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  • Fact Check: Mike Lindell's 'Absolute Interference' Video Recycles Debunked Claims About The 2020 Election

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    Does Mike Lindell's "Absolute Interference" video, his third that purports to prove 2020 election fraud, contain only proven statements? No, that's not true: It contradicts itself and recycles claims that have been debunked before, relying on discredited and anonymous guests who make unsubstantiated and disproven allegations. The video's orienting claim is that foreign and domestic actors hacked the election through…

    • Apr 21, 2021
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Mike Lindell's 'Absolute Interference'  Video Recycles Debunked Claims About The 2020 Election Discredited
  • Fact Check: The U.S.A. Is NOT A Corporation And African Americans Are NOT Still Owned By Anyone

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    Is the United States a corporation in the way General Motors is? Is the president the head of a corporation called the United States of America? And are African Americans emancipated but not free? No, none of that is true: this conspiracy theory makes claims based on selection of only one of the several definitions of the word "incorporated" and…

    • Feb 19, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: The U.S.A. Is NOT A Corporation And African Americans Are NOT Still Owned By Anyone No Case Law
  • Fact Check: Berlin's Freedom Bell Did NOT Ring To Celebrate Joe Biden's Win

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    Did the Freedom Bell in Berlin's Rathaus Schoneberg ring on November 7, 2020, to celebrate Joe Biden's win in the 2020 presidential election? No, that's not true: The bell in the former city hall of West Berlin rings every day at noon and not, as claimed in several social media posts, only on German holidays. It rang at its regularly…

    • Nov 9, 2020
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Berlin's Freedom Bell Did NOT Ring To Celebrate Joe Biden's Win Rings Daily
  • Fact Check: November Could NOT Be The USA's 'First Internal Political War Of Its History'

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    Could November 2020 see the United States' first internal political war in its history? No, that's not true: If an internal war breaks out in the United States after the national elections in November, which some people are predicting, it would not be the first in history. The United States was divided in a four-year-long civil war starting in 1861…

    • Sep 17, 2020
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fact Check: November Could NOT Be The USA's 'First Internal Political War Of Its History' Remember 1861
  • Fact Check: That Was NOT JFK Jr. Spotted At July 3, 2020, Mount Rushmore Celebration

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    Was JFK Jr. spotted at the Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020? No, that's not true: John F. Kennedy Jr. died in plane crash in 1999, which makes it a certainty that the son of the 35th president of the United States did not attend the Mount Rushmore speech of the 45th, President Donald Trump.…

    • Jul 6, 2020
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fact Check: That Was NOT JFK Jr. Spotted At July 3, 2020, Mount Rushmore Celebration JFK Jr Is Dead
  • Fact Check: Robert E. Lee WAS A Slave Owner -- And So Was Ulysses S. Grant

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    Is it true that Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, was not a slave owner, while Ulysses S. Grant, who led the Union Army, was? No, that's not true: General Lee owned dozens of slaves and controlled many more as the trustee of his father-in-law's estate, which he freed during the war.…

    • Jun 15, 2020
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Robert E. Lee WAS A Slave Owner -- And So Was Ulysses S. Grant Revisionism
  • Fact Check: NO Evidence Presidents Lincoln And Kennedy Were Assassinated For Trying To End Federal Reserve

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    Were President Abraham Lincoln and President John F. Kennedy both assassinated for trying to end the Federal Reserve banking system? No, there is no evidence to back this up: The two presidents, who were both shot and killed while in office, have been the subjects of many questions and conspiracy theories for decades, and this meme has double misconceptions. The…

    • Apr 27, 2020
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: NO Evidence Presidents Lincoln And Kennedy Were Assassinated For Trying To End Federal Reserve No Evidence
  • Fake News: US Aircraft Carrier With Sailors NOT Positioned To Spell Out 'F--k Iran'

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    Does a photo of a U.S. aircraft carrier show sailors positioned to spell out "F--k Iran"? No, that's not true: The image that spread virally on social media after the U.S. military killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on January 3, 2020, and Iran vowed retailiation, was digitally altered from an aerial photo taken by the Navy in 2002. The original…

    • Jan 8, 2020
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: US Aircraft Carrier With Sailors NOT Positioned To Spell Out 'F--k Iran'
  • Fake News: Malia Obama NOT Busted Selling Priceless White House Trinkets

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    Was Malia Obama busted selling priceless White House trinkets that she stole while she lived there? No, that's not true: The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump supporters and Republicans into sharing made-up stories that are clearly marked as satire when you actually click them. Articles from the site are frequently copied by…

    • Jan 7, 2020
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Malia Obama NOT Busted Selling Priceless White House Trinkets
  • Fake News: Abe Lincoln Did NOT Say: 'America Will Never Be Destroyed From The Outside...'

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    Did Abraham Lincoln once say that "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves,"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence America's 16th president ever spoke or wrote those words, although his famous Lyceum address in Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, included a similar observation using…

    • Oct 10, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Abe Lincoln Did NOT Say: 'America Will Never Be Destroyed From The Outside...'
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