Dinesh Dsouza

Does a video show Tim Walz lying about having served in a U.S. military deployment to Afghanistan? No, that's not true: Walz told the American Legion about a 2011 trip to Afghanistan he took as a member of Congress. He did not say he had served in Afghanistan as a soldier. The claim appeared in a post on X (archived…

Is geotracking the only evidence being used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to place January 6, 2021, defendants inside the U.S. Capitol? No, that's not true: FBI investigators and the DOJ are using the tracking data, along with Wi-Fi access points, Bluetooth beacons that interacted with phones and security cameras to confirm people were inside the building during the…

Did former U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy say he saw the movie "2000 Mules" at Mar-a-Lago and that he "always believed that rampant cheating occurred" in the 2020 election? No, that's not true: The Republican from South Carolina told Lead Stories both claims are "100 percent false." The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) by the account Trey Gowdy…

Did a Twitter employee post a public resignation because he refused to work for Elon Musk? No, that's not true: This tweet was made by @MulhollandL0ver, an account that posts mainly satire. This is not the account of a real Twitter employee. The tweet from @MulhollandL0ver was posted as a reply to a tweet from @disclosetv on April 4, 2022.…

Does a widely shared Facebook post with an image of dozens of jets show the aircraft used by attendees of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland? No, that's not true: Although some reports have estimated that more than 400 jets were used to transport the conference's high-profile guests, the picture used to make…

Did Facebook remove the title "President" from the @DonaldTrump Facebook page? No, that's not true: a database of screenshots of the @DonaldTrump Facebook page, going back several months, shows that the page never contained the title "President" in its name. And Facebook confirmed to Lead Stories that it did not remove "President" from Trump's personal Facebook page. The claim appeared…

Did Hunter Biden admit to doing naked video calls on FaceTime and keeping sexually explicit photos of a 14-year-old? No, that's not true. There is no record Hunter Biden has confirmed having done either of those things. The person making the claims, a pardoned felon who pleaded guilty to falsifying two campaign contributions, provided no documentary, photographic or testimonial evidence…

Did Joe Biden completely botch the Pledge of Allegiance during a campaign speech? No, that's not true and the comments were taken out of context. GOP rapid response director Steve Guest claimed that Biden "completely botches" the pledge during a campaign speech in a tweet that went viral. The Democratic nominee for president was criticizing Donald Trump and saying he…

Did Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser propose "using her power" to remove the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial? No, that's not true: In addition to not having the authority to remove monuments on federal land, the mayor said no such thing. The claim appeared as a meme in a Facebook post (archived here) published on September 1, 2020. The meme…

Did Kamala Harris buy her California home with money inherited from an ancestor who owned slaves -- one of whom was apparently her own great-great-great-great-grandmother? No, that's not true: It is a bizarre claim used to argue that the Democratic vice presidential nominee is now living off the profits of slavery. Harris shares the same family history of an estimated…