Latest Stories By John Kruzel

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Fact-checking the movie The Post, Oscar nominee for best picture

February 26, 2018

The Post, Steven Spielberg’s paean to the First Amendment and the free press, tells the tale of the Washington Post’s diffident publisher and ambitious editor summoning the courage to publish a top-secret study in the face of unprecedented government censorship.

School shooting survivor claims CNN asked him to read ‘scripted’ question

February 23, 2018

Newly released emails between CNN and a student survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting raise questions about the student’s claim that the network asked him to read a "scripted" question during a CNN town hall event.

How Russian trolls exploited Parkland mass shooting on social media

February 22, 2018

Russian-linked social media accounts exploited the tragedy at a Parkland, Fla., high school to sow discord and deepen divisions in America.

The Russia investigation and Donald Trump: a timeline from on-the-record sources

February 15, 2018

U.S. law enforcement agencies and Congress are investigating links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, as part of a broader probe into Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election. 

Fight erupts over GOP intel memo’s accuracy

February 2, 2018

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a memorandum accusing the Justice Department and FBI of abusing their authority in the early stages of an investigation into collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

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Trump backtracks on Mueller meeting, resurfaces misleading Clinton claim

January 12, 2018

Facing questions from the press, President Donald Trump on Jan. 10 appeared to backtrack on a previous commitment he made to meet face-to-face with investigators probing his campaign’s possible ties to Russia.

Trump on morning of tax vote

The top 10 most viewed fact-checks of 2017

December 27, 2017

During President Donald Trump’s first year in office, nothing drew eyeballs to our site quite like the president’s words.

Russia’s social media efforts in 2016 were not just false but inflammatory

December 21, 2017

Through an influence campaign that spiked during the 2016 election and continues to stretch into Trump’s first year in office, Russia has sought to deepen divisions over issues both big and small, from undermining Trump’s legitimacy to fomenting anger over a coffee machine maker’s boycott of a Fox News program.

Want to be a judge? Here are the answers to the questions Trump judicial nominee flunked

December 15, 2017

A viral video shows one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees struggling with a series of legal questions lobbed his way during his Senate confirmation hearing.

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What you need to know about net neutrality

December 13, 2017

The Senate is poised to vote on a last-ditch effort by Democrats to rescue Obama-era Internet rules known as "net neutrality," which stops broadband providers from slowing down Internet speeds or blocking websites and apps.

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