The National Football League (NFL) published a map on social media Thursday incorrectly depicting the sovereign nation of Taiwan as part of China. The map was meant to illustrate the debut of “International Marketing Areas” for different teams; the Los Angeles Rams were designated to promote their brand in China. As American football is largely…
Biden State Department Falsely Denies Taliban, Terrorist Haqqani Network Ties
August 31, 2021 by
The Biden State Department made the astounding claim Friday that the Taliban and its brother organization, the Haqqani Network, are “separate entities.” In truth, the two are tightly linked, and many of the top Haqqani leaders – including self-described “Kabul chief of security” Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani – are also high-ranking Taliban officials. Terrorism experts were…
Fact Check: Cher Falsely Claims GOP Only Allows White People to Vote
May 1, 2021 by
CLAIM: Left-wing Hollywood star Cher claimed in a tweet Friday that Republicans only allow white people to vote, adding that the GOP doesn’t understand why “black, brown, and native Americans” are allowed to vote in elections. VERDICT: FALSE. The modern Republican party has never put forth legislation that limits voting rights to only white people.…
Robocall Smears Texas Republican Candidate Susan Wright, Falsely Alleges She Killed Her Late Husband
May 1, 2021 by
Texas Republican Susan Wright, who is running for Congress to fill her late husband Rep. Ron Wright’s (R-TX) vacant seat, notified local and federal law enforcement Friday about an anonymous robocall circulating that falsely accuses Wright of killing her husband. The Wright campaign alerted the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office,…
Fact Check: President Biden Falsely Claims Trump Did Not Condemn Proud Boys
February 18, 2021 by
CLAIM: “I asked him to condemn the Proud Boys. He wouldn’t do it. He said stand by, stand ready or whatever.” VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Trump’s “stand” language followed the prompt of the moderator’s question. He later clarified that he condemned the group. President Joe Biden appeared at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday…
Chaos in the Senate: Democrat Impeachment Managers Withdraw Statements Falsely Attributed to Sen. Mike Lee After Schumer Intervention
February 13, 2021 by
Chaos erupted at the end of the second day of the second impeachment trial of now former President Donald Trump as House Democrats were forced to withdraw from the record a statement a GOP senator said was falsely attributed to him after Senate Democrats lost control of the proceedings while they sought to wrap up…
Fact Check: Debra Messing, Democrats Falsely Accuse David Perdue of Flashing ‘White Power’ Sign
January 3, 2021 by
CLAIM: Hollywood star Debra Messing alleged in a tweet that incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) flashed a “white power” hand sign for the camera during an October rally in Georgia. VERDICT: False. The photo shows Sen. Perdue with two teenage Republican interns, each holding up three fingers. They were holding up three fingers because the…
‘A Blatant Lie’: Ossoff Falsely Accuses Loeffler Of Campaigning ‘With A Klansman’ In Viral Tweet
December 31, 2020 by
December 31, 2020 12:52 PM ET Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff accused Republican Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler of campaigning with “a klansman” — a false claim based off a selfie Loeffler’s campaign says she unwittingly took with a white supremacist. “Kelly Loeffler campaigned with a klansman,” Ossoff tweeted Wednesday evening. His comment, which has…
FACT CHECK: Viral Video Falsely Claims To Show A Technician Manipulating Voting Data In Georgia
December 4, 2020 by
A video shared on Facebook allegedly shows a Dominion Voting Systems employee manipulating voting data in Georgia’s Gwinnett County. Screenshot/Facebook Verdict: False State and county officials in Georgia said the video shows a contractor using a USB drive to transfer a report from an Election Management Server to a county computer to read information. Dominion…
Establishment Media Issues Four Corrections After Falsely Claiming Trump Separating Families at Border.
June 2, 2018 by
The establishment media suffered a major blow over the past 48 hours, being forced to issue four corrections after falsely claiming that President Trump enacted a policy to separate border-crossing parents from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border. In a list compiled by the White House, the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and […]
FAKE NEWS: CNN Falsely Claims There Aren’t 13 Democrats On The Mueller Probe.
May 22, 2018 by
Chris Cillizza, editor-at-large for CNN, fact-checked a series of “untruths” and “exaggerations” tweeted by President Donald Trump Sunday. In one of those tweets, Trump claimed that there are “13 Angry and Heavily Conflicted Democrats” on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers. Cillizza disputed the tweet. “Trump’s claim that there are 13 Democrats on Mueller’s […]
Leaked DNC Files: Dems Planned to Hit Trump With Widely Discredited Hit Piece Falsely Accusing Him of Rape
June 16, 2016 by
Top allies of Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton planned to falsely accuse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump of rape, a leaked file from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) shows. The table of contents of the file shows that midway through the Democrats’ anti-Trump document is the supposed revelation that “Trump’s ex-wife accused him of rape.” […]