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  • Fact Check: Video Does NOT Feature JD Vance's Sister Asking Internet To Stop Saying He Killed Pope Francis -- Comedian's Series

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    Did JD Vance's sister take to social media to ask internet trolls to stop saying the Vice President killed Pope Francis? No, that's not true: The video is one of a series by comedian Blaire Erskine in which she has played roles such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's baby sitter and a Trump voter waiting in the cold for a…

    • Apr 23, 2025
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: Video Does NOT Feature JD Vance's Sister Asking Internet To Stop Saying He Killed Pope Francis -- Comedian's Series Satire Origin
  • Fact Check: Photo Of Mike Lindell At The Waukesha Wisconsin Trump Rally Is NOT Real -- Digitally Edited

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    Is a photo showing a haggard Mike Lindell posing for a photo with a Trump rally-goer in Waukesha authentic? No, that's not true: This photo has been digitally edited. The original photo shows a smiling Lindell posing with liberal Wisconsin radio station owner Mike Crute. The altered image was posted on a political satire account and at least nine areas…

    • May 2, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Photo Of Mike Lindell At The Waukesha Wisconsin Trump Rally Is NOT Real -- Digitally Edited Edited Photo
  • Mike Lindell's WMD Online Detection Viewer: Dennis Montgomery And A Cryptic Message

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    Mike & Dennis At Lead Stories we have a long history of looking at Mike Lindell's election fraud claims. Readers will remember our fact checks about Lindell's four conspiracy-filled election fraud "documentaries" here, here, here and here, or our coverage of his Cyber Symposium here. We also warned him about Dennis Montgomery, a man with a long history of providing…

    • Aug 25, 2023
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Mike Lindell's WMD Online Detection Viewer: Dennis Montgomery And A Cryptic Message Him Again?
  • Fact Check: BlackRock Investment Company Does NOT Own Dominion Voting Systems

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    Does BlackRock own Dominion Voting Systems? No, that's not true: A BlackRock spokesperson told Lead Stories the asset management/investment company owns part of Dominion Resources Inc., a completely different company, in the energy sector. The similarly-named voting software and ballot equipment company, Dominion Voting Systems, is owned by Staple Street Capital and its employees. Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News…

    • Apr 26, 2023
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: BlackRock Investment Company Does NOT Own Dominion Voting Systems Wrong Dominion
  • 2022 At Lead Stories: Debunking Claims About War, Vaccines and Elections; Debunking In Three New Languages & Defeating Lawsuits

    Analysis

    The year is almost over, so it is good to look back. First, the numbers, as of December 15, 2022. This year we have published 1,555 fact checks in English (so far ...) 283 fact checks about COVID misinformation; 244 debunks of Russian propaganda and false claims about the invasion of Ukraine; 140 debunks of false claims about election fraud,…

    • Dec 15, 2022
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    2022 At Lead Stories: Debunking Claims About War, Vaccines and Elections; Debunking In Three New Languages & Defeating Lawsuits 2022
  • Fact Check: Downticks In Election Graphs Do NOT Show 'Election Crime In Real Time' In Pennsylvania -- Those Were Typos By County Board of Elections

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    Do large downticks in cumulative voting graphs for the 2022 Pennsylvania Senate and governor's races prove election fraud? No, that's not true: Edison Research, which supplies election data to news organization websites, told Lead Stories that the downticks shown by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell on social media and on his Frank Speech website -- totaling tens of thousands of…

    • Nov 14, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Downticks In Election Graphs Do NOT Show 'Election Crime In Real Time' In Pennsylvania -- Those Were Typos By County Board of Elections Fact Check: Downticks In Election Graphs Do NOT Show 'Election Crime In Real Time' In Pennsylvania -- Those Were Typos By County Board of Elections Clerical Error
  • Fact Check: Mike Lindell's 2022 Midterm Election Graphs Do NOT Prove Races Were Stolen

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    Do midterm election graphs of unofficial, private election tallies used by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell on social media and on his Frank Speech website prove 2022 elections were stolen? No, that's not true: Spikes in the vote counts are a normal part of clean elections. A Lindell ally said he scraped and graphed data that Edison Research supplies to…

    • Nov 9, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Mike Lindell's 2022 Midterm Election Graphs Do NOT Prove Races Were Stolen Nothing Weird
  • Fact Check: NO 'Bombshell' Proof Of Colorado Election Manipulation In New Report From Mike Lindell

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    Did the "Bombshell" report published by Mike Lindell about Mesa County, Colorado, voting systems prove election machine manipulation? No, that's not true: The Colorado Secretary of State's Office, whose election security systems are called into question by the report, calls the analysis "unauthenticated hearsay." Independent of the state analysis, election and cybersecurity experts who reviewed Lindell's "Bombshell" report for Lead…

    • Mar 28, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: NO 'Bombshell' Proof Of Colorado Election Manipulation In New Report From Mike Lindell Not Explosive
  • Fact Check: Mike Lindell Did NOT Give Closed-Door Testimonies Against Trump

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    Did Mike Lindell give closed-door testimonies against Trump? No, that's not true: The My Pillow founder told Lead Stories via text message that claim is absolutely incorrect. "Of course I didn't," he said, denying the allegation. The claim was made in a video that said in the headline he gave the secret testimony but Lindell wasn't even mentioned in the…

    • Dec 13, 2021
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Mike Lindell Did NOT Give Closed-Door Testimonies Against Trump Didn't Testify
  • Fact Check: Mike Lindell Did NOT Tell Donald Trump The Truth About His 2020 Vote Total, Courtroom Election Challenges And Michigan Vote Counters

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    Did Mike Lindell tell former President Donald Trump the truth when he said Trump won 80 million votes in the 2020 election, that no judge ever ruled on the meat of Trump's challenges to the election outcome and that hundreds of thousands of votes were added to Joe Biden's total by crooked Michigan election officials? No, that's not true: President…

    • Nov 17, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: Mike Lindell Did NOT Tell Donald Trump The Truth About His 2020 Vote Total, Courtroom Election Challenges And Michigan Vote Counters Wrong Tally
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