All fact-checks
Everything we've checked, newest first. 89 fact-checks to date — browse by verdict, by topic, or by person.
August 202616
- Did Biden's Pardon Strip Fauci of His Fifth Amendment Rights? Brown v. Walker supports the claim's logic, but perjury exposure, three state AG subpoenas, and autopen questions leave Fauci's Fifth Amendment invocation legally unresolved. 1 Contested
- El-Sayed, Rogers, and the Misattributed 9/11 Claim Rogers said El-Sayed 'believes America deserved 9/11.' That quote belongs to Hasan Piker. El-Sayed rejected it on camera. The live debate is his refusal to condemn it. 1 True1 False
- Did Trump Serve in the Military? Trump never served. Five Vietnam-era draft deferments, a disputed bone spurs diagnosis, and a private military school do not add up to military service. Verdict: False. 1 False
- The Arizona Voter Data Breach and the 2020 Election Security Claim A real confession and real non-prosecution, but framing voter-roll scraping as proof the election was insecure inverts what CISA's security claim actually covered. 1 True2 Mostly True1 Misleading
- Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order: What the Law Says, What Wong Kim Ark Held, and What the Supreme Court Decided Trump's Jan. 2025 EO on birthright citizenship is accurately described but overstates Wong Kim Ark's scope. SCOTUS settled it 6-3 in June 2026: the EO is unconstitutional. 1 Mostly True
- DOGE's Federal Data Dragnet: Access Was Real, Broad, and Poorly Controlled DOGE accessed at least 12 agencies' sensitive databases over 18 months. Multiple IG investigations confirmed mishandling. One D.C. case is now in discovery. 3 True1 Mostly True
- DOGE's Savings Claims Were Overstated by Billions. The Record Doesn't Support Fraud. GAO-26-108615 confirms DOGE's savings claims were overstated and largely unverifiable. The evidence points to methodological failure — not the fraud some allege. 4 True1 Mostly True
- Fact-Check: Eight Outlets, One Flawed Argument — The "Liberal Media Is a Myth" Graphic [Corrected] A viral graphic claims eight outlets prove no liberal media. CNN is false. The test: WaPo, LA Times, ABC, CBS accommodated — under owners with divergent partisan profiles. 2 True4 Mostly True2 Misleading1 False
- Were Mamdani’s X Bots Traced to NYC City Hall? Bot-like accounts boosting Mayor Mamdani exist — but the “traced to City Hall” claim rests on IP geolocation that routinely misidentifies NYC VPN traffic as City Hall Park. 1 Misleading
- Rand Paul's Fauci Diary Release Exposed Private Medical Records. Now Who's Legally Exposed? True: Paul exposed 20+ individuals' medical records in Fauci's diary. HIPAA doesn't apply to Congress. Speech or Debate Clause is the key protection; HHS carries the greatest statutory risk. 1 True
- Fact-Check: Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt — Five Disputed Figures, One Unresolved Procedure The committee vote was 8-5, the Senate floor was bypassed, and five circulating figures need correction. The pardon-vs.-Fifth Amendment legal fight is headed to the courts. 1 True2 Mostly True1 Contested
- Trump's Midnight Munitions Post: Five Claims, Five Verdicts ATACMS are gone, Patriots are down two-thirds, and WWII built far more factories. Five claims from Trump's midnight post, rated. 1 Mostly True1 Mixed2 Misleading1 False
- Did the U.S. Have the World's Highest COVID-19 Death Rate? RFK Jr.'s claim that the U.S. had the highest COVID death rate globally is false. Peru's confirmed rate was nearly double the American figure. Among peer nations, the U.S. story is worse. 1 True1 False
- The Fine Print on Utility Money: Haley Stevens’ Senate Claim, Examined Stevens denied taking utility money for her Senate campaign. FEC records show $5,000 from DTE and Consumers Energy PACs reached her Senate account via her House committee's transfer ledger. 1 Misleading1 False
- MAHA Action's Fraud Task Force Post: The Figures Are Real, the Labels Aren't Vance's $230B and $56B figures are real. MAHA Action's post gets both labels wrong: 'fraud' overstates a broader category, and 'halted or recovered' contradicts Vance's own words. 1 Misleading
- Did Biden Pardon Violent Offenders? Biden's mass pardons went to non-violent offenders. He commuted — not pardoned — 37 death row murderers to life without parole, a different legal action that leaves convictions intact. 1 Misleading
July 202635
- Trump vs. Cornyn on Blanche and the Anti-Weaponization Fund Trump misquotes Cornyn on Mar-a-Lago, calls a warrant-backed search 'illegal,' and ignores ~$100M in IRS audit immunity he gained from the fund's own settlement. 1 Mixed1 Misleading
- Fauci, COVID Deaths, and the Pitch Heard Round Truth Social Trump's COVID-deaths post is selectively framed; the basketball-pitch premise misattributes Trump's own words to Fauci; Fauci's Fifth Amendment Senate invocation is confirmed true. 1 True2 Misleading
- The Fifth Amendment Is Not a Confession Invoking the Fifth Amendment cannot be treated as guilt in criminal proceedings; Biden's pardon of Fauci creates a live legal question courts have not yet resolved. 1 Misleading
- Fauci's Diary and Masks: What the Viral Claim Gets Backward Viral posts claim Fauci's released diary proves 'everything he was pushing about Covid was a lie' on masks. The specific diary entry cited — March 31, 2020 — says the opposite… 1 False
- Trump's NYT "Victory" Post: A Deferral Is Not a Denial Judge Merryday did not deny the NYT's motion to dismiss — he deferred it, ordering a third version of Trump's complaint by August 27. Trump's post frames this judicial punt as a decisive win… 1 Misleading
- "Trump's Net Worth Increased by $4 Billion Since Taking Office" — Fact-Check Trump's net worth grew substantially since January 2025, driven by crypto ventures ($1.4B in 2025 income alone), but the specific "$4 billion" figure uses a baseline lower than what Forbes and… 1 Mixed
- Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism: What 40 Years of Research Shows, and What RFK Jr. Changed at the CDC More than 40 large-scale studies covering 5.6 million children found no vaccine-autism link. The claim's only scientific source was fabricated for money and retracted in 2010. Under RFK Jr., the CDC… 1 Mostly True2 False
- Trump's July 16 Election Speech: What the Declassified Documents Do — and Don't — Show Trump's primetime speech happened and his quotes are accurately characterized, but his central framing — that documents prove China compromised U.S. voter data — overstates what was released… 1 Misleading
- The White House Admitted It Cut Blue-State Grants by Electoral Vote. Here Are the Three Questions That Actually Matter. A DOE lawyer admitted that 284 clean energy grants ($7.5B) were canceled by electoral-vote filter. A judge ruled it illegal. Full verdict: unlawful under three frameworks, without historical… 1 True
- Trump's "Complete Sweep" in Arizona: Three Claims, Three Verdicts Trump-backed candidates won key Republican primaries on July 21, 2026, but "won everything" misleads on three levels: these were primaries not generals (Democrats hold all major Arizona statewide… 3 Misleading
- Trump's Saudi Nuclear Post: The "No Enrichment" Claim Doesn't Match the Signed Deal A real civil nuclear cooperation agreement was signed July 22, 2026 — but the deal Trump signed does not prohibit enrichment (it contains a pathway to an enrichment facility via a joint study, and… 1 True1 Mixed2 Misleading1 False
- NJ's Noncitizen Voter Registration: What the Software Error Actually Shows A real 12-month software error enrolled 6,600 noncitizens in NJ voter rolls and produced roughly 400 votes spread across party lines — but the post's three framing claims collapse: the governor… 1 Mostly True3 Misleading
- Trump's "Levels Never Seen Before" Blue-State Exodus Claim Two Trump Truth Social posts claim rich people and companies are fleeing blue states at record rates. IRS data shows migration peaked during COVID and has since eased by roughly a third;… 2 Misleading
- Trump's 52,000 Iran Protester-Death Claim, Fact-Checked Trump's 52,000 protester-death figure exceeds every independent estimate 7-fold; his Netanyahu pledge is legally grounded; and the Iran war-directive claim to military leadership is mostly true. 1 Mostly True2 Misleading
- Did Illegal Immigration Drive Up Your Rent? The Dallas Fed Study Trump Cited, Examined A preliminary Dallas Fed working paper found unauthorized immigration contributed about 19% of rental price increases from 2021–2024. Trump claimed 40–50% via a government housing program that… 1 Mixed1 Misleading
- Trump's Canada Wildfire Post: Negligence, Tariffs, and What the Science Says Three of six claims are False (Canada 'refused to engage,' 'willful negligence,' and adding pollution costs to tariffs — which have no legal mechanism post-IEEPA); two are Misleading (forest… 1 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Misleading3 False
- Fact-Check: Trump's Digital Equity Act 'Victory' Post — What the Court Actually Ruled A federal judge struck down one race-targeted provision but simultaneously ordered Trump's Commerce Department to reinstate over $1.25 billion in canceled broadband grants; advocates called it their… 3 Misleading2 False
- Trump's Election Declassification Posts: Three Truth Social Claims Checked All three posts are Misleading. The declassified documents are authentic and the whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/ page is live, but the 'covered up' narrative, the 'largest compromise in history'… 3 Misleading
- Trump's June CPI Post: Five Claims Checked Two claims are True (largest monthly drop since April 2020; all 67 Bloomberg economists missed) and three are Misleading: 'across the board' ignores food and shelter rises, the 0.8% real wage gain… 2 True3 Misleading
- McConnell Rehab Photo: AI, Recycled, or Real? Forensic experts and four independent fact-checkers found no evidence the July 12 rehabilitation photo was AI-generated or recycled from 2023; all three viral claims rate False, though the… 3 False
- Trump Claims DC Crime Is Down 95%: What the Numbers Actually Show DC crime is down 20% overall and homicides 38% year-to-date in 2026 — significant, but nowhere near the 95% Trump claimed; the 'Italian Embassy' he praised is the US Ambassador's Residence in Rome,… 1 Misleading1 False
- Trump's Election-Integrity Disclosure: What the Declassified Documents Actually Say The July 16 address released genuine intelligence records. On most claims, the documents' own caveats, confidence levels and context cut against the framing the speech drew from them. 1 True3 Mixed1 Unproven5 Misleading
- NY Millionaire Flight and $5K Rents: What the Data Shows, and What Mamdani Has to Do with It The CBC tax-revenue and rent figures are real, but the viral post misattributes a 12-year trend to a mayor who has been in office six months and misrepresents undocumented immigration as the cause… 2 True1 Mostly True1 Misleading1 False
- Fact-Check: Hegseth's Pastor and the Pentagon Pulpit The viral Wilson/NPR claim is substantially accurate but overstates in three ways: "all women" misrepresents household voting, Wilson is not technically Hegseth's pastor, and the Pentagon sermon was… 3 True3 Mostly True1 Mixed2 Misleading
- Did Biden "Open" the Southern Border? Fact-Checking the Claim Biden reversed key Trump-era enforcement measures and presided over record border encounters, but 'opened the border with unrestricted immigration' is Misleading: 2.5M+ expulsions occurred, FY2024… 1 Misleading
- Has Education Overtaken Race as America's Key Ideological Divider? Mostly True — a peer-reviewed PNAS Nexus study confirms education-based ideology gaps (0.72 SD) now exceed racial gaps (0.27 SD), but race still dominates actual voting behavior by a 1.7× wider… 1 Mostly True
- Trump Threatens to Block the Housing Bill Over the SAVE America Act Trump's post is accurate on the Housing Bill's passage but misleads on three fronts: the 97% Republican polling figure lacks any identified source, the SAVE America Act as passed by the House does… 1 True3 Misleading1 False
- Did Ken Paxton Commit Voter Fraud Six Times? ProPublica and the Texas Tribune found credible evidence Paxton voted in six elections from an address he'd moved out of, but 'committed voter fraud' overstates what has been legally established. 1 Misleading
- The "Black-on-White Crime Epidemic" Claim: What the Government's Own Numbers Say The raw figures in the viral post are mostly real. The epidemic they are arranged to prove is contradicted by the same government tables they came from. 1 Mostly True1 Misleading3 False
- Trump's Toyota-Texas Post: What the Announcement Actually Says Toyota is shifting Tacoma pickup production from one Baja California plant to Texas in a $3.6B investment, but maintains Mexico operations and cited USMCA uncertainty rather than endorsing tariff… 1 Mostly True2 Misleading
- Does a Civil Judgment "Prove" Trump Raped Someone? A civil jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse; the trial judge ruled that finding is rape as commonly understood. It is a civil finding, not a criminal conviction. 1 Mostly True
- Disaster Aid by Party & the 'Stolen' 250th: Two Threads, Checked Trump withheld FEMA aid from blue states (23% vs 89%) and tied it to his candidates; Democrats allege his fundraisers diverted America250 donations to Freedom 250. Proven, alleged, illegal, sorted. 2 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven
- Trump's 'National Scallops Day': What the Post Gets Right, Leaves Out, and Gets Wrong The NOAA action opening the Northern Edge of Georges Bank is real, but the post misattributes a 32-year-old Clinton-era closure to Obama and Biden, falsely credits Biden as co-creator of the… 1 True1 Mixed1 Unproven2 Misleading1 False
- 'The UAE Sent $580 Million Directly to Trump': Checking the Viral Crypto Bombshell A viral video says the UAE bought half of Trump's crypto company and funneled $580M 'directly to the President.' The deal is real and serious — but the number is inflated and 'directly' is wrong. 2 True1 Misleading1 False
- Trump Family Foreign Deals: Abuse of Office, Hunter Biden Redux, or Illegal? The Trump Org did zero foreign deals in term one and eight in term two, plus crypto billions from foreign-linked entities. We check the facts and answer three questions: abuse, hypocrisy, legality. 2 True1 Mostly True2 Unproven
June 202626
- Did the Supreme Court 'Take Restrictions Off Political Spending'? Trump says the Court removed limits on political spending; a critic says it lets billionaires buy elections. It struck one limit, on coordinated party spending. Here's what fell and what it changes. 1 True2 Mostly True1 Mixed1 False
- Did Trump Buy a Taser Maker's Stock Before ICE Sought a $220M Deal? A viral tweet says Trump bought Axon stock two weeks before ICE went looking for $220M in tasers, and that it's 'super illegal.' The trade is real and CNBC-documented. The 'illegal' part is not. 2 True1 Mostly True1 False
- Fact-Checking 'Trump's Biggest Failure': The Op-Ed vs. the Data A Common Dreams column calls Trump the biggest failure in recent presidential history. Its sourced numbers mostly hold; 'hyperinflation' and 'tanked the economy' do not. 3 True1 Mostly True1 Misleading1 False
- Trump's Gas Price Post: Six of Seven Claims Fail the Numbers WTI crude settled at $70.56 on June 29, not $68; gas prices had already fallen 53 cents/gallon in one month; $2.50/gallon is mathematically impossible at current crude costs; no federal price… 1 Mostly True1 Mixed3 Misleading2 False
- Did the USAID Cuts 'Do Nothing'? Checking Musk's 'Not a Single Name' Musk says no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts, and the 'millions' are false. A NYT columnist named four; models estimate hundreds of thousands of deaths already. 1 True2 Misleading2 False
- Jeffries on the Mail-Ballot Ruling: Seven Claims, Checked After the Supreme Court upheld state grace periods for mail ballots, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicted Trump's whole record. The facts mostly hold; the framing is partisan. 3 True3 Mostly True1 Mixed
- Humphrey's Executor Is Dead: Fact-Checking the FTC Firing Ruling NPR reported the Supreme Court handed Trump at-will power over the independent agencies. We checked every load-bearing claim against the opinion itself: the reporting holds. 3 True1 Mostly True
- Letlow Wins Louisiana Senate Runoff: Fact-Checking Trump's Two Truth Social Posts Julia Letlow's 57-43 runoff win over John Fleming is confirmed and the margin was decisive; Trump's "election run continues" framing is misleading because he had just lost two governor primaries. 1 True1 Misleading
- Fact-Check: Trump's Truth Social Attack on Maggie Haberman's "Regime Change" Trump calls the co-authored Regime Change book 'largely fiction' — but his own White House confirmed its accuracy. His electoral stats are mostly correct; his tape denial is unproven; his Iran… 2 True1 Mostly True1 Unproven1 Misleading1 Contested2 False
- Is Antifa a Designated Domestic Terrorist Organization? Trump's September 2025 order declared antifa a 'domestic terrorist organization.' No federal law lets him: the U.S. has no domestic designation power, and the order cites none. 1 True1 False
- Are the Democratic Socialists "Communists"? The DSA's Rise, Fact-Checked The DSA grew 20x in a decade and put a socialist in NYC's City Hall; the 'communist' label is misleading on the mechanism, but they're not Nordic social democrats either. 3 True2 Misleading
- Was Trump's Iran Deal a "Catastrophic Capitulation" for Israel? The NYT's reporting on Israel's shock is accurate, but its 'none of Israel's war aims' verdict omits Israel's real tactical wins, and the Lebanon-withdrawal claim remains contested. 2 True1 Mostly True1 Contested1 False
- "Russia Already Lost"? Fact-Checking the Drone-War Claim Ukraine's deep-strike drone campaign is real and escalating, but the viral claim that Russia 'already lost the war' outruns the evidence; experts see a prolonged stalemate. 2 True1 Mostly True2 Misleading
- Is the Iran War "Worse Than Vietnam"? Fact-Checking Foreign Policy's Verdict Foreign Policy's facts on the 2026 Iran war check out; its 'defeat worse than Vietnam' verdict is a contested argument, and real upsides for Trump exist that it minimizes. 1 True1 Mostly True2 Misleading1 False
- The Mashed Potato Incident: Fact-Checking Trump's "Origin Story" Genuine family lore, and most corroborating quotes hold up, but the essay mislocates one story, cites two untraceable quotes, and oversells one childhood humiliation as the cause of the whole man. 4 True2 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven
- The "Two Santas" Strategy: A Fact-Check Fact-checking the viral "Two Santa Clauses" essay on GOP vs. Democratic economic strategy: the core thesis holds up, but several headline details are wrong. 1 True3 Mostly True1 Misleading1 False
- Two Iran Deals, Eleven Years Apart: Trump's 2026 MOU vs. Obama's JCPOA The 2026 US-Iran ceasefire memorandum defers the hard nuclear numbers to a 'final deal' 60 days out; on the measures Trump used to attack the 2015 JCPOA, the signed text is so far looser and… 6 True
- The Patel "Slush Fund" Claim: What's Proven, What Isn't Rep. Raskin's letter alleging FBI chief Kash Patel paid $1M+ in bonuses to a loyalist 'payback squad' is real, but the bonus specifics are unproven; the firing purges are the best-documented part. 1 True1 Mixed1 Unproven
- The $600M Ballroom & Three More Claims: A Fact-Check A newsletter four claims, checked: the $300M ballroom taxpayer-free label, GOP senators balking at the Iran deal, and the WSJ retreat verdict all hold; the affordability promise does not. 3 True1 False
- Does This Deal Stink? Trump's Crypto Firm Becomes a Bank World Liberty Financial — the Trump-family crypto firm — is about to get a federal bank charter from Trump's own OCC appointee. It's legal (the president is exempt from the conflict statute) but a… 2 True1 False
- Billions for Iran, None for Health Care? A Fact-Check A viral framing pairs one true claim with three shaky ones: the money to Iran is its own frozen assets, the US did not pay Venezuela $20 billion, and Trump did call Medicaid unaffordable amid war. 1 True1 Misleading1 Contested1 False
- Depression Talk and Hitler Comparisons: Fact-Checking a Viral Reddit Thread The US checks none of the Great Depression hard markers but faces real recession risk. The Hitler analogy is contested: experts document authoritarian drift, the 1930s comparison overreaches. 1 Mixed1 False
- Noncitizen Voting: What Republicans Claim vs. What the Data Shows State audits, Trump own disbanded commission, a federal court loss, and Heritage own fraud database all find noncitizen voting vanishingly rare, far too rare to swing elections. 5 False
- Palantir, the Minab School Strike, and AI Warfare: A Fact-Check A viral Reddit post claims Palantir’s AI autonomously bombed an Iranian school using outdated Google Maps data — the core tragedy is real but several key details are wrong or exaggerated. 1 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed3 Misleading
- Hegseth vs. Murray: The Iran War's Price Tag, Fact-Checked Pentagon claims $29B for the Iran war; independent estimates say $50–72B. Murray's core claims hold up. Hegseth's framing that 'previous presidents' let Iran go nuclear omits that Trump himself… 3 True2 Mostly True1 Misleading
- 3,711 Trades: A Fact-Check of Trump's Presidential Stock Portfolio Trump filed 3,711 stock trades worth $220M-$750M in Q1 2026 — including unsolicited purchases in companies he praised the same day, contradicting blind-trust claims and exploiting a legal exemption… 1 Mostly True2 Misleading1 False
May 202612
- Fleeing Justice via the Law of Return: Fact-Checking the CBS Investigation CBS's core claims about accused sex offenders exploiting Israel's Law of Return are substantiated by court outcomes and policy changes; the most direct current-administration connection is the… 3 True1 Mixed
- The Thiel Signal: Fact-Checking the Argentina Relocation Of 13 claims about Thiel's Argentina move, 10 are fully confirmed, 2 are editorialized, and 1 is premature — but the viral narrative omits the most concrete driver: California's billionaire tax. 2 True1 Mixed1 Unproven
- Fact-Check: ICE Detention Conditions & the Delaney Hall Hunger Strike Detainee allegations at Newark’s Delaney Hall are unverified on-site but consistent with a documented pattern of medical neglect and deaths across ICE facilities nationwide. 3 True1 Unproven
- Itamar Ben-Gvir: From Convicted Extremist to Minister — And What America Isn't Seeing A convicted supporter of a terrorist organization now runs Israel's police — and the US both condemns and enables him while Europe fights back. 4 True2 Mostly True
- DNC 2024 Autopsy: What It Gets Right, Wrong, and Omits The DNC's 192-page 2024 election autopsy correctly identifies strategic failures but is riddled with factual errors, missing sections, and a glaring omission of Gaza's electoral impact. 1 True1 Mixed3 False
- The $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund: Where the Money Comes From, Where It Goes, and What's Legal Trump created a $1.776B taxpayer fund to compensate allies he says Biden 'wronged' — funded by a permanent Treasury account, overseen by his own appointees, with Jan. 6 defendants eligible to claim. 3 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed
- Did China Troll Trump? A Claim-by-Claim Fact-Check of the Beijing Summit Five viral claims about China trolling Trump during his May 2026 state visit — one false, two true, two true-but-misframed — with sources for every detail. 1 True3 Mixed1 False
- Fact-Check: ICE Treatment of Children — Detention Conditions & "Children as Bait" Both claims verified: government reports document sub-human detention conditions for children, and multiple incidents confirm ICE using children to lure families. 2 True
- Court Packing vs. Court Stacking: A Fact-Check of Every Major Claim Trump hasn't 'packed' the courts (added seats), but McConnell's vacancy blockade and 271 lifetime appointments across two terms constitute the most aggressive court-stacking operation in modern… 3 True1 Mixed1 Misleading
- Originalism When Convenient: A Case-by-Case Audit of the Conservative Supreme Court's Own Standard The conservative majority says it decides by text, history, and tradition. A case-by-case audit of six landmark rulings finds the method applied where it helps and set aside where it would not. 1 Mostly True2 Mixed3 False
- Trump Calls for Obama's Arrest: A Fact-Check of Every Claim Trump posted 55 times in three hours calling for Obama's arrest on treason charges — every specific claim he made has been investigated and debunked, most of them by Trump's own appointees. 1 Unproven4 False
- 8,499 Posts, Fact-Checked: What the President Told America From Truth Social A data-driven, bipartisan fact-check of the most significant claims Trump made on Truth Social during his second term — 8,499 posts categorized, cross-referenced against court filings, government… 1 Mixed1 Misleading4 False