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2024 September


Prep for Trump-Harris debate with fact-checks of top claims

Prep for Trump-Harris debate with fact-checks of top claims

Trump is likely to mention Harrisā€™ more liberal positions from her 2019 Democratic presidential primary campaign, including her previous opposition to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a practice used to access hard-to-reach oil and gas in rock formations.


Reports about armed migrants in Chicago building are fake

Reports about armed migrants in Chicago building are fake

News reports identified people who approached buses in San Diego as migrants, but no attempted hijacking or crimes occurred.


Can Labour take credit for ā€˜record-breakingā€™ clean energy auction?

Can Labour take credit for ā€˜record-breakingā€™ clean energy auction?

At the time the Conservative government was accused of setting the maximum price generators could receive too low, failing to reflect the increasing costs of manufacturing and installing turbines.


Fact-checking Trumpā€™s Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity

Fact-checking Trumpā€™s Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity

Trump touted supportive words from "strong man" Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is popular among Trump-aligned conservatives but whom others have criticized for authoritarian policies.


v Daily Express: how and why it happened

v Daily Express: how and why it happened

Come December, the Migration Observatory had pointed out that the 100,000 calculation even included a mathematical error, but this didnā€™t stop Richard Holdenā€”Greg Handsā€™ successor as party chairā€”from repeating the claim in a comment piece for the Express published on Boxing Day.


Post comparing state pension and House of Lords allowance uses old figures

Post comparing state pension and House of Lords allowance uses old figures

This measure was first introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition for the financial year 2011/12 and, other than a temporary suspension after the Covid pandemic, has been in place ever since.


Social media users falsely claim Harris plans to ban X

Social media users falsely claim Harris plans to ban X

"You can look at the manifesto from the shooter in El Paso to know that what Donald Trump says on Twitter impacts peopleā€™s perceptions about what they should and should not doā€¦He has lost his privileges and it should be taken down.


Vanceā€™s False claim about child separations under Harris

Vanceā€™s False claim about child separations under Harris

President Joe Biden rescinded the Trump era policy and issued a February 2021 executive order to establish a task force to reunite separated children and their families.


Project 2025 would phase out federal K-12 funds

Project 2025 would phase out federal K-12 funds

His Republican National Convention platform also calls to cut federal funding "for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content."


Trump vs. Harris on U.S. Manufacturing

Trump vs. Harris on U.S. Manufacturing

ā€œBoth administrations have taken important steps in building the policy infrastructure needed for a significant U.S. manufacturing comeback,ā€ Tonelson told us, though through different strategies: Trump via tariffs and deregulation and Biden via government incentives.


No proof Kamala Harris injured pedestrian in 2011 car crash

No proof Kamala Harris injured pedestrian in 2011 car crash

San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Allison Maxie said the agency found no calls for service or other reports involving a hit-and-run or car crash in the vicinity of the intersection of Post and Jones streets on or around this date in 2011.


No, schools are not performing gender-affirming surgeries

No, schools are not performing gender-affirming surgeries

"The transgender thing is incredible," Trump told Moms of Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice during the groupā€™s Aug. 30 gathering in Washington, D.C. "Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation.