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Elon Musk, who has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead a committee to ferret out government waste, wrongly posted to X that members of Congress are trying to vote themselves a 40% raise. A continuing resolution put forward by Republicans leading the House Appropriations Committee does attempt to […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Summary President-elect Donald Trump is headed back to the White House in January. But in all the years since he was last president, not once has he been absent from our annual roundup of the worst whoppers. He’s very present […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In a Fox News interview, House Speaker Mike Johnson was spinning the facts when he claimed Republicans would have won a larger majority in the House in the 2024 election if not for Democrats’ gerrymandering of districts. Johnson failed to mention […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden from serving time for gun- and tax-related crimes. But contrary to claims on social media, Hunter Biden’s gun charges did not stem from a 1994 “crime bill authored” by then-Sen. […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take President Joe Biden granted pardons and commutations to more than 1,500 individuals on Dec. 12. Social media posts wrongly claim those pardoned included a Chinese national, Shanlin Jin, imprisoned for child pornography. Jin was granted clemency as part […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. SciCheck Digest Fox News health commentator Dr. Kelly Powers was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in July 2020, months before COVID-19 vaccines were made available in the U.S. But social media posts are baselessly linking her […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take President-elect Donald Trump has renewed his call to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. whose parents are not in the country legally. Online posts falsely claim this would strip four of Trump’s children of citizenship […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In his first post-election, sit-down broadcast interview, President-elect Donald Trump outlined his priorities for a second term. But in the interview, Trump continued to repeat inaccurate information related to immigration, crime, trade, health care and the election. The interview with […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, misleadingly suggested that vaccines might cause autism because “there’s not been a direct study on each individual vaccine.” While he’s technically right about the studies, […]

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take President Joe Biden is one of only a few presidents who have granted pardons to a relative. But social media posts falsely claim that former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush also pardoned family members. While Billy […]