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Does Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez currently have a "$29,000,000" net worth? No, that's not true: Her most recent and publicly available financial disclosure report revealed that her assets are much less than a million dollars. The claim appeared in an Instagram post on November 6, 2022. The text in the meme post, above an image of Ocasio-Cortez, reads: #AOC was $8k…

Was the fact that Maricopa County, Arizona, experienced trouble with some of its tabulators early on Election Day proof of voter fraud? No, that's not true: There was a back-up plan in place to make sure every vote was counted. In the case of a problem with a precinct tabulator, a voter could place his or her ballot in a…

Did billionaire philanthropist George Soros fund the purchase of voting machines in order to rig the 2022 midterm elections? No, that's not true: Elections are funded by taxpayer dollars and Soros has no connections to voting machine or voting software companies. The claim appeared in a November 6, 2022, Instagram post that uses a long string of hashtags for a…

Were Republicans blocked from voting in a polling station? No, that's not true: A social media video that implies this claim is from the Texas primary election that took place in March 2022. Voting officials from each party are responsible for running their side of each voting location. A lack of Republican voting officials at the location filmed caused the…

Has California perfected ballot harvesting? No, that's not true: California Secretary of State Communications Director Joe Kocurek told Lead Stories that the multiple claims about ballots in a social media post are false. Political parties do not send out ballots in California. All ballots must be postmarked by Election Day, not three days later, and voters are asked to provide…

Does this video show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being detained or arrested by U.S. marshals? No, that's not true: This is video of Pelosi leaving her home in San Francisco and getting into a GM Suburban SUV with a small security detail on October 30, 2022, as an onlooker shouts out, "Speaker, how's your husband doing?" The question referred to…

Does a publicly available 911 recording feature the voice of Paul Pelosi identifying the man in his house as David and stating that he is a friend? No, that's not true: At the time of writing, the recording of the actual 911 call has not been made public. An audio recording of a police radio transmission that is publicly available…

Does a cameraman at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, bear a striking resemblance to David DePape, the man arrested for breaking into the home of Paul Pelosi and attacking him with a hammer? And was this cameraman working with Alexandra Pelosi filming a documentary on January 6, 2021? No, none of that is true: The cameraman on the…

Are Phoebe and Jennifer Gates, the daughters of Bill and Melinda French Gates, unvaccinated? No, that's not true: In a 2019 Facebook post, Melinda Gates wrote that all three of her children were fully vaccinated. There are multiple instances where Phoebe and Jennifer Gates proved themselves vaccinated: Phoebe was at Jennifer's wedding where it was a requirement to be vaccinated,…

Were COVID-vaccinated young adults 92 percent more likely to die than their unvaccinated counterparts in England during the first full year that the vaccines were available? No, that's not true: While U.K. health agencies report that the figures are generally correct, the numbers were stripped of crucial context about vaccine breakthrough infection and the demographics of those prioritized for vaccination.…

Did David DePape go to the Pelosi house for gay sex and drugs? No, that's not true. FBI charging documents for David DePape state that he told investigators he wanted to hold House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "hostage" and "break her kneecaps" when he encountered her husband Paul in the home. According to the documents, DePape never mentioned gay sex or…

Did Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests show that "a dozen" phone calls between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Ray Epps took place a week before January 6, 2021? No, that's not true: Congress is exempt from FOIA so is not subject to provide information through it. The claim appeared in an Instagram post on October 28, 2022, with the…

Does the the Internet Wayback Machine prove that two of Pelosi attack suspect David DePape's webpages were "fabricated" after the suspect's arrest to smear conservatives? No, that's not true: The webpages attributed to DePape were so small and obscure that they would likely not be archived in that database without someone submitting them, according to a spokesman for Archive.org. But…

Was former President Barack Obama interrupted by uncontrollable chanting of "Fuck Joe Biden" during a campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday, October 29, 2022? No, that's not true: A video included on social media posts making the claim was altered to add the loud chanting to Obama's reaction to a single heckler during the speech. The claim appeared in…

Was the price of gasoline $5 a gallon when President Joe Biden took office in January 2021? No, that's not true: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website says a gallon of regular unleaded gas was only going for close to $2.33, on average, at that time. For September 2022, the most recent month government statistics were available at…

Did former President Donald Trump send out an October 27, 2022, statement congratulating Tesla owner and billionaire Elon Musk for purchasing Twitter? No, that's not true: Trump's spokesperson said the claim is not real. Trump has commented on the matter only on Truth Social, a social media platform launched by Trump Media & Technology Group. The claim appeared in an…

Does a 2022 ballot initiative in Connecticut "remove the requirement of a certified seal from certain ballots" and does it mean that "certain ballots don't have to have security seals to be processed" anymore? No, that's not true: Connecticut voters paying close attention to the full text of the initiative will see it does not mention anything about seals on…

Are there no pictures of President Joe Biden in the Oval Office in 2022, and does this prove he is not really president? No, that's not true: Numerous pictures and videos of Biden in the Oval Office during 2022, shot by professional photographers, exist online. For instance, on October 26, 2022, the date of this fact check, the news agency…

Does a social media video show a "transhuman" baby from parents who received the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: The mother of the baby shown in the video post told Lead Stories that her daughter was born in August 2020, before the COVID vaccines were available. The Pfizer shot was first approved under emergency use authorization on December 11,…

Did the Instagram account @_The.Republican.Party_ publish the full list of Jeffrey Epstein's "clients"? No, that's not true: A social media post claiming to reveal the "full list of Elite Clientele that were present on Epstein island" is nothing more than clickbait. Though the Epstein black book of celebrities is an authentic and consequential piece of information that may be made…