Facts Check

Q: Are Philip Morris “Marlboro M” brand marijuana cigarettes now for sale in four U.S. states? A: No. That claim comes from a 2014 satirical story. It has recently resurfaced without the satire label. FULL ANSWER Philip Morris does not sell marijuana cigarettes in the United States. Despite some marijuana-friendly […]

We’ve written this before, but we will restate it: The U.S. intelligence community says Russia waged an influence campaign during the 2016 campaign to help elect Donald Trump, but it made no determination on whether Russia’s meddling affected the election outcome. We repeat ourselves, because Vice President Mike Pence recently revived […]

General Motors will close one of its four assembly plants in South Korea in May. It did not say it was moving production to Detroit instead, as President Trump claimed. “That was not part of the announcement,” GM spokesman Patrick Morrissey said in a phone interview with FactCheck.org. A GM […]

President Donald Trump repeatedly has mangled the facts about the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program — as we have documented. This week, he found a new way to misrepresent the program. Trump said those who win the diversity visa lottery are awarded U.S. citizenship. That’s not how it works. Eligible entrants […]

White House press aides are claiming President Donald Trump’s budget contains trillions in “deficit reduction,” when it actually calls for larger deficits for the next several years and would add $7 trillion to the national debt over 10 years. Let’s start with what the president actually proposed. Page 117 of the […]

Q: Were 4 million Democratic votes found to be fraudulent? A: No. The company that supposedly made the voting machines in question doesn’t appear to exist. FULL ANSWER The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has certified voting machines made by seven manufacturers for use in elections across the country. None of […]

At a meeting on international trade, President Donald Trump falsely claimed his policies have reduced the cost of electricity for U.S. businesses. In fact, electricity costs have increased in Trump’s first 10 months in office. The president made his boast during a meeting on trade that he held at the White […]

Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt suggests that global warming isn’t necessarily “a bad thing” because “humans have most flourished during times of … warming.” But recent years have been the warmest humans have seen over at least the last millennium. This record warmth is tied to more extreme weather events, […]

The subject of this week’s fact-checking video is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Then-President Barack Obama created the DACA program in 2012 by executive action after Congress failed to pass the “DREAM Act,” which would have provided a path to citizenship for certain immigrants brought to the country […]

Q: Was a Black Lives Matter activist sued after stealing millions of dollars in donations? A: No. That scandal was made up by a website that calls itself satirical. FULL ANSWER Black Lives Matter, a movement against systemic racism, began in 2013 after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida, […]