Meme Pins False Claim On Lou Dobbs

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Quick Take Despite claims made in a viral meme, Lou Dobbs of Fox Business Network has not reported that “Mexican drug cartels are paying Pelosi and Schumer millions to keep border open.” Full Story The political debate over building a wall on the United States’ southern border is a frequent prop […]

Trump Is Wrong About Fact-Checkers

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In a political rally in El Paso, President Donald Trump falsely suggested that fact-checkers didn’t hold then-President Barack Obama accountable for his false promise that if you like your health care plan or your doctor, you can keep them under the Affordable Care Act. We wrote as far back as […]

Did the Uninsured Increase by 7 Million?

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Democrats have embraced a new talking point: “7 million Americans have become uninsured” under President Donald Trump. That’s backed up by a Gallup survey. So far, one other measure has picked up a statistical change in the uninsured rate, but others haven’t. We’ll go through the numbers. In September, we […]

Phony Claim That Gold Went To Afghanistan

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Quick Take A meme making a bogus claim about the U.S. giving gold to Afghanistan is circulating online. Full Story More than two years after leaving office, former President Barack Obama is still a popular subject of misinformation online. One meme circulating on Facebook makes the bogus claim that, “Trump’s […]

Video: Trump’s Bogus El Paso Claim

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In this week’s fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper reviews President Donald Trump’s false claim about El Paso’s violent crime rates. In his State of the Union address on Feb. 5, the president said that El Paso went from having “extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in […]

Sanders’ ‘Fact-Check’ Video Distorts Facts

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A “fact-check” video posted on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ official social media accounts misrepresents employment data in an attempt to prove President Donald Trump “wrong” about the economy. The data actually show employment continues to improve under Trump. The video, which appeared on Sanders’ official Twitter and Facebook accounts, received more […]

False Claim About Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Demand’

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Quick Take A false claim circulating online states that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — in exchange for a border wall — “demands welfare” for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. That story originated on a self-described satire site before spreading elsewhere online without any disclaimer. Full Story Following the longest government […]

Super Bowl Ratings Not Trumped by SOTU

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Quick Take The Super Bowl had double the viewers than the State of the Union address, contrary to a false claim on social media. Full Story TV viewership for Super Bowl LIII was below 100 million — marking a 10-year low for what is typically the most-watched program of the […]

Blackface Photo Doesn’t Show Clintons

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Quick Take A photo of two people, one of whom is in blackface, has been circulating online for years with the unfounded claim that it shows Bill and Hillary Clinton. A Twitter user said he posted the photo in 2015, even though he had no evidence it was the Clintons, […]