moments later. Biden said at the press conference: "I said, 'No, I'm sorry, Zelensky.' And then I added five other names." Biden's last claim was false. He didn't utter "five other names" after he corrected the Putin-Zelensky mix-up.

— Biden spoke of a need to "pace" himself in his activities. He said, "The next debate, I'm not going to be traveling 15 time zones a week before. Anyway. That's what it was about." This is misleading. Biden did not travel abroad "a week before" the June 27 CNN presidential debate in which he performed poorly. In fact, he returned to the US from Europe 12 days before that debate, on June 15.

— Biden, criticizing Trump's position on the NATO military alliance, said, "I think he said at one of his rallies, don't hold me to this, recently, where, 'NATO – I just learned about NATO,' or something to that effect. Foreign policy's never been his strong point." Biden's description of Trump's comment was indeed inaccurate. Trump did not say at a recent rally that "I just learned about NATO." Rather, Trump said at the rally that he had not known what NATO was, "too much," prior to attending his first alliance summit as president in 2017.

— Talking about the war between Israel and Hamas, Biden said Thursday, "There is a growing dissatisfaction in, on the West Bank, from the Palestinians, about Hamas. Hamas is not popular now." The limited available public opinion polling suggests the claim that "Hamas is not popular now" in the West Bank is not true — and that Hamas' popularity has increased there since its attack on Israel last October.

— When a reporter told Biden that Reuters had reported Thursday that the leadership of the United Auto Workers union was concerned about Biden's ability to win the election, Biden responded, "UAW just endorsed me, but go ahead." Biden's claim that the UAW "just" endorsed him is misleading at best. The UAW actually announced its endorsement of Biden on January 24, more than five months ago.

— Biden said, "You may recall, I still get criticized for it, but I was totally opposed to the occupation and trying to unite Afghanistan. Once we got bin Laden," in 2011, "we should've moved on, because it was not in our — no one's ever going to unite that country." Biden's claim that he was "totally opposed to the occupation" of Afghanistan is misleading at best. In the early years of the war, Biden, then a US senator for Delaware, was a vocal public supporter of the US having a sustained military presence in Afghanistan and engaging in extensive "nation-building" there — and he explicitly rejected the idea of a narrow military mission targeting terrorists.

FactChecking Trump's immigration-related claims in Phoenix and Las Vegas: several of his talking points are wrong or misleading — factcheck.org — 18 June 2024 (LINK)

Trump falsely said that a proclamation by President Joe Biden to limit asylum eligibility "establishes an annual minimum of approximately 2 million illegal alien border crossers".
He distorted how a mobile app for asylum appointments operated, saying it allows "free entry to be released into the United States at the push of a button." Applicants are screened, and appointments are limited.
Trump offered wildly exaggerated border crossing statistics.
He distorted reporting by the New York Times to misleadingly claim that "88,000" unaccompanied minors who came to the U.S. illegally and were processed by the Biden administration "are missing" and "many of those children are dead."
Trump claimed that "more drugs are coming into our country right now than at any time in our history." Federal data for drug seizures by weight are trending down under Biden. As a proxy for drug smuggling, that data suggest that fewer drugs, not more, are coming into the country. Fentanyl seizures, however, have increased significantly under both Trump and Biden.
Trump claimed that "300,000 people are dying a year" in the U.S. from drugs, and said the figure is "probably more than that." A federal agency reported that there were 107,941 drug overdose deaths in 2022, and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher previously told us that any undercount "should be relatively small."
He falsely claimed that "virtually 100% of the new jobs under Biden have also gone to illegal aliens." Since Biden became president in January 2021, employment of U.S.-born workers has increased more than employment of foreign-born workers, which includes those in the U.S. legally.
Trump claimed that real, meaning inflation-adjusted, income and wages for the Black population are down 6% under Biden. But the most recent government data show real income is up for Black households, while real wages for full-time Black workers are down by less than what Trump said.
The former president claimed that illegal immigration under Biden had created "flat-out economic warfare" on Black and Hispanic Americans by "taking the jobs" of those workers, and he said unions were "being absolutely slaughtered." Employment and union membership data show no evidence of that.
Trump repeated his unsubstantiated talking point that "the entire world is emptying their prisons and jails, insane asylums, and mental institutions" and sending those people to the U.S. He has provided no evidence for that explosive claim, as we've written several times.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and allies, are thwarting peace efforts, Russian claims. False: Ukraine was willing to negotiate peace, but Moscow's demands went too far — polygraph.info — 18 June 2024 (LINK)

'Cheapfake' Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead. No, the president didn't wander off. He didn't freeze either. — washingtonpost — 14 June 2024 (LINK)

Trump statement promising to 'save' Hunter Biden after conviction is fake — wtsp.com — 12 June 2024 (LINK)

Claim about BJP’s vote share increasing in India's 2024 poll compared to 2019 is false — thequint.com — 11 June 2024 (LINK)

— BJP won 240 seats with 36.56% vote share in 2024 elections, compared to 37.7% in 2019, and not 39% as claimed, but better than 31.34% in 2014.

Fauci did not say he 'made up' COVID-19 rules on social distancing, masks, despite U.K.'s Daily Mail report: figures came from CDC and "it wasn’t appropriate to publicly challenge a sister health organization" after it was clear it was clear the virus was aerosolized (meaning tiny virus particles that can get suspended in the air. — politifact — 7 June 2024 (LINK)

A CDC spokesperson told PolitiFact that the 6-foot recommendation was based in part on 1955 research examining how respiratory droplets travel. That research was used because there was no other data for COVID-19, the spokesperson said. The guidance was updated Aug. 11, 2022, to no longer recommend 6-foot distancing because of widespread immunity and effective COVID-19 treatments, the spokesperson said.

Posts falsely claim Biden left D-Day event early, ignored veterans — AFP — 7 June 2024 (LINK)

False claims that pandemic treaty abolishes nations' sovereignty and allows WHO to impose health policies circulate on social media — healthfeedback.org / The People's Voice — 6 June 2024 (LINK)

— It doesn't give the WHO any power to impose health policies on signatories. Neither the accord nor the recent IHR amendments contain language supporting claims that signatories lose their sovereignty or that the WHO can control or impose policies on countries.

U.S. Heartland Institute spreads misinformation about Antarctica, ice and climate change — factcheck.weekly — 6 June 2024 (LINK)

63 U.S. bank collapses "imminent": FDIC: "The number of problem banks represented 1.4 percent of total banks, which was within the normal range for non-crisis periods of one to two percent of all banks. — AFP — 6 June 2024 (LINK)

Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn't call to lock up Hillary Clinton — CNN — 3 June 2024 (LINK)

No, Trump could not pardon himself in New York case if he is re-elected president: Presidents have broad powers when it comes to pardons for federal crimes. Trump's conviction was for state crimes. — wcnc — 31 May 2024 (LINK)

Video, spread by X users including Lincoln Project, shows crowd celebrating Trump's guilty verdict? No, it was a manipulated version of a 2016 video depicting a crowd celebrating a soccer victory in England — snopes — 31 May 2024 (LINK)

Fox: Yes, Trump is still under a gag order even after his conviction — myfoxzone.com — 31 May 2024 (LINK)

Biden said he was Vice President 'during the pandemic'? Well before COVID-19 started — snopes — 28 May 2024 (LINK)

Bird flu outbreak in US isn't timed for November elections; it began in 2022 — politifact — 24 May 2024 (LINK)

No, these photos don't show the helicopter crash that killed Iran's president. These viral photos are from 2020 — wbir — 21 May 2024 (LINK)

RFK Jr.'s 'history lesson' on Russia's invasion of Ukraine flunks the fact test: line-by-line dissection shows he's often echoing Russian talking points — washingtonpost — 8 May 2024 (LINK)

Abandoned castle 'frozen in time' after owner died on Titanic? No evidence, and video covered by New York Post and Newsweek misleading — snopes.com — 13 May 2024 (LINK)

No, this video doesn't show violent protests because an Israeli singer is performing at Eurovision: the clip is from a 2009 tennis match — 13newsnow.com — 13 May 2024 (LINK)

RFK Jr.'s 'history lesson' on Russia's invasion of Ukraine flunks the fact test: line-by-line dissection shows he's often echoing Russian talking points — washingtonpost — 8 May 2024 (LINK)

Multiple polls say Biden is least popular US President in 70 years? True — snopes.com — 8 May 2024 (LINK)

— His approval was 39.8% in February, compared to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's historically low approval rating during the same period, at 37.4%.

Fact Check: No evidence of mRNA cancer 'explosion' in Japan, no national emergency declared — Reuters ● — 7 May 2024 (LINK)

Clip shows rally against far-right party in Germany, not pro-Palestinian protest on US college campus — AFP — 7 May 2024 (LINK)

Democrats are not trying to 'redesign' the American flag with rainbow stripes. Photo is an image from a 2015 protest — politifact — 7 May 2024 (LINK)

At campaign rallies on May 1, former President Donald Trump made misleading statements about tax cuts and jobs filled by immigrants in the U.S. illegally. But he spoke more accurately on the rising costs of food, including chicken — polygraph.info — 2 May 2024 (LINK)

Footage of Gaza City airstrike misattributed to Rafah reaches millions on X, pushed by verified users — polygraph.info — 25 April 2024 (LINK)

Facts in the Trump courtroom v. 'facts' in the court of public opinion: as he enters and leaves the courtroom, Trump often stops before the cameras and blasts falsehoods to the court of public opinion — washingtonpost — 23 April 2024 (LINK)

— Trump: "The Federal Elections [Commission] ... said essentially nothing was done wrong." This is false.

Video shows Chile wildfires, not Iran attacking Israel — AFP — 22 April 2024 (LINK)

No, this video doesn't show a retaliatory strike from Israel on Iran: it's a compilation of videos posted online before the April 19 strike — FOX West Texas — 19 April 2024 (LINK)

Trump says migrants are fueling violent crime. But studies show immigrants are not more likely to engage in criminality — Reuters ● — 11 April 2024 (LINK)

Video of skyscrapers collapsing isn't from Taiwan earthquake: actually taken in China in 2021 — whas11.com — 3 April 2024 (LINK)

March 2024

Ship that struck Baltimore bridge was not a 'Chinese vessel': It is owned by Singapore-based company Grace Ocean Private Ltd., managed by Synergy Marine Group and chartered by Danish shipping company Maersk — politifact — 28 March 2024 (LINK)

No, captain of cargo ship involved in Baltimore bridge collapse is not Ukrainian: The captain and crew of the cargo ship are Indian, according to Synergy Marine Group, the ship's management company — wtol — (LINK)

Baltimore bridge collapse sparks baseless attack theories — AFP — 27 March 2024 (LINK)

— Local, state and federal officials quickly said there was no evidence of terrorism, and the managers of the Singapore-flagged Dali have said the container ship lost power before colliding with the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Fact check: Trump tells 'mind-bogglingly nonsensical' story about the New York Stock Exchange: Trump said he didn't put his company on the NYSE because businesspeople are persecuted in New York — but it is being listed on the Nasdaq, also located in New York. — CNN — 25 March 2024 (LINK)

Trump's $454 million bond is "unprecedented, and practically impossible for ANY Company." Mostly false: Larger companies have paid for appeals bonds of $1 billion or more, or twice the value of the one former President Donald Trump faces — factcheck.org — 22 March 2024 (LINK)

OpenTheBooks.com repeats misrepresentation that Biden's administration sent stimulus checks to dead people: it was Trump's — factcheck.org — 21 March 2024 (LINK)

Fact check: Trump, telling a completely fictional story, falsely claims he released 'the tape' of his Zelensky call — CNN — 17 March 2024 (LINK)

The Chinese government does NOT own TikTok's parent company, ByteDance — politifact — 14 March 2024 (LINK)

Washington Post fact-checking President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address: 12 statements that were wrong or needed context — washingtonpost — 11 March 2024 (LINK)

Red Cross does provide maps and resources for migrants traveling north to the US-Mexico border: the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), not the U.S.— based American Red Cross — washingtonpost — 8 March 2024 (LINK)

FactCheck on Biden's 7 March State of the Union: His speech included misleading claims on inflation, crime, clean energy investments, wages and other subjects — factcheck.org — 8 March 2024 (LINK)

Posts make baseless claim about net worth of Ocasio-Cortez: she is not "a verified multi-millionaire." — see_link — 6 March 2024 (LINK)

Fact-checking Donald Trump's remarks during Mar-a-Lago speech after Supreme Court ballot ruling — firstcoastnews — 5 March 2024 (LINK)

He did not take out ISIS as he claimed
Did Trump provide the largest tax cut in US history? Trump was likely referring to the Republican tax reform legislation passed in 2018 which did provide the biggest corporate tax cut in US history, but not the biggest when measured as a percent of US GDP.
Did Trump take money from the military to secure the southern border? True

Trump claims 82% of people believe 2020 was 'rigged election': maybe 31% — newsweek — 5 March 2024 (LINK)

— The closest evidence that fits is a 2021 survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) which found that 82 percent of Republicans who most trust Fox News said they either completely or mostly agreed that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. And 31 percent of all Americans surveyed, irrespective of political beliefs, either completely or mostly agreed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump.

February 2024

Republicans use misleading immigration figures under Biden — see_link — 27 February 2023 (LINK)

— US Government statistics show that in the initial processing of millions of encounters, 2.5 million people have been released into the U.S. and 2.8 million have been removed or expelled.

Some Republicans, however, have misleadingly suggested the number released into the country since Biden took office is much higher. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, claimed last month that 8 million "have come in illegally" and "we have to send them back." Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made the same claim in a GOP debate in January.

Posts use bogus document to falsely claim Zelenskyy plans move to Florida: video narrated by former Fox News host Clayton Morris — factcheck.org — 22 February 2024 (LINK)

— The claim about Zelenskyy appeared in a Nov. 29 article on the Russia-based website DC Weekly, which has trafficked in disinformation about Zelenskyy and the war

Elements of the naturalization document shown in the video reveal it is not authentic. The document omits Zelenskyy's middle name, Oleksandrovych, which is required on a certificate of naturalization. The certificate must include "an applicant's full legal name" which "includes the person's first name, middle name(s) (if any), and family name (or surname) without any initials or nicknames."

Also, in an interview with AFP Fact Check, immigration lawyer Marcin Muszynski said that all naturalization certificates issued in 2023 would have been signed by Ur M. Jaddou, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. However, the document shown in the video is signed by a person named "Haley Burns."

In addition, the bio for the author of the DC Weekly story, Jessica Delvin, seems to be fabricated. The image that is supposedly Jessica Delvin is actually an image of New York-based author Judy Batalion.

Donald Trump falsely claimed Biden had told "lies" about being in the military, a pilot, and a truck driver — factcheck.org — 19 February 2024 (LINK)

Trump's distorted NATO 'delinquent' comments — factcheck.org — 12 February 2024 (LINK)

— It's not true that NATO was "busted" until Trump stepped in — even in terms of indirect spending by countries on defense, that was going up before Trump took office.

The Iranian regime is pushing a propaganda narrative to misportray the security measures that the U.S. and U.K have implemented in response to attacks from Iran-backed forces in the Middle East as an act of aggression intended to expand the Israel-Hamas war — polygraph.info — 12 February 2024 (LINK)

— On February 6 The Associated Press reported, citing an unnamed U.S. military official, that Iran-backed militia forces had carried out 166 attacks on U.S. military installations since October 18, including 67 in Iraq, 98 in Syria and one in Jordan.

AI voice clone of Imran Khan on X falsely claims he is boycotting polls — boomlive.in — 9 February 2024 (LINK)

Posts misrepresent Saudi Prince's comment on investment in Kushner Fund: Trump's son-in-law not asked to return funds — factcheck.org — 9 February 2024 (LINK)

Biden makes false claim about Jan. 6 Capitol attack Trump did not watch TV as officers were killed — politifact — 2 February 2024 (LINK)

— About 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple reports. But no officers were "killed" that day, as President Joe Biden falsely claimed at a Jan. 31 campaign reception in Miami.

January 2024

Judge in Donald Trump-E. Jean Carroll case is not involved in sex trafficking — politifact — 30 January 2024 (LINK)

False claim: Alex Soros posted a 'direct violent threat' against Trump — usatoday — 30 January 2024 (LINK)

FactChecking Trump's Iowa victory speech on 15 January: former President Donald Trump twisted some facts on terrorism, mail-in voting and his record in Iowa caucuses — factcheck.org — 18 January 2024 (LINK)

Trump falsely claimed that during his presidency "we had no terror" in the U.S. There were several acts of terrorism that were perpetrated by foreign-born individuals while Trump was president.
Trump wrongly claimed that a commission co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter in 2005 concluded, "once you have mail-in ballots, you have crooked elections." The commission warned about the increased risk of fraud, but suggested measures to lessen that risk. Carter is an advocate for mail-in voting.
He also incorrectly claimed that this was "the third time" he'd won the Iowa caucus. This was only Trump's second win, and the first when he faced a serious challenge.