Fact check: Trump litters Oval Office interview with false claims
President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his ...
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In America’s news deserts, Meta’s retreat from fact-checking severs a last link to fact-based news
Meta's policy reversal and increase in political content could mean more misinformation for communities lacking local news ...
Report: Meta's fact checking program failed to spot most disinformation
Meta, precursing a wave of new "free speech" policies across its platforms, is disbanding its disinformation-spotting fact ...
Fact check: Trump made more than 20 false claims in his Inauguration Day remarks
President Donald Trump made only a smattering of false claims in his inaugural address on Monday, mostly sticking to vague ...
Fact Check: No, Usha Vance Would Not Lose US Citizenship Under Trump Executive Order. Here's Why
People claiming the U.S. government would revoke the second lady's citizenship did so with a misunderstanding of a January ...
Fact-checking President Trump’s 2025 inaugural address
Inaugural addresses, with their emphasis on lofty rhetoric, are generally not fertile ground for fact-checking. But President ...
Fact Check: Video does not show Sean 'Diddy' Combs riding bike in jail
A February 2024 video of a YouTuber riding a motorcycle at a former prison was shared with false descriptions saying it ...
No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the fire department told Lead Stories the claim is false. The department's single electric fire engine was ...
Fact Check: Has Russia Offered Assistance to California Wildfire Disaster?
An unevidenced claim that Russia has offered support to the California wildfires response was read by millions of people ...
Fact Check: Posts misstate FEMA budget capability for California wildfire response
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has billions of dollars in disaster funds, which are used to reimburse states ...
Don't rely on social media users for fact-checking. Many don't care much about the common good
In the wake of Donald Trump's election victory, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg fired the fact-checking team for his ...