Fact Check: This Melania Trump photo is real, but it wasn't taken on Epstein's plane

Yahoo Entertainment

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coord…

Don't fall for this video of Trump and Epstein watching young girls at party

Aleksandra Wrona, Snopes.com

The AI-generated video recirculated after the November 2025 release of thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Fact Check: Real photo of Trump and Bill Clinton shared with false claim about groping

Nur Ibrahim, Snopes.com

The two presidents were photographed together at the U.S. Open in 2000.

Fact checking Nancy Pelosi statements over the years

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Pelosi has been falsely accused of drunkenness and treason, but she has also made a few questionable statements herself.

Fox News Fell For AI-Generated Rage Bait, Rewrote Story To Pretend It Didn’t

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

Fox News has a problem: when you build your entire editorial model around feeding your audience’s biases, you stop asking whether the stories feeding those biases are actually true. Case in point: last week, they published—and then quietly rewrote—a story abo…

Symbolic Strength More Important Than Facts When It Comes To Misinformation

Randy Stein and Abraham Rutchick, Techdirt

Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that’s obviously wrong. Our new research, published in the Journal of Social Psychology, suggests that so…

Joe Rogan Falls for Fake Trump Tweet About the No Kings Protest

Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com

Rogan is not a bright man.

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech in Israeli parliament

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Trump made several claims about the Middle East conflict and other global peace deals that were not entirely true.

Trump Just Promoted One of the Nation’s Cruelest Conspiracy Theories

Molly Olmstead, Slate Magazine

Why did the president post a fake video of himself shilling a fake medical cure? Let's get into it.

Trump Gets Instant Fact Check Over 'Proud' Brag At The UN: 'Does He Just Not Know?'

Yahoo Entertainment

Are Rock Stars Eulogizing Charlie Kirk in Memes? Spoiler Alert: No

David Browne, Rolling Stone

Are Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan really paying tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk? No, but these fake AI images might fool you

Trump didn't say US and Italy have been allies 'since the time of Ancient Rome'

Aleksandra Wrona, Snopes.com

The rumor traces back to a speech Trump delivered during a 2019 joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.

How false rumours of Trump’s untimely ‘death’ spread on social media

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Amid speculation and misinformation about his health, President Donald Trump is well and playing golf.

Fact Check: Trump didn't score 73 on IQ test in 1st year at New York Military Academy

Laerke Christensen, Snopes.com

U.S. President Donald Trump did, however, once claim to have "a very high IQ" and "strong common sense."

Fox host offers bizarre response to network’s video debunking Trump

Sophia Tesfaye, Salon

“Who’s telling the truth?”: Fox plays proof Trump lied and then asks viewers to decide

FACT FOCUS: A look at false claims made by Trump in California

Toronto Star

In a press conference from his Los Angeles-area golf club, former President Donald Trump revisited several topics from Tuesday night's debate, repeating several false and misleading claims on issues including