FactCheck.org is a non-profit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. It checks claims in United States politics.
FactCheck.org says: Greta Thunberg recalled in a 2022 BBC interview how she began her environmental activism. Audio and video are deceptively altered.
FactCheck.org says: Fragments of residual DNA containing small sections of simian virus 40 (SV40) sequence may be present in the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, but there is no evidence this causes cancer.
FactCheck.org says: Intel has said $135,000 is the average salary for thousands of jobs, including those requiring advanced degrees.
FactCheck.org says: The audio of the CNN report was altered by a conservative commentary organization that acknowledged “the voice over isn’t real.”
FactCheck.org says: An injection of vitamin K for babies has been recommended and used safely for more than 60 years. It prevents life-threatening bleeding in newborns.
FactCheck.org says: The supplemental poverty rate went down in 2020 and 2021 mainly because of COVID-19 economic relief for individuals and families. Without that same financial assistance in 2022, the poverty rate went up significantly.
FactCheck.org says: Qatar's government gets most of its revenue from energy exports and there's no record of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani making such a threat.
FactCheck.org says: No mRNA versions of an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine have been approved in any country. Scientists say it’s not possible to spray such a vaccine into the air and vaccinate people unwittingly.
FactCheck.org says: Multiple press accounts, videos, and accounts from aid organizations show that more than 200 people were killed at the concert.
FactCheck.org says: Most substances are not present, and the ones that are aren’t dangerous.
FactCheck.org says: Ukraine began requiring women with medical and pharmaceutical backgrounds to register for the military on Oct. 1, not all women.
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. provides $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel annually. But social media posts are sharing a doctored “memorandum” that falsely purports to show an additional $8 billion was approved Oct. 7.
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. does supply military aid to Israel, but it has supplied only humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people in Gaza, not military aid to Hamas.
FactCheck.org says: The video clip is from a 2019 campaign rally and has been taken out of context. Trump was not expressing his opinion; he was quoting Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
FactCheck.org says: The $6 billion released as part of prisoner swap is Iranian money that was being held in South Korean banks. Iran hasn’t yet received any of the money, so it could not have been used in recent Hamas attack.
FactCheck.org says: The author of the article argued that dissolution of Trump businesses is not a remedy included in the law, but he also wrote that “the judge was 100% right in holding that the Trump actions were fraudulent."
FactCheck.org says: The appropriations law from 2019 stated that of the funds for Customs and Border Protection, $1.375 billion would “only” be available “for the construction of barrier system along the southwest border.”
FactCheck.org says: Immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally have very limited access to government benefits. But an old falsehood conflates aid given to refugees with the limited assistance available to immigrants who entered illegally.
FactCheck.org says: The administration cannot mandate how many cars must be all-electric. It proposed new emission standards, and how the industry meets the new rules is up to them.
FactCheck.org says: Some research indicates possible negative effects from aspartame, but there’s no definitive evidence linking it to health problems in the general population. It's safe when consumed within certain limits, the FDA says.