Claim: An image authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and singer Beyoncé together aboard a private jet. In late October and early November, a photo circulated on social media supposedly showing U.S. President Donald Trump, ...
As a measles outbreak spread through Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in August, a parent turned to a massive public Facebook group, Crunchy Moms, for advice. They were considering getting their three-year-old vaccinated, in part to protect their six-month-old.“I’m nervous for my ...
By Coach Dave Daubenmire November 6, 2026 Editor Note: This commentary was originally published in August of ‘23…3.5 years ago. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!! If you are old like me, you probably remember when there was such a thing ...
Claim: An image authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump being carried by Secret Service agents after fainting at the White House in response to Republican losses during the Nov. 3 midterms. After Democrats flipped the U.S. House of Representatives and ...
Claim: Washington passed a ballot measure that may subject children who want to play in girls' sports to genital inspections. Context The measure, which may face legal challenges, requires girls who want to play in girls' sports to produce documentation ...
FDA officials knew COVID vaccine safety system was flawed, suppressed whistleblower, investigations reveal Internal emails from New York's medical examiner office show officials privately debated vaccine safety while publicly declaring shots safe. A 16-year-old boy died four days after his ...
A Ukrainian National Guard unit linked to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has acknowledged using a detention facility in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, on the outskirts of Kiev, after violent clashes and allegations that servicemen were illegally detained and mistreated there. Approximately 40 ...
Claim: An FBI field office erroneously posted on X that Election Day would be on Wednesday rather than Tuesday. Beginning one day before voters headed to the polls for the 2026 midterm elections, posts claimed that an FBI field office ...
Astronomers hunting for aliens and trying a new technique to work out exactly when they would contact us.The research uses ideas from game theory to predict not just where extraterrestrial civilisations would message us from, but when they would do ...
Claim: The official elections account for Yavapai County, Arizona, posted to X on Oct. 31: "ATTENTION VOTERS: The president is NOT on the ballot. We are receiving many calls asking why that race is missing." Context Contrary to some social ...
CDC’s own contractor flagged a flood of COVID-19 vaccine injury reports as the agency called the shots ‘reassuring’ The CDC’s contractor, GDIT, warned in January 2021 that COVID-19 vaccine injury reports overwhelmed VAERS, but the CDC publicly reassured Americans the ...
It’s Election Day, but a self-described “pro-Trump Administration” content creator is casting aspersions on the Democratic process instead, falsely claiming on social media that Democrats in Texas are rigging the midterm election. Without evidence, posts on Facebook and X said ...
Claim: The FBI uncovered more than 20,000 fraudulent Democratic ballots in a raid of a Houston storage facility. As U.S. citizens headed to the polls to vote in the midterm elections on Nov. 3, people shared a rumor alleging the ...
By Robert Motch November 4, 2026 The image below was saved in 2015 where at the time there were over 600 current and former members of Congress from both parties have attended the Institute’s bipartisan program for newly elected members ...
Claims that airlines are banning vaccinated people from flying have been shared hundreds of times on social media.But that isn’t true. There is no evidence of any airline saying this. Posts shared on Facebook and Instagram claim that airlines in ...