Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Jack Izzo
Jan. 23, 2025
Posts on X alleged that Putin wanted the extradition in exchange for ending the war in Ukraine.
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Jan. 23, 2025
The executive order’s definitions of male and female left room for interpretation contrary to th ...
Written by: Amelia Clarke
Jan. 23, 2025
In 2015, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for drug trafficking, ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Jan. 23, 2025
Trump revoked a decades-old executive order saying federal contractors must take affirmative act ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Jan. 23, 2025
This rumor about the former NBA star is one of the latest fictional stories drawn up using artif ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Jan. 23, 2025
The civil rights leader expressed the sentiment in numerous speeches.
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Jan. 23, 2025
Facebook developed its procedure for transitioning accounts from one administration to the next ...
Written by: Amelia Clarke
Jan. 22, 2025
The picture has been widely shared for years and purportedly shows the aftermath of the explosio ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Jan. 22, 2025
The photo first emerged online in 2018 and was reportedly captured in New Zealand.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Jan. 22, 2025
Online users discussed the altered photo after tech entrepreneur Elon Musk twice extended his ri ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 22, 2025
The Spanish-language site was also removed in 2017 during U.S. President Donald Trump’s previous ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Jan. 22, 2025
The Constitution did disappear from the White House website, but so did other pages. The removal ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Jan. 22, 2025
People claiming the U.S. government would revoke the second lady's citizenship did so with a mis ...
Written by: Jack Izzo Rae Deng
Jan. 22, 2025
There are still other Biden-era measures in place to reduce prescription drug prices, however.
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Jan. 22, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 29, 2025)
Developers of a tool that could discover personal information about people from a picture have w ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Jan. 21, 2025
Online users shared this untrue rumor about the pair in the days before U.S. President Donald Tr ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 21, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of leaving abortion law decisions to the s ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Jan. 21, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 22, 2025)
Handing over control of the official presidential and vice presidential social media accounts ha ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Jan. 21, 2025
The Chase & Sanborn coffee advertisement depicting a man raising his hand to spank a woman appea ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Jan. 21, 2025
"This is what happens when you give the reigns to woke idealists," one Facebook user wrote.
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