Is Kamala Harris not a United States citizen, making her ineligible to be president because of the laws of her parents' home countries? No, that's not true. Social media posts claim that the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee is not a U.S. citizen, can't be president and should be deported. These claims are false, according to Georgetown Law professor Josh…

Did Kamala Harris say that when she was in college she listened to Snoop and Tupac, although their music was not released until six years after she graduated? No, that's not true: Sen. Harris did tell a radio show host that she listened to Snoop and Tupac when she got high on marijuana, but she did not specifically say it…

Did Kamala Harris call Joe Biden a racist and a rapist? No, that's not true: There's no record nor any other evidence that she's used either word to describe the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The claim appeared as a meme (archived here) on Facebook on August 13, 2020. With text over a picture of Harris, it read: I just accepted…

Did Joe Biden leak the identities of SEAL Team 6 members? No, that's not true: Though he publicly praised the SEALs for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, he did not identify members of the elite unit by name. The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on March 4, 2020. It read: Today would be a good day…

Does a photograph of Kamala Harris with her "parents" prove she is not a "Black American"? No, that's not true. The man and woman standing with Harris in the photo are not her parents. The man is retired Silicon Valley executive Suneil Parulekar and the woman is his wife, Rohini. The image was captured at a fundraising gala in 2016.…

Did Kamala Harris say she believed Joe Biden's "rape accusers"? No, that's not true: This is a misrepresentation of what Senator Harris said about women who said they felt "uncomfortable" from Biden's touching them and another woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by the former vice president. None of the women accused Biden of rape. Harris is quoted in…

Did Kamala Harris descend from a slave owner and it is a "deep, dark secret" that has "come back to haunt" her? Yes, it is true that Sen. Harris does apparently have an Irish great-great-great-great-great grandfather who owned slaves in Jamaica, it is also likely that Harris's great-great-great-great-great grandmother was his slave and was impregnated through rape. This is no…

Does a photo show Barack Obama with his hand inside his young daughter's pants? No, that's not true: The photograph of Obama with his arm around his daughter taken by a journalist in 2007 was digitally altered. The original shows Obama's hand above his daughter's waist. The claim appeared as a meme in a post (archived here) shared on Facebook…

Did Nancy Pelosi "confirm" that China would prefer Joe Biden as president? No, that's not true: Pelosi was quoting Trump administration's National Counterintelligence and Security Center intelligence report that concluded that Russia favored Trump, while China favored Biden. A short video clip from Pelosi's August 9, 2020, appearance on CNN's State of the Union show was edited to omit the…

Has Democrat Joe Biden promised to outlaw gas cars if elected U.S. president? No, this is not true. Biden's "Clean Energy" policy released in July 2020 does not include a promise to outlaw gas-powered cars. It does propose actions and incentives to promote a rapid adoption of electric vehicles as a replacement to gas-guzzling internal-combustion engines. The claim is stated…

Are images of a deceased teenager connected to Hillary Clinton? No, that's not true: The photographs are of Scarlett Keeling, a British teenager who was killed in India in 2008. There is no evidence supporting the claim that the pictures are from the former secretary of state's laptop. The photographs appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook on August…

Does a photo show Senator Elizabeth Warren at a nude pagan ritual? No, that's not true: The grainy black-and-white image of eight naked adults holding hands and dancing does not include the U.S. senator from Massachusetts. The claim was stolen from a now-deleted 2017 satirical article published by a website that trolls conservatives with the aim of fooling them into…

Does former Vice President Joe Biden propose a ban on fracking? No, that's not true: Biden's presidential campaign has said he does not support a ban on fracking by the oil and natural gas industry, although the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee does wants to ban all new oil and gas permits -- including those for new fracking -- on federal…

Has Joe Biden already chosen Kamala Harris as his running mate, but she is not eligible to be president since her parents were not American citizens at the time of her birth? No, that's not true. While Sen. Harris was reportedly on Biden's short, short list of potential Democratic vice presidential picks, his decision had not been announced as of…

Do flight logs show former President Bill Clinton visited Jeffrey Epstein's "pedo-island" but the media is ignoring it? No, that's not true. There are no flight logs that document Bill Clinton -- the only former U.S. president named the logs -- as landing at Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean island. Yes, an Epstein victim did tell this to Lead Stories editor-in-chief Alan…

Does this photo show former President Bill Clinton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, and others at Rep. John Lewis' funeral on July 30, 2020, without face masks? No, that's not true: This is an old photo taken at the funeral for Jesse Jackson's mother, Helen Burns Jackson, in 2015. The claim originated in a post (archived here) where it…

Was former Vice President Joe Biden sitting alone on the floor of his Delaware basement in a photo included in a Trump campaign ad? No, that's not true: The photo, which was apparently intended to claim that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is hiding alone in his basement, has been doctored to remove 20 people from a photo of Biden,…

Is there evidence that Antifa forming a "Red Army" to attack the group's enemies and that ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- is providing ammunition and weapons training? No, there is no evidence. The radio host making the claim offered no evidence to support it. ACORN disbanded in the United States a decade ago. The…

Does video show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "blowed out of her mind" at a news conference? No, that's not true: The short video clip from a May 20, 2020, Capitol Hill news conference was digitally slowed down to make it appear as if Pelosi was intoxicated. The original video revealed she was speaking and acting normally. The claim originated in…

Does a photo show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders in Congress talking without masks or at a safe social distance in July 2020? No, that's not true: The photograph used to support this claim was taken on December 18, 2019, months before the novel coronavirus, social distancing and masks entered daily American conversations. The claim appeared as…