Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

I would like to contribute

$

Latest Fact-Checks In Global News Service

Clear
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on June 15, 2016 a senate hearing
"For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2016 a press conference
"The Nordic countries are some of the few countries" that meet development aid goals.  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2016
David Miliband
David Miliband
stated on May 17, 2016 a panel discussion
"The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years," with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 23, 2016
Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt
stated on May 18, 2016 an interview on NBC
Zika mosquitoes "can’t catch me."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016
Jack Lew
Jack Lew
stated on May 3, 2016 an interview with Bloomberg News
"Almost 100,000 people left Puerto Rico last year."
Mostly True
By Marta Cerava • May 17, 2016
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 2, 2016 a post on Medium
Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview posted on Medium
"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 a speech
Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016
Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon
stated on April 22, 2016 comments
The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."
Mostly True
By Liepa Zelniene • April 26, 2016
Tim Ziemer
Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 an article posted on Medium
"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Huffington Post
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016
Marcus Low
Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 an interview with a South African journalist
"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 18, 2016 a post on Medium
Congress will begin its recess "without having allocated one penny" to fight Zika.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill
(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill
"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • March 23, 2016
ActionAid UK
ActionAid UK
stated on February 2, 2016 a tweet
"Malawi has just 300 doctors for 16 million people."    
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 a video
"The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016
Bono
Bono
stated on January 24, 2016 an interview with the "Irish Times"
"People think AIDS is done -- it’s not done."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2016
Previous