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 China

Clear
Scott Perry
Scott Perry
stated on October 17, 2020 an interview:
The coronavirus "was constructed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • October 26, 2020
John James
John James
stated on August 26, 2020 a campaign ad:
Says Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is "known for doing nothing. … (Peters) skipped 84% of small business hearings (and) skipped 89% of hearings on China."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 4, 2020 a Facebook post:
"China has been stealing our manufacturing, costing Wisconsin almost 90,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Lawrence Andrea • July 2, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2020 an ad:
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2020
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on May 6, 2020 an interview:
$3 trillion for federal coronavirus stimulus packages is "being borrowed basically from China."
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 14, 2020
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on May 11, 2020 an MSNBC interview:
Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 13, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2020 a Fox News virtual town hall:
Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 a post on Facebook:
“President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!”
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 30, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 16, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Pick up a product. Look at the barcode. If the first 3 numbers are 690 or 691 or 692, the product was made in China.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • April 23, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post:
Nigerians are “burning Chinese stores.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 22, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 16, 2020 a post on Facebook:
“Africans living in China now being forced to sleep outside in the cold” as “Chinese nationals blame them for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.”
True
By Tom Kertscher • April 16, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 2, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says video shows “the Chinese are destroying the 5G poles as they are aware that it is the thing triggering the corona symptoms.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 7, 2020
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
stated on April 3, 2020 a tweet:
“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 27, 2020 a virtual town hall on CNN:
“There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 3, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2020 a Facebook post:
“On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • April 2, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 25, 2020 a Facebook post:
“COVID literally stands for Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease.”
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 30, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 a Hannity show interview:
Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 18, 2020 a press conference:
“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 26, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 16, 2020
YouTube videos
YouTube videos
stated on February 19, 2020 a YouTube post:
“The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2020
Previous Next