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Fact Check: President Trump Exaggerates, Misstates Facts On Washington Crime
President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration will take over policing the nation's capital city in what the Republican said is an effort to bring down rising crime rates in Washington, DC ...
Fact Check: Oxford photo shows Boris Johnson with his first wife, not Ghislaine Maxwell
The first wife of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been incorrectly identified in a photo online as Ghislaine ...
Fact-checking Trump's claims about Washington crime while ordering National Guard deployment
The nation's capital is "becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness," President Donald Trump said at an Aug. 11 ...
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FACT CHECK: Vice Ganda not declared persona non grata in Davao City
The supposed city council resolution circulating online is fake, with Davao City Acting Vice Mayor Rodrigo ‘Rigo’ Duterte II ...
Wash Post columnist says Meta's new community notes fact-checking system 'nowhere near up to the task'
Meta's new community notes program struggles to combat misinformation on Facebook and Instagram, according to Washington Post ...
Fact Check: Red-brick house edited into Afghan family photo and falsely said to be a gift
An edited image purporting to show an Afghan journalist and his family outside a house in the UK has been shared online to ...
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FACT CHECK: Chennai airport authorities say reports of fire in cargo aircraft are a false alarm
Chennai Airport officials have confirmed that the previous media reports of a Malaysian cargo aircraft catching fire on the ...
Fact Check: Video Of Man Falling From Cruise Ship Waterslide Is NOT Authentic -- News Report Edited
Is a video showing a man falling through a hole in a cruise ship waterslide authentic? No, that's not true: The video of a real ABC news report of the Icon of the Seas waterslide accident was edited ...
Fact Check: No, Stephen Colbert didn't adopt girl who lost parents in Texas floods
The claim circulated days after a separate false claim that the late-night host adopted a pair of abandoned twins.
Fact Check: Is India Post ending Registered Post from September 1? Here's the truth behind the viral claim
A viral claim circulating on social media has sparked confusion, suggesting that India Post is shutting down its Registered ...
Fact check: Debunking 11 of Trump’s false claims at Cabinet meeting
President Donald Trump again turned a Cabinet meeting into a wide-ranging conversation with reporters – and again uttered a ...
Fact check: Trump says jobs data revision after 2024 election was 'rigged'
PolitiFact Ruling: Pants on Fire. The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day ...