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  • Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Tweet A Call For A 'Purge' To Round Up 'Conservative Traitors' And Making 'Auschwitz Look Like A Picnic'

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    Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez post a congratulatory tweet to President-elect Joe Biden, calling on him to begin a "Purge," rounding up "all conservative traitors" and making "Auschwitz look like a picnic"? No, that's not true: It's a fake. No such tweet appears in the archives of the New York Democrat's personal Twitter account nor of the official account maintained by…

    • Jan 15, 2021
    • by: Hallie Golden
    Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Tweet A Call For A 'Purge' To Round Up 'Conservative Traitors' And Making 'Auschwitz Look Like A Picnic' Not AOC Tweet
  • Fact Check: Michigan Officials Were NOT 'Caught On Video' Forcing Audit Volunteers To Count 'Multiple Ballots With Same Signature'

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    Were Michigan election officials caught on video forcing audit volunteers to count multiple ballots with the same signature and to count dubious ballots without asking questions? No, that's not true: In U.S. elections, ballots are not signed. The videos in question show Michigan elections staff insisting volunteers finish their task -- the audit that checks numbers of ballots against numbers…

    • Jan 15, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: Michigan Officials Were NOT 'Caught On Video' Forcing Audit Volunteers To Count 'Multiple Ballots With Same Signature' No Signatures
  • Fact Check: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Did Not Tweet That Her Shoes Were Stolen During 'The Terrorist Insurrection'

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    Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY tweet that her shoes were stolen when the U.S. Capitol was invaded by rioters on January 6, 2021? No, that's not true: Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on her verified account that the Facebook post, was fake.The spoofer who created the image of a Tweet failed to include in it Twitter's blue checkmark that denotes verified accounts that…

    • Jan 15, 2021
    • by: Olivera Perkins
    Fact Check: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Did Not Tweet That Her Shoes Were Stolen During 'The Terrorist Insurrection' Shoes Safe
  • Fact Check: Our President HAS Been Officially Impeached. Twice. -- Video Misstates Constitutional Process

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    Has President Donald Trump officially never been impeached because the United States Senate hasn't convicted him? No, that's not true: The U. S. Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole power of impeachment and the Senate sole power to try all impeachments. Both in the dictionary and the constitution, the verb means to charge a public office holder with misconduct.…

    • Jan 14, 2021
    • by: Olivera Perkins
    Fact Check: Our President HAS Been Officially Impeached. Twice.  -- Video Misstates Constitutional Process Yes, Impeached
  • Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report Investigators Believe Riot At U.S. Capitol Wasn't Trump-Inspired

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    Did CNN report that investigators believe the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not inspired by Donald Trump, and did Democrats impeach Trump "before they had any information from investigators?" No, that's not true: CNN reported that investigators are looking into whether the riot was planned -- but there was no CNN reporting shifting responsibility away…

    • Jan 14, 2021
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report Investigators Believe Riot At U.S. Capitol Wasn't Trump-Inspired Fake News
  • Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Rep. Lauren Boebert On A Group Tour In Washington, D.C., In January 2021

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    Does a photo show U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert on a group tour in Washington, D.C., in January 2021? No, that's not true: The photo was taken more than a year earlier, at a 2019 rally in Colorado. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) published by "Will Watkins" on January 13, 2021. The post included a short introductory…

    • Jan 14, 2021
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Rep. Lauren Boebert On A Group Tour In Washington, D.C., In January 2021 Old Photo
  • Fact Check: Trey Gowdy Quote About Rigging Election and Martial Law Is NOT Real

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    Did former politician Trey Gowdy say "If you're okay with rigging an election, I'm ok with martial law to stop you" as several social media posts are claiming? No, that's not true: there is no record of Gowdy ever saying these words, they do not appear on his social media accounts or in news reports about Gowdy. Gowdy denied to…

    • Jan 14, 2021
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fact Check: Trey Gowdy Quote About Rigging Election and Martial Law Is NOT Real False Quote
  • Fact Check: 'Big Tech' CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet

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    Is "Big Tech" letting child porn distributors freely operate while restricting people who post content that companies like Amazon and Facebook consider to be dangerous falsehoods? No, that's not how it works: No one owns the internet, which is a network of connected computers on which the World Wide Web operates via a common programming code that allows users to…

    • Jan 13, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: 'Big Tech' CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet Web ≠ Big Tech
  • Fact Check: U.S. Governors' Names Are NOT On Leaked List Of Chinese Communist Party Members

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    Are U.S. governors' names on a leaked list of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members? No, that's not true: Although there are credible reports of a leaked CCP database, people with direct knowledge of the list told Lead Stories no governors are on it. The claim appeared in an article (archived here) published by the Hal Turner Radio Show on December…

    • Jan 13, 2021
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: U.S. Governors' Names Are NOT On Leaked List Of Chinese Communist Party Members No CCP Guvs
  • Fact Check: Proud Boys Leader Joe Biggs And Sen. Lindsey Graham Did NOT Take Photo Together Shortly Before U.S. Capitol Was Stormed

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    Did Sen. Lindsey Graham and Joe Biggs, a leader of the Proud Boys, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a hate group, take a photo together shortly before supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021? No, that's not true: The photo in question, in which both Graham and Biggs…

    • Jan 13, 2021
    • by: Olivera Perkins
    Fact Check: Proud Boys Leader Joe Biggs And Sen. Lindsey Graham Did NOT Take Photo Together Shortly Before U.S. Capitol Was Stormed Old Photo
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    Fact Check: Tattooed Man Wearing Horns Storming The Capitol Is NOT Antifa/Pedophile -- He Is A QAnon/Trump Supporter

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    Fact Check: Trump Would NOT Lose Lifetime Benefits If Impeached -- He'd Also Have To Be Convicted And Removed

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    • Jan 11, 2021
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  • Fact Check: 'Big Tech' CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet Web ≠ Big Tech

    Fact Check: 'Big Tech' CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet

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    • Jan 13, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
  • Fact Check: Tens-Of-Thousands Of Chinese Soldiers Are NOT Quietly Massing On The Canadian Border Readying For Invasion Of The United States None seen

    Fact Check: Tens-Of-Thousands Of Chinese Soldiers Are NOT Quietly Massing On The Canadian Border Readying For Invasion Of The United States

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    Fact Check: National Guard Commanders Have NOT Confiscated All Ammo And Magazines From Troops Guarding The Capitol

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    • Jan 19, 2021
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    Fact Check: This Is NOT A Photo Of Nancy Pelosi Being Arrested By 'U.S. Marshalls' -- She's Walking To Her Office

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    • Jan 19, 2021
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  • Fact Check: CBS News Did NOT Report A Florida Man Kidnapped 27 People To Force Them To Play Yahtzee Fake Tweet

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    Fact Check: Broken Link That Included The Word 'Guantanamo' On The Site Of The Office Of Military Commissions Did NOT Have Any Special Significance

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    • Jan 19, 2021
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    • Jan 18, 2021
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    Fact Check: An 'Emergency Broadcast Alert' Has NOT Been Issued Revealing Donald Trump Has Invoked The Insurrection Act

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    • Jan 18, 2021
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
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    Fact Check: Doctored Video Does NOT Show That Joe Biden 'Has No Idea Where Or Who He Is'

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    • Jan 18, 2021
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