Fact Check in October 2020

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Saturday, October 31, 2020

• Fact Check: This Is NOT An Authentic Photo Of Barack Obama Kissing David Cameron

Friday, October 30, 2020

• Fact Check: This Photo Does NOT Show Joe Biden Golfing With Burisma's CEO
• Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Break Election Rules When She Spoke To Voters In Ohio
• Fact Check: Santos Dumont Airport In Rio De Janeiro Does NOT Have A 1,300-foot Runway
• Fact Check: PTFE Sprayed On Blue Masks Does NOT Cause Symptoms Similar To COVID-19
• Fact Check: Trump's Payroll Tax Cut Remarks Do NOT Mean He 'Will Take Away Your Social Security'
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Toddler Lost Amid 'Violent Riots' In Philadelphia -- Child Was Pulled From SUV During A Police Stop

Thursday, October 29, 2020

• Fact Check: Voting Machine Message Voters Received Did NOT Keep Them From Voting
• Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Say 'Looters Are Just Feeding Their Hungry Kids'
• Fact Check: YouTube Did NOT Remove Tucker Carlson's Full Interview With Tony Bobulinski
• Fact Check: Facebook Did NOT Ban This 'President Trump Campaign Ad' -- Which Isn't Really A Trump Ad

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

• Fact Check: It is NOT True That All Ballots Arriving After Election Day Will Be Thrown Out
• Fact Check: Scientific American Did NOT Warn That 5G Is Unsafe, An Op-Ed Guest Writer Did
• Fact Check: Belakwa, New York, Was NOT Abandoned After Hydrofracking 'Left Its Soil Toxic And Its Aquifer Irreparable' -- The Town Is Fictional
• Fact Check: Hobby Lobby DOES Sell Jewish Holiday Items
• Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Urge Company To 'Expand The Size Run So Everyone Can Have A Pair'
• Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Call For The Assassination Of His Political Opponent

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

• Fact Check: Over 220 Million Americans Have NOT Died From COVID-19 In The Last Several Months
• Fact Check: Trash Can Plastered With 'Ballot Box' Sign In Philadelphia Was NOT Intended To Get People To Toss Their Ballots In The Trash
• Student's Chart Explaining Wild Conspiracies Trolled To Spread More Conspiracies
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Does NOT Own One Of The Largest Mansions In Delaware
• Fact Check: NO Proof That Flu Cases Are 'Down 98% Across The Globe'
• Fact Check: CDC Data Do NOT 'Reveal' Hospitals Have Counted Heart Attacks as COVID-19 Deaths
• Fact Check: Doctors Are NOT Paid To Falsify Death Certificates, Pump Up COVID Death Toll 16-fold
• Fact Check: Bon Jovi Did NOT Perform For A Crowd Of 12 At Biden Campaign Event

Monday, October 26, 2020

• Fact Check: Wind Turbines Do NOT Need Their Oil Changed Every 500 Hours, Some Can Go Years
• Fact Check: Snopes Did NOT Fact Check The Claim That There Are Leaked Pornographic Videos Of Hunter Biden
• Fact Check: Joe Biden's Corvette License Plate Does NOT Say 'THEBIGGUY'
• Fact Check: Henry 'The Fonz' Winkler Did NOT Die At Age 74 After Secret Battle With Guillain-Barré Syndrome
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Nancy Pelosi's Son Abusing A Little Girl -- And Is NOT from Purported Hunter Biden Laptop
• Fact Check: Election Judge In Maryland Marking On A Ballot In A Yahoo Livestream Was NOT Committing Voter Fraud
• Fact Check: Malia Obama Credit Card Photo Is NOT New -- There Is NO Proof It Was Found On Hunter Biden's 'Laptop'
• Fact Check: Belgian Mayor Did NOT Refuse To Entertain Demands From Muslim Parents To Remove Pork From School Lunch Menu
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Suspend All In-Person Campaign Events
• Fact Check: The Term 'Hungover' Did NOT Originate From Drunken Sailors Sleeping Over A Rope
• Fact Check: Democrats Did NOT Try To Slip A Law Banning The Pledge Of Allegiance Into Aid Package
• Fact Check: Mail-In Ballots And Other Mail WERE Stolen From Locked Mailboxes, Dumped In A Park In Washington State -- But Police Suggest Motive Was Financial, NOT Political
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That Hunter Biden Is Dead
• Fact Check: Breitbart Did NOT Report Daughter Of Sen. Coons And 7 Underaged Girls Were 'Featured' On Hunter Biden's Laptop

Saturday, October 24, 2020

• Fact Check: Twitter Warning NOT Just For Biden Retweets; New Policy Applies To All Retweeted Material
• Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Contradict Himself By Saying He Was Raised In A 'Black Church' And A Lifelong Catholic When Referring To His Civil Rights Work
• Fact Check: Hunter Biden Did NOT Admit To Doing Naked FaceTimes Nor Keeping Sexually Explicit Photos Of 14-Year-Old
• Fact Check: BLM Does NOT Want To Keep Black Men From Raising Their Children, Nor Does Biden

Friday, October 23, 2020

• Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Say 'Good' After Joe Biden Said 525 Immigrant Kids Can't Find Their Parents
• Fact Check: 'Coyotes' Is NOT A Xenophobic Term For Parents Illegally Bringing Children Into The U.S.
• Fact Check: Disturbing Video Does NOT Show Children Rescued From Being Trafficked
• Fact Check: The U.S. Government Has NOT 'Finally Admitted' Marijuana Kills Cancer Cells
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Call Black Criminals 'Super Predators.'
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Use An iPad To Feed Him Answers During The Debate

Thursday, October 22, 2020

• Fact Check: Trump, Congress DID End Tax Penalty For Non-Insured, But $10,000 Penalty NOT Likely
• Fact Check: The Three Red Lines On Biden-Harris Campaign Logo Are NOT A Reference To Chinese Socialism
• Fact Check: Rudy Giuliani Was NOT Prank Texted By Someone Pretending To Be Ivanka Trump
• Fact Check: 'Today' Is NOT The Day That Marty McFly Arrives When He Travels To The Future -- That 'Today' Was 5 Years Ago
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Real Billboards Of Hunter And Joe Biden

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• Fact Check: Fauci Study Does NOT Support Claim That The 'Unmasked Buried The Masked' in Spanish Flu Pandemic A Century Ago
• Fact Check: This Photo Does NOT Show Donald Trump Taking His Children To 'Hang Out' With Jeffrey Epstein And Not Protecting Them
• Fact Check: ABC, CBS, NBC Have NOT Given 'Zero Coverage' To Hunter Biden Story -- All Three Have Reported The Story
• Fact Check: Specific Marks On Cars Are NOT A Sign Of Sex Trafficking
• Fact Check: The Dallas Cowboys Have NOT Signed Free Agent QB Colin Kaepernick
• Fact Check: Hunter Biden Was NOT Chairman Of The UN Program That Won The Nobel Peace Prize, And The Trump Kids Are NOT Banned From Operating A Charity
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Say 'If Your 8-Year-Old Child Says They Want To Be Transgender ... They Have A Right To Transition'
• Fact Check: Biden Does NOT Own Four Homes Worth Millions And Funded By Foreign Entities
• Fact Check: There Was NOT An Attempted Child Abduction At A Louisiana Walmart

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

• Fact Check: The White House Is NOT Confirmed To Be Set To Release Footage Of Hunter Biden Raping And Torturing Little Girls
• Fact Check: The Bidens' Income DID Go From $396,456 In 2016 To $16.5 Million For 2017-2019 -- It's In Public Records: Increases From Book Deals, Speaking Dates
• Fact Check: Projection Of The Biden-Harris Logo On A Harley-Davidson Building Was NOT An Endorsement By The Business
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show The Man Beheaded In France
• Fact Check: Obama's Two Terms Were NOT 'A Crime Spree'
• Fact Check: Extraterrestrials Were NOT Found And Examined During An 'Apollo 20' Mission
• Fact Check: Ice Cube And 50 Cent Did NOT Wear Trump Hats In Photo

Monday, October 19, 2020

• Fact Check: America's Frontline Doctors Did NOT Prove Their Claims That Masks Don't Work
• Fact Check: The Iowa Farm Bureau Did NOT Withdraw Its Endorsement Of Republican Sen. Joni Ernst
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show A Wounded Bull, Betrayed By The Owner Who Kissed Him And Did Nothing
• Fact Check: Hackers Did NOT Prove The Oregon Voting System Is Insecure
• Fact Check: Anthony Weiner's Laptop Did NOT Contain 'Proof Hillary Clinton & Her Associates Are Involved In Child Trafficking And Pedophilia'
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Say He Lived In Section 8 Housing As A Boy
• Fact Check: Aboriginal Australians Were NOT Classified As Animals Under The 'Flora And Fauna Act' Until The 1960s
• Fact Check: Pregnant Woman Is NOT Getting HRT Injections To Switch Baby's Sex In Utero

Sunday, October 18, 2020

• Fact Check: OAN's Chanel Rion Did NOT Promise 'Big News Dump' On Bidens In 4Chan Posts
• Fact Check: Pennsylvania Did NOT Reject 372,000 Mail-In Ballots -- They Were Ballot Applications
• Fact Check: Photo Eric Trump Shared Is NOT Joe Biden's Current Home - He Sold It In 1996

Saturday, October 17, 2020

• Fact Check: The Late John F. Kennedy Jr. Will NOT Replace Mike Pence On The GOP Ticket
• Fact Check: Pennsylvania Did NOT Order Hunters To Wear Orange Masks
• Fact Check: Donald Trump DID Say 'I'll Have To Leave The Country' If He Loses And Bruce Springsteen Said He Would Move To Australia If Trump Wins -- But Both Were Joking
• Fact Check: N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Did NOT Order Hunters To Wear An Orange Face Mask
• Fact Check: Biden Does NOT Plan To Raise Taxes On 82% Of Americans On Day 1
• Fact Check: Photo Of Huge Crowd Is NOT Of A Trump Rally

Friday, October 16, 2020

• Fact Check: Joe Biden Does NOT Support The Green New Deal
• Fact Check: Snopes Did NOT Fact Check A Claim That Photo Showed Hunter Biden Asleep With A Crack Pipe By Concluding It Was A Meth Pipe
• Fact Check: Hundreds of Hillary Clinton's Emails Were NOT Published On The U.S. State Department's Website In Recent Days
• Fact Check: Donald Trump Jr. Did NOT Say His Father Is 'One Of The Most Unethical Humans In Political History' On Video And Endorse Biden
• Fact Check: This Little Girl Did NOT 'Just' Have Heart Surgery
• Fact Check: Zip Ties Are NOT Being Attached To Cars To Distract People Who Can Be Abducted By Human Traffickers
• Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say If He Is Elected President He Will Lock Down The Country Until A Vaccine Is Ready And Everyone Is Vaccinated
• Fact Check: Twitter Did NOT Shut Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News

Thursday, October 15, 2020

• Fact Check: President Donald Trump Is NOT Dead
• Fact Check: CDC Report Did NOT Say Masks Are Ineffective In Preventing Spread Of COVID-19
• Fact Check: Mitch McConnell Is NOT The Richest Senator and Kentucky Is NOT The Poorest State
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Hold An Event That No One Showed Up For -- Supporters Stayed In Cars For Social Distancing
• Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Was NOT Escorted Drunk And Maskless From A Building
• Fact Check: The Whitmer Kidnapping Story Did NOT Disappear After 'We Found Out The Perps Were ANTIFA And BLM Anarchists'

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

• Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Withhold Evidence In Two Death Row Cases; She Did NOT Jail 1,500 Black Men For Weed Possession
• Fact Check: Tens-Of-Thousands Of Chinese Soldiers Are NOT Quietly Massing On The Canadian Border Readying For Invasion Of The United States
• Fact Check: Former Pfizer Scientist NOT Correct Saying 'Second Wave' Based on False-Positive COVID Tests, 'Pandemic is Over'
• Fact Check: Amy Barrett Did NOT Say During Her Confirmation Hearing She Isn't Using Notes Because 'I've Got Seven Kids ... I'm Used To Stupid Questions'
• Fact Check: People Attending A Rally In Newport News, Virginia, Did NOT Give A Nazi Salute To Donald Trump
• Fact Check: Kanye West Did NOT Get 40,000 Votes in Kentucky
• Fact Check: Breonna Taylor Was NOT Shot In Her Bed
• Fact Check: A Suit That Accused Donald Trump Of Raping A 13-Year-Old Aspiring Model Is NOT 'Upcoming' -- It Was Dropped
• Fact Check: Obama's 'Tan Suit' Portrait Is Not His Official White House Portrait

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

• Fact Check: Obama And Biden Did NOT Conspire With Iran To Stage Bin Laden Killing, Or Silence SEAL Team 6 By Shooting Down Helicopter
• Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Tell Reporters The Main Reason He Nominated Amy Barrett Was Because She Is Attractive
• Fact Check: Kwik Trip, Inc. Is NOT Planning 'Gentlemen's Club' Business Called 'Kwik Strip'
• Fact Check: Local News Report On Biden And Harris Event At Heard Museum In Arizona Was NOT About An Unattended Rally
• Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Propose A 2% Nationwide Property Tax
• Fact Check: Biden's Capital Gains Tax Does NOT Mean That When You Sell Your Home You'll Owe Taxes Of 40% Of Your Profit
• Fact Check: Obama Did NOT Say: 'Legally, An Impeached President Can't Appoint Judges'

Monday, October 12, 2020

• Fact Check: The Median White Household Wealth In The US Is NOT 81 Times The Black Median Household Wealth
• Fact Check: Jeffrey Epstein Was NOT Found Living in New Mexico
• Fact Check: Mike Pence Did NOT Sign A Bill When He Was Governor of Indiana To Jail Same-Sex Marriage Applicants
• Fact Check: This Is NOT An Original Photo Of Barack and Michelle Obama
• Fact Check: Kamala Harris Was NOT California's 'TOP COP' In 2010 So She Was NOT Responsible For The State's Black Incarceration Rate That Year

Sunday, October 11, 2020

• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Take A Knee During The National Anthem While Visiting Miami's Little Haiti
• Fact Check: Photo Of President Obama Kissing Nancy Pelosi Is Not A 'Drunken Photo'
• Fact Check: There Is NO Federal Law Saying Businesses Must Accept Cash
• Fact Check: BLM/Antifa Member Did NOT Shoot 'Patriot' At Denver Protest

Saturday, October 10, 2020

• Fact Check: Thousands Of Mail-In Ballots For Registered Republicans In Pennsylvania Were NOT Destroyed
• Fact Check: Biden Was NOT Endorsed By BLM Or Antifa
• Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Blame "Forgetting" To Wear A Mask (At A KKK Rally) For Contracting Covid-19

Friday, October 9, 2020

• Fact Check: NO Certainty 2020 Will End With Fewer Total U.S. Deaths Than 2018 And 2019
• Fact Check: Embryonic Stem Cells Were NOT Used In The Development of Regeneron Antibody Treatment
• Fact Check: Poll Managers In Myrtle Beach Have NO Reason To Write On Ballot And It Will NOT Be Disqualified If A Poll Manager Writes On It

Thursday, October 8, 2020

• Fact Check: Black Lives Matter Was NOT Involved In Videoed Disruption At Hispanic Child's Birthday Party
• Fact Check: Vice President Mike Pence Did NOT Tweet Kamala Harris Received Debate Questions Beforehand

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

• Fact Check: Death Count For Muslims In Chinese Concentration Camps Has NOT Surpassed Number Of Jews Killed In The Holocaust
• Fact Check: White House Doctors Have NOT Said Trump Recovered From COVID In Four Days
• Fact Check: The Cute Baby With A Medical Condition Is Being Used By An Engagement-Baiting Scam
• Fact Check: Facebook Page Running $5000 Give-Away Contest Is NOT CourtTV Anchor Vinnie Politan's Real Page
• Fact Check: Breonna Taylor's Boyfriend Does NOT Say That She Opened Fire On Officers
• Fact Check: Joe Biden's First Wife Did NOT Run A Stop Sign Before She Was Killed In A Car Accident
• Fact Check: Study Did NOT Say Men Must Have Sex At Least 21 Times A Month To Avoid Prostate Cancer
• Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Say Doctors Have Never Seen A Body Kill Coronavirus Like His, Nor That He Has 'USA' Instead Of DNA
• Fact Check: The White House Doctor Did NOT Say Trump Is Virus-Free
• Fact Check: Chelsea Clinton Did NOT Tweet In 2018 That Michelle Obama Is Transsexual
• Fact Check: Hospital Records Did NOT Expose Trump's Weight At 332 Pounds

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

• Fact Check: Joe Biden DID Say 'Some Black Woman Was Able To Keep The Grocery Shelves Stocked' But Not To Demean
• Fact Check: AARP Did NOT Endorse Biden Nor Give Financial Support To Planned Parenthood
• Fact Check: Sen. Chuck Schumer Did NOT Have An Affair With His Daughter's Best Friend From High School
• Fact Check: Flu Does NOT Kill More Than 100,000 Americans Some Years Nor Is It More Lethal Than COVID-19, As Trump Claims
• Fact Check: A Congressman Did NOT 'Just' Introduce A Bill To Remove Pelosi
• Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show A Cloned Live Dinosaur

Monday, October 5, 2020

• Fact Check: Sen. Thom Tillis Contracted The Coronavirus And WAS Unmasked During Part Of The SCOTUS Rose Garden Event
• Fact Check: Incarcerated People CAN Receive The $1,200 Stimulus Check Behind Bars
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Tweet That He Got Instagram To Take Down 'Video Proof' He Wore Earpiece At Debate
• Fact Check: There Was NO 6.0 To 6.5 Magnitude Earthquake In the San Francisco Bay Area Over The Weekend, Leaving Prediction Flat
• Fact Check: Photo Of Nancy Pelosi, George Stephanopoulos, And Chris Wallace Is From February 2019
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Abandoned 2020 Mail-In Ballots
• Fact Check: Kayleigh McEnany is NOT Out as White House Press Secretary

Sunday, October 4, 2020

• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Bikers Praying For President Trump At Walter Reed Hospital

Saturday, October 3, 2020

• Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Board Marine One For The Hospital With A Portable Oxygen Concentrator In His Pocket

Friday, October 2, 2020

• Fact Check: Viral Tweet By John Cammo Was NOT The Only One To Predict Trump Would Get Covid
• Fact Check: The Trump COVID Vaccine Plan for the U.S. Does NOT Rely On Forced Inoculation
• Fact Check: Mexico Is NOT On 'Red Alert' And There Are NO Credible Reports Of Minors Being Kidnapped For Organ Harvesting
• Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Say He Attended College At HBCU Delaware State University
• Fact Check: Trump Camp Did NOT Send Mailer Asking For $421 Million In Donations After President's Positive COVID Test
• Fact Check: 'The Simpsons' TV Show Did NOT Air A Scene With Donald Trump In A Coffin
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Mask-wearing Killed A German Schoolchild
• Fact Check: There Are NOT More Registered Voters In Arizona Than The Total Population Of The State
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump's COVID Announcement Connected to E6A or E6B Mercury "Doomsday Planes" Going Airborne
• Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Did NOT Say 'I Am Ready To Take My Rightful Place As President Of These United States'

Thursday, October 1, 2020

• Fact Check: The United States Has NOT Labeled Antifa A Terrorist Group
• Fact Check: Grizzly Bear Killed By Alaska Hunter Was NOT The Largest On Record And There's No Evidence It Had Killed Anyone Beforehand
• Fact Check: Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Ballot Incident Was NOT Related To Anti-GOP Postal Workers
• Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Chris Wallace With Jeffrey Epstein -- It's Wallace And George Clooney
• Fact Check: Other Countries Have NOT Proved U.S. FDA Was Wrong to Withdraw Approval Of Hydroxychloroquine as COVID Drug
• Fact Check: A Black Trans 'Barbie' Doll Is NOT A Mass-Produced Toy -- It's One-Of-A-Kind Collector's Item
• Fact Check: Amber Alert NOT Issued For License Plate Q72B381