Gateway Pundit

Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delete a February 24, 2020, video of herself from Twitter in which she encouraged people to visit Chinatown in San Francisco? No, that's not true: she never sent out a tweet of the video despite President Trump claiming she deleted it from her Twitter account. Trump tweeted out the clip via his own Twitter account…

Did New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo reject a recommendation for his state to buy 16,000 ventilators in 2015 in preparation for a pandemic? No, that's not true: That is disinformation being spread among conservatives, misinterpreting the facts of a 2015 report by a New York task force about the need for ventilators during a pandemic. The reports of Cuomo "rejecting…

Did the World Health Organization's director-general overstate the COVID-19 fatality rate when he said that it was many times that of the seasonal flu? No, that's false: Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accurately stated that the death rate of COVID-19 is much higher than the flu. A known right-wing website has falsely stated Ghebreyesus got his figures wrong, causing unnecessary panic.…

Do eight Iowa counties have more registered voters than there are people eligible to vote in those counties? No, that's not true. Looking at the latest available data in February 2020 there are only five counties where the number of total registered voters exceeds the voting age population. But the number dropped to only one county when just counting the…

Did Kamala Harris say criminals and illegals are better than U.S. servicemen? No, that's not true: one website drew that conclusion based just on the order she mentioned people in these groups in a Father's Day tweet. That website later removed the article making the claim, presumably because the tweet doesn't support that conclusion. And that is when the story…

Did a "top prosecutor" reveal that he has evidence that Hillary Clinton colluded with Ukraine during the 2016 U.S. election? No, that's not true: Ukraine's top prosecutor said he has evidence that officials in Ukraine released damaging information about Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort with the intentions of helping Clinton's campaign, but he did not make any reference to evidence…

Did former President Barack Obama say he supports the seizure of white farmer's land in South Africa? No, that's a fake quote, made up by a website that plagiarises articles from other websites about real news events and then adds some invented claims in the headline and first paragraphs to attract more clicks and make more advertising money. The quotes…

A study released on February 6th 2018 by the University of Oxford as part of the Computational Propaganda Research Project was widely used as the source for news articles with headlines like these: Trump Supporters Spread the Majority of Phony News on Social Media - Mother Jones 'Junk' political news shared more widely by Trump backers, study finds - McClatchy…

There is no truth to the story that Chuck Schumer received $500,000 in campaign donations from several pro-illegal immigration groups just before the vote on the budget that failed to pass, leading to the government shutdown. The groups "Immigration for Everyone", "Council for Alien Rights" and the "Southern Border Defense Fund" don't actually exist. The same goes for the transparency…

The well known fake news website The Resistance: The Last Line of Defense strikes again, this time with a hoax article titled: "BREAKING: Federal Court Bans CNN From White House Press Room". The fake story opens: In the interest of truth and democracy, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously to remove CNN's status as "free press" and…