Fact Check in January 2021
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Friday, January 29, 2021
- Fact Check: The World Health Organization (WHO) Did NOT Say You Do Not Need To Wear A Mask
- Fact Check: This Is NOT A Picture Of Two Oceans Meeting But Not Mixing
- Fact Check: H&M Is NOT Selling A "Koolest Kid In The Klan" Sweatshirt
- Fact Check: Warren Buffett Did NOT Give $58 Million To The Biden Campaign and Has Long Supported The Keystone XL Pipeline
- Fact Check: The Holy Bible Is NOT Banned in California, NOR Is Legislature Considering A Proposed Ban
- Fact Check: Video Of Buses At U.S. Capitol Is NOT Evidence Of An Operation Against Lawmakers And Does NOT Show Anything Unexpected
Thursday, January 28, 2021
- Fact Check: 'Off-Facebook Activity' Setting Does NOT Allow Facebook to See Bank Account Info, Email, Etc.
- Fact Check: 'Hold The Line' Video Contains Several False Claims About Biden, Trump, COVID-19
- Fact Check: The U.S. Military Was NOT At The White House Arresting Congress 'Today' on January 25, 26, 27, Nor 28, 2021
- Fact Check: There Are NO Corroborating Reports Of Indiana Woman's Claim That Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Caused Her Convulsions
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
- Fact Check: California DID Lift Stay-At-Home Order While Hospitalizations Remain High -- Because Those Numbers Are Dropping
- Fact Check: A Nurse Did NOT Take A Viral Photo of A Pigeon 'Visiting' A Man Sleeping In A Hospital Bed -- It's An Old Photo Of A Chance Encounter
- Fact Check: Merck Did NOT Say It Is 'Better' to Get COVID And Recover Than Take Its Vaccines
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
- Fact Check: Joe Biden's Inauguration Was NOT Pre-Recorded
- Fact Check: NO Evidence That Masks Cause Bacterial Lung Infections In Children
- Fact Check: Biden Inauguration Was NOT A 'Movie' With 'Bad Actors'
- Fact Check: Despite Peruvian Court Declaration, There Is NO Evidence Soros, Gates and Rockefeller Created COVID-19
- Fact Check: No Evidence That The Official Black Lives Matter Twitter Account Tweeted 'The Democratic Party Used Us'
Monday, January 25, 2021
- Fact Check: List Of Questions About Biden's Inauguration Is Mix Of Myths And Falsehoods
- Fact Check: Screenshot Is NOT A Real Fox News Article About New Agriculture Licensing Policies
- Fact Check: Hunter Biden Is NOT Expected To Lead DEA -- GOP Lawmaker Tweeted False Info
- Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report Antifa Took Responsibility For Capitol Hill Riots
- Fact Check: Marines Did NOT Refuse To Salute Joe Biden
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
- Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Swear His Oath On The Masonic Illuminati Bible - Personal Bible Has Been In His Family For Hundreds Of Years
- Fact Check: National Guard Troops Do NOT Need Hotel Rooms Despite Reports President Trump Has Given Permission For National Guard Troops To Stay In His Hotel In DC
- Fact Check: 'Act Of 1871' Did NOT Establish The United States As A Corporation That Owns Its Residents
- Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Put Her Hand On Her Purse When She Was Sworn In As Vice President -- It Was A Bible
Thursday, January 21, 2021
- Fact Check: Arizona Senate President Did NOT Release Evidence Of Voter Fraud One Hour After Biden Was Sworn In
- Fact Check: Inauguration Day Video Does NOT Show National Guard Members Turning Their Backs To Show Disrespect To President Biden -- They Are Busy Guarding Him
- Fact Check: Video Of Donald Trump Slamming Impeachment Was NOT Recorded After Impeachment #2 -- It's From 2020
- Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Quietly Pardon 2,617 BLM Protesters
- Fact Check: Republican Congressional Report Does NOT Say Biden Took Money From Treasury, Sent It To His Personal Cayman Island Account
- Fact Check: Trump Will NOT Be Sworn In On March 4, 2021, As The 19th President Of The United States Of America
- Fact Check: Old Photoshopped Phallic Motorcade Joke Resurfaces- Is NOT A Real Photo
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
- Fact Check: Gold Fringe On A U.S. Flag Does NOT Signal Maritime NOR Martial Law Is In Effect
- Fact Check: Death Is NOT Listed As A Possible Adverse Reaction To COVID-19 Vaccines
- Fact Check: There Is NO Rule That Says No Flag Flying Over The White House Means The Military Is In Control -- And Flag Flew On Inauguration Day 2021
- Fact Check: 'China Man' With Joe Biden Is NOT His 'Chinese Handler' - He's A Secret Service Agent
- Fact Check: This Is NOT A Real Letter From Donald Trump To Joe Biden
- Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Admit On Video He Has COVID-19
- Fact Check: Antifa-dot-com Redirection Is Not Evidence Antifa Is Affiliated With The Biden White House
- Fact Check: America's Biggest Owner Of Farmland IS Now Bill Gates -- But He Owns Less Than 0.1% Of All U.S. Farmland
- Fact Check: Pfizer Did NOT Halt Production Of The COVID-19 Vaccine Due To Deaths
- Fact Check: Photo Of Two People Fumigating The Oval Office Is NOT The Trump Oval Office
- Fact Check: Lin Wood Did NOT Base His Claims Of Trump Landslide, COVID Hoax, Vaccine Lethality On Verifiable Sources
- Fact Check: Military Band Was NOT Playing 'Hit The Road Jack' Outside White House Gates
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
- Fact Check: Gen. John E. Hyten, Vice Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff, Does NOT Have A Telegram Account -- Did NOT Say 'Hold The Line'
- Fact Check: Georgia County Meant To Order 250,000 Individual Voter Applications, NOT 25 Million
- Fact Check: NO Evidence This Tonic Recipe Will Change Outcomes For People Infected With COVID-19
- Fact Check: National Guard Commanders Have NOT Confiscated All Ammo And Magazines From Troops Guarding The Capitol
- Fact Check: This Is NOT A Photo Of Nancy Pelosi Being Arrested By 'U.S. Marshalls' -- She's Walking To Her Office
- Fact Check: CBS News Did NOT Report A Florida Man Kidnapped 27 People To Force Them To Play Yahtzee
- Fact Check: Broken Link That Included The Word 'Guantanamo' On The Site Of The Office Of Military Commissions Did NOT Have Any Special Significance
Monday, January 18, 2021
- Fact Check: These Photos Are NOT Associated With 'Chemtrails'
- Fact Check: An 'Emergency Broadcast Alert' Has NOT Been Issued Revealing Donald Trump Has Invoked The Insurrection Act
- Fact Check: Doctored Video Does NOT Show That Joe Biden 'Has No Idea Where Or Who He Is'
- Fact Check: Much Of The 'What Is Happening?' Post Is NOT Happening: It's Either Old Or Fake News
- Fact Check: Mike Lindell Interview On Alleged Election Fraud Relies On Debunked 'Data'
- Fact Check: A Viral Photo Of Doctors And Nurses In Italy Does NOT Show Them Holding A Sign Saying, 'Jesus Stops This Virus'
- Fact Check: 'Raw Data Analytics' Posted By The American Report Does NOT Prove China, Russia Hacked 2020 Election
- Fact Check: John F. Kennedy Jr. Is NOT Working To Expose His Father's Killers -- President Kennedy's Son Died In A 1999 Plane Crash
Saturday, January 16, 2021
- Fact Check: The Marine Corps Did NOT Rebuke Nancy Pelosi, Did NOT Tell Her: 'WE DON'T WORK FOR YOU!'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Military Combat Helicopters, Including Blackhawks And Osprey, Flying Low Over Washington, D.C. On January 15, 2021
- Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Issue A Correction Over A Ted Cruz Qanon Pin That Turned Out To Be A Dorito
Friday, January 15, 2021
- Fact Check: Aaron Mostofsky, The 'Caveman Capitol Protester,' Is NOT A 'Violent Leftist' And Antifa Member
- Fact Check: Michael Flynn Interview On Alex Jones Show Recycles False And Unproven Claims About The 2020 Election
- Fact Check: Two CNN Journalists Were NOT Arrested For Infiltrating U.S. Capitol Dressed As Trump Supporters
- Fact Check: Claims Biden Inauguration Was Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC to Lose Licenses Have NO Merit
- Fact Check: There is NO Proof Donald Trump Settled Multiple Child Rape Cases For Millions Of Dollars
- Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Tweet A Call For A 'Purge' To Round Up 'Conservative Traitors' And Making 'Auschwitz Look Like A Picnic'
- Fact Check: Michigan Officials Were NOT 'Caught On Video' Forcing Audit Volunteers To Count 'Multiple Ballots With Same Signature'
- Fact Check: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Did Not Tweet That Her Shoes Were Stolen During 'The Terrorist Insurrection'
Thursday, January 14, 2021
- Fact Check: Our President HAS Been Officially Impeached. Twice. -- Video Misstates Constitutional Process
- Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report Investigators Believe Riot At U.S. Capitol Wasn't Trump-Inspired
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Rep. Lauren Boebert On A Group Tour In Washington, D.C., In January 2021
- Fact Check: Trey Gowdy Quote About Rigging Election and Martial Law Is NOT Real
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
- Fact Check: 'Big Tech' CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet
- Fact Check: U.S. Governors' Names Are NOT On Leaked List Of Chinese Communist Party Members
- Fact Check: Proud Boys Leader Joe Biggs And Sen. Lindsey Graham Did NOT Take Photo Together Shortly Before U.S. Capitol Was Stormed
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Bill Gates Is Accused Or Guilty Of Treason, Seditious Conspiracy, Advocating Overthrow Of The Government Or Crimes Against Humanity
- Fact Check: Trump Votes Were NOT Deleted And Were NOT Switched To Biden
- Fact Check: House Speaker Pelosi NOT Raided or Handcuffed by Feds
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
- Fact Check: This Is NOT A Real Letter From Nancy Pelosi's Office
- Fact Check: NO Evidence That Video Of Military Vehicles Shows 'Fully Armed Military Units ... Moving In Texas USA'
- Fact Check: These 57 Counties Are NOT 'Needed' To Win The Electoral College
- Fact Check: 3,150 People Were NOT 'Paralyzed' After Receiving A COVID-19 Vaccine
- Fact Check: Speaker Pelosi Was NOT 'Stopped At The Border' And Taken To An 'Undisclosed Location' For Trial
- Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Is STILL Speaker of the House -- Viral Video Only Shows 'Pro Tempore' Announcement
Monday, January 11, 2021
- Fact Check: Trump Would NOT Lose Lifetime Benefits If Impeached -- He'd Also Have To Be Convicted And Removed
- Fact Check: Laptop Stolen From House Speaker's Office Conference Room, Was 'Only Used For Presentations'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Family Having A Party While Watching The Assault On The Capitol
- Fact Check: President Donald Trump Did NOT Invoke or Sign The Insurrection Act
Sunday, January 10, 2021
- Fact Check: Pope NOT Arrested On 80-Count Indictment For Child Trafficking And Fraud During Supposed 'Vatican Blackout'
- Fact Check: 'A Letter from the Chairman' From Nye County, Nevada GOP Repeats Several Unproven Conspiracy Theories
Saturday, January 9, 2021
- Fact Check: White House Pardons Office Is NOT Offering Pardons To 'Patriots' Involved In Capitol Insurrection
- Fact Check: Alabama Man Did NOT Die After Accidentally Tasing Himself Inside Capitol During Insurrection
- Fact Check: Olive Garden Did NOT Revoke 'Never Ending Pasta Pass' For Sean Hannity And Capitol Insurrectionists
- Fact Check: Rush Limbaugh Has NOT Been Suspended From Twitter -- Deleted Own Account
Friday, January 8, 2021
- Fact Check: President Did NOT Board E-4b Command Post For A Flight To NMCC Abilene, Texas, On January 6, 2021
- Fact Check: The FBI Did NOT Confirm It Was Antifa Activists, Not Trump Supporters Who Stormed The Capitol
- Fact Check: It Is NOT True That All Rioters Were Let Go After Storming The U.S. Capitol Building
- Fact Check: The Simpsons Did NOT Predict The Horned Protester Who Stormed The Capitol
Thursday, January 7, 2021
- Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT File Two Lawsuits Against Georgia Secretary of State for 'Leaking' Tape Of 'Confidential Litigation Call' About Overturning Election
- Fact Check: Tear Gas WAS Used Against Mob At The U.S. Capitol
- Fact Check: Man Pictured Inside Capitol Does NOT Have A Hammer And Sickle Tattoo On His Hand
- Fact Check: Photo Of Nancy Pelosi's Son-in-Law Michiel Vos Meeting Horned QAnon Supporter Is Real But Part of His Correspondent Job
- Fact Check: Video From Georgia Does NOT Show Election Official Improperly Scanning The Same Ballots Multiple Times
- Fact Check: 'Stefan Serafini,' An Alleged Foreign Service Officer, Did NOT Work With Barack Obama, Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi And Others To Rig The 2020 Election
- Fact Check: There Is NO Evidence Protesters Were Antifa Activists Dressing Up As Trump Supporters In The Capitol
- Fact Check: Antifa Member Did NOT Post Video Admitting He Was 'Paid To Protest Capitol Building'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Protesters in Wheelchairs Being Removed From Capitol Building During January 6, 2021, Events
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
- Fact Check: Tattooed Man Wearing Horns Storming The Capitol Is NOT Antifa/Pedophile -- He Is A QAnon/Trump Supporter
- Fact Check: Fulton County Did NOT Defy Court Order Against Blocking Credentialed Republican Poll Monitors From Viewing Absentee Ballots In Georgia U.S. Senate Runoff
- Fact Check: 32,000 Votes Did NOT 'Disappear' From U.S. Senate Candidate Perdue Live On CNN And ABC -- A Typo Was Corrected
- Fact Check: Reports of Mike Pence Arrest NOT Confirmed -- Contradicted By Tweets
- Fact Check: PCR Tests Do NOT Have An Accuracy of 0% When More Than 35 Cycles Are Used
- Fact Check: 'The Big Payback' Meme Uses Old Photo From Los Angeles 2017 Women's March -- Not January 6, 2021, In DC
- Fact Check: Apple Maps And Google Maps Directions To Washington, D.C., Were NOT Down Ahead Of Rallies To Support Overturning Election
- Fact Check: Delta Force Did NOT Raid Biden Compound in Ukraine -- Recycled 2017 Hoax Story
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
- Fact Check: There Is NOT A New York Bill Intended To Round Up COVID Patients, Put Them In Camps, Or Forcibly Vaccinate, Projected To Pass On January 6
- Fact Check: U.S. Will NOT Spend Tax Dollars On 'Gender Studies' In Pakistan As Part Of COVID-19 Relief And Government Funding
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Crowds Assembling in D.C. January 5, 2021, Ahead Of Demonstration Supporting Trump's Attempt To Overturn Election
- Fact Check: There Were NOT Fewer Deaths In 2020 With COVID-19 Versus 2019 Without The Virus
- Fact Check: Eight Years Were NOT Lost When the Gregorian Calendar Was Unveiled in the 1500s, Mayan Calendar Apocalypse NOT Foretold
- Fact Check: Despite Claims In Georgia Senate Hearing, Dominion Voting Machines Were NOT Hacked Because They Don't Have Modems
- Fact Check: The U.S. Is NOT Giving $700 Billion 'To Other Countries'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'ANTIFA Being Bused Into D.C. In Advance Of MAGA Rally'
- Fact Check: This is NOT A Photo Of A Caravan Headed to DC For A January 2021 Protest: It Is From October 2020
- Fact Check: White House Is NOT Flying 1776 Flag, NOT Calling For Revolution
Monday, January 4, 2021
- Fact Check: Calling 999 If You're Kidnapped, Then Pressing 55, Will NOT Let Police Know You Can't Talk
- Fact Check: Georgia Ballots Were NOT Printed Differently for GOP Areas Versus Democrat Areas To Enable Election Rigging
- Fact Check: This Photo Does NOT Show Germans Protesting Increased Gas Prices
- Fact Check: COVID-19 Hospital Surges Are NOT Just Like Flu Season Hospital Surges
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show A Trump Caravan Headed To DC From California in January, 2021 -- It Is A 2020 Photo
- Fact Check: Georgia Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger Does NOT Have A Brother Ron Who Is CTO Of China's Huawei Corp
- Fact Check: President-Elect Biden Is NOT Stepping Down
- Fact Check: D.C. Mayor Did NOT Shut Down Businesses To Discourage Trump Supporters From Gathering
- Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Literally Beg Georgia Secretary Of State To 'Invent' 11,000 Votes
Sunday, January 3, 2021
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