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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…
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Posts claimed the White House "live cameras" had been turned off while Trump's helicopter headed to the hospital.
Looking back on 2025, we fact-checked multiple rumors that seemed unbelievable but were true. Snopes reporters picked these examples.
The official X account for The White House published a digitally altered photo of a protester being arrested in Minnesota. [Read More]
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…
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.
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…