Latest Fact Checks By Bill McCarthy

‘The View’ co-host Joy Behar wrongly says Trump shut down 37 global anti-pandemic programs

By Bill McCarthy

March 12, 2020

“(Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that…

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Bad math at MSNBC: Bloomberg’s ad spending wasn’t enough to give every American $1 million

By Bill McCarthy

March 6, 2020

“Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left…

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Lou Dobbs says United States ‘screening fewer people’ for coronavirus than other countries

By Bill McCarthy

March 4, 2020

The United States is “actually screening fewer people (for the coronavirus than other countries) because we don't have appropriate testing."

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Viral image wrongly links coronavirus to ‘Resident Evil’ video game

By Bill McCarthy

March 3, 2020

“In ‘Resident Evil’ the Umbrella Corporation releases a virus that infects the people of Raccoon City. A biological research lab with the exact same logo…

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There’s no proof that white vans, external locks are being used for sex trafficking

By Bill McCarthy

February 29, 2020

Says white vans with external locks are “utilized for sex trafficking.”

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Obama’s Energy Department didn’t give $737 million to company employing Nancy Pelosi’s brother

By Bill McCarthy

February 29, 2020

“Nancy Pelosi’s Brother’s Company Received $737 Million from Obama’s Energy Dept!”

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Social media posts issue alarmist warning about zip ties, sex trafficking

By Bill McCarthy

February 29, 2020

Sex traffickers are using a zip-tie contraption on the door handles of vehicles “to trick females into looking down and digging for something in their…

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Fact-checking Rush Limbaugh’s misleading claim that the new coronavirus is “the common cold”

By Bill McCarthy

February 27, 2020

“The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

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Bloomberg adviser slams Bernie Sanders’ decades-old writings about sex, cancer

By Bill McCarthy

February 26, 2020

Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others'…

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Made-up Will Smith quote resurfaces on pro-Trump blog site

By Bill McCarthy

February 25, 2020

Quotes actor Will Smith as saying: “I’m not afraid to say that Trump and his supporters are ba…”

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Amy Klobuchar says majority of Trump voters, hunters want universal background checks. She’s right

By Bill McCarthy

February 20, 2020

“The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters.”

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Don’t fall for these altered images of Obama, Clinton and Rice with bin Laden

By Bill McCarthy

February 19, 2020

Says photos show Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice posing with Osama bin Laden.

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