Donald Trump has unleashed a fusillade of baseless accusations against Joe Biden and CNN moderators ahead of Thursday’s first US presidential debate in an apparent “pre-bunking” exercise designed to have his excuses ready-made if he is declared the loser. In a familiar rehash of tactics used in previous campaigns, the presumptive Republican nominee has intensified […]
As severe floods struck southern Brazil, killing scores and displacing nearly two million people, an account on X claimed the extreme weather event was triggered by the shifting of the planet’s poles. But experts say there is no evidence linking Earth’s magnetic field to global warming; on the contrary, established research shows human-induced warming has […]
The claim: Congress is considering a bill that would criminalize questioning 9/11 An April 29 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a supposed news article that claims certain kinds of speech about the 9/11 terror attacks would be outlawed under a new congressional proposal. “Congress to vote on bill that would […]
South Korea’s election commission said polls that handed a stinging defeat to President Yoon Suk Yeol‘s party were closely monitored, contrary to social media posts that presented baseless voter figures as evidence of tampering. The figures, which purported to show that more than 95 percent of overseas voters backed the opposition party, are not based […]
Footage of charity workers packing parcels for Gaza showed they contained food supplies, contrary to Facebook posts that accused them of sending cigarettes to the war-torn territory. The baseless claim appeared to play on a conspiracy theory accusing Palestinians of faking their suffering, as a humanitarian crisis triggered by Israel’s war against Hamas deepened. A […]
Burkina Faso has rejected “baseless accusations” that soldiers massacred 223 people in attacks in February. A Human Rights Watch report alleged the army killed 179 people in Soro village and 44 others in Nondin, at least 56 of who were children, on 25 February. The NGO said this was “among the worst army abuse” incidents […]
As South Korea geared up for elections in April, social media posts shared a photo of a stack of ballot papers they misleadingly claimed was evidence of vote rigging in the country’s 2020 polls. The picture was taken by a lawyer who alleged votes cast for the Democratic Party in the city of Guri did […]
There is no evidence for former President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that “the Congo” has emptied prisons to allow violent criminals to come to the US border as migrants – and the governments of both the Democratic Republic of Congo and the neighboring Republic of Congo say Trump’s assertions are entirely false. “Everything he is […]
GREENSBORO, North Carolina (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday further escalated his immigration rhetoric and baselessly accused President Joe Biden of waging a “conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America” as he campaigned ahead of Super Tuesday’s primaries. Trump has a long history of trying to turn attack lines back on his […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday will denounce the charge to impeach Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as an “unprecedented and unconstitutional” political attack that betrays the real challenge of securing the southern U.S. border, according to a statement of administration policy shared first with NBC News. Biden’s statement will be his most forceful condemnation […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The lawyer who helped the writer E. Jean Carroll defeat Donald Trump twice in civil defamation trials on Tuesday forcefully rejected a claim by the former president’s lawyer that the presiding judge might have had a conflict of interest. Roberta Kaplan, who represents Carroll, called it “utterly baseless” to suggest U.S. […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump, the chief propagator of false “birther” claims first against then-President Barack Obama and later against Sen. Ted Cruz, has a new target: Nikki Haley. As Haley surges in New Hampshire polling, Trump posted an article on his Truth Social account from a right-wing outlet that claimed Haley, his GOP […]