Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Feb. 12, 2025
"[The] majority of liberals I know think along roughly these same lines," the letter alleges.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Feb. 12, 2025
For years, people claimed a video depicted a man finding a secret cave offering a free way into ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Feb. 12, 2025
Internet users claimed Leavitt said, "They want you to panic, but Trump wants you to remember Je ...
Written by: Amelia Clarke
Feb. 11, 2025
One internet user captioned the quote: "Scary quote of the day."
Written by: Taija PerryCook
Feb. 11, 2025
The alleged lawsuit was reportedly based on comments co-host Sunny Hostin made about Trump's mar ...
Written by: Amelia Clarke
Feb. 11, 2025
In the footage, the U.S. president allegedly said people had been waiting "for years" for such a ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Feb. 10, 2025
By mid-February 2025, Trump had signed 279 executive orders (220 in first term, 59 in second), s ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
Feb. 10, 2025
Trump supporters argued he was cheered. Detractors claimed he was booed. Both were correct.
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Feb. 10, 2025
The purported post circulated only in the form of one screenshot with the same number of likes a ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
Feb. 10, 2025
The president did post about Super Bowl LIX, but did not blame DEI or USAID for the Kansas City ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Feb. 10, 2025
A picture of a man giving the "double birds" to the president received tens of millions of socia ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Feb. 10, 2025
Versions of the quote have circulated on social media since at least 2017.
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Feb. 10, 2025
Eagles fans celebrated in Philadelphia's streets on Jan. 26 after their team secured a place in ...
Written by: Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Feb. 10, 2025
We talked to the Ohio protester in 2020 to find out the story behind the sign.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Feb. 10, 2025 (Updated: Feb. 24, 2025)
The deadly deep-sea brine pool is said to kill anything that enters its waters.
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Feb. 9, 2025
Internet users shared the quote in the weeks after Vance's inauguration as vice president.
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Feb. 9, 2025
Simon Whiteley, the film's designer behind the code, reportedly scanned the characters from his ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Feb. 8, 2025
Images supposedly showing Culkin and Gosling wearing T-shirts with photos of each other on them ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Feb. 8, 2025
Though several people with the Imafidon last name have impressive backgrounds.
Written by: Jack Izzo
Feb. 8, 2025
Social media posts claimed Donald Trump and Elon Musk had simply "learned from the master" in th ...
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