United States in January 2024
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Pentagon Contemplated Taylor Swift As 'Asset' --- Clip Did NOT Show An Agency Official
- Fact Check: US Special Forces Did NOT Arrest Merrick Garland In January 2024
- Fact Check: RSV 'Vaccine' NOT Linked to '12 Deaths During Clinical Trials'
- Fact Check: Faked Photo Shows Taylor Swift Holding 'Trump Won Democrats Cheated' Banner -- It Was Edited
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
- Fact Check: Texas National Guard Did NOT Send Tanks To Border in January 2024
- Fact Check: Image Of President Biden In Military Fatigues Is NOT Real -- AI Detection Tool Says It's 100 Percent Fake
Monday, January 29, 2024
- Fact Check: Jennifer Lopez Did NOT Promote A 'Rice Hack' On An Episode Of Dr. Oz -- She Said 'Lots Of Water'
- Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Say '9/11 Attack Was The Work Of The United States'
- Fact Check: Image Of Three Male Soldiers On Social Media Does NOT Correctly Identify U.S. Service Members Killed In Jordan In January 2024
- Fact Check: Insurance Company Does NOT Offer Free Home, Appliance Repair Benefits To US Veterans
- Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post About His Lawyer Alina Habba That 'She Stood Her Ground' -- It's Fake
Friday, January 26, 2024
Thursday, January 25, 2024
- Fact Check: Biden Is NOT First Person To Win Presidential Primary As Write-In Candidate
- Fact Check: 50,000+ Write-In Votes For Biden Were NOT 'Found' In New Hampshire
- Fact Check: Marines Did NOT Arrest Ex-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly -- Story Is Made Up
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
- Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Claim 97 'Media' Arrests In November And December 2023
- Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Claim To Have Sparred With 'Cassius Clay' -- Story Came From Parody Account
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
- Fact Check: Delta Force Did NOT Arrest D.C. District Attorney For Treason -- It's A Made-Up Scenario
Monday, January 22, 2024
- Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Show Bush And Bin Laden Meeting Before 9/11 -- These 9/12 Photos Have Been Altered
- Fact Check: Ben Carson Did NOT Promote Cure For Dementia That Works Within Days
Friday, January 19, 2024
- Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Sentence OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar To Death On January 16, 2024
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Ellen DeGeneres And Tom Hanks Said They Will 'Leave The US If Trump Becomes President in 2024'
- Fact Check: Taylor Swift Is NOT Giving Away Free $1,000 VISA Gift Cards -- Audio Is Fake
- Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Threaten To 'Wage War Against Texas'
Thursday, January 18, 2024
- Fact Check: Video Of Alexa Answer With Conspiracist Information Is NOT Proof Of "Chemtrails" Plot
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Netanyahu Once Said 'America Is A Golden Calf And We Will Suck It Dry,' 'Destroy' It
- Fact Check: Meningitis Is NOT Confirmed Common Side Effect Of 7 Vaccines Administered In US
- Fact Check: GOP Kentucky Legislator Did NOT Promote Incest Law Amendment To Exempt 'Sex With First Cousin'
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
- Fact Check: Lincoln Penny Is NOT Copper Because He Freed Slaves, Other Coins Do NOT Show Presidents Turning Their Backs On Him In Protest
- Fact Check: 'Zombie Deer Virus' Did NOT Spread After Mark Zuckerberg's Foundation Vaccinated Deer
- Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Tell Widow Of Soldier 'He Knew What He Signed Up For' in January 2024 -- Supposed Similar Quote Goes Back To 2017 When Trump Was President
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Iowa Caucus Voters Throwing Random Scraps Into Paper Bag -- Ballots Are Watermarked, Preprinted
- Fact Check: Netanyahu Did NOT Say In October 2023 That 'America Is A Thing You Can Move Very Easily' -- Recording Was Made In 2001
- Fact Check: NO Evidence That 'White Hats' Arrested Campaign Staffer For Nikki Haley in Iowa
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'US-Owned Cargo Ship ... Hit By A Missile Off The Coast Of Yemen' On January 15, 2024
- Fact Check: Oprah Winfrey Was NOT Sent To GITMO On December 3, 2023
- Fact Check: Synagogue Tunnels Discovered In NYC Are NOT Connected To Jeffrey Epstein Mansion
Monday, January 15, 2024
- Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Discuss Population Reduction In 2008 Interview With Klaus Schwab -- Expects Health Programs to Impact Population Growth
- Fact Check: Stephen King HAS Sold Manuscripts In The Last Two Years
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
- Fact Check: New York City Billboard Did NOT Read 'Ceasefires Are Anti-Semitic'
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show US, UK Strike Against Houthis In Yemen
Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Fact Check: People CANNOT Get $6,400 Benefit Through 'Texas Relief Act' Ad -- Info Harvesting Scam, Not Government Program
- Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Arrest Journalist Mehdi Hasan on January 7, 2024
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Of Human Trafficking In Tunnels Under NYC Synagogue
- Fact Check: Photo Of Epstein With Trump On Private Jet Is NOT Real
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'Portal' At Miami Mall New Year's Day 2024 -- Edited Video Dates To May 2023
- Fact Check: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Was NOT Killed In Kyiv On January 3, 2024
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
- Fact Check: DTCC Does NOT Own 'All Stocks' In Stock Market
- Fact Check: Police Response At Miami Mall Was NOT Due To Tall Alien Shadow Creatures -- It Was A Large Group Of Unruly Teens
- Fact Check: There Is NO '2024 Spending Allowance Card' For Adults Over 64
- Fact Check: 'Sahil Omar' Is NOT Suspect In Fort Worth Hotel Explosion
Monday, January 8, 2024
- Fact Check: 'Toasty Heater' Was NOT Invented By A Firefighter, A Veteran, Or An Army Officer -- It's A Marked-Up Chinese Wholesale Product
- Fact Check: Bill Gates Does NOT Fund 88 Percent Of The World Health Organization Budget
- Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Sponsor New Arizona 'Health Credits' Subsidy Program in Arizona
- Fact Check: FedEx Is NOT Selling Pallets Of Packages
Friday, January 5, 2024
- Fact Check: Lia Thomas Was NOT Fired As High School Coach -- Claim Is From Satire Site
- Fact Check: Court Documents Do NOT Show Rep. Adam Schiff Visited Epstein Island Over 70 Times
- Fact Check: Oprah Winfrey Was NOT 'A Client On The Epstein List' -- Court Records Mention Her Name Once In Different Context
Thursday, January 4, 2024
- Fact Check: 32-Page Report Does NOT Provide Proof Of Widespread 2020 Election Fraud In 5 Swing States
- Fact Check: Jimmy Kimmel Was NOT Mentioned As Jeffrey Epstein's Client In Court Records Released On January 3 And January 4, 2024 -- His Name Wasn't There At All
- Fact Check: Denzel Washington Has NOT Said That He 'Won't Go Woke' For New Role
- Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report That Tom Hanks Converted To Judaism, Fled To Israel After Release Of Epstein List
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
- Fact Check: Military Did NOT Arrest 'Second' Colorado Supreme Court Justice
- Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Detect 'Alarming Viral Levels' Of COVID-19 In US Water Supply -- It Was In Wastewater
- Fact Check: Biden Net Worth Was NOT $41 Million in 2022 -- It's Roughly $10 Million
- Fact Check: WHO Did NOT Order Biden To Arrest Americans Who Share 'Non-Mainstream Content Online'
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
- Fact Check: Elon Musk, Kelly Clarkson Did NOT Promote Weight Loss Gummies In A 2023 Interview
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 1982 US Government Program Testing For 'Dimensional Travel'
- Fact Check: War Exceptions Are NOT New For 2024 Insurance Policies
- Fact Check: Wernher von Braun Was NOT The Founder Of NASA
- Fact Check: Episode 9 Of Season 24 Of 'The Simpsons' Did NOT Predict A Solar Superstorm
- Fact Check: Apeel Produce Coating Does NOT Contain Unidentified Or Harmful Ingredients
- Fact Check: Peter Doocy, John Berman Did NOT Report That 100 Earthquakes "Just Hit" Yellowstone In December 2023
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