Do President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Mitt Romney and climate envoy John Kerry all have sons on the board of Burisma Holdings? No, that's not true: None do. Biden's youngest son used to sit on the board of the Ukrainian energy company, but no longer. There is no publicly available evidence to support the allegation about the…
Was "Dr. Jill" the Biden family's teenage babysitter before Joe Biden's first wife Neilia was killed in a car accident? No, that's not true: This meme is readily debunked by checking the timeline of events. The car accident that claimed the lives of Neilia Biden and her baby daughter Naomi occurred in December of 1972. Jill Biden was born Jill…
Does Hunter Biden work for a foreign oil company? No, that's not true: He used to sit on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company, but no longer. He left the board in 2019 and has said that he won't work for foreign-owned companies during his father's presidency. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) published…
Is Hunter Biden expected to lead the DEA? No, that's not true: There is no publicly available evidence Hunter Biden will be leading the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in his father's administration. Republican state Rep. Anthony Sabatini of Florida tweeted the false information about President Biden's only living son, Hunter, who has struggled with drug addiction, but provided no source…
Did a congressional report "released today" on January 15, 2021 say President Joe Biden took $140 million from the U.S. Treasury, sent it to his son's private equity company and then to Joe Biden's personal account in the Cayman Islands? No, none of that's true: Though critical of the Bidens, the cited report (by Republican congressional staff) says none of…
Was Pope Francis arrested in Vatican City after a supposed blackout and was he indicted for child trafficking and fraud? No, that's not true: there is no evidence for any of this and the claim went viral through a website run by an anonymous person using a fake identity that has published several other arrest hoaxes in the past. The…
Did someone hack into the electronic voting system being used in Georgia for the January 5, 2020, U.S. Senate runoff races? No, Georgia election officials say that's not true: The digital poll book was not even in use on December 30, 2020, the day J. Hutton Pulitzer told lawmakers he had hacked his way into it. On two occasions since…
Did some California counties allow voters to use ImageCast Remote software to mark their mail-in ballots? Yes, that's true, but election officials insist the system is secure from fraud. The ImageCast Remote system allows voters to download a ballot on their personal computing devices, mark that ballot with their choices and then print or save that ballot and send it…
Was the computer repair shop owner at the center of the Hunter Biden laptop story found dead? No, that's not true: This is a satirical claim published by a website that creates false content intended to trick conservatives into sharing. The repair shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, became the center of a major political controversy when he told reporters…
Did the FBI admit to accidentally destroying the laptop said to have belonged to Hunter Biden? No, that's not true: This is a satirical claim published by a website that trolls conservatives with outrageous false claims. The laptop in question has become infamous after the New York Post published emails that were allegedly found on the computer purportedly owned by…
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