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The National Archives maintains millions of unclassified documents from former President Obama’s administration at a facility in Chicago. Obama did not take the records himself, nor are they classified, contrary to false claims by former President Trump.
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: Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that the "principal reason" for losing jobs has been bad trade policy. Economists mostly blame those job losses on automation and robots, not trade deals.
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: President Trump falsely claims that he opened an Apple plant Wednesday in Texas. The plant has been in business for years.
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“Hello, Minnesota!” That’s how Joe Biden greeted a crowd at a campaign stop. Which makes sense, because he was, in fact, in Minnesota — contrary to a widely shared video that was altered to suggest he greeted the wrong state.
@AliSwenson
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This week's
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focuses on President Trump's comments questioning election integrity. Trump produced no evidence of systematic problems in voting or counting. In fact, the ballot-counting process across the nation has been running smoothly.
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A claim circulating online falsely suggests that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked the National Guard from coming to lawmakers’ defense during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. That’s not what happened. Here are the facts.
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Trump's claim the Democrats omitted God from The Pledge of Allegiance distorts what happened. "Under God" was included in the pledge recited on all four convention nights and omitted during two caucuses before evening conventions started.
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reviews claims made by President Trump at the White House on Thursday about vote counting.
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President Trump has wrongly claimed that Georgia elections officials can't verify signatures on absentee ballot envelopes because of a legal settlement. Georgia's secretary of state said matching signatures is not only possible, it's required.
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Social media users are sharing a photo of a fiery explosion with false claims it shows Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine. It actually shows Israeli air strikes in Gaza in 2021. Here are the facts.
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An online claim that Pfizer admits vaccinated people can "shed" the COVID-19 vaccine to unvaccinated people is false.
COVID-19 vaccines cannot spread between people. Posts making that claim are misrepresenting language in a protocol document.
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"Mass formation psychosis," an unfounded theory spreading online, suggests millions of people have been “hypnotized” into believing mainstream ideas to combat COVID-19. Psychology experts say the concept is not supported by evidence. Get the facts
@AP
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A video circulating online has been altered to make it appear that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer a question on oil companies, and promptly ended a press briefing. Her answer was cut out of the video. Here are the facts.
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A video viewed millions of times on Twitter falsely claims to show an Atlanta poll worker crumpling up an absentee ballot. An election official says the worker did no such thing — and now is in hiding after the false accusation led to online harassment.
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As the U.S. looks ahead to the 2022 midterms, false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election continue to spread.
Despite the ongoing claims to the contrary, the election was valid and President Joe Biden won:
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Officials have seen a surge of social media accounts that have fewer than 200 followers created in the last month, a textbook sign of a disinformation effort.
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Yes, a video that’s circulating online does show someone setting a fire. But no, he wasn’t trying to start a wildfire and blame it on climate change. He was a firefighter applying a controlled burn -- a tactic used to contain fires. Here are the facts.
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reviews claims made by President Trump at the White House on Thursday about vote counting.
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Experts say you’re highly unlikely to OD on fentanyl just by being near the drug, after a misleading video claimed that happened to a San Diego County sheriff’s deputy. Now, the sheriff acknowledges that he, not a doctor, concluded it was an overdose.
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An anti-vaccine website is distorting a study out of Vietnam to falsely claim vaccinated individuals carry more coronavirus than those who are unvaccinated. Get the facts.
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Experts say a U.K. report shows vaccine-induced immunity working properly in those who later get COVID-19 — contrary to a professor's claim that it shows the vaccines are “damaging the immune response.” Here are the facts.
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reviews Joe Biden's distortion of President Trump's words on virus "hoax."
MORE on the coronavirus:
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Updating your voicemail’s outgoing message requires service or a connection. But a “tip” that’s been widely shared on social media wrongly claims people can do so when stranded without a signal to alert others of their whereabouts. Get the facts from
@AP
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Posts continue to circulate online falsely claiming that COVID-19 survivors don’t need vaccines because of natural immunity. In fact, that protection is variable and not long-lasting, so vaccines are still recommended. Here’s our recent look at this claim.
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With millions of Texans still without power amid frigid temperatures, false claims that wind and solar energy were primarily to blame spread across social media. But gas, coal and nuclear plants caused nearly twice as many outages as wind and solar.
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An
#APFactCheck
finds President Trump's portrayal of American renewal in his
#StateoftheUnion
speech drew on falsehoods about American energy supremacy, health care and the economy.
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Pfizer never claimed to have tested the impact of its COVID-19 vaccine on transmission ahead of its 2020 release, despite misleading claims suggesting the company lied about this issue. Such studies were conducted after its rollout. Here are the facts.
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President Trump's tweet Monday sought to perpetuate the mathematically impossible and thoroughly debunked myth that he pulled out a victory from the election that definitively chose Democrat Joe Biden as the next president.
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finds former President Donald Trump is wrong on many fronts as he continues to push falsehoods about widespread voter fraud and a stolen election, including the lie that his vice president could have done something about the result.
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Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan who was assassinated on Friday, did not tweet about Hillary Clinton the day before he died. A screenshot purporting to show such a tweet was fabricated.
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President Donald Trump’s legal team presented a litany of falsehoods at a news conference, falsely claiming the U.S. election was tainted by fraud and blaming Hugo Chavez, German servers and election software that they insist can “flip votes.”
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A screenshot of a CNN report has been altered to add a bogus chyron claiming Russia is waiting to capture U.S. weapons before invading Ukraine.
The image was edited to place fake text on a real screenshot from a 2017 clip.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn’t post on Facebook telling people to avoid texting and calling unvaccinated friends and family. The post was fabricated. Here are the facts.
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How do we know? The results were subject to numerous audits and reviews. Litigation seeking to challenge the results was unsuccessful. The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency called the election “the most secure in American history.”
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A new film fails to support its claim that it uncovered proof of a ballot collection scheme in the 2020 election. The film is based on faulty assumptions and an improper analysis of cellphone location data, experts say.
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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a DNC event about distributing equitable resources to help with the effects of climate change. She did not say that Hurricane Ian relief will be distributed based on race, as some claimed online.
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A Pfizer official confirmed the wife of the company's CEO is alive and well, contrary to widely-shared social media posts. A blog known for publishing misinformation falsely claimed she had experienced complications from the COVID-19 vaccine and died.
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Twitter users are sharing a headline purporting to be from a New York Times opinion piece calling on teachers to permit bullying against unvaccinated children. But no such story exists, and the headline is fabricated.
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The
#APFactCheck
team reviews Joe Biden's statement about health insurance.
#Debates2020
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A 2003 photo of three women walking behind a man was manipulated to add chains onto the women’s ankles. Also, social media users falsely claimed the photo showed Afghan women, but the original image was captured in Iraq. Get the facts behind the image.
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Experts have debunked the claim that erectile dysfunction and swollen testicles are linked to COVID-19 vaccines. Rapper Nicki Minaj drew attention to the unfounded theory in a tweet. Get the facts.
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Pence says Trump administration has “a plan to improve health care and to protect preexisting conditions.”
An
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finds no clear plan and that people are already protected by the Affordable Care Act. Trump wants the Supreme Court to overturn it.
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A major economic bill working its way through Congress would increase the ranks of the IRS — but wouldn't create a mob of armed auditors targeting middle-class taxpayers, as some Republican lawmakers are claiming.
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A manipulated video circulating online makes it appear that Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly claimed most people hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 are vaccinated. The audio was edited, as the
@AP
explained last year. Here are the facts.
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Posts saying Pfizer’s CEO canceled a trip because he was not fully vaccinated are missing an important piece of context: The trip was months ago, when vaccines were still rolling out. Albert Bourla has been fully vaccinated since March. Here are the facts.
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A social media post claiming to share images of grocery store shelves during Trump and Biden’s presidencies is misleading. The “Trump” photo was taken in Australia in 2012; the “Biden” one was shot after a 2018 South Carolina hurricane.
@AP
has the facts.
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A clip of Jill Biden reading a book to students during a White House holiday event has been manipulated to insert audio of a child yelling a disparaging comment. But the first lady wasn't interrupted. The added audio came from an old, unrelated video.
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False claims have reemerged attempting to compare approval for thalidomide, a drug that caused birth defects in the 1950s and 60s, with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. But those comparisons are not correct.
@AP
has the facts.
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A widespread tweet falsely suggests that 5-year-old transgender children are receiving hormone treatments to transition. Experts say youth who haven’t reached puberty are offered support, not medical interventions.
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An image showing the suspect charged with killing seven people at a July 4 parade in a jail cell has been manipulated. In the edited image, shared by a U.S. congresswoman, the suspect’s face was digitally inserted into a free stock photo of a prison cell.
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There’s a reason Joe Biden was on a plane without a mask in a photo that’s circulating online: It was taken in 2019. Some social media users suggested the lack of a mask was hypocritical. But, as
@AmandaSeitz
reports, the photo predates the pandemic.
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A news conference by Florida doctors encouraging the public to get vaccinated was not a "walkout" as many on social media claimed, nor did the physicians refuse to treat patients. Here are the facts.
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The ink on the ballots had barely dried when the claims began to spread online: Supposedly, the Sharpie pens that some Arizona voters used to mark their votes were ruining ballots and rendering them “invalid.” But it didn’t happen,
@Beatrice_Dupuy
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reviews comments made by President Trump about masks, including at his town hall in Miami.
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The WHO did skip two letters of the Greek alphabet when naming omicron, a new variant of the coronavirus. The agency said it did so to stop people confusing “nu” with “new” and to avoid “causing offense” because Xi is a common last name.
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Online posts this week are reviving an old false claim that wrongly attributes an increase in deaths in 2021 to COVID-19 vaccines. Experts say the coronavirus and deferred medical care likely contributed to the increase in deaths. Get the facts.
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First lady Jill Biden’s remarks at a Diwali reception on Monday were not interrupted by a child cursing at her, despite what a video purportedly shows.
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All ballots cast by mail or dropped off at a drop box are vetted for legitimacy. The specifics differ by state, but fraud is exceedingly rare. Mail ballots are among the most frequent targets of misinformation around voting.
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finds that President Trump is repeating baseless claims of voter fraud. He is also wrongly asserting the Pfizer Inc. vaccine news was delayed until after Election Day to undermine him.
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Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuits against attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani are ongoing, despite false claims that the cases had been resolved.
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There’s a simple explanation for a CNN clip that shows California recall votes disappearing from a live ticker. An employee at the polling firm that provides election data to CNN made an error that was solved within two minutes. Get the facts from
@AP
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Monday’s ruling granting Donald Trump’s request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago doesn’t show that President Biden ordered the search. Here are the facts.
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Social media users tried to contrast life in Kabul before and during Taliban rule using images of a CNN reporter without and with a head covering. But they left out key context: One image was captured in a private compound, the other on a public street.
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The U.K. government hasn’t canceled all funerals scheduled for Sept. 19, the day that Queen Elizabeth II is set to be buried, contrary to misleading claims spreading online. Here are the facts.
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Social media users are sharing a manipulated image of an email from former President Trump, referring to the “nuke codes” as part of a fundraising tactic. The actual email contained different text.
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President Joe Biden has repeatedly said that he launched his first campaign for Congress at Delaware State University, a historically Black college. He did not say he attended the college, as some have falsely claimed.
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Social media posts have claimed without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were to blame for the recent deaths of three doctors in Canada. Two of the doctors had cancer and the third was seriously ill before his death. Here are the facts.
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The Austrian city of Linz is hiring staff to process fines issued to those who flout the nation's planned COVID-19 vaccine mandate, not to hunt them down as social media users claimed.
@AP
has the facts.
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As the jury in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial deliberated for a third day, social media users shared a photo of bricks they claimed were found nearby in Kenosha. But the image was taken in Dallas, Texas.
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Social media users are spreading false claims that the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election results. The court has made no such decision and is on its summer recess.
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Social media users are making misleading claims about the reason Ghislaine Maxwell’s federal criminal trial was not televised, while the civil trial of Johnny Depp’s libel lawsuit is being screened. Federal courts do not allow media cameras.
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There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Yet falsehoods about dead people voting and ballots being thrown out by poll workers are still thriving on social media, report by
@AmandaSeitz
,
@DavidKlepper
and
@BarbaraOrtutay
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Despite a fabricated screenshot circulating online, The Atlantic hasn't published an article with a headline describing President Joe Biden's bike fall as "heroism."
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Twitter users are sharing a fabricated People magazine headline to spread the false claim that Klondike’s Choco Taco was discontinued due to "cultural appropriation" concerns. The outlet confirms the image is fake. Here are the facts.
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No, Arizona’s largest county did not count tens of thousands of mysteriously unaccounted-for ballots in the 2020 election. A false claim about supposed extra ballots is based on a misunderstanding of how early voting works in the state. Here are the facts.
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Even before the hearings began, some twisted the facts about Jackson's sentencing in child pornography cases and her views on such offenses.
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Fact Check: Yes, Kamala Harris is legally eligible to serve as U.S. vice president or president. False claims to the contrary that have long circulated on social media have bubbled back up since the senator became Joe Biden’s running mate.
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Nobody’s VA health benefits are being taken away based on their COVID-19 vaccination status, as was suggested by a satirical article that many shared as real. It came from a site that calls its stories “parodies, satire, fiction, fake.”
@AP
has the facts.
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Posts falsely claim Canadian law enforcement reported over 100,000 trucks and millions of people were in Ottawa last weekend to protest vaccine mandates. The agencies never issued those estimates.
@AP
has the facts.
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Social media users are citing a months old study from Sweden to push the unproven theory that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines permanently alter recipients’ DNA. Experts, and the study authors, say the research is being misinterpreted. Here are the facts.
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Social media users are sharing an edited, poor-quality video of bodies in the streets of Bucha, Ukraine, falsely claiming it shows them moving. An analysis of the original clip shows the bodies remain still.
@AP
has the facts.
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@AP
photos show that President Joe Biden presented the Medal of Honor to a Vietnam War veteran properly, despite false claims that he put the award on backward. Here are the facts.
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No, the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro is not the father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The well-worn piece of false news has reemerged on social media amid protests in Canada spurred by a convoy of truckers and other demonstrators.
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makes clear that Vice President Mike Pence has no authority to send election results back to the states for a do-over when he presides over the congressional tally of Electoral College votes. President Trump falsely claims that he can.
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#APFactCheck
: When Trump rails against Obama administration for 'giving' billions to Iran, he neglects to mention the money was Iran's to begin with.
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Days before the midterm elections, copies of the "Arizona Catholic Tribune" landed in Phoenix-area mailboxes. It isn't a newspaper or affiliated with the church. The mailer and similar publications push partisan messages and misinformation.
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A bill passed by the House this week would ban manufacturing or selling privately made firearms without serial numbers, known as ghost guns. It wouldn’t criminalize disassembling and cleaning your own gun, as some online have claimed.
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A photo that social media users falsely claimed showed the Taliban hanging a man in Afghanistan actually shows a suicide attempt that occurred in 2018. Get the facts from
@AP
.
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Social media posts falsely claim former Judge Janice Rogers Brown was the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. Brown was nominated to a federal appeals court in 2003, and was blocked by Democratic senators before being confirmed in 2005.
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President Trump is making premature assertions about the coronavirus death rate in the U.S. and revising history about how seriously he viewed the threat, including the need for ventilators. The
#APFactCheck
team takes a closer look.
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A wide range of false claims have circulated online about Dominion Voting Systems since a tabulation mistake was identified and corrected in Michigan — even though it was caused by human error, not a technology problem.
@AP
’s
@AliSwenson
has the facts.
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An image purporting to show identical tweets from Sen. Ted Cruz after 12 mass shootings is fabricated. It includes a real message from Cruz following Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, but he hasn’t tweeted the exact same message a dozen times.
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Social media users are falsely trying to link a newly identified HIV variant to the COVID-19 vaccines. But the experts say the variant has been circulating for decades, and there is no connection between the vaccines and HIV.
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At President Trump's impeachment trial, his defense team got some facts about the impeachment hearings wrong and misrepresented some of Robert Mueller's findings in a report on 2016 election interference. Here are details from the
#APFactCheck
team.
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A photo from a 2020 rally for former President Trump in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is circulating online with false claims that it’s of a rally Trump hosted in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last week to support Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels.
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President Trump has delivered farewell remarks to the nation as he prepares for Wednesday's transfer of power to Joe Biden. An
@APFactcheck
finds that Trump twisted his record and claimed credit for things he didn’t do.
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False theories spread online about why the presidential seal was blurred in a recent video of President Joe Biden. But there’s nothing mysterious behind it: Federal law limits how the seal can be used, so it’s often blurred in videos.
@AP
has the facts.
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Social media users are sharing a video of a 2015 warehouse fire in China to falsely claim it shows a fiery explosion in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
@AP
has the facts.
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A social media post claiming to show Harvard "terminated" an admitted student due to social media activity is a hoax. Get the facts.
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President Trump wrongly dismissed the continuing threat of the Islamic State group and repeated a false tale of the U.S. paying out billions of dollars to Iran as part of the deal freezing its nuclear program.
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