Fox News host Greg Gutfeld was riffing about a COVID-related standoff keeping Chicago teachers out of the classroom when he made a bold claim about the state of the COVID-19 crisis. “This is the double destruction of the pandemic and of the teachers unions happening at exactly the same time, right? We now know that […]
Gov. Kim Reynolds was ready to tout achievement when she stood before a joint session of the Iowa House and Senate Tuesday evening, Jan. 11. Such is the nature of the annual Condition of the State address, a ritual in which Iowa’s governors emphasize what they have accomplished but also states the direction they want […]
Editor’s note: Below is a letter PolitiFact and other International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers have written to YouTube. January 12th, 2022 Ms. Susan Wojcicki, It’s been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The world has seen time and time again how destructive disinformation and misinformation can be for social harmony, democracy, and public health; too […]
The highly transmissible omicron variant is sweeping through the U.S., causing a huge spike in COVID-19 cases and overwhelming many hospital systems. Besides urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted, public health officials are recommending that people upgrade from their cloth masks to higher-quality medical-grade masks. But what does this even mean? At a recent […]
UPDATED, Jan. 13, 11:23 a.m.: This story has been updated to include information about Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s interaction with the committee. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the attempt to disrupt the Electoral College certification has issued dozens of subpoenas to people who may have information about what happened. […]
As experts sprinted to learn more about the omicron variant first identified in South Africa, the U.S. set travel restrictions on South Africa and other countries in the region to curb the spread of the variant. President Joe Biden restricted travel on Nov. 26 from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Those restrictions were in effect until […]
According to a meme of actor Will Smith, the omicron variant of COVID-19 is easy to treat with common cold medicine. Several Facebook users, including conservative politician Kimberly Klacik, shared a two-part image listing the “top five” omicron symptoms, which it says are runny nose, headache, fatigue, sneezing and sore throat. At the bottom of […]
See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com Betty White did not say “I just got boosted today” days before she died. The quote circulating on social media is fake, her agent confirmed to PolitiFact.
If there is one thing that hasn’t been lacking during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s new lingo that the world has had to learn, from omicron to PCR. Now comes the latest entry into the lexicon: “Flurona.” The term sounds like it could be describing a new, mutant strain of coronavirus. In reality, though, it is […]
President Joe Biden denounced Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election in a forceful speech from the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall, the same setting where pro-Trump rioters passed through as they disrupted the certification of presidential election one year earlier. “We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie,” Biden […]
Video of Spotify host Joe Rogan’s controversial interview with a doctor known for making false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines was removed from YouTube, just days after Twitter banned the doctor’s account for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policies. Dr. Robert Malone, who gained hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers in recent months as he promoted […]
The anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is shaping up as another split-screen episode, a day when Americans can tune in to two mutually exclusive versions of what happened that day, and more importantly, what it means. They can watch President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris speak from Statuary Hall […]