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  • Ayyadurai's Claim That Massachusetts Destroyed Over 1 Million Ballots In Republican Primary Is NOT True

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    Did Massachusetts election officials destroy more than 1 million ballots in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, as alleged by losing candidate V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai? No, that is not true. Election officials in the state told Lead Stories that it was "election misinformation" and that not even 300,000 ballots were cast in that race by Republicans. By law, state officials cannot…

    • Sep 28, 2020
    • by: Eric Ferkenhoff
    Ayyadurai's Claim That Massachusetts Destroyed Over 1 Million Ballots In Republican Primary Is NOT True Not Destroyed
  • Fact Check: Louisville Bail Project Did NOT Rent Truck That Distributed Supplies to Louisville Protest and Bail Project Gets NO Funds from George Soros

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    Did the Louisville Bail Project rent a truck to deliver "riot supplies" to a Black Lives Matter march with support from billionaire George Soros? No, neither of those claims is true. The U-Haul truck shown in online videos delivering supplies to Black Lives Matter marchers was rented by Holly Zoller, a longtime Louisville anti-racism activist. The Bail Project's national spokesperson…

    • Sep 25, 2020
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: Louisville Bail Project Did NOT Rent Truck That Distributed Supplies to Louisville Protest and Bail Project Gets NO Funds from George Soros Not Soros'
  • Fact Check: Joe Biden Was NOT Waving To An Empty Field; Firefighters In Background

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    Did Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wave to an empty field when he stepped off his jet in Tampa, Florida, as though he was waving to no one? No, that's not true. A video making this claim and gaining wide attention on social media has clipped the footage. A full showing of the video clearly shows he was waving at…

    • Sep 16, 2020
    • by: Eric Ferkenhoff
    Fact Check: Joe Biden Was NOT Waving To An Empty Field; Firefighters In Background Not Empty
  • Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Fraudulently Count Poisoning, Trauma And Unintentional Injuries In COVID Death Tally

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    Did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fraudulently add deaths from poisoning, trauma and unintentional injury to its tally of COVID-19 deaths? No, that's not true: That claim is based on a mischaracterization of CDC listings of patients' other health conditions, which are commonly listed on death certificates as "comorbidities." The claim cites as a source "c19study," an…

    • Sep 4, 2020
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Fraudulently Count Poisoning, Trauma And Unintentional Injuries In COVID Death Tally Data Distorted
  • Fact Check: NO 'Massive International Study' Shows Countries with Early HCQ Use Had 79% Lower Mortality Rate

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    Did a "massive international study" show a much lower COVID-19 mortality rate in countries where hydroxychloroquine was prescribed to patients? No, that's not true: The "C19study" is not a massive international study. It is an anonymous collection of words and graphics referring to other scientific papers, but does not itself qualify as a scientific paper or study: No medical expert…

    • Sep 2, 2020
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: NO 'Massive International Study' Shows Countries with Early HCQ Use Had 79% Lower Mortality Rate Cherry-picking
  • Fact Check: Kamala Harris Descended From A Slave Owner, But It's Not 'An Inconvenient Part Of Her History' Or A 'Deep, Dark Secret' That 'Could Come Back To Haunt Her'

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    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…

    • Aug 12, 2020
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fact Check: Kamala Harris Descended From A Slave Owner, But It's Not 'An Inconvenient Part Of Her History' Or A 'Deep, Dark Secret' That 'Could Come Back To Haunt Her' No Dark Secret
  • Fact Check: Payments By ActBlue Texas Are NOT Connected To BLM, Thousand Currents or Rioters -- They're Refunded Political Contributions

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    Are hundreds of individual payments made by ActBlue Texas connected to Black Lives Matter, Thousand Currents or rioters? No, that's not true: The payments are refunds of political contributions, according to an ActBlue spokesperson and a search of publicly available information on the Texas Ethics Commission website. The claim was reported in an article (archived here) published by DavidHarrisJr.com on…

    • Jul 20, 2020
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: Payments By ActBlue Texas Are NOT Connected To BLM, Thousand Currents or Rioters -- They're Refunded Political Contributions Refunds
  • Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Say The Common Cold Is Counted As A Positive COVID-19 Result

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    Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that the common cold counts as a positive COVID-19 result? No, that's not true: The CDC was talking about antibody tests, not viral tests, when it said that a positive result may mean that a person has antibodies from an infection with a virus, such as the one that causes…

    • Jul 2, 2020
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Say The Common Cold Is Counted As A Positive COVID-19 Result Different Test
  • Fact Check: Oregon Did NOT Change Hundreds Of Republican Ballots To Non-Partisan Denying Republican Voters the Right To Participate In Primary

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    Did Oregon change hundreds of Republican ballots to non-partisan, thus denying Republican voters the right to participate in the state's primary? No, that's not true: Oregon voters received the non-partisan ballots because they never took the second step of declaring a party affiliation, a spokeswoman for the Oregon secretary of state told Lead Stories. The procedure would affect Democrats, as…

    • May 21, 2020
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Oregon Did NOT Change Hundreds Of Republican Ballots To Non-Partisan Denying Republican Voters the Right To Participate In Primary Misinformation
  • Fact Check: Pelosi Did NOT Delete Tweet Of Video Urging Visits To Chinatown During COVID-19

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    Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delete a February 24, 2020, video of herself from Twitter in which she encouraged people to visit Chinatown in San Francisco? No, that's not true: she never sent out a tweet of the video despite President Trump claiming she deleted it from her Twitter account. Trump tweeted out the clip via his own Twitter account…

    • Apr 16, 2020
    • by: Mary Acosta
    Fact Check: Pelosi Did NOT Delete Tweet Of Video Urging Visits To Chinatown During COVID-19 Never A Tweet
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