#FactChecks

A viral video doing the rounds on Whatsapp is full of false claims about COVID-19. We took a look at some of them. The video’s creator, Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury, calls
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Take a journey with me across the US of A as we fact-check @realDonaldTrump false claims about the election, state by state.To keep it short, I will focus on stories
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Welcome to day 2 of Election Week! Please keep sending potential misinformation my way https://twitter.com/dpfunke/status/1323699808985583619 Wisconsin does not have more ballots cast than registered votershttps://www.politifact.com/factche
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Hey PA journalists- do you agree with this @PAHouseGOP response? “To draw any lines between what happened here in Harrisburg and what happened in D.C. is a false equivalence,”https://twitter.com/Owens_abc27/status/1359649701595906051 Ra
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A problem for Democrats is that they *do* introduce plans then people never hear about them.Is it about pizzazz? Biden introduced his Lift Every Voice plan ages ago and ran
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THREAD: “I think that was a mistake.” After trying to play with percentages to sugarcoat NY's horrific death toll, we pressed the Democrats' star witness from yesterday’s @WaysandMeansGOP hearing. He
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I am actually the one who spent hours researching and making this.Glad to have it shared but I would like a bit of credit! https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1279401944621121537 After I spent hours researching
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It's been a week since Election Day, but @PolitiFact is still hard at work fact-checking misinformation about the vote. See something sketchy on your timeline? DM or email it to
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Hello to all our new viewers who've encountered our 2019 segment on voting machines through conservative media using it to push Trump's voter-fraud claims! First: sorry we swear so much!
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People who don't support #ForceTheVote what exactly are you afraid of? (A Thread) Almost every State during the Primary that had it #M4A the ballot had it win and since
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I was legitimately surprised during the primaries how little it seemed to matter that Biden said things that were completely untrue. We're supposedly in the age of fact-checking, when the
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1. I’ve been waiting for this@RepJoeNeguse asks great question:“Under the penalty of perjury do you testify” that your statement on April 18 presser that White House “fully cooperated” with Mueller
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In the past few days, screenshots of posts from fake Parler accounts for conservatives have taken off on social media. Here are just a few examples. A screenshot of a
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1. Yesterday, Facebook lifted its blanket political advertising ban, allowing ads involving the Georgia runoff. Today, American Crossroads, Karl Rove's Super PAC, is using Facebook to run an outrageously dishonest
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Which brings me back to Nancy Pelosi.Who just rigged it so that Katie Porter will no longer be on the Congressional Finance Committee.https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/01/pelosi-removes-katie-porter-bringing-joy-gratitude-to-every-crooke
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Our group's household secondary attack rate meta-analysis has gained traction, but not for the reasons I'd hoped for. We did not conclude "no asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic spread" of SARS-CoV-2. A
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