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Fact check: Oprah Winfrey did NOT block access to a private road amid tsunami warning evacuations
Oprah Winfrey did NOT block access to a private road amid tsunami warning evacuations - Oprah Winfrey doesn’t even own the ...
Fact Check: Digging into claim Bill Gates got approval to 'secretly' spray RNA on crops
There was no credible evidence that Gates has been granted approval, secret or otherwise, to spray RNA (including mRNA, a ...
TikTok videos are about to get crowdsourced fact checks on them
TikTok is officially rolling out Footnotes, a community fact-checking program that’s supposed to add helpful context to ...
Fact Check: Video Showing Five Stranded Beluga Whales Was NOT Filmed Just Before 2025 Kamchatka Earthquake
Does a video show five beluga whales that washed ashore in Kamchatka, Russia on July 29, 2025, the day of an 8.8 magnitude ...
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Fact-checking three of Tulsi Gabbard’s attacks on Obama about Russian election interference
Russian interference in 2016 included hacking the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Donald Trump, and spreading ...
Fact Check: Altered video shows Liberia’s president criticising Trump for praising his ‘beautiful’ English
A video of Liberian President Joseph Boakai being interviewed about U.S. relations in 2017 - when he was vice president - has ...
Fact check: Trump calls to prosecute Beyoncé based on a nonexistent $11 million payment
There is no basis for Trump’s claim that Beyoncé received an $11 million payment related to the Harris campaign, let alone for the endorsement in particular.
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Misinformation spreads, but fact-checking has leveled off
While the count of fact-checkers routinely fluctuates, the current number is roughly the same as it was in 2022 and 2021. In more blunt terms: Fact-checking’s growth seems to have leveled off.
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Fact check: Five false claims Trump made about inflation last night
President Donald Trump is not only continuing to lie about inflation. He’s now falsely claiming that Democrats are lying when ...
Fact Check: Guardian headline on reporting far-right family and friends to police is fake
A screenshot of a Guardian op-ed headline attributed to Britain’s interior minister Yvette Cooper that encourages readers to ...