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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
Newspapers and social media platforms that agree to deprioritize misinformation could be violating US antitrust law if they exclude rivals or lead to anticompetitive effects, the Justice Department says in a new legal filing. President Donald Trump’s DOJ Ant…
“Who’s telling the truth?”: Fox plays proof Trump lied and then asks viewers to decide
U.S. President Donald Trump did, however, once claim to have "a very high IQ" and "strong common sense."
Amid speculation and misinformation about his health, President Donald Trump is well and playing golf.
The rumor traces back to a speech Trump delivered during a 2019 joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
Are Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan really paying tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk? No, but these fake AI images might fool you
Why did the president post a fake video of himself shilling a fake medical cure? Let's get into it.
Trump made several claims about the Middle East conflict and other global peace deals that were not entirely true.
Rogan is not a bright man.
The NAB Show is known in large part as a bonanza for tech geeks and engineers, and its New York edition last week was no exception. But the broadcast industry lobbying group made a statement by foregrounding discussion of a central challenge for its members: …
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…
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…
Pelosi has been falsely accused of drunkenness and treason, but she has also made a few questionable statements herself.
The BBC’s chairman is planning to apologize after a documentary edited Donald Trump‘s January 6 speech to make it appear as if the president was encouraging the 2021 Capitol riot. On Monday, Samir Shah will write to UK Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Co…
The two presidents were photographed together at the U.S. Open in 2000.
The AI-generated video recirculated after the November 2025 release of thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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…
White House tracker calls out 'media offenders'... (Second column, 9th story, link) Related stories:How big tech creating own friendly bubble to 'win narrative battle online'... Drudge Report Feed needs your support! Become …
Posts claimed the White House "live cameras" had been turned off while Trump's helicopter headed to the hospital.
U.S. President Donald Trump posted "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" on social media with an image of a bird that's not an eagle and not in America.
Looking back on 2025, we fact-checked multiple rumors that seemed unbelievable but were true. Snopes reporters picked these examples.
The footage, displaying no visible signs of AI, showed dozens of people throwing snowballs at law enforcement officers wearing riot gear.
President Donald Trump’s bold claims that his policies delivered an unprecedented jobs boom for American-born workers are at odds with data showing a weaker ...
Republican US president says Washington will 'run' Venezuela after US troops seize the country's leader.
Trump touts large US oil investments in Venezuela’s industry, but firms remain cautious amid low prices and instability.
How much alcohol should you drink? The US government now vaguely, in effect, says just don’t drink too much. And what qualifies as too much? Well, that’s up to you. As part of the new federal dietary guidelines released this week, the Trump administration eli…
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump spent New Year's Day at an orphanage in Pennsylvania in 2026.
The CIA has been the target of numerous rumors, spanning everything from its knowledge of UFOs to its alleged administration of covert drug trials.
A video from November 2025 that circulated online in early January 2026 correctly stated that the Free Application for Federal Student Aid asks white applicants to further specify what ethnic background they have.
After Donald Trump launched a lightning operation to topple Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, rumours surfaced online that the US president announced he would next...
The capture of the Venezuelan leader has revived a debunked conspiracy theory.
A Republican-led congressional subcommittee is leading a new investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Do their claims add up?
US president says 'massive' fraud has caused budget imbalance, but calculations do not support this.
Researchers say their gold-standard review should put an end to the debate over use of the common painkiller during pregnancy.
Rollins has claimed that SNAP spending increased by 30% or 40% during Biden's four years in office. That's simply not true.
The footage depicts a crowd of people in a setting somewhat resembling Central Park throwing snowballs at law enforcement officers.
It's the latest research to find no clear link between maternal acetaminophen use and a higher autism risk.
Cheap gasoline, yes. Drill, baby, drill? Not so much. And electricity bills are going up, not down.
The US president made a series of contested claims, ranging from the status of Greenland to Nato spending.
The altered photo also seems to have darkened Nekima Levy Armstrong's skin tone.
The official X account for The White House published a digitally altered photo of a protester being arrested in Minnesota. [Read More]
Last year the fraud-prone Trump organization announced a half-assed wireless phone company. As we noted at the time, calling this a “phone company” is generous; it was just a lazy marketing rebrand of another, half-assed, MAGA-focused, mobile virtual network …
Video footage of fatal shooting contradicts narrative spun by officials and right-wing influencers.
This year in America, renewables and battery storage "will account for 99.2% of net new capacity — and even higher if small-scale solar were included," reports Electrek, citing EIA data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign: EIA's latest monthly "Electric Power M…
U.S. President Donald Trump likes to throw out a lot of figures during speeches to his base that he says prove how successful his first year back in office has been. But given Trump's proclivity for spreading misinformation, we wanted to see how many of these…
In recent months, the Trump administration has framed high energy costs as a problem impacting only blue states. But the truth is electricity prices are...
A torrent of AI-generated images, including some featuring Zohran Mamdani, have followed the government's latest Epstein files dump.
In the documents the Department of Homeland Security said the raid "was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments in the building." There is no mention of criminal gangs or Tren de Aragua.
US wants Beijing to join a revised nuclear weapons treaty after expiration of a previous accord between US and Russia.
By Tim Reid WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Donald Trump has cast himself as Republicans’ chief messenger on the cost of living in an election year, but a...
Snopes has looked into numerous claims surrounding the NFL's showpiece event ahead of Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl performance.
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (TN) with an assist from former Trump spokesliar Kayleigh McEnany lie to the viewers on Fox not "news" about the requirements for proof of citizenship in their vote-suppressing SAVE Act. We've already discussed what this bill does…
An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.
The commerce secretary has no answer for his misleading statements about his dealings with the sex offender.
Sources said the closure was connected to new counter-drone laser technology and miscommunication or misunderstanding by FAA. The post Officials Dispute Trump Explanation of El Paso Airspace Closure. “There Was Not a Threat.” appeared first on The Intercept.
At no point in the video footage is a driver seen ramming the agents' vehicle.
AI-generated or otherwise altered images of the U.S. president swirled online as more files regarding late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged.
An image shared online in February 2026 showed a real Truth Social post made by U.S. President Donald Trump, in which he wondered why no one had tried plugging volcanoes with cement to prevent eruptions.
In February 2026, social media users resurfaced an AI-generated video that animated an authentic image and inserted minors who were not present.
Bondi's DOJ tenure has given rise to widespread misinformation — much of it directed at the attorney general herself.
Fresh statistics show violent crime in major U.S. cities dropped sharply in 2025 from the previous year, and U.S. President Donald Trump is claiming that his get-tough policies are the reason. The inconvenient truth for this Trump administration is that viole…
An image from the U.S. Department of Justice's Epstein files authentically showed President Donald Trump sitting in a room looking at a group of blindfolded girls.
In February 2026, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said in a new ruling that "when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes."
An image posted online in mid-February 2026 authentically shows a man wearing a MAGA hat blocking a transgender person from entering the women's restroom.
Donald Trump has boasted that Melania, the documentary about his wife, is a success, but the box office numbers and other objective metrics say otherwise.
In January 1999, Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson praised Donald Trump, saying the future U.S. president embraced the "underserved communities."
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem suspended TSA PreCheck and Global Entry during the ongoing government shutdown, claiming it conserves staff—but TSA’s own documented findings clearly show the opposite. Eliminating expedited security means longer lines, increased sta…
U.S. first lady Melania Trump and her son, Barron Trump, opened a free hospital for homeless people in early 2026.
It's unclear why Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the United States would be sending “a great hospital boat” to Greenland for a nonexistent humanitarian mission, where Greenlanders enjoy free health care, including prescription medications. But why let…
Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication. The post Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.” appeared first on The Intercept.
Surprise, surprise: Homeland Security Kristi Noem completely made up that far-fetched story about deporting a cannibal, multiple federal law enforcement officials told The Intercept. Speaking to Fox News’s Jesse Watters in June, Noem recounted a terrible tale…
President Donald Trump said the US "is winning again" - making a series of claims about his record in a speech which lasted almost two hours.
Throughout Trump's remarks Tuesday, ABC News is live fact-checking some of the president's statements for exaggerations, falsehoods and points that need more context.
WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.
On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that his own company had successfully negotiated new terms with the Pentagon. The US government had just moved to blacklist Anth…
A 30-second clip of a CBS Austin reporter has become one of the most-shared media moments of the weekend — and almost none of the ... Read More
In the days that followed the US and Israel's joint military strike on Iran on Saturday, floods of images and videos that supposedly document the war have appeared online. Some are old or depict unrelated conflicts, are made or manipulated with AI, and in som…
The entanglement of war with simulation continues with the discovery that a video of a US battleship shooting down an Iranian fighter jet is very likely a clip from videogame War Thunder, depicting ordnance from the World War 2 era. The clip in question has c…
The president's youngest son has attempted to stay out of the spotlight, but that hasn't stopped public intrigue.
A missile strike hit the girls' school in Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, the same day the United States and Israel launched an offensive.
Many people said footage actually showed a decoy drawing of an F-14 Tomcat, but we were not immediately able to verify that.
Confusion and rumors have been pervasive online since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran with surprise airstrikes.
Clinton was at the center of an Obama-era deal that constrained Iran's uranium enrichment when the U.N. was calling for its suspension.
Donald J. Trump continued to embarrass this country once again, this time during the dignified transfer of the six United States service members killed in Kuwait. The Trump-friendly Fox & Friends show gave cover for Trump's blatant disregard for the fallen by…
Trump told reporters this Saturday that Iran, not the United States was responsible for the bombing on February 28th that hit an elementary school where over 165 girls were killed. As we discussed here, "The New York Times has put together evidence — includin…
“It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation,” CENTCOM told The Intercept. The post U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School appeared first on The Intercept.
X's Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict, and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.
One popular video also features Elon Musk and Bill Gates.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has walked back a deleted social media claim from Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
The FDA on Tuesday approved leucovorin as a treatment for a rare genetic condition, not for autism, as the Trump administration had suggested
Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so
Misinformation about the U.S.-Israel war on Iran has been pervasive on social media.
In March 2026, former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said, "Iran is a country, but we don't live there, so it's not our country. And when we go there, we are in another country."
Two photos shared on social media authentically show U.S. President Donald Trump with his daughter Ivanka as a child sitting on his lap.
Trump continues to be mad that he can't pardon a state conviction, so he's punishing everyone in Colorado over felon Tina Peters.
When social media declared Netanyahu dead, crypto prediction markets priced it at 5%. The money was right — and Washington wants to shut it down.
A look into the way Meta handles moderation suggests Community Notes aren't an effective substitute for the third-party fact-checking program it disbanded last year.
The U.S. president uses his social media platform to share his opinions and policy proposals, as well as to spread false information.
Social media users have repeatedly shared fake Truth Social posts attributed to the president.
From AI-generated criticisms of Trump officials to alleged hush money, here are some of our most popular investigations regarding the ex-president.
CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.
Though artificial intelligence tools have improved, our team has developed more skills for detecting AI fakes.
Reveals that 85 percent of the platform's most powerful editors are anonymous, how conservative sources are blacklisted, and that the CIA has edited content.
For many, many years now we’ve been calling out how the entire narrative around the “censorship industrial complex” was absolute bullshit, made up by a group of either deliberate misinformation peddlers or confused “contrarian” journalists too stupid to under…
We have all been warned a thousand times that you can’t trust everything you read online. People are out here on the internet posting the most absurd things as if they are facts. But thankfully, there are other people who won’t hesitate to call out misinforma…
The conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it
BBC Verify fact checks President Trump's funding claims about Nasa.
On Tuesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office published an alarming report from an anonymous whistleblower about the USPS’s role in the 2026 midterms. The report suggests the US Postal Service is rushing to implement a ballot-vetting system for the midterms th…
President Donald Trump has a triumphant message on inflation. Some of his party’s television ads sound very different.
Asked about the trade war with Canada on Wednesday, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that U.S. banks are not allowed to do business with its neighbor t...
Trump says the US is helping around 30 ships cross the waterway daily, but ship-tracking data suggests it's fewer.
In early September 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of New Mexico to "New America."
The Trump administration's actions related to sites managed by the NPS have been at the center of public debate and speculation.
As trans people became a political target, rumors about the medical support they receive have multiplied. Snopes has investigated many of them.
Trans Secretary Sean Duffy and Fox host Charlie Hurt showed off their doublespeak skills by crediting Trump for keeping gas prices down even as diesel hits record highs. HURT: Quickly, I wanna ask you about diesel prices. Diesel prices have reached a record …
The president shares a misleading video which appears to show Charles shrugging and walking away from a man who fainted during a royal visit.
President Donald Trump has for years told false or unproven stories about what he supposedly saw and did on 9/11 and soon after. As the 25th anniversary of t...
The White House shared no proof the incident occurred.
Trump keeps telling a 9/11 rescue story that gets more dramatic every time. In the latest version, two firefighters scooped him up and ran with him. On the actual day, he was four miles uptown watching it on TV.
The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, is at odds with the user counts from some …
Government documents show Atlantic Industrial Coatings admitted its mix of bonding materials did "blister and come loose."
As we move closer to mid-term elections, the Trump administration continues to lie about election integrity, sowing the seeds for bullshit “rigged election” claims should the GOP fail to win the elections Trump wants them to win. There’s another reason this a…
U.S. President Donald Trump, who has attempted to restrict mail-in ballots, often makes misleading claims about the voting method.
Just this past week, Donald Trump reiterated the pathological lies that falsely portrayed himself as a 9/11 hero lifted from the rubble of the World Trade Center just moments before it collapsed. In reality, he was miles away and used the tragedy to boast abo…
During an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingram, Trump claimed he probably didn't need congressional approval to hand out $5,000 checks to Americans as a bribe and lied, saying he'd taken in $21 trillion from tariffs, which would pay for it. When Ingraham…
Did Trump actually make out with his "human printer"?
The Trump administration's efforts to lower drug prices included promised changes to Medicaid. But it's still unclear which drugs will be affected. And each state has to opt in.
America's global reputation is in tatters. That's not all Trump's fault, but he sure made it worse
Records in 2024 show the venue had a surplus of millions of dollars once contributions and grants had been factored in.
New agreement with Denmark falls short of Trump’s previously stated goal of US 'ownership' of the island.
Trump and other Republicans have also amplified this unfounded rumor about the Democratic representative of Minnesota for several years.
The president says his monument will also become a military complex. Several claims to do so just don’t add up
AI content creators often generate fake images and videos of the president that reference or resemble actual news events.
On ABC's This Week, Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise had his clock cleaned by host Jonathan Karl trying to defend Trump's 1st amendment violation by banning many credible news outlets, when Scalise lied and claimed Pres. Biden had banned "400 pr…
Roelf Meyer tells the BBC that being a white Afrikaner gives him legitimacy to challenge Trump's claim of a genocide.
President Trump has shared what experts agree is a doctored photo of him and President Xi on Truth Social. [Read More]
Memorial crosses installed in the US have revived erroneous claims of a ‘white genocide’ against farmers in South Africa
U.S. President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping is a good reason to examine the many rumors about the countries' relationship.
The presidential security force takes the spotlight in this collection of fact-checked rumors.
The Trump administration has launched a revamped website, America
The New Republic writes “President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans.” Yes, but do note that no student is banned from any major and the lending rule is mild. Undergraduate programs must s…
Donald Trump has been claiming for years that all elections he hasn’t (or won’t) win are rigged. This also goes for mid-terms — especially this one — where Republicans seem likely to lose seats to Democratic Party members. We won’t know if Trump will try to b…
MAGA media was ready to amplify the Missouri senator's conspiracy theory. It turned out to be laughably false
Iran lacks a nuclear program to build weapons capable of reaching California, proliferation watchers say, despite Trump's talk about LA and San Diego.
The Trump administration has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens since it began its mass deportation initiative, a ProPublica investigation has found.Trump officials have insisted that U.S. citizens are not at risk under the president’s agenda. “We have said…
President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that his military campaign against Iran ended eight months before he started it.In the latest installment of Senior Moment or Shocking Admission?, the president offered an outrageous defense against anyone compla…
Gemini told us the Grimace was added, but the photo of Paxton and Trump is real. It's not.
Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington said, "I've worked with a lot of people in my life, and I've never met anyone braver, smarter, or who cares more about America than Donald Trump. He's a great friend and an even better president. I'm proud to be a steadfa…
People shared a meme displaying a questionable voter fraud claim while pushing for stricter voter ID laws.
It first appeared as a doctored image of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein on a boat before being edited to include the Obamas' likenesses.
Posts claimed the agency offered eight months' pay and benefits to employees who agreed to quit.
Here’s something ICE pretends has happened: ICE alleged in a statement that “Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck.” ABC13 reached out to an ICE spokesperson, who said agents were attempting to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, who was th…
President Trump is bragging that “Massive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration is getting ready to begin in our new and beautiful Greenland!” There’s just one problem: Greenland officials say that’s nonsense. The island’s deputy mining minister Jørgen Hammeken-H…
Kash Patel has been boosting the FBI’s crime stats for his own gain.Despite Patel’s claims, the bureau has not arrested 54,000 “violent criminals,” according to FBI insiders who spoke with MS NOW. Instead, the enormous federal head count—which Patel himself h…