Latest Fact-Checks By Daniel Funke

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Trump PPP

Fact-checking which Trump supporters and allies got PPP loans

July 13, 2020

Lists eight wealthy politicians and public figures who “got millions (or close to it) in PPP loans.”

Pandemic guns

It’s not against the law to carry a firearm while wearing a face mask

July 8, 2020

People carrying guns can’t wear face masks to protect against the coronavirus because it’s a “class 4 felony.”

COVID testing in Mass.

COVID-19 tests are not ‘scientifically meaningless’

July 7, 2020

“COVID19 PCR tests are scientifically meaningless.”

COVID-19 test

Fact-checking claims about nurses getting nothing but false-positive COVID-19 tests

July 2, 2020

Nurses submitting coronavirus tests say they all are coming back positive.

Dane Eagle screen shot

Florida congressional candidate blames antifa for violence without evidence

June 26, 2020

Antifa “are killing our police. Looting our businesses. Assaulting the elderly and burning our churches.”

Masks required in San Antonio

A ‘face mask exempt card’ doesn’t exempt you from wearing a mask in public

June 26, 2020

A “face mask exempt card” allows you to cite the ADA and not wear a mask.

iPhone settings

Why your phone has ‘COVID-19 exposure logging’

June 25, 2020

Google and Apple “put a covid tracker on every phone.”

Instagram graph misleads on the racial breakdown of homicides

June 23, 2020

A bar graph compares homicides for various racial groups

NYC Floyd protest

Hoax websites republish made-up article about protesters, George Soros

June 18, 2020

“163 paid protesters just filed a lawsuit against George Soros for not paying their bail.”

Phoenix defund the police

Social posts comparing ‘defund the police’ to Nazi Germany need a history lesson

June 18, 2020

Nazi Germany’s Hermann Göring worked to "defund and eliminate the police departments so that they would not interfere with his Brown Shirts."

BLM street painting NYC

How the Black Lives Matter Global Network is set up

June 17, 2020

“According to its website Black Lives Matter, Inc is NOT a charity. It is a full-fledged corporation that does NOT have any locations.”

Seattle CHOP

CNN did not lighten a photo of the man accused of driving into Seattle protesters

June 17, 2020

“CNN lightened the photo of the man who drove into the protester last night in Seattle.”

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