Fact-check: Did Gavin Newsom cut $100m in fire prevention funding? Online posts, citing a January 10 Newsweek article, claim Newsom cut $101m in fire prevention funding. Is this true? Al Jazeera · Jan 16, 2025
Fact check: Did Joe Biden keep these 99 promises? Joe Biden’s campaign focused on COVID-19, racial justice, climate change and tax reforms. We tracked 99 promises. Al Jazeera · Jan 15, 2025
Meta Policy Reversal Puts Question Mark On Furure Of Fact-checking Media outlets around the world have been left scratching their heads over the future of their fact-checking operations after Meta's shock announcement that it will halt its US programme. International Business Times · Jan 10, 2025
No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth? The late New York Sen_ Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2025
Meta’s factchecking partners brace for layoffs Meta has provided over $100m for certified organizations to conduct factchecks on its platforms since 2016 The Guardian - US · Jan 8, 2025
Disinformation Experts Slam Meta Decision To End US Fact-checking Tech giant Meta's shock announcement to end its US fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday from disinformation researchers who warned it risked opening the floodgates for proliferating false narratives. International Business Times · Jan 7, 2025
New Orleans attacker: How false claims about the suspect spread A Fox News report fuelled the spread of misinformation online – including a claim the suspect was an illegal immigrant. Al Jazeera · Jan 4, 2025
The Lie of the Year Was Joe Biden's Decline It was the greatest cover up of presidential ability since FDR. Reason · Jan 2, 2025
Did artificial intelligence shape the 2024 US election? Experts feared AI deepfakes in elections, but traditional misinformation methods like social media claims prevailed. Al Jazeera · Dec 25, 2024
Fact check: Did UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect post viral Substack? Publishing platform Substack removed a post purporting to be by Luigi Mangione, suspect in killing of Brian Thompson. Al Jazeera · Dec 11, 2024
Could RFK Jr, Trump’s presumptive health secretary, ban vaccines? RFK Jr might try to curb access to vaccines if not able to impose an outright ban but will face pushback, experts say. Al Jazeera · Nov 21, 2024
Fact check: What are Trump’s plans for US economy, immigration, abortion? What details do we know about US president-elect’s campaign promises for immigration, education, healthcare, abortion? Al Jazeera · Nov 14, 2024
Fact check: Was Elon Musk’s Starlink used to rig the US election? Did the tech billionaire really use satellite-based technology to ‘steal’ the election for Donald Trump? Al Jazeera · Nov 13, 2024
Fact Check: Were ICE officers told to avoid uniforms while US voting? A viral claim suggests immigration officers were told not to wear uniforms to avoid scaring undocumented migrants. Not true. Al Jazeera · Nov 6, 2024
Al Jazeera · Oct 26, 2024 Fact check: Does Donald Trump want to do away with the Affordable Care Act? Kamala Harris’s campaign claims that he does.
The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2024 Top fact-checker finally reveals which party lies more: Democrats or Republicans Trump has twice earned the title of PolitiFact’s liar of the year, with 76 percent of his claims rated ‘mostly false,’ ‘false,’ or ‘pants on fire’
Al Jazeera · Oct 18, 2024 How an X account pushed an unsubstantiated Tim Walz abuse allegation The pro-Trump account claimed a former student of Walz had accused the VP candidate of sexual abuse.
Al Jazeera · Sep 29, 2024 What’s behind recent false claims about immigrants and crime in the US? Studies show rhetoric about immigrants and crime is often exaggerated or false. So why do these false narratives spread?
Al Jazeera · Sep 22, 2024 Fact check: Did Harris exaggerate scale of Trump’s pre-career inheritance? Harris claimed Trump started out in business with ‘$400m on a silver platter’ from his father. But is that accurate?
France 24 · Sep 22, 2024 A fake fact-checking article claims Trump’s running mate JD Vance killed his cat And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it has – false accusations of killing pets have become the latest issue at the centre of American political debates. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump began by making false accusations about Haitian migrants killing and eating pets in Ohio during…
Al Jazeera · Sep 21, 2024 Fact check: Are ‘born alive’ babies really unprotected in some US states? President of US anti-abortion rights group claims protections for babies born alive after abortions have been repealed.
Al Jazeera · Sep 18, 2024 What we know about Trump assassination suspect Routh’s party affiliation Ryan Wesley Routh lost his US voter registration in 2002 after being convicted of a felony.
Roll Call · Sep 17, 2024 On Black vote, Harris won’t assume 'I’m going to have it because I’m Black’ - Roll Call Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris touted her proposals to help Black voters, but offered no new ideas for the Israel-Hamas war.
Al Jazeera · Sep 15, 2024 ‘I’m afraid’: Aftermath of Trump’s misinformation on Springfield’s Haitians How a debunked rumour amplified anti-migrant sentiments and caused chaos in Springfield, Ohio.
Salon · Sep 11, 2024 Trump: Democrats "execute the baby" "There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born," ABC anchor Linsey Davis says