A year of fact checking the Middle East conflict
However, some of the content weâve seen is miscaptioned and shows conflict elsewhere, is out of date footage of an unrelated event or is even from a video game.
Haitians under temporary programs are in the US legally
So, people with humanitarian parole or Temporary Protected Status must use another avenue â such as asylum, marriage or employment â to gain legal permanent residence.
Video of Lebanese citizens âcelebrating Hezbollah leaderâs deathâ is actually from 2020 protest
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as false because the video shows a protest in Lebanon in 2020, not citizens celebrating the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2024.
Drones arenât banned from Hurricane Helene-affected areas
But a Transportation Department spokesperson said the Federal Aviation Administration is not banning drones from providing Hurricane Helene disaster relief and recovery assistance.
Video of buses on fire falsely connected to recent attacks in Israel
It has been shared on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) with captions including: âUpdate: Report that a Yemen Houthi suicide attack drone hit a target in Tel Aviv tonight!
Trump’s claim about migrants convicted of homicide is false
But if the 13,099 noncitizens had all entered in the past three years, "migrants would have accounted for about one-third of all homicide convictions from 2021 through 2023, Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for economic and social policy studies for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank wrote.
Unfounded Claims Target Springfield Officials, Haitian Immigrants
Rue told us he spoke earlier this year with Republican Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio about the need for federal funding that would allow the city to âreinforceâ its infrastructure due to âa rapid increaseâ of its population.
Fact-checking the Jon Tester-Tim Sheehy Montana debate
In the final planned debate of their closely watched Senate race, Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester and Republican challenger Tim Sheehy sparred over major campaign topics, including abortion, immigration and the economy.
We donât know how many individual pensioners are millionaires
According to the Office for National Statistics, 27% of over 65s in Great Britain live in a household that has a total wealth of ÂŁ1 million or more, but that doesnât mean 27% of individual pensioners are personally worth this amount.
No, Imane Khelif has not been banned from boxing for life
Given the scrutiny and heightened news coverage Khelif received during the Summer Games, she certainly would have made headlines from credible sources had she had been stripped of her titles and banned for life.
Trumpâs false claim that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp couldnât reach Joe Biden after Hurricane Helene
In each conversation, the President received updates on response and recovery efforts, and he shared how the Biden-Administration will continue providing support to impacted communities â for as long as it takes."
Is Floridaâs marijuana amendment a âmonopolyâ proposal? No.
Vote No on 3 attorney Michael Beato responded in a Sept. 7 letter, citing Blackâs Law Dictionaryâs definition of monopoly: a "privilege or peculiar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a particular business or trade, manufacture a particular article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a particular commodity."
Weather modification did not make Hurricane Helene
Hurricanes form on their own given the right conditions and that was the case with Helene," Monica Allen, director of public affairs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research division, told PolitiFact.
Trump’s Problematic Claims on the Auto Industry
In the presentation â which noted that Walling was expressing his own views, not necessarily the ITCâs â he said, âI feel like we often have these news coverage pieces that come out that are like, Chinaâs going to be able to export duty-free from Mexico or that vehicles are going to be so inexpensive that you donât care about the tariff.
Harris exaggerates scale of prepandemic manufacturing losses
The prepandemic decline was "chump change compared with the drop that occurred in the COVID-19 recession," Gary Burtless, an economist with the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told us in July.
Fact-check: What Project 2025 says about the weather service
"As Florida prepares for a major hurricane to make landfall this week, donât forget that Donald Trumpâs Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and NOAA," Brian Tyler Cohen, a liberal YouTube influencer, posted on Instagram.
Nurofen tablets do not contain graphene oxide
A spokesperson for TGA told reporters at AFP that: âIron oxide black is typically used as a colouring pigment in printing inks on capsules and tablets.