False claims spread about explosives at Trump NY rally
After two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this year, reports of a third purported attack at his Sept. 18 rally in Uniondale, New York, spread quickly online.
Vance’s Misleading Claim About Immigrants and Murders in Springfield, Ohio
Springfield has become a focal point in the national debate over immigration because large numbers of Haitians who were granted legal status in the United States have settled in the city over the last several years.
Apparent assassination attempt against Trump wasnāt staged
Soon after U.S. Secret Service agents intervened to stop a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15, social media users started spreading conspiracy theories about the incident, including that it was staged.
Trump did not say he āblew up the Nord Stream pipelineā
The video included two clips of Trump, one from a 2023 interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and the other from the presidential debate.
The aftermath of misinformation about Haitians in Ohio
Dorsainvilās fear started during ABCās Sept. 10 presidential debate from Philadelphia, when former President Donald Trump repeated a debunked claim about migrants in this small city about 45 miles west of Columbus, the stateās capital.
Viral Posts Make Baseless Claim About Harris’ Earrings at the Debate
The New York Times wrote in 2020 about what it called āThe Long History of āHidden Earpieceā Conspiracy Theories.ā The report described unfounded claims that tend to recur every election cycle about hidden electronic devices used by presidential candidates, dating to 2000 when conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore used an earpiece to receive coaching on NBCās āMeet the Pressā in 2000.
US presidential debate: what misinformation have we seen so far?
While Full Fact normally sticks to checking claims made by or about UK politicians, weāve written about a flurry of misinformation involving the two presidential candidates circulating on social media over the last few months.
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.
No, schools are not performing gender-affirming surgeries
"The transgender thing is incredible," Trump told Moms of Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice during the groupās 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.
Bidenās Arlington photo was not taken as part of campaign
It showed clips of Trump visiting tombstones and meeting families while the adās narration and text criticized how Bidenās administration handled the U.S.ā exit from Afghanistan, when the suicide bombing happened.
Trump Calls a Routine Revision of Job Numbers a ‘Lie’
āItās a well-constructed survey with weights that are carefully calculated to try to make the results as representative as possible of the types of employers in the United States by size and location,ā Wilcox, a former director of the Federal Reserve Boardās statistics division, told us.
Trump Revives – and Further Decreases – His Absurdly Low Estimate of Sea Level Rise
On the campaign trail this summer, former President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubt on climate change by falsely claiming that the oceans will rise just āone-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.ā Heās previously used the same measurement over a period of 250 years.