Latest Fact-Checks

Showing 5725-5736 of 26085 items
Cow pic for WV

How much have W.Va. gas and milk prices increased in a year?

By Maxwell Ionno, Olivia Murray October 5, 2021

“In West Virginia, a gallon of gas is nearly one dollar more than it was a year ago, and we’re paying about 30 cents more…

Bernie Sanders for lobbyists

Fact-checking Bernie Sanders on pharmaceutical lobbying pushback

By Louis Jacobson October 5, 2021

"The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.

DO NOT USE iframe test

No, a woman didn’t win a $2.5 billion ‘Matrix’ lawsuit over copyright infringement

By Samantha Putterman October 5, 2021

“Sophia Stewart wrote books in the 70s that were stolen from her by Warner Bros. (Terminator 1-4 & The Matrix 1 & 2!) ... she…

WV Ruby Memorial Hospital

Are 90% to 95% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 unvaccinated?

By Abigail Mulhern, Emma Copley October 5, 2021

“If you look at the hospitalizations at Ruby Memorial in West Virginia, and around the country, 90% to 95% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.”

WV naloxone

Did West Virginia see a 45% increase in overdose deaths in 2020?

By Danny Kuhn, John Brumley October 5, 2021

“Overdose deaths in WV are up 45% from the prior year.”

Israeli covid-19 booster clinic

Vaccines keep people out of the hospital. A viral image of Israeli COVID-19 cases ignores that.

By Jon Greenberg October 5, 2021

Says 86% of COVID-19 cases in Israel in July were in fully vaccinated individuals.

Evers at desk

Wisconsin Gov. Evers tweaks his stance on repealing business tax

By D.L. Davis October 5, 2021

On tax cuts and repealing Wisconsin’s personal property tax on businesses.

Biden-backed infrastructure bill doesn’t contain 3% property tax

October 4, 2021

“This ‘infrastructure bill’ on page 2,385 presents a federal property tax of 3 percent on all homes and land - both residential and commercial.”

Canada-US border 9-1-21

Fact-check: How many undocumented Canadians live in the U.S.?

By Amy Sherman October 4, 2021

“Approximately 60,000 Canadians currently live undocumented in the USA.”

Chicago vaccine close-up

No proof for lawmaker’s claim that 75% of Illinois Republicans are vaccinated against COVID

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller October 3, 2021

“75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois.

Healthcare worker in South Africa prepares Pfizer vaccine

Report shares wildly unfounded claims on COVID-19 vaccine

By Gabrielle Settles October 1, 2021

"Millions have died from COVID injections."

Pfizer vaccine vial Dec 2020

A redacted ingredient of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is just water

By Andy Nguyen October 1, 2021

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine contains an “undisclosed ingredient. … How is informed consent possible?”

Showing 5725-5736 of 26085 items