Critics are rushing to correct Eric Trump after he delivered a bold claim about the legacy of his father, Donald Trump. “I think my father will go down, maybe his greatest accomplishment, will actually be kind of the unvarnished honesty that he’s really taken toward the whole system,” Trump said on the far-right X22 podcast. […]
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GOP Senator Hit With Brutal Fact-Check After Ad About Family’s IVF
The only thing Rick Scott is better at than bad timing is hypocrisy. The Republican senator and Earthworm Jim lookalike released a campaign ad touting his support for in vitro fertilization on Friday—less than 24 hours after voting against the Right to IVF Act. The caption for the poorly-timed campaign ad reads, “Each of my […]
CNN cuts away from Donald Trump’s press conference to fact-check him live on air.
Daniel, you do this all the time following a Trump statement, a Trump speech. You review some of the lies that have been going on. A whole bunch of lies here, Wolf. So he repeated the one I think he’s repeated most frequently throughout the course of the trial and now after, saying this was […]
Lara Trump’s Wild Claim About Father-In-Law Gets Scathing Instant Fact-Check
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump is facing criticism for an over-the-top claim about her father-in-law, Donald Trump. Speaking on Newsmax on Wednesday, Trump said the former president has been under fire every day of his presidency. “There’s never been anyone in history I don’t think that has taken as much incoming as Donald Trump,” […]
India will fact-check online posts about government matters
In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media even as tech giants expressed grave concerns about it last year. The Ministry of Electronics and IT on Wednesday wrote in a gazette notification that it is amending the IT Rules 2021 to cement into law the […]
Donald Trump’s Latest ‘Relentlessly Stupid’ Ramble Attracts One Hell Of A Fact-Check
Donald Trump’s weird campaign rally tangent about magnets attracted mockery on social media. The Republican 2024 front-runner on Friday complained to a crowd of supporters in Mason City, Iowa, about electric catapults and magnetic elevator systems for U.S. aircraft carriers. The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I know about magnets is this, […]
Randi Weingarten’s slapped with another fact-check by X after touting in-person learning post-COVID
The American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on Tuesday was fact-checked by social media platform X after she touted in-person learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. “In-person learning is where kids do best, which is why educators & their unions worked hard to reopen US schools safe in-person learning beginning back in […]